As always, July is National Ice Cream Month

National Ice Cream Month is celebrated by the US every July. This month was designated as national ice cream month by Ronald Reagan in 1984. He also appointed the third Sunday in July as National Ice Cream Day. Reagan recognized the popularity of ice cream in the United States (90% of the nation's population consumes ice cream) and stated that these two events should be observed with "appropriate ceremonies and activities." Unfortunately, many people do not even know that America even has a National Ice Cream Month.

The International Ice Cream Association (IICA) also encourages all retailers and consumers to celebrate July as National Ice Cream Month and National Ice Cream Day. This is because the ice cream industry provides thousands of jobs for its United States citizens and generates annually in sales approximately 20 billion dollars. The economic well-being of the nation's dairy industry relies heavily on the sales of ice cream. This is because about 9% of all the milk produced by dairy farmers is used to produce ice cream.

so, for all of July, and Sunday the 19th - National Ice Cream Day! make sure you have a great time and eat loads of Ice Cream!!!

An official announcement from the Ice Cream Appreciation Group:

Once our group reaches 1000 members we will be issuing prizes thanking you for your membership. Those who wish to enter place your name in the blog and say how many groupies there were when you joined (or about the amount).
out of this there will be a raffle and the winner(s) will recieve a grand prize!

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Also. we would like you to add your pictures to our photo stream. We want photos of you and your ice creams! good photos will also be rewarded with prizes and gifts.

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1. An ice cream NEVER leaves the toilet seat up.
2. An ice cream won't expect you to cook dinner when you're not hungry.
3. An ice cream won't tease you because you once liked Barry Manilow.
4. An ice cream wouldn't waste its money on Playbeer magazine.
5. An good ice cream is easy to find.
6. An ice cream doesn't have friends who will drink your beer.
7. An ice cream would never make fun of your new outfit.
8. An ice cream will never complain about your cooking.
9. ice cream doesn't care what toppings you get on the pizza.
10. A big, fat ice cream is nice to have.