For National Egg Day on June 3, you can celebrate with beautiful quail eggs like these. Photo courtesy Geek Philosopher.
June 2005
Last Updated June 2025
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June Food Holidays
Welcome Summer ~ And All These 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. Photo courtesy of 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 in June, there is National Frozen Yogurt Day on February 6th.
†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.
‡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.
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