National Coffee Ice Cream Day
About National Coffee Ice Cream Day
When Is National Coffee Ice Cream Day? This holiday is always celebrated on September 6
This is a special holiday that can literally wake you up. And, it can give you the jitters, too. Today is National Coffee Ice Cream Day. On this September 6 holiday, you can have your fill of an ice cream that’s loaded with caffeine. For coffee lovers like you and me, it’s a real treat. So, you’re going to love this holiday.
If you’ve reached your quota of coffee for the day, yet you’re still not fully awake, have a couple of scoops of coffee ice cream. It combines two flavors that people around the world love.
Coffee Ice Cream Trivia and Fun Facts
Here is some interesting trivia and facts about coffee and ice cream:
- Worldwide, people consume over 400 billion cups of coffee a year. We consume 63% of those cups for breakfast.
- We love ice cream. 86% of Americans consume it at least once a week.
- It takes approximately 50 licks to consume one scoop of ice cream.
- Sunday is the most popular day of the week to eat it.
- Don’t eat your coffee ice cream too fast. Eating very cold foods too quickly causes the blood vessels on your palate to constrict and re-open quickly. The resulting headache pain is commonly called a “Brain Freeze”.
- One half cup of coffee ice cream contains 29 mg of caffeine.
- While coffee ice cream is popular, sadly it does not rank among the top ten flavors of ice cream.
- Thomas Jefferson loved ice cream so much that he had a special freezer built in the White House to store it. We suspect he stored other flavors in it, too.
- New Zealanders are the largest per person consumers of ice cream. Americans come in second.
- In 1988, the world record largest ice cream sundae was made in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It weighed 24 tons.
- On July 26, 2015, Norwegians Hennig-Olsen Is AS and Trond L Wøienmae the world’s largest ice cream cone. It was 10 feet 1.26 inches tall.
- In 1978, Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream Company was created in Burlington, VT.
- In 1670, France was the first country to have ice cream available to the general public at the Cafe Procope.
- Ice cream cones were invented in 1904.
- On January 20, 2018, Dimitri Panciera from Italy set a Guinness World Record with 125 scoops of ice cream balanced on a single cone.
- Philadelphia, PA is the birthplace of ice cream in the United States.
The Creation and Evolution of Coffee Ice Cream
Somewhere around 3,000 B.C. (give or take a century or so), ancient Chinese created the first form of ice cream. It was a frozen sorbet. These early frozen desserts were made from snow and flavorings. Then, about 500 years later, ancient Egyptians created a similar treat. In his travels to and from Asia, Marco Polo brought back to Europe the recipe for a frozen sherbet. Coffee was discovered in the Middle East in the 15th century. Undoubtedly, it did not take too long for someone to discover that putting coffee flavoring into ice cream resulted in a flavorful snack.
In the late 1800s, coffee and ice cream came together for the first time. Italian artisans make a coffee Gelato. Then in 1919, a coffee ice cream recipe was included in a cookbook for the first time.
Finally, by the mid-1970s, coffee ice cream was established as a staple at ice cream parlors, and in the frozen section of grocery stores.
How to Celebrate National Coffee Ice Cream Day
Like other food holidays, today is a tasty and enjoyable holiday. Accordingly, here are some ideas how you can celebrate today:
- Get your caffeine fix in a cool way. Buy a scoop of coffee ice cream. Have it in a bowl or on a cone. And, don’t forget the sprinkles.
- Make it at home. Online recipes abound.
- Have an ice cream party. Serve coffee ice cream. During the party, do a survey to find out how many people like this flavor of ice cream. But, we recommend that you have other flavors as well. Not everyone likes coffee flavor.
- Bring some to work to share with co-workers.
- Enjoy a coffee milkshake. You may not choose to have this as a nighttime snack because the caffeine may keep you awake.
Today's Quotes
“When I’m no longer rapping, I want to open up an ice cream parlor and call myself Scoop Dogg.” – – Snoop Dog
“I like coffee because it gives me the illusion that I might be awake.” – – Lewis Black
History and Origin of National Coffee Ice Cream Day
You could say no one person created this holiday. Rather, untold thousands of people created it. On September 6, 2017, an internet event led to the creation of National Coffee Ice Cream Day. On this day, coffee and ice cream lovers went online in mass to share their love of coffee ice cream. This led to the creation of this holiday. Then, it quickly evolved into an annual event.
Like many other food-related holidays, this is referred to as a “National” day. We did not find any congressional records or presidential proclamations for this day.
Definition of “National” Days – and why it is so important to distinguish and identify true national days.
This Day in History
Additionally, here are some things that happened on this day:
- Clarence Saunders opens “Piggly Wiggly”, the first true supermarket in Memphis, TN. (1916)
- Cal Ripken Jr. broke Lou Gehrig’s baseball Iron Man record by playing in his 2,131st game. (1995)
- Jeff Foxworthy, American comedian, actor, author was born on this day in 1958.
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