National Strawberry Cream Pie Day “I know that I am essentially a sort of fun-loving person who really just wants to sit around and eat pies.” ---Nora Ephron

National Coffee Day “Coffee is the best thing to douse the sunrise with.” ---Terri Guillemets

National Hot Mulled Cider Day “It was a beautiful bright autumn day, with air like cider and a sky so blue you could drown in it.” ---Diana Gabaldon

National Pumpkin Spice Day “I am falling in love with autumn, the smell of warm cider, the orange color leaves, pumpkins everywhere, and the crisp breeze.” ---Charmaine J. Forde

National Smarties Day “Candy is childhood, the bet and bright moments you wish could have lasted forever.” ---Dyland Lauren

National Caramel Custard Day “When you’re three, you’re into custard, and jumping.” ---Russell Howard

National Cinnamon Bun Day “Anyone who gives you a cinnamon roll fresh out of the oven is a friend for life.” ---Daniel Handler

National Apple Betty Day “Give me juicy autumnal fruit, ripe red from the orchard.” ---Walt Whitman

National Noodle Day “Memory, in my opinion, is a complete noodle. It hangs on the silliest things but forgets the stuff that really matters.” ---Ellen Potter

National Chocolate Covered Pretzel Chocolate covered peanuts, chocolate covered raisins, chocolate covered pretzels...Chocolate. So afraid to be alone.” ---Dana Gould

National Salmon Day “Grilled Salmon and brown pasta works for me every time.” ---Steven Gerrard

National Polenta Day “Normally, making polenta means having a convenient excuse to use all the butter, milk, and Parmesan in my fridge.” ---Chris Morocco

National Cake Decorating Day “You know you’re getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.” ---Bob Hope

National Sausage Pizza Day “My favorite pizza is the real Neapolitan-Italian sausage, friarielli, mozzarella and Chilli.” -----Gino D’Acampo

National Pulled Pork Day “If I had to narrow my choice of meats down to one for the rest of my life, I am quite certain that meat would be pork.” ---James Beard

National M&M Day “Candy is like eye candy; it looks great on the shelf and taste great in your mouth.” ---Jhene Aiko

National Chocolate Covered Insect Day “We hope that, when insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics.” ---Bill Vaughan

National Cheese Curds Day “In Wisconsin they have deep-fried cheese curds, which taste like French fries and heaven had a baby.” ---Jim Gaffigan

National Veterans BBQ Day “A great barbecue to me is all about abundance and gathering together!” ---Andi Oliver

National Pasta Day “Life is a combination of magic and pasta.” ---Federico Fellini

National Chocolate Cupcake Day “Any cupcake consumed before 9am is, technically, a muffin.” ---Brian P. Cleary

National Seafood Bisque Day “I have trouble with seafood because it tastes like a dock.” ---Douglas Coupland

National Mozzarella Sticks Day “I already have a drink. Do you think he’d buy me mozzarella sticks?” LIZ

National Apple Day “The fruit is what matters, not how gnarly or beautiful the apple tree is.” ---Aiden Wison Tozer

National Nut Day “I love nuts. I’m for nuts. I am nuts. “---Penn Jillette

National Boston Cream Pie “Boston Cream Pie is not a pie but a cake with custard filling.” --OneLookDictionary

National Bologna Day “The sandwich he made was bologna and cheese, his favorite. All the sandwiches he made were his favorites, that was one of the advantages of being single.” ---Stephen King

National Greasy Foods Day “Greasy food might not be good for your body, but it does wonders for the soul.” ---Jessica Zafra

National Pumpkin Day “Pumpkins, in October, as fat as the full moon, they sit on our doorstep at night and glow.” ---Richelle E. Goodrich

National Potato Day “Every single diet I ever fell off of was because of potatoes and gravy of some sort.” ---Dolly Parton

National Chocolate Day “Chocolate is a gift of love to yourself.” ---Sonja Blumenthal

National Oatmeal Day “Oatmeal tastes so good on its own, you don’t even need to add sugar.” ---Kristin Chenoweth

National Candy Corn Day “Candy corn. For Halloween that is my favorite candy, but it doesn’t come around that often and I like that.” ---Daniel Jacobs

National Carve A Pumpkin Day “Way out in the country tonight he could smell the pumpkins ripening toward the knife and the triangle eye and the singeing candle.” ---Ray Bradbury

National Family Literacy Day Children are made readers on the laps of their parents.”  Emilie Buchwald