Jul 04, 2018
Fourth of July 2018
This Doodle’s Key Themes
Brave, bold, and beautiful: words paired equally well to describe the United States of America and your Great Aunt Rita’s coleslaw. The 4th of July is the USA’s most scrumptious summer celebration: a time when friends and family get together to celebrate the nation’s independence by cooking, boiling, frying, baking, grilling, or blackening their favorite regional dishes.
In celebration of the holiday, feast your eyes on today’s delicious Doodle, which we launched a day early to encourage exploration as well as your own 4th of July menus! The interactive map “Foodle” features highly searched recipes over the last 12 months for each state/territory based on Google Trends data. Tap on your state or territory to find one of your top searched recipes, but also a fun fact about the delectable dish.
Some samples to savor:
⭐ Grab the ingredients to make gooey goulash like our fellow Michiganders
⭐Salivate over succulent spaghetti squash like our fellow Coloradans
⭐Jump for Johnny Cake joy like our fellow U.S Virgin Islanders
⭐Guarantee happy stomachs with glorious gumbo like our fellow Lousianans
⭐Add all-American apple pie to your plate like our fellow Mainers
You can also check out July 4th specific search trends on Google Trends.
If today’s Doodle doesn’t inspire a new culinary tradition for your Independence Day celebration, we’ll eat our hats! Happy 4th!
⭐ July 4 Foodle Team ⭐
Art: Kevin Laughlin, Shanti Rittgers
Engineering: David Lu, Jordan Thompson
UX: Diana Tran
Google Trends team: Simon Rogers, Jenna Fowler
Producer: My-Linh Le
Marketing: Perla Campos, Carlos Diaz
Doodle Team Lead: Jessica Yu
Writing Support: Rachel Miller, Emma Coats, Nikki Palumbo
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