July is National Ice Cream Day

I love ice cream and I have always. I could eat ice cream for breakfast, lunch and dinner 365 days of the year and still would not tire of it. Well, now that I have gotten older  and have fallen victim to the bulge less likely to eat it all day, however, it remains one of my favorite comfort foods.

Here are a few known facts of Ice cream day:
National Ice Cream Day - 3rd Sunday in July Ice Cream Day - December 13       In 1984, President Ronald Reagan proclaimed July as National Ice Cream Month. He also established National Ice Cream Day as the third Sunday in the month. Ice cream is nutritious. A little heavy on the sugar and calories, ice cream is otherwise good for you. Its base ingredient is milk, which is loaded with healthy vitamins and minerals.  Charles E. Minches of St. Louis, Missouri is credited with inventing the ice cream cone. On July 23, 1904 at the World's Fair.  About Ice Cream Day in December: There is also a celebration of Ice Cream Day on December 13th. We found no factual information about this day. We suspect that it evolved from some local event. Perhaps a school ice cream social somehow took on an undocumented, national recognition as a special day.   That seems to take care of the trivia for this month with a nice sweet reminder that it is o.k. to enjoy ice cream sometime this month it is one of life's special treats. Well as they say in Hollywood, "And cut, that's a wrap."

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