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Waffle Day is a tradition that is celebrated in Sweden, and to a lesser extent elsewhere, on March 25. Waffles are typically eaten on this day. The name comes from Varfrudagen ("Our Lady's Day"), which in vernacular Swedish sounds almost like Vaffeldagen (waffle day). Our Lady's Day is celebrated on March 25 (nine months before Christmas), the Christian holiday of Annunciation, and the Waffle Day is hence celebrated on the same day although it has no religious connections to Our Lady's Day.
In Sweden the heart shaped waffle iron is the most common, but didn't come into existence until the 19th century. Since the 17th century Swedes were creating waffles over a fire with a waffle iron.
The alternative Waffle Day (on August 24th) began in the USA and honors the anniversary of the patenting of the first US waffle iron invented by Cornelius Swarthout of Troy, New York and is celebrated on this day.
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