Happy Birthday to Me, and Happy National Cherry Popsicle Day

August 26th is my own personal birthday (CakeSpy the website celebrates its birthday on August 1--there is still a chance to enter the giveaway celebrating this momentous occasion!).

August 26 is also, as it happens, National Cherry Popsicle Day. Now, I apologize if I sound ungrateful...but seriously, this is the crappiest holiday I could possibly think of for my birthday. Cherry popsicles suck, dude!

I immediately began to do an inventory of other people's birthdays, and most everyone came up with a cooler food holiday coinciding with their birthday, including my mother on June 28 (National Tapioca Day), my sweetie on September 18 (National Cheeseburger Day!), my sisters on September 14 and May 4 (National Cream Filled Doughnut Day and National Candied Orange Peel Day, respectively), my BFF James on February 2 (not only Groundhog's Day, but also Pisco Sour Day!). 

I started to get angry, and thought to myself, "I could probably make a list of a hundred things I'd rather eat than a cherry popsicle, easy." So I did. It only took like five minutes.

Here are 100 things I'd rather eat than a cherry popsicle.

1. Vanilla chocolate softserve swirl
2. Hummingbird cake
3. Mint chocolate chip whoopie pies
4. Banana nilla wafer pudding
5. Reese's peanut butter cups
6. Princess cake
7. A soft chocolate chip cookie
8. Philadelphia butter cake
9. Gooey butter cake
10. White chocolate macadamia chip cookie
11. Butter cake with pink buttercream (birthday cake!)
12. Rainbow cookie
13. Zeppole
14. Cronut
15. Croissant
16. Chinese almond cookie
17. King cake
18. Pop Tart
19. Dairy queen blizzard
20. Frozen custard
21. Carrot cake
22. Macarons
23. Cheesecake
24. Chocolate fudge
25. Velveeta fudge
26. Pancakes
27. Honeycomb
28. Monster cookies
29. Avocado cake
30. French toast
31. Rice Krispies treat
32. Pink frosted cookie
33. Snickerdoodle
34. Gingerbread
35. Corn cookie
36. Meltaway cookie
37. Pound cake
38. Penuche
39. Tiramisu
40. Cake doughnut
41. Yeast doughnut
42. Cruller
43. Custard
44. Shortbread cookie
45. Millionaire's shortbread
46. Chocolate layer cake
47. Apple pie
48. Nesselrode pie
49. Snowballs
50. S'mores
51. Macaroon
52. Chocolate cream pie
53. Spice cake
54. Roly polies
55. Pie crust cookies
56. Galette des rois
57. Sacher torte
58. Alice B Toklas brownies
59. Peach pie
60. Banana split
61. Chocolate mousse
62. Maple spam doughnuts
63. Peanut butter cookies
64. Sopaipillas
65. Cadbury crème eggs
66. Pazcki
67. Beignets
68. Fried oreos
69. Toffee
70. Wellesley fudge cake
71. Grocery store sheet cake
72. Egg cream
73. Black and white cookie
74. Congo bars
75. Hermit cookies
76. Blondie
77. Brownie
78. Nanaimo bars
79. Cherry pie
80. Cherries Jubilee
81. Chocolate covered cherries
82. Cherry chip cake
83. Cupcake with a cherry on top
84. Black forest cake
85. Cherry garcia ice cream
86. Cherry pie bars
87. Cherry ice cream bar
88. Cherry crumb cake
89. Chocolate chip cookies with dried cherries
90. Bonbon cookies filled with cherries
91. Creamsicle
92. Fudgesicle
93. Eskimo bar
94. Jell-o pudding pop
95. Yogurt with cherries on the bottom
96. Flan
97. Egg tart
98. Navy bean pie
99. Angel food cake
100. Biscotti

Then I started to feel bad about poor cherry popsicles. Surely there must be something I like LESS than cherry popsicles, right? So, OK. Here's my list of things that I think are worse than cherry popsicles. 

1. Low fat ice cream
2. Frozen yogurt
3. Those awful chocolates that look like oranges
4. Jelly beans
5. Violet candies
6. Deep fried Kool-aid
7. Cherry Jell-O
8. Fruitcake

So, there you have it. My birthday rant! 

What are YOUR thoughts on Cherry Popsicles? Also, is there a food holiday on YOUR birthday?

Comments

[Christy]

May you have the sweetest, happiest birthday! All the best!

[Caley]

Happy birthday! Enjoy as many foods from your top 100 as possible. Would it help if you dipped a cherry popsicle in chocolate? Or Magic Shell? Or frosting? ;)

[justJENN]

Happy birthday, friend!! <3

[happy birthday with barbie cake]

Happy birth day!!! These cakes are look really so beautiful. These are delicious too. I love these pics. These are so great! Thank you so much for this post.

[Anne-Marie Faiola]

Happy Birthday! I hope you get to enjoy it with anything but cherry Popsicles. =)

[Sam :)]

Where do you find all these food holidays??? Is there a certain website you use?

Sam

P.S HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!! I am a 14-year-old girl, who LOVES cooking an reading all my favourite blogs!! I think your blog is the best!!

[lyndsay // coco cake land]

HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY, bud! and also... HILARIOUS. what about homemade cherry popsicles? still totally sucky? this list is so fun... i am deeply confused by deep fried kool aid but obviously going to investigate now... how do you even find out if your birthday is a food holiday of some kind? my birthday is november 15... :)

xo

[Mallory]

Happy Birthday cake spy! I wish you a wonderful year! My Birthday is on "pie day" 3.14:) It is also national potato chip day. Potato chip pie anyone?

[The Ninja Baker]

Happy Birthday, Jessie! Wishing you slices of Princess Cake & Angel Food garnished with lots of joyous celebration!

P.s. My birthday falls on National Lobster Day =)

[Marlene]

Jess,
Try Happy Birthday Week. That way you can have more than cherry popsicles. Fun article.

Marlene...craving a cherry Popsicle right now

[Pam McNulty]

Happy Birthday Jessie! Everyday is a sweet celebration by you. I always passed on the cherry popsicles for the much better tasting and colored, lime popsicles.

[James Anderson]

You have mentioned a long list of things to eat on birthday and I think it will take me to celebrate 10-20 birthday parties to eat all these things. So I will rather stay with cherry popsicle, my focus will be on birthday wishes sent by people and of course gifts are also sign of love. I hope you gotta loads of gifts for your birthday. Thanks

James at Best Birthday Wishes
http://www.bestbirthdaywishes.info/