Icecream Journal

Let the celebration begin! Like we said last week, we’re turning the Ice Cream Journal into party central for National Ice Cream Month. We’ll feature a new entry every day, Monday through Friday, and we’re giving away some great prizes. Why? Because we love ice cream!

Each Wednesday we’ll give away a Lancaster County-themed prize and at the end of the month we’ll give away our biggest Ice Cream Journal prize ever: a one-night stay at a local Lancaster County bed & breakfast AND a personally guided tour of Turkey Hill Dairy by everyone’s favorite ice cream expert, Ernie! How will we choose the winners? The same we always do – by selecting comments chosen at random, so feel free to comment as often as you’d like!

With that, here’s a little history about National Ice Cream Month, as reported last year on the Ice Cream Journal:

National Ice Cream Month is a relatively new “official” celebration, even though most people have been unofficially celebrating ice cream during the hot summer months for more than a century. It all started in 1984, when President Ronald Reagan declared July as National Ice Cream Month and the third Sunday in July as National Ice Cream Day. As many of you may remember, Reagan was famous for his love of jelly beans, so it makes perfect sense that he’d be the president to pay homage to ice cream. At right is a portrait of the former president made from over 14,000 jelly beans!

P.S. – According to this website, today is “National Creative Ice Cream Flavor Day.” That means you have to try something unusual (sorry vanilla). May we suggest our new Limited Edition Junior Mints or some Chocolate and Coconut Duetto?