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VARIABLE DATE EVENTS

DAYS

  • Bubble Gum Day (Feb 2, 2024 1st Fri) (Gum Trivia)
     
  • Fritter Thursday: Feb 15, 2024 (Thurs after Shrove Tuesday - can be Feb or March)
    (Apple Fritter Recipe Video)
     
  • [Ice Cream for Breakfast Day] (Feb 3, 2024 -1st Sat)
    (Eat Ice Cream for Breakfast Day is Feb 18)
     
  • International Pancake Day (Shrove Tuesday; Feb 13, 2024 - Can be Feb or March)  [Day of the International Pancake Race, Liberal, Kansas] (Pancake Trivia  ---  Pancake Recipes)
     
  • [IHOP Restaurant's National Pancake Day] Feb 13, 2024 - Free Stack of Pancakes (Annual Charity Fundraising Event - can be Feb or March)
     
  • [National 30 Hour Famine] (Choose your own date for 2024) Students in the U.S. and around the world unite to learn about hunger, raise funds to help the hungry, and then go hungry themselves for 30 hours!
     
  • National Chili Day (Feb 22, 2024 - 4th Thurs)
    (Chili Recipes  ---  Chili Quotes)
     
  • National Girl Scout Cookie Weekend (Feb 16-18, 2024) [Girl Scouts of America]
     
  • National Tartar Sauce Day (Feb 16, 2024 - 1st Fri of Lent) [Frisch's Big Boy Restaurants]
     
  • Paczki Day (Shrove Tuesday - Feb 13, 2024 - can be Feb or March).  A day to enjoy these rich, sugar coated Polish pre-lenten pastries
     
  • [Pork Rind Appreciation Day] (Feb 11, 2024 - Super Bowl Sunday)
     
  • Presidents' Day (Washington's Birthday observed - Feb 19, 2024 - 3rd Monday in Feb)
     
  • Shrove Tuesday (Feb 13, 2024) - can be Feb or March) Also known as Fat Tuesday or Mardi Gras Day. Tomorrow is Ash Wednesday, beginning 6 weeks of fasting for Christians, leading up to Easter.
     
  • Super Bowl Sunday (February 11, 2024)
     
  • World Sword Swallower's Day (Feb 24, 2024 - last Sat)
     
  • Iceland: Bun Day: Feb 12, 2024 (Mon before Shrove Tuesday - can be Feb or Mar). Children invade homes in the morning with colorful sticks and receive gifts of whipped cream buns.
     
  • Iceland: Bursting Day: (Feb 13, 2024) - Feast on mutton and pea soup. (Shrove Tuesday - can be Feb or March)
     
  • UK: British Yorkshire Pudding Day (Feb 4, 2024 - 1st Sunday) Yorkshire Pudding Recipe
     
  • UK: [East Anglia Potato Day] (Feb 10, 2024)
     
  • UK: [National Toast Day] (Feb 29, 2024)
     
  • Scotland: Oatmeal Monday: (Feb 12, 2024 - 2nd Mon in February: Scottish Universities)
     

WEEKS

  • [African Heritage & Health Week] (Feb 1-7) (commemorates the foods, flavors and healthy cooking techniques that were core to the wellbeing of African ancestors from Africa, South America, the Caribbean, and the American South.)
     
  • Jell-O Week (Feb 11-17, 2024 2nd full week in Feb)  in 2001 Jell-O was declared Official State Snack of Utah and Utah Governor Michael O. Leavitt declared an annual "Jell-O Week."
    (Jello Trivia  ---  Jello Quotes)
     
  • Kraut and Frankfurter Week ? (Feb 11-17, 2024)
     
  • National CSA Week (Feb 19-25, 2024) Formerly CSA Day [CSA Innovation Network] Community Supported Agriculture
     
  • [National Eating Disorders Awareness Week] (Feb 26-March 3, 2024)
     
  • National FFA Week: Feb 17-24, 2024 [Future Farmers of America] Week of Washington's Birthday, from Saturday to Saturday encompassing February 22
     
  • [National Invasive Species Awareness Week] (Feb 26-March 3, 2024) Raise awareness and identify solutions to invasive species issues at local, state, tribal, regional, international and national levels.
     
  • Pancake Week (Feb 11-17, 2024 - Week of Shrove Tuesday - can be Feb or March)
    (Pancake Recipes  ·  Cooking Tips  ·  Trivia)
     
  • Pride in Foodservice Week (Feb 5-9, 2024)  [Assoc. of Nutrition & Foodservice Professionals]
     
  • UK: [Fairtrade Fortnight] has been moved to September permanently.
     
  • UK: [Real Bread Week] (Feb 17-25, 2024) A celebration of additive-free loaves and the people who make them.
     
  • Carnival celebrations in various countries and cities around the world.
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