National Waffle Day - For a Tasty Breakfast or as a Dessert with Toppings

Meagan Fuller
Aug 25
2 min read

Updated: 6 hours ago

Waffles with butter, strawberries, and blueberries on a red plate, a glass of orange juice, and a blue checkered cloth in the background.

Enjoy your waffles! National Waffle Day is Sunday, August 24^th, and it is a day to celebrate how this breakfast item came to be!

Here are some fun facts about this day:

The day is connected to inventor Cornelius Swartwout who created the waffle iron on August 24, 1869.
Waffle irons and even waffles originated around the 14th century.
National Waffle Day is celebrated in different countries.
Wafer and Waffle have the same root word “weben” meaning “to weave.”
A waffle is close to a wafer which has religious connotations.
Waffles date back all the way to ancient Greece, and they were flat cakes called obleios.
Waffles were originally seen as a dessert.
Waffles arrived in France and Belgium where the two countries changed the waffle to a more unique texture and flavor.
The first known recipe for waffles was found in a manuscript entitled Le Ménagier de Paris.

Here are some things to do on National Waffle Day:

Try a recipe for waffles.
Find a place that makes waffles like Waffle House.
Write a poem about waffles.
Cook with a waffle iron.
Top your waffle with maple syrup, fresh fruit, sliced almonds, feta cheese or other items.
Throw a waffle party.

Take delight in enjoying your waffles!

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Meagan Fuller

Hello, my name is Meagan. I am currently a senior at Belhaven University. I am majoring in Theatre and minoring in Creative Writing. I am happy to join Her Nexx Chapter as a volunteer. This journey will allow me to work with a diverse group of women. My academic journey is rooted in storytelling. Therefore, I am excited for this opportunity to write about various topics for women to help them grow. In my free time, I enjoy listening to music, writing fiction that focuses on empowering women, reading, developing my acting skills and yoga. My short stories, plays and poems appear in several publications (Pleiades Literary Magazine, Write for Mississippi, Belhaven University’s The Brogue). Oh, by the way, I am a cat lover.