Just The Cold, Hard Facts
It takes 12 pounds of whole milk to make one gallon of ice cream. That's
a lot of calcium!
Not Butterscotch, Almond Fudge, or Peppermint Swirl Ripple! Vanilla
remains Americans favorite ice cream flavor.
From the Silly Laws Department: At one time it was against the law to
serve ice cream on cherry pie in Kansas.
Ice Cream Sundays! More ice cream is sold on Sunday than any other day of
the week. However, the ice cream sundae was created as a response to religious criticism
for eating "sinfully" rich ice cream sodas on Sundays. Ice cream merchants left out the
carbonated water and invented the ice cream "Sunday" in the late 1890's. The name was
eventually changed to "sundae" to remove any connection with the Sabbath.
Will that be in a cone or a cup? Each American consumes a yearly average
of 23.2 quarts of ice cream.
The average number of licks to polish off a single scoop ice cream cone is
approximately 50 - maybe less on a hot day!
A Breif History Of Ice Cream:
Could be the start of something big! Ice cream dates all the way back to the 4th century
B.C. when Roman emperor Nero ordered ice to be brought back from the mountains, and
combined it with fruit toppings.
Italians again! Marco Polo returned to Italy from the Far East with a recipe that closely
resembled what is now called sherbet. Historians estimate that this recipe evolved into ice
cream sometime in the 16th century.
Until 1800, ice cream remained a rare and exotic dessert enjoyed mostly by the elite.
Around 1800, insulated ice houses were invented, and that's when ice cream REALLY got going.
By the late 1800's, ice cream was still a treat but more broadly enjoyed. In the book
"Anne of Green Gables", the orphan Anne Shirley attends an ice cream social and terms ice
cream "scrumptious!"
