Don’t you just love it when a national holiday is proclaimed for one of your favorite things? The day takes on a special significance and indulging seems the best way to celebrate.

Today is one of those personally favorite holidays—National Ice Cream Day.

I don’t care about baked goods or candy, but ice cream is my weakness—as long as it’s not boring vanilla or insipid strawberry. I also prefer stuff in my ice cream, especially nuts or some form of dark chocolate.

Remember the saying we all used to chant, “You scream, I scream, we all scream for ice cream?” It’s considered and American proverb, which I find hugely amusing.

Heywood C. Broun considered ice cream “soul stirring, “I doubt whether the world holds for any one a more soul-stirring surprise than the first adventure with ice cream”

I got a laugh from Howard Luck Gossage’s comparison, “To explain responsibility to advertising men is like trying to convince an eight-year-old that sexual intercourse is more fun than a chocolate ice cream cone.” That’s still pretty accurate considering he said it more than 30 years ago.

Charles M. Schulz had a different idea in his comparison, but just as true, “Life is like an ice-cream cone, you have to lick it one day at a time.”

I’m not quite sure what Voltaire meant when he said, “Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal.” But it’s a good think it’s not; I’d be in big trouble.

Last, but not least, is an anonymous saying, or consider it the wisdom of crowds; it certainly sums up my thoughts on the subject, “Without ice cream life and fame are meaningless”

Flickr image credit: outofmytree

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