This is one of the more unusual holidays around, as February is not known to be a warm month of the year in many countries, and certainly not in the region where it was founded. Florence Rappaport of Rochester, New York, invented the day back in 1966. Rochester is a cold place in February, and she apparently decided to serve her children ice cream for breakfast to distract them from the snow and ice outside. Since then, the holiday has spread around the world.
Ice cream itself is a frozen food typically eaten as a snack or for dessert. It is flavoured, with a wide range of different things, some of them distinctly odd, and usually sweetened.
Image: Nicolas Ettlin, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
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