National Ice Cream Day happens on July 21, as a part of National Ice Cream Month. One interesting fact about this day is that President Ronald Reagan officially designated National Ice Cream Day and National Ice Cream Month in July of 1984.

Here are more fun facts about this special day:

• Founding Father Thomas Jefferson made a vanilla ice cream recipe.
• Harry Burt is the founder of the first ice cream truck that ran in 1920.
• In 2021, more than 1.3 billion gallons of ice cream were given out!
• Some of the first ice cream shops opened in the United States during the colonial period.
• On July 23, 1904, the waffle cone was introduced at the World’s Fair because they ran out of ice cream dishes.
• Some of America’s most popular ice cream flavors are vanilla, chocolate, cookies and cream, mint chocolate chip, chocolate chip cookie dough, and cookie dough.
• July is the busiest month for ice cream makers.
• The average American eats about 4 gallons of ice cream per year.

Some tasty things to do on National Ice Cream Day:

1. Make some homemade ice cream
2. Sample different flavors such as butter pecan, Superman ice cream, lemon poppyseed or Nutella cookie crunch
3. If you prefer ice cream cones, try it in a dish instead
4. Find and visit an ice cream truck
5. Eat ice cream for breakfast (but only on occasion!)
6. Add some nuts or different flavors of syrups to your ice cream

Satisfy your sweet tooth and get some good old ice cream to celebrate National Ice Cream Day!

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