National Ice Cream Day 2023: Date, Celebration, Significance

National Ice Cream Day 2023 will be celebrated on Wednesday, December 13, 2023 by people all across the United States. The event provides a perfect occasion in the chilly winter to grab just one small scoop of ice cream and enjoy it in your blankets with friends and families.

Ice cream is a frozen dessert made primarily from milk or cream and generally flavored with cocoa, vanilla, any fruit, etc. It serves both as a dessert and can be enjoyed as a snack as well, if you feel like it. This article provides interesting details related to National Ice Cream Day 2023, regarding its celebration, history, fun facts and more.

National Ice Cream Day 2023 Date

Find below the dates of national Ice cream day celebration in coming years:

national Ice Cream Day 2023 Overview

Ice Cream & United States over Years

Here’s a history of evolution of ice cream in the United States years over years:

• In 1813, First Lady Dolley Madison, the wife of the fourth president of the United States,  James Madison, served ice cream at the Inaugural Ball.
• African American confectioner, Augustus Jackson, created a superior technique to manufacture ice cream and multiple ice cream recipes in 1832.
• Nancy Johnson, a housewife turned inventor, designed and received the first U.S. patent for a small-scale hand-cranked ice cream freezer in 1843.
• In 1851 ice cream production started in Boston in commercially.
• First commercial ice cream trucks were introduced on the streets in 1920.

Significance of National Ice Cream Day

Every year December 13 is observed as national Ice Cream Day in the United States. It is a simple fun day that provides people an opportunity to try their favorite ice cream that they probably would not have touched for some time as winter started approaching.

History

The actual history behind celebration of national ice cream day in December is not known. The day was established just to provide an occasion to enjoy their favorite ice cream flavor in the winters. There are many other special days also celebrated in December.

Other than the one in December, there is an Ice Cream Day observed in the third week of July. The idea behind celebration is to offer people an occasion to relax in the hot summers with a big bowl of ice-cream.

Celebration

The celebrations of national ice cream Day are quite simple actually. You can celebrate the day by enjoying your favorite flavor of ice cream or by experimenting any new or unique flavor that you have never tasted before. Share this with your family and friends too. You can visit the nearest ice cream parlor and experiment with different flavors.

You can try creating different flavors of ice cream at your home and spend some fun time with your family. You can post pictures of you enjoying your favorite ice cream and encourage other to participate in the #NationalIceCreamDay challenge as well.

Fun and Interesting Facts about Ice Cream

Here are some interesting facts about ice cream that you probably didn’t know:

1. ice cream cones were invented at  the World’s Fair in 1903 when a vendor  ran out of bowls, so a waffle maker rolled his pastries into cones.
2. John Harrison (ice cream taster) who worked for ice cream company Dreyer’s has his tongue’s insured for a million dollars.
3. American president Thomas Jefferson is credited with the first recipe for ice cream in America.
4. Around 98% of all American families have ice cream in their freezers at all times.
5. The largest ice cream sundae in the world weighed 54,914 pounds.

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