Happy Ice Cream Cone Day!

When you walk into a Ben & Jerry's Scoop Shop, they can't pull you in with the smell of ice cream. What smell? Exactly. There's another smell that permeates the air and once I smell it, it screams Ben & Jerry's to me: the waffle cone. When I visited Ben & Jerry's, we had our hand at making waffle cones and waffle bowls -- but we just made the waffles in the iron and shaped them into cones and bowls. Amanda had already made the batter. Darn her! I wanted that recipe. Just so my house could smell like a B&J Scoop Shop on a daily basis! (Hmmmm, marketing idea for B&J...a waffle cone candle -- and I don't even usually like to burn candles. But I'd burn this one!)

I could go into the history of ice cream cones, but it seems like this site and Wikipedia have got us covered. Wikipedia also lists the varieties of cones, including: "waffle cones, cake cones (or wafer cones), pretzel cones, sugar cones and chocolate-coated cones."

What would we do without cones or and the variations they have spawned? Here are a few ice cream cone creations, modifications, and a squirrelly little story about ice cream cones to whet your appetite and perhaps send you out for an ice cream cone to celebrate a very special day: Ice Cream Cone Day.

Emack & Bolio's Flavored Cone
Photo from their website

• Emack & Bolio's claims to have invented the "flavored cone." From their website: "Emack & Bolio’s invented the flavored cone in 1980 and have been improving on the concept ever since. Making the perfect accessory to our Super Premium Ice Cream, there is a large selection to choose from. Looking for something different? Try our Marsh”mellow covered cones with your choice of Oreos, Rice Krispies, Fruit Loops, or Fruity Pebbles! If you are a fan of rainbow or chocolate jimmies we have cones that are dipped in chocolate and then rolled in this delicious topping. If you are feeling a little nuts, we have a cones that are rolled in a mix of them! Chocolate dipped waffle cones also look great rolled in shaved coconut. No matter which one you choose, you can’t go wrong!" Certainly sounds like you "can't go wrong!" Good invention, E&B!
• In Sea Isle City, New Jersey, at Yum Yum's Ice Cream, the signature gum drop that is placed at the bottom of each ice cream cone keeps the ice cream from dripping out the hole at the bottom of a sugar cone. Genius!
• In college, the only food you could easily take out of our dining hall was a soft serve ice cream in a wafer cone, since the cone was the "disposable" dish they didn't mind us taking. I was never a fan of wafer cones, but the sugar cone dripped (no gum drops for us!) so wafer cone it was for me and many of my peers. One day I was with my roommate in the Admissions Building when we looked outside to see a squirrel holding someone's discarded ice cream cone between his paws, munching away.

P.S. Happy National Strawberry Sundae Day too!

[Scoopalicious is celebrating National Ice Cream month with a Post-A-Day throughout the month of July!]

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Wow I am so torn today. Not only is today National Ice Cream Day but its also National Caviar Day...really throws me for a loop. Ummm...ice cream or caviar? I can happily say this is not a decision that will weigh on me and not even one I will give more than a seconds thought to. Ice cream all the way and lots of it.

Leave a comment by the end of the day today about what kind of ice cream you had or would like to celebrate National Ice Cream day and we'll give the random winner a coupon good for 1 FREE package of Good Humor Ice Cream Products.


Oh and just in case you are near a Perrys in Pennsylvania head on over today because they are celebrating by dishing out FREE cones at participating Perrys stores.

Thanks again President Reagan for giving us National Ice Cream Day. Just another good excuse to indulge!

Ice Cream for Breakfast Day Tomorrow!

Get out your ice cream makers and churn up some ice cream or go out and get a carton so you will be ready for tomorrow morning, because I'm betting a lot of your favorite ice cream shops will not be open in time for breakfast!*

However, they should be...Tomorrow is "Ice Cream For Breakfast Day." Thank you to Marsha for the heads up about this one!

Man, am I excited. When my sisters and were younger, we usually had ice cream cake for our birthdays and as a special treat, the day after, we got to have the cake for breakfast.

Not only that, sometimes sleepovers at Grandma and Grandpa's resulted in ice cream for breakfast and a game of Po-ke-no, complete with puppytoes. It's almost as if this holiday was made for grandparents and grandchildren everywhere! (Turns out it was a grandma who named this day, Florence Rappaport...)

Anywho, I am not 100% I get the concept as the website is (sorry, but...) a complete mess, but the story (from the website) goes like this:

Once upon a time there was a little girl named Ruth and a little boy named Joe. Ruth and Joe grew up in the back of beyond in New York state where it was very very cold. Every winter between New Year's Eve and Passover, life in up-state New York got extremely boring, so their parents invented a holiday to brighten up the dreary days of winter. It was called Ice Cream For Breakfast Day. This was a wonderful holiday for children and parents alike because to celebrate you had to eat ice cream for breakfast on the first Saturday in February.

Well, Ruth and Joe grew up and went away to a university. They made many friends and taught them all about Ice Cream For Breakfast Day. After college Ruth had a roomate named Barry to whom she also told about this tradition. Many years later, Barry met Itzah C. Kret in Washington, D.C. and converted him into an Ice Cream For Breakfast Day observer.

Nobody has kept precise track but through word of mouth ICFBD has been celebrated in many homes, states and countries all over the world. Some people give parties with musical instruments, others simply celebrate with family members. There is no right or wrong so long as you follow the 3 plus 1 simple Ice Cream for Breakfast Day Rules

(1) Eat ice cream
(2) for breakfast
(3) on the first Saturday in February
(4) spread the word

The rest is up to you!

One who is interested in reading more can also check out the Ice Cream for Breakfast Blog but don't be expecting a better explanation.

Though I am not quite sure I understand all of it, I think I get the gist and will be happy to be celebrating tomorrow morning.

I'm thinking David Lebovitz's Candied Bacon Ice Cream sounds like a perfect breakfast ice cream...really, it's wonderful.

*However, you Seattle-dwellers are in luck -- Molly Moon's will be serving what seems to be a scrumptious "Ice Cream for Breakfast" of oatmeal and ice cream from 9am-1pm...

Happy Fourth of July!

Trying to find some super cool Independence Day Ice Cream treats for you, and it has been quite a struggle.

I found a couple to get you in the mood though...

Thinking frozen treats and red, white, and blue,the first thing that comes to mind is being about seven years old, standing in line at the Washington Monument, and Mom and Dad buying us those rocket pops from a vendor. . What a treat! It certainly made the line go faster (or at least it seemed...) I also remember thinking how cool it was that our popsicle mimicked the monument ahead of us It looks like it is a Blue Bunny treat that we had: Bomb Pop, Jr.: cherry, lime and blue raspberry on a stick! Added bonus? I just found a Blue Bunny coupon! Yay!

On my search for Rocket Pops, I also found them called Firecracker Pops as well as the Blue Bunny Bomb Pops. Though Firecracker Pops aren't exactly the treats we had, but they look pretty close as well -- I am sure though, in 1986, our treats did not have an exploding candy top. I would have remembered that! A search on Google also brought up a listing of tons of recipes to make your own "rocket pops."

I am headed up to Concord, Vermont for the fourth, but if I were home, I certainly would be making these little fellas from BakeSpace. How cute!

Have a great fourth of July -- full of frozen treats!


[Scoopalicious is celebrating National Ice Cream month with a Post-A-Day throughout the month of July!]

Celebrate Patriot's Day with Cold Stone Creamery (Boston and New Hampshire)

Celebrate Patriot's Day with a free treat at Cold Stone Creamery today -- New Hampshire and Boston only (which is kind of odd to me, because it's only Massachusetts, Maine, and Wisconsin that observe the holiday -- but by all means, glad New Hampshire can participate!). "The free, 3 oz, Ice Cream Creation^TM named 'Patriots' Day Creation' is made with Cake Batter^TM Ice Cream, brownies, fudge and patriotic red and blue sprinkles.

Locations include:
Boston: Beacon Hill, Brighton, Agganis Arena, Charlestown, Fenway, Prudential Center, Theatre District
Massachusetts: Bellingham, Burlington, Hingham, Hyannis, Leominster, Mansfield, Medford, Millbury, Newton Centre, Plymouth, Southborough, Westwood
New Hampshire: Manchester, Nashua, Newington

By the way, if I ever motivated to run the Boston Marathon, I would SO be that person that ran to the ice cream store after the run. But, yeah, right...me run a marathon?! Which reminds me, a shout-out to our dear friend Steve who is running today to support The Fitness for Kids Foundation. Way to go, Steve!

Thanks to Arianna for this reminder about this event!