National Chocolate Milk Day is September 27. We just love reasons to drink more milk! Photo of Chocoberry Milk Thriller courtesy of the Midwest Dairy Association.
Last Updated June 2025
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National Food Holidays: September
From Wild Rice To White Chocolate, You Have Reasons To Celebrate
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We tend to think of September as “Back to School Month,” but it is also:
Hispanic Heritage Month is celebrated from September 15th through October 15th.
Wine Season and Oyster Season both begin September 1st. And some foods that don’t get their own month at least get their own week:
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Bake some cherry popovers for National Cherry Popover Day, September 1st (photo © Elephantine Blog).
Welsh Rarebit Day (September 3) should be Welsh rabbit, historically an inexpensive dinner for the poor when there was no meat. Here’s a recipe (photo by Tristan Kenney CC BY 2.0 License).
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Diced raw tuna topped with guac for National Guacamole Day. Try these guacamole recipes (photo © Ippudo | NYC).
Have a Monte Cristo sandwich on National Monte Cristo Day, September 17th. Try these recipes (photo © Kikkoman).
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*More breakfast holidays: February 27th is The Big Breakfast Day. September is National Breakfast Month. April is National Brunch Month. There are actually 115 breakfast holidays! Check them out here.
**Bacon Holidays: National Bacon Lovers Day is August 20th, International Bacon Day is the first Saturday in September, and National Bacon Day is December 30th.
***Grits: April 14th is National Grits Day.
‡Hoagies, Heroes, Subs, Etc.: May 5th is National Hoagie Day. November 4th is National Submarine Sandwich Day. Someone decided that we needed a National Eat A Hoagie Day on September 14th and Submarine-Hoagie-Grinder Day on October 9th.
‡‡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 the National Lobster Day celebrated on June 15th. However, the old National Lobster Day, June 15th, is still widely celebrated. Keep both the old and the new, we say. Here’s more information.
‡‡‡German Sandwich Day celebrates a simple, open-faced German sandwich called a Butterbrot (“buttered bread”). It’s a favorite German snack, consisting of a single slice of high-quality German bread and quality butter, served plain or topped with fresh herbs, sea salt, or something more substantial—e.g. a slice of cheese or meat, cream cheese, jam, honey, or Nutella.
†Beer Holidays: In addition to Drink Beer Day on September 28th (also called National Drink A Beer Day), there are
- American Beer Day on October 27th
- National Beer Day on April 7th
- National Bock Beer Day on May 3rd
- National Homebrew Day May on the first Saturday in May
- American Craft Beer Week, the third week in May
- American Beer Month, July
- National IPA Day on the first Thursday of August
- International Beer Day, the first Friday of August
There are also local beer events.
††There are also references to National Biscotti Day on February 12th.
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