Who? What? When?

Today, according to the unfailingly accurate (cough, cough!) Wikipedia is National Fried Chicken Day:

"National Fried Chicken Day is observed on July 6 every year in the United States. In observance of this day, some people consume various preparations of fried chicken.Fried chicken has been described as an "American restaurant staple". Some fried chicken restaurant locations such as Church's Chicken and KFC, and other restaurants such as Grandy's locations, offer special price reductions on National Fried Chicken Day. It is unclear how the day originated and who or what entity started it."

Damien's note:I think it is pretty clear National Fried Chicken Day originated in the marketing department of one of the above-mentioned purveyors of deep fried cholesterol shaped like chopped up poultry. For once, we can absolve the greeting card industry of the blame.

This brings up the fact that all it takes to have something declared National Whatzit Day is for someone, anyone to declare a day National Whatzit Day. The fact that congress and state legislatures routinely do this for no reason other than to satisfy a handful of constituents at no cost to themselves does not render any of these days truly National (or for that matter State) in significance.

Feel free to declare a Day yourself!   

PS -- See if you can then get a Wikipedia entry verifying that such a Day exists.