I'm not sure why something like National Ice Cream Cone Day is celebrated on the very last weekend of the summer, right when the fall is coming around, but I guess it's better late than never. (Update: Ah, it was invented on this date.)
I really don't eat ice cream cones anymore. I eat a fair share of ice cream during the months of June, July, and August, but it's usually cartons of ice cream or Ben & Jerry's or Haagan Daz that I buy at the supermarket and put in a bowl. I guess my ice cream cone days are pretty much over, for the most part. But you have an assignment today: if you have ice cream, it must be in a cone. Whether you get it at an ice cream shop or buy the ice cream and the cones at the supermarket, you must put the ice cream in a cone.
Of course, it's National Ice Cream Cone Day, with no mention of actual ice cream, so maybe you can just buy a box of ice cream cones and eat them plain. I'm partial to the sugar ones myself.
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9-22-2007 @ 5:39PM
mcspacebar said...
Woo Hoo!
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9-22-2007 @ 8:33PM
Janis said...
I celebrated with a sugar cone filled with Haagen-Dazs Cinnamon Dulce de Leche!
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9-23-2007 @ 12:02PM
Marisa Small said...
I inadvertently (okay, actually I purposefully) had an ice cream cone for lunch yesterday. I am so glad to have celebrated the national day! (by the way, it was peanut butter with chocolate chunks and chocolate peanut butter in a chocolate coated waffle cone).
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9-23-2007 @ 2:22PM
Eric said...
Did you know the Waffle Cones made in ice cream parlors today only began in the early 1980s and were the brain child of a man from Denmark?
To learn more visit http://www.icecreamjunkies.com/cone_history.htm
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9-23-2007 @ 10:53PM
--bdw said...
Cones are great for portion control. My wife's sister eats them exclusively. Also good for kids and for portability. Great break from a long drive, although most adults prefer coffee.
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