First off, let’s address the doubters:National Ice Cream for Breakfast Day is a real thing, if not a real holiday. According to daysoftheyear.com, NICFBD began in the 1960s with New York housewife Florence Rappaport and her six children, who were stuck at home and bored on a snowy day. Her solution? Ice cream for breakfast.Now, it’s said to be celebrated worldwide, and it’s certainly celebrated every year on the first Saturday in February at Mrs. Sprinkle’s Ice Cream, an unconventional parlor with an imaginative menu that boldly goes where ice cream doesn’t usually go — i.e., breakfast.Amanda Bridgeman, owner of Mrs. Sprinkle’s, loves special occasions. She usually opens at 1 p.m., but on Saturday, she planned to open at 9 a.m. until she saw customers waiting outside. So she opened at 8:30 a.m.What’s her favorite ice cream breakfast?”Mine is the Breakfast of Champions,” Bridgeman said. “It is a giant banana split with coffee ice cream, vanilla ice cream, strawberry ice cream. It has donut crumble. It has waffles. It has pancakes. It has, honestly, everything. Fruity Pebbles. It’s kind of breakfast in a boat with bananas.”First-time customer Shontysa Joe, who came with her mother and daughter, wasn’t afraid. She ordered the Breakfast of Champions and finished it off.”It was a lot,” she said.Joe said she will be coming back, and not just for the ice cream.”I really like the decor,” she said. “As soon as we came in, we were greeted, and she’s so friendly. It’s nice to see a business succeed and just do their own thing.”Bridgeman already has plans for celebrating Mrs. Sprinle’s second anniversary on Feb. 22 from 1 to 4 p.m.”We’re going to have a jumper for kids, we’re going to have face painting. We’re going to have a dog adoption, a cat adoption,” Bridgeman said. “We’re going to have a cake walk, a pie walk. We’re going to be giving away all kinds of giveaways, with raffles as well as trivia questions. It’s going to be a really fun time here in Scottsdale Village at 3107 Eubank Boulevard.”
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. —
First off, let’s address the doubters:
National Ice Cream for Breakfast Day is a real thing, if not a real holiday. According to daysoftheyear.com, NICFBD began in the 1960s with New York housewife Florence Rappaport and her six children, who were stuck at home and bored on a snowy day. Her solution? Ice cream for breakfast.
Now, it’s said to be celebrated worldwide, and it’s certainly celebrated every year on the first Saturday in February at Mrs. Sprinkle’s Ice Cream, an unconventional parlor with an imaginative menu that boldly goes where ice cream doesn’t usually go — i.e., breakfast.
Amanda Bridgeman, owner of Mrs. Sprinkle’s, loves special occasions. She usually opens at 1 p.m., but on Saturday, she planned to open at 9 a.m. until she saw customers waiting outside. So she opened at 8:30 a.m.
What’s her favorite ice cream breakfast?
“Mine is the Breakfast of Champions,” Bridgeman said. “It is a giant banana split with coffee ice cream, vanilla ice cream, strawberry ice cream. It has donut crumble. It has waffles. It has pancakes. It has, honestly, everything. Fruity Pebbles. It’s kind of breakfast in a boat with bananas.”
First-time customer Shontysa Joe, who came with her mother and daughter, wasn’t afraid. She ordered the Breakfast of Champions and finished it off.
“It was a lot,” she said.
Joe said she will be coming back, and not just for the ice cream.
“I really like the decor,” she said. “As soon as we came in, we were greeted, and she’s [Bridgeman] so friendly. It’s nice to see a business succeed and just do their own thing.”
Bridgeman already has plans for celebrating Mrs. Sprinle’s second anniversary on Feb. 22 from 1 to 4 p.m.
“We’re going to have a jumper for kids, we’re going to have face painting. We’re going to have a dog adoption, a cat adoption,” Bridgeman said. “We’re going to have a cake walk, a pie walk. We’re going to be giving away all kinds of giveaways, with raffles as well as trivia questions. It’s going to be a really fun time here in Scottsdale Village at 3107 Eubank Boulevard.”
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