Ice Cream for Breakfast Day

The holiday was invented on a snowy February morning during the 1960s by Florence Rappaport in Rochester, New York, the mother of six children.

To entertain her two youngest children, Ruth (now Kristal) and Joe she declared it to be Ice Cream For Breakfast Day.

[4] In 2020, The Jerusalem Post reported that some 100,000 people in Israel were expected to mark the celebration according to research by Ben and Jerry's.

[5] Ice Cream For Breakfast Day is officially celebrated on the first Saturday of February.

In recent years, several ice cream shops around the United States have started to use the day to raise money for charities, and to attract some cold weather customers.