For National Egg Day on June 3, you can celebrate with beautiful quail eggs like these. Photo courtesy Geek Philosopher.
June 2005
Last Updated April 2026
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June Food Holidays
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If you question why National Turkey Lover’s Month is in June, it’s because turkey breeders want you to consider it in the middle of the year, not just for the holidays..
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In addition to celebrating a monthly or weekly holiday, each day of the month brings a new festivity:
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Enjoy your favorite cheeses on National Cheese Day, June 4th. Above, deliciously flavored Cheddars from Cabot Creamery. |
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Celebrate National Lobster Day, June 15, the right way: pile some sevruga caviar onto a lobster tail at Caviar Russe. |
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On National Almond Butter Crunch Day (June 29), treat yourself to one of the best: Enstrom’s.
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*National Lobster Day was moved to September 25th in 2015 by an act of the U.S. Senate. The resolution was introduced by Maine Senators Susan Collins and Angus King, after no one could find any official approval of June 15th. However, the old National Lobster Day, June 15th, is still being widely celebrated today. Keep the old and the new, we say. Here’s more information.
**Bomb Pops are the brand of red, white, and blue ice pops, formerly called Rocket Pops. The original flavor has the red, white, and blue color scheme: layers of cherry, lime, and blue raspberry ice on a single stick. More flavors are available today.
***In addition to National Frozen Yogurt Month and National Frozen Yogurt Week in June, there’s National Frozen Yogurt Day on February 6th.
****National Big Boy Day celebrates the 1936 founding of the Big Boy restaurant chain in Glendale, California, by Bob Wian. The chain is known for its double-decker Big Boy burger.
†Another National Doughnut Day is celebrated on November 5th. The June holiday was the first.
††The Summer Solstice shifts between June 20th, 21st, and 22nd because the Earth’s orbit around the Sun doesn’t perfectly align with the 365-day calendar.
†††There are two National Buttercrunch Days: National Buttercrunch Day on January 20th and National Almond Buttercrunch Day on June 29th. January 20th celebrates the diversity of buttercrunch recipes, including those with other nuts or no nuts at all. We’ve found recipes online that use most of the popular nuts, from pecans and pistachios to macadamias and walnuts. In fact, Brown & Haley, the company whose Almond Roca popularized almond buttercrunch, also sells Macadamia Roca. National Almond Buttercrunch Day on June 29th focuses on the classic almond version, which is the most widely recognized.
The Almond Roca brand was created in 1923 by Harry Brown and J.C. Haley of the Brown & Haley company in Tacoma, Washington. They created a buttercrunch toffee coated in milk chocolate and encrusted with chopped almonds. The name roca, meaning rock in Spanish, was inspired by its crunchy texture and the fact that almonds were often imported from Spain at the time. Almond Roca became widely popular, especially during World War II, when it was shipped to American soldiers overseas. This earned it the nickname “The Candy That Travels,” due to its long shelf life and durable packaging in airtight tins.
††††National Rotisserie Chicken Day, June 2nd, was founded in 2015 by Boston Market to encourage buying a rotisserie bird or making one at home.
‡June 17th is National Root Beer Day. You may also find a reference that the date is also National Stewart’s Root Beer Day. Why are both holidays on the same day? It could be because Stewart’s Root Beer celebrated its centennial anniversary “in celebration of National Root Beer Day” on June 17, 2024, National Root Beer Day, and for 2024 only adopted the name. MORE ROOT BEER: August 6th is National Root Beer Float Day.
‡‡Cream tea and afternoon tea are distinct culinary experiences. Cream tea is a simpler affair, typically consisting of tea, scones, clotted cream, and jam. Afternoon tea is a more elaborate meal with a wider variety of sweet and savory items like finger sandwiches, pastries, and cakes, alongside scones, cream, and jam. April is National Afternoon Tea Month. Afternoon Tea Week takes place the second full week in August.
‡‡‡World Tahini Day was declared by Hilaire In London on June 25, 2023, after he discovered that there was no tahini holiday. He spreads it on his toast each morning.
‡‡‡‡There is a problem with National Iced Coffee Day. No one seems to be in charge of it at the moment, although we think we know the reason According to Checkiday, it was first observed March 21 2007, founded by Dunkin’. However, the date has changed constantly with no rhyme or reason to the pattern: May 15, 2008, April 21, 2009, May 11, 2010, May 25, 2011, May 23, 2012, May 22, 2013, May 21, 2014, May 20, 2015, May 25, 2016, May 24, 2017, May 23, 2018, May 22, 2019, August 26, 2020, May 26, 2021, May 25, 2022, May 23r, 2023, June 20th, 2024, June 18, 2025, and as of this update (April 4, 2026), there is no announced date for 2026. Another source, There Is A Day For That, claims the date is May 25th, annually—but there’s no substantiation for that claim.
We may have found the answer. The first Dunkin’ Donuts “Iced Coffee Day” was held on April 21, 2009, created to donate funds to the organization Homes for Our Troops. The date has since shifted to June, but it is not consistent. Dunkin’ Iced Coffee Day was June 18, 1925, with $1 from every iced coffee and cold brew sold at participating locations donated to the Joy in Childhood Foundation, which supports kids battling hunger or illness. Yet as of April 2026, there is no announcement of a Dunkin’ date this year. It’s too confusing.
So we at The Nibble are taking matters into our own hands. As of April 4, 2026, we declare June 20th to be National Iced Coffee Day each year, independent of any Dunkin’ holiday, until we hear otherwise.
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