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10 Things to Know About Ice Cream

6 Written by Abby on July 30, 2009 – 10:00 am

2663549362_4fe73393fa When it comes to ice cream, whether it’s 100 degrees or the dead of winter (assuming I’m inside of course), ice cream is one of my favorite sweet treats. Half the time I don’t even need a cone, a scoop or two in a cup or bowl and I’m a happy camper. With July being National Ice Cream month, it seemed quite appropriate to present to you 10 Things to Know About Ice Cream!

It’s Not Just About the Jelly Beans: In 1984, President Ronald Reagan declared July as National Ice Cream Month, citing the food’s “nutritious and wholesome” qualities. He went on to decree that patriotic Americans should mark the month with “appropriate ceremonies and activities.”

A Royal Treat: Legend has it that the Roman emperor Nero used to send his slaves scurrying to the mountains to collect snow and ice to make flavored ices, the precursors to ice cream, in the first century.

Quick Thinking: During the stuffy Victorian period, drinking soda water was considered improper, so some towns banned its sale on Sundays. An enterprising druggist in Evanston, IN, reportedly concocted a legal Sunday alternative containing ice cream and syrup, but no soda. To show respect for the Sabbath, he later changed the spelling to “sundae.”

An Ice Cream By Any Other Name: Reuben Mattus and his wife sold ice cream for decades, but it wasn’t until they renamed it Häagen-Dazs that their ice cream became more well-known. Häagen-Dazs was a made-up Danish word that gave this newly titled ice cream company a more European flair.

Size Matters: In 1988, the biggest ice cream sundae was made in Alberta, Canada and was so recorded by the Guinnes Book of World Records. This sundae weighed at 55,000 pounds. The same year, a baking company and a sheet-metal firm in Dubuque, Iowa produced the world’s largest ice cream sandwich and tipped the scales at nearly 2,500 pounds. 11 years later, Baskin-Robbins created an ice cake at a beach hotel in the United Arab Emirates that weighed just under 9,000 pounds.

Five Favorites: Vanilla, chocolate, neapolitan, strawberry and cookies and cream are the top five most popular ice cream flavors with 80% of vanilla bean used for vanilla ice cream coming from Madagascar.

Keep On Lickin’: It takes 50 licks to finish a single scoop of ice cream.

Can I Have Fish in My Ice Cream?: When it comes to ice cream, the Japanese really take the cake when it comes to their ice cream flavors like Fish Ice Cream (made with saltwater fish and brandy), Chicken Wing Ice Cream, Octopus Ice Cream, Soy Sauce Ice Cream and Salad Ice Cream. Click this link to see more!

Forget the Horseradish: Jackie Gleason enjoyed a scoop of ice cream on his roast beef.

I Scream, You Scream, Americans Scream for More Ice Cream: Each American consumes a yearly average of 23.2 quarts of ice cream, ice milk, sherbet, ices and other commercially produced frozen dairy products with ice cream consumption being the highest during July and August

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10 Things you might not know about ice cream

It’s National Ice Cream Day, as celebrated on the third Sunday of every July by order of President Ronald Reagan in 1984. Here are 10 scoops of high-calorie facts:

1. Haagen-Dazs is not an exotic Scandinavian recipe. It’s a brand name created by a Polish immigrant and his wife in the Bronx. Reuben Mattus’ family sold ice cream for decades, but the product didn’t really take off until the early ’60s, when Mattus and his wife, Rose came up with the Haagen-Dazs name out of thin air and put a map of Denmark on the carton. They used an umlaut (two dots) over the first letter “a” in Haagen even though there’s no such usage in Danish.

2. The Evinrude outboard motor was invented because of ice cream. A young man named Ole Evinrude was picnicking with his fiance on a Wisconsin lake island in 1906 when she expressed interest in a dish of ice cream. Evinrude rowed to shore to satisfy her desire, and en route realized that if he had a motor, the errand would be a lot easier — and the ice cream would be less likely to melt. So inspired, he designed an outboard motor that made him famous.

3. When comedian Jackie Gleason dined out, he sometimes ordered roast beef with a scoop of ice cream on it.

4. In the ice cream industry, “overrun” is a term for the amount of air that’s inserted into ice cream as it’s produced. Without some aeration, ice cream would be a solid mass, difficult to scoop and serve. So overrun is a good thing, within limits: Cheaper ice cream has more overrun. Long before Margaret Thatcher became Britain’s prime minister, she was a chemist investigating the air in ice cream. As the Times of London put it, she studied “methods for preserving the foamy quality of ice cream by injecting it with air.”

5. Ice cream vendors in the Mexican town of Dolores Hidalgo have featured such flavors as beer, cheese, cactus petal, avocado, tequila, corn, black and red mole, pigskin and shrimp.

6. The Library of Congress houses many of Thomas Jefferson’s writings, including a draft of the Declaration of Independence and his recipe for vanilla ice cream. Jefferson, an obsessive foodie, kept his ice house carefully stocked and corresponded with acquaintances in Paris to secure vanilla beans.

7. Who was the nation’s first great ice cream entrepreneur? We nominate Augustus Jackson, an African-American. In the late 1820s — when nearly 2 million other black Americans were still in bondage — Jackson was a free man who left his job as a chef at the White House and moved to Philadelphia to establish a successful catering business that supplied ice cream to restaurants.

8. It’s surprising that the Republicans didn’t raise the ice cream issue against Barack Obama (right) in the last election. Most Americans like ice cream; Obama apparently doesn’t. In an “Access Hollywood” interview during the campaign, Obama’s daughter Malia said: “Ice cream is my favorite food. I could eat ice cream forever.” Then Obama’s younger daughter, Sasha, said: “Everybody should like ice cream. Except Daddy. My dad doesn’t like sweets.” Perhaps Obama’s distaste stems from his part-time job at Baskin-Robbins as a teenager in Hawaii. But one of the most romantic scenes in the Obama biography also involves ice cream. On his first date with Michelle Robinson, Obama took her to a Baskin-Robbins. He later described the scene: “I asked if I could kiss her. It tasted of chocolate.”

9. When actor Clint Eastwood ran for mayor of Carmel, Calif., in 1986, a major issue was ice cream. Town leaders had banned the sale of ice cream cones, incensing Eastwood and his supporters. They won, and overturned the ordinance.

10. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals wrote a letter to Ben & Jerry’s last year urging the company to start making its ice cream with the milk of nursing mothers rather than the milk of cows. A PETA spokeswoman acknowledged that the idea was “somewhat absurd” but said it was intended to publicize the alleged cruelty of the dairy industry. There was no comment from People for the Ethical Treatment of Nursing Mothers.

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