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   The 16 Breakfast Holidays By Mr Breakfast Every day is a great day to celebrate breakfast. It helps keep us energetic, fit and alert... and it's usually delicious. Lest we forget the benefits and beauty of the most important meal of the day, there are some special dates on the calendar to always remind us. Here's a list of 16 important breakfast food holidays with information regarding their origins and customs. For information regarding the role of breakfast in Major Holidays, please check here. If you have additional information about these or another breakfast-related holiday, please contact Mr Breakfast. January
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Traditionally, more oatmeal is consumed in January than any other month. To commemorate that fact, the Quaker Oats Company has given the world a month-long holiday. According to one of their press releases, Oatmeal Month is a time to remember that oats are more than a nutritious breakfast cereal; they're also a convenient, versatile and good-for-you cooking and baking ingredient.
Most accounts indicate that this holiday was created by the Jimmy Dean Foods division of the Sara Lee Corporation. As the story goes... the group which produces heat-and-serve breakfast dishes (most notably with Jimmy Dean Brand Sausage) found that over 60% of Americans eat cold cereal or another non-hot breakfast each day. So they started a month-long holiday to promote interest in hot breakfast options.
This annual reminder that pancakes are sinfully good and hard to resist has it's origins in religion. According to Biblical lore, Jesus spent 40 days in a desert fasting and resisting temptations offered to Him by Satan. To honor His accomplishment, many Christians observe a corresponding period known as Lent and practice a sort of mock-fasting. Those most adherent to the tradition give up all but the plainest food items. Eggs, milk and sugar are excluded from a stringent Lent diet. To use up these ingredients, it became common for housewives to make pancakes. For much more on Pancake day, please see 
In 1991, President George H. W. Bush proclaimed March 4th through March 10th as "National School Breakfast Week". The proclamation (#6258) credited the School Breakfast Program for helping promote health and well-being for America's school children. While the proclamation pertained only to the year it was issued, the first week in March is unofficially observed as a time to honor the contributions of School Breakfast Programs to America's children.
This holiday is intended to commemorate the anniversary of the invention of corn flakes by William and John Kellogg in 1897. While the product they labeled Sanitas Toasted Corn Flakes was introduced at their Battle Creek Sanitarium around this time (most likely in 1898), there is no verification to the significance of March 7.
This holiday originated in Sweden where it is called Våffeldagen. It occurs nine months to the day before Christmas - the day the Archangel Gabriel told the Virgin Mary that she was pregnant. As the holiday progressed, it also began to commemorate the first day of spring. For more on International Waffle day, please see 
An unofficial holiday for the appreciation of Eggs Benedict. A weekend brunch favorite, the dish usually consists of an English muffin, topped with Canadian bacon, a poached egg and hollandaise sauce. The origin of this holiday is mystery. There are conflicting stories regarding the creation of Eggs Benedict, but one thing all accounts have in common is that April 16th plays no significant role. According to The Breakfast Institute (a division of MrBreakfast.com), the closest associations of the date to the dish is the the fact that Pope BENEDICT XVI and Henry Mancini were both born on April 16th. In 1962, Mancini won the Academy Award for his score to the film BREAKFAST At Tiffany's.
May has been declared National Egg Month by the American Egg Board. It originated as a campaign to boost the lagging egg sales that inevitably follow Easter - the season with the highest volume of eggs sales.
This unofficial holiday was established in in Chicago in 1938 to honor the work of Salvation Army who prepared donuts for soldiers during World War I. The commemorative day started as a fundraising event and that tradition continues. Donut outlets, including Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, still occasionally offer customers a free doughnut on National Doughnut Day as part of promotions to raise money for the Salvation Army and other worthy causes.
The month of July was proclaimed National Blueberry Month by the U.S. Department of Agriculture in 2003 to "promote greater appreciation and use" of blueberries. There is little information to be found on a particular day within the month dedicated to the blueberry muffin from any official sources.
The anniversary of the first U.S. patent for a waffle iron. Cornelius Swarthout of Troy, New York received his patent for a "device to bake waffles" in 1869. For more on National Waffle day, please see 
An unofficial holiday period - recognized by a number of school districts to promote the importance of breakfast. While we have no verifiable information about the origins of this holiday, it should be noted that beakfast has been scientifically proven to improve the academic performance of students... thus, a month dedicated to the morning meal is particularly well-suited to the back-to-school September time frame.
This holiday appears to have started in Sweden in 1999 to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Sweden's Home Baking Council. In the U.S., the day is often called "Cinnamon Roll Day" or "Sticky Buns Day" as opposed to it's original Swedish name ÒKanelbullens DagÓ (Cinnamon Bun Day).
Created by the International Egg Commission (IEC), this pseudo-holiday is meant to raise awareness of the benefits of eggs.
While this day of French toast recognition is now included on most food holiday calendars, it's origins may have only only a fleeting connection to the breakfast dish. November 28th doesn't seem to hold any historical significance to the creation or popularity of French toast. It is very possible that the holiday stems from an old saying in the Eastern U.S. states. In anticipation of an impending snow storm (which coincides with the late November date), shoppers flocked to grocery stores to by staple items such as bread, milk, sugar and eggs. As these are the exact ingredients to make French toast, such shopping days became know as French toast days.
The most commonly recognized date dedicated to appreciation of pure maple syrup. Communities and farms that produce maple syrup have scattered the calendar with their own Maple Syrup Days - some of the more common are December 18, March 3, July 22 and July 23.
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