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Tomorrow: Celebrate The Waffle!

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Photos via Wally G's flickr and the Drawing Farm's flickr

You guys, tomorrow is National Waffle Day! Seems like just yesterday it was International Waffle Day. Anyway, this means Wafels & Dinges is the place to be. The truck will host a pageant and be crowning Miss Wafel & Mister Wafel, as a centerpiece to their all day waffle celebration. The winners will get a full year of free waffles—which sounds like a very dangerous thing to have access to.

If you want a free taste of your own, Thomas DeGeest (AKA “The Wafel Guy”) is inviting any child—or anyone who draws like a child—to create pictures of wafels or the Wafels & Dinges truck, which will be then decorated with the artwork; if you hand over a drawing you'll get a free waffle! The pageant will go down tomorrow on East 52nd Street (between Lexington and 3rd Avenue), from 1 to 2 p.m. But you can celebrate waffles at any location, and all day long—perhaps even with a monstrous Dunkin' Donuts Waffle Breakfast Sandwich?

A couple of fun waffle facts: National Waffle Day marks the anniversary of the first U.S. patent for a waffle iron, which happened on August 24th, 1869. And New York City is the birthplace of the Belgian waffle, which was first introduced at the 1964 World’s Fair.

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  • Celebrate Waffle Day? means lot of fun there hopeful last time i went Halal restaurants in phoenix i rem it was good time

    hope i will enjoy here too..

  • exnyer

    Will Bloomy allow me to sprinkle powdered sugar on them??

  • Guest

    belgian waffles were invented in nyc? and to think that i always lacked confidence when reading wafels & dinges' menu: "is it a WAH-fle? WAY-fle? wah-FEL? no, no. i don't mean to offend your country; sorry. i'll get the one with uh... uhm... shit. ok, that one looks like it says chocolate something. i'll get that."

    and now i can be all like, "yo, gimme that chocolate 'belgian' waffle, mofo!, please."

  • RevWaldo

    Celebrate Waffle Day? Ah, jeez, idunno... what do you guys think? I'll go along with whatever you decide...

  • RevWaldo

    And I hope that the title of Miss Wafel goes to the type of gal that'll take full advantage of a year of free waffles. Any woman that's ever said "Oh, I won't be get anything, I'll just have a small bite of yours" should not be in the running.

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