International Chocolate-Covered Ice Cream Day
January 24 · Level 1 · #2164 of 2238
This informal food day celebrates chocolate-covered ice cream: a crisp shell, a cold centre and a very good excuse for dessert in winter. The Russian name refers to eskimo, the familiar chocolate-coated ice cream treat commonly sold on a stick.
How it is celebrated: enthusiasts pick up a favourite bar, compare flavours or make their own by dipping frozen ice cream into chocolate. There is no formal ritual to follow, so a small tasting is celebration enough.
Eskimo Pie, the historic American confection associated with this date, originally had no stick. Chocolate-covered ice cream and the ice cream lolly were not always the same thing.