National Sugar Cookie Day? Right, dude!

Today is National Sugar Cookie Day. Who says? Who knows!
And why? Who cares! I’m a sucker for anything that promotes eating more cookies, and besides, it gives me an excuse to rave one more time about a fabulous recipe Alicia unearthed called Nanny Edith’s Sugar Cookies.

If you’re a person who happens to write about food, not a day goes by that you don’t get an electronic press release proclaiming some day or another to be a national food holiday. Tomorrow is National Pina Colada Day. Who knew? And Monday is National Pecan Pie Day, a travesty in my opinion because every Southerner knows that while pecan pie is good any day, pecan pie is most appropriately celebrated in the crisp days of fall. (Click here for my favorite way to make pecan pie.)

And while there are a couple of websites listing all of these erstwhile food holidays (click here), nobody seems to know anything at all about their origins or who issued the official proclamation. National Creme Brulee Day? July 21, oh yeah!

My suspicion is that every food grower or manufacturer or promoter in the country got together one day at Starbucks and carved out the calendar. But there is no National Coffee Day, so maybe they all sat around at Waffle House. (National Waffle Day? March 26.)

But more likely? A bunch of stoners got together one January night, lit up, got hungry and got bored. I can just picture it. “Hey man, why don’t we celebrate National Cornchip Day?” (The 29th.)

“Yeah dude, and like, man, why isn’t there, like, a National Peppermint Patty Day?” (February 11.)

And so it went, until every single day was dedicated to some glorious edible. I’d really love to celebrate them all, but I just don’t get stoned that often.