National Chocolate Milkshake Day

Cold, thick, chocolatey, and once upon a time surprisingly boozy.

National Chocolate Milkshake Day toasts the blended union of ice cream, milk, and chocolate that anchors diner counters everywhere. The modern milkshake owes a lot to the early twentieth-century spread of electric blenders and drugstore soda fountains, which made a thick, frothy drink easy to whip u