Who does not love ice cream…??
- Already in the 1st century AD, in ancient Rome, snow was eaten with the addition of fruit, juice and honey as ice cream.
- The modern version of ice cream, known to us, was made in 17th-century France.
- The ice cream cone was invented in 1903 by Italian Italo Marchiony living in New York.
- A year later, in 1904, it was popularized at the EXPO World Expo in Saint Louis when a Syrian waffle maker began to roll them into cones to help the ice cream maker who had run out of cups.
- The best-selling ice cream flavors in the world are vanilla (33% of all ice cream sales) and chocolate (19%).
- The largest ice cream cone was created by the Italians Mirco Della Vecchia and Andrea Andrighetti and was 2.81 meters high.
- Most ice cream is produced in June.
- The most popular addition to ice cream in the world is chocolate syrup.
- To eat a whole cone with one scoop of ice cream, you must lick it 50 times on average.
- The ideal temperature of the eaten ice cream is around -14 to -12 degrees Celsius.
- The feeling of “brain freezing” is when the ice cream touches the palate.
- 20% of people share ice cream with their pets.
- The average cow produces enough milk during its lifetime to produce between 34,000 and 35,000 liters of ice cream.
- The USA produces the most ice cream in the world.
- Ice cream became widely available to the people of France in 1660.
- Americans celebrated victory in World War II by eating ice cream and in 1946 they ate about 19 liters of ice cream per person.
- There is a special ice cream diet designed to help you lose weight.
- In the early days of television, the lights were so warm that the TV programs used mashed potatoes because the ice cream melted too quickly.
- 19% of people eat ice cream in bed. 3% eat in the bathtub.
- More ice cream is sold on Sundays than on any other day of the week.
- French ice cream contains egg yolks.
- The first ice cream parlor – cafe was established in France, specifically in Paris, in 1686. It was Café Procope. Its originator was the Sicilian Francesco Procopio de ‘Coltelli. Café Procope exists to this day as the oldest, continuously operating Parisian cafe (they used to visit it and probably ordered coffee ice cream, among others, by Victor Hugo, Napoleon Bonaparte, and Benjamin Franklin).
- A turning point in the history of ice cream was, of course, the invention of the ice cream maker. The machine was called a sabotiere (sorbetier). It consisted of two vessels. One (larger) vessel was filled with ice and salt, and a smaller vessel had to be placed inside it, in which the ice cream was prepared. Special mixers passed through the lid and mixed the contents.
- The breakthrough in the production of ice cream came only in the 19th century when the German physicist Karl von Linde in 1876 “introduced” the first refrigerating machine to the market. Today, probably each of us has it at home and it is called a refrigerator. Interestingly, in Germany, where the refrigerator was invented, the mass production of ice cream began only in 1925.
- Rupert Grint, the actor who played Ron Weasley in the Harry Potter film series, dreamed of becoming an ice cream seller as a child, so he bought an ice cream truck with the money he earned on the set.
- Professional ice cream testers use gold spoons to get a 100% flavor of ice cream without the slightest hint of metal.
- In Canada, more ice cream is sold in winter than in summer.
- February 4 in the US is the National Ice Cream Day for Breakfast.
- Inuit ice cream, called Akutaq, is made from reindeer fat, seal oil, snow or water, fresh fruit, and sometimes ground fish. Air is manually pushed into the mixture until it forms a frozen foam. In other versions, Akutaq contains either elk or polar bear meat or fat.
- “Raw horse” is an ice cream flavor sold in Japan.
- In 1984, US President Ronald Reagan called July National Ice Cream Month, and the third Sunday of that month as National Ice Cream Day.
- In Polish, the term “Italian ice cream” has three meanings – it can mean ice cream with a texture similar to a sorbet (Italian ice), soft ice cream served from a vending machine (Soft serve) or an Italian-style ice cream, otherwise known as gelato.
- American ice cream differs from soft serve ice cream in terms of production method – Italian ice cream is more aerated, which makes it softer and dome-shaped, and American ice cream – strongly chilled and auger-shaped – is tall and narrow.
- After analyzing the market, it was found that ice cream sells many times better in a recession or war.
- Perhaps the strangest taste of ice cream was the pickled cucumber ice cream advertised for pregnant women.
- The sugar in ice cream reduces the melting point, and the fats are responsible for the creamy texture.
- Lollypipes and ice cream bars were introduced in 1920.
- 87% of Americans always have ice cream in their freezer.
- About 9% of the milk produced on American farms is used to make ice cream.
- Italian law states that gelato should contain at least 3.5% milk fat, while in the USA ice cream can be called products with a fat content of at least 10%.
- It is surprising that one of the first people to produce ice cream on a large scale was the first president of the United States, George Washington. On his estate, Mount Vernon made ice cream using a machine constructed in 1790 by the American landlady Nancy Johnson. This ice cream was of course eaten by the guests he invited.
- In the USA, California produces the most ice cream.
- Hawaii has an inga edulis fruit that tastes identical to vanilla ice cream.
- For a time in Kansas, it was illegal to serve ice cream on a cherry pie.
- Salty caramel probably does not impress anyone anymore and most of you have tried ice cream with this taste. Our list of unusual flavors of ice cream includes: fish, garlic, lavender, shrimp-pineapple, tomato, beetroot … But probably the hit is the ice cream with the taste of … pickled cucumbers, which were created for pregnant women.
- Contrary to the belief that ice cream is often eaten in space, it was only on one space trip – it gave the Apollo 7 crew quick access to sugar.
- In 1940, scientists recognized that ice cream was responsible for the polio virus epidemic only because statistics showed the most cases in summer, which is when children eat ice cream (in fact, ice cream has nothing to do with the disease).
- In English, ice cream was formerly called cream ice instead of ice cream.
- The Roman emperor Nero sent his people on expeditions for snow in the mountains. Then he kept it in special rooms under the palace and made ice cream out of it.
- The first insulated cooling rooms were built around 1800.
- The traditional flavors of gelato include vanilla, chocolate, walnut, pistachio, cream, and spalciatella.
- Centuries ago, people created refreshing summer desserts by chilling sweet cream or custard with ice.
- The ice cream flavored with avocado, garlic, beer, jalapeno, pumpkin, bacon, pepperoni pizza and many other unusual flavors.
- In Japan, one of the most popular ice cream is matcha-flavored ice cream, i.e. powdered green tea.
- It is assumed that the Chinese invented the ice cream around 5,000 years ago … They crushed the fruit and served it with crushed ice in bowls. It was also invented that after adding fruit and spices to rice pulp (which was made from boiled rice and milk), you can put it in snow and freeze it – it was a substitute for real ice cream
- The Greeks loved the so-called “snow from Olympus”. It was a mixture of ice, honey, fruit juices and wine. It was a favorite delicacy of the social elite. The Romans, on the other hand, varied ice cream with honey, cinnamon, rose water and violets. They also added almonds, dates and figs. Emperor Nero was a lover of ice cream.
- Ice cream for modern Europe was discovered most probably by the Venetian traveler – Marco Polo. According to the legend, Marco Polo, who often visited China, stole a secret recipe, and sold it to Venetian confectioners. Thanks to this theft, the famous creamy Venetian ice cream was created.
- We owe the sorbets to the Arabs – it was they who came up with this brilliant idea, and they called their “invention” “Sharba”. Sharba was a mixture of frozen fruit purees and sugar with the addition of alcohol. The Greeks, on the other hand, tasted a delicacy called granita (still used today) – these are ice particles from fruit juice. A special feature that distinguishes it from sorbet is the granular structure of ice, which it owes its name to – granire, which means “to form grains”.
- A physicist from Spain invented an ice cream called “Xamaleon”, which turns from blue to purple as it begins to melt. It is known that he used strawberries, cocoa, almonds, bananas, pistachios, vanilla, and caramel to produce ice cream, but it is not known how he obtained such an original effect. Ice cream is sold in an ice cream parlor located in Calella de Mar, in the eastern province of Barcelona.
- The Romans sent slaves to the mountains to collect snow, to which fruit was then added and the whole was poured with juice.
- Charles I Stuart paid his chef £ 500 a year to keep his ice cream recipe a secret.
- About 50% of the volume of ice cream is air. This is what gives the dessert a light and fluffy texture.
- In 1984, President Ronald Reagan announced that July would be National Ice Cream Month.
- In the UK, ice cream cars are only allowed to play music between 12:00 and 19:00. In the mornings and evenings, the driver can only ring the bell so as not to disturb residents.
- The first ice cream truck dealer in the United States was Harry Burt, who started his business in 1920.
- One of the shops in Ireland serves caramelized bread-flavored ice cream. The dessert was invented in difficult times when the Irish did not want to waste old bread and were looking for ways to use it.
- The United States alone produces an average of 6 billion liters of frozen dairy products each year.
- In Tokyo, Japan, you can find octopus, shrimp, horse meat and cow tongue ice cream.
- People in the Persian Empire stored snow in underground evaporative air conditioners that cool the air by evaporating water, known as “yakhchāl”, and then served it on warm days with concentrated grape juice.
- Although early versions of the dessert appeared in ancient China and Rome, the ice cream we know today was made in Italy.
- In 2017, Miki Sudo broke the world record for eating ice cream. In 6 minutes, she ate 7.75 liters.
- Italian ice cream, called gelato, is extremely popular. In 2017, Italy produced 19% of all ice cream in Europe.
- Tsarina Catherine II the Great was so fascinated by ice cream that she had a special serving set made of Servic porcelain.
- Artisan ice cream is a growing trend. In the UK and Ireland alone, there are about 1,000 small producers of expensive and elite desserts.
- American President George Washington loved ice cream so much that he spent $ 200 on it in the summer of 1790. In terms of today’s value of money, it is about $ 5,000.
- In 1565, the architect Bernardo Buontalenti invented an advanced refrigeration technique that allowed the ice cream to be widely consumed by Italians during the Renaissance.
- In Italy, there are over 19,000 ice cream parlors employing over 69,000 people. Most of them are small family businesses.
- The first ice cream dish in Italy was created in Renaissance Florence in the 17th century, when Catherine de Medici held a competition for new and unique dishes that could be presented at the court.
- New Zealanders love ice cream. Average consumption is 22 liters per person per year. Their favorite flavors are vanilla and “hokey pokey” or vanilla with pieces of butterscotch.
- During World War I, the Hoover administration ordered American producers to cut ice cream production due to the sugar shortage caused by the conflict.
- The largest ice cream dessert ever made was made at College Station, Texas, where around 4,000 people both prepared it and ate it in less than 30 minutes.
- In the WWII Warner Bros. movie, Bugs Bunny drives an ice cream truck, attacking Japanese troops, handing out chocolate-covered grenades.
- In 2016, China consumed the most ice cream: 4.3 billion liters.
- In 1918, the American editorial office criticized European hospitals for not ice-feeding American soldiers wounded in the war, claiming that in America “every medical hospital uses ice cream as food.”
- Scientists have shown that ice cream makes people feel safer and more comfortable.
- When an American general tried to limit the amount of ice cream served to overseas troops during the Korean War, the Pentagon issued an official statement to reassure soldiers that they would still be served ice cream at least three times a week.
- Ice cream consumption increased dramatically during Prohibition as many breweries turned into ice cream parlors.
- The most expensive ice cream dessert in the world costs $ 1,000 per serving. It includes, among others edible gold, Madagascar vanilla and high-quality chocolate. Orders for The Golden Opulence Sundae must be placed two days in advance.
- The first known ice cream recipe was handwritten in 1665. The ice cream described in this recipe has the flavor of orange and nutmeg.
- Chocolate ice cream was invented much faster than vanilla ice cream. The first recipe for them was given in 1692 in Italy.
- Many of the flavors of ice cream that were popular during the US colonial era have survived to this day – vanilla, strawberry, pistachio, and coffee ice cream. The rest – oyster, parmesan and asparagus-flavored ice cream had no strength to survive and disappeared.
- Vanilla is a quite common flavor these days. At the end of the 18th century, however, it was an exotic and rare taste. Vanilla was hard to buy back then.
- The ice cream company, Häagen-Dazs, was founded by two Americans – Reuben and Rose Mattus. The company name has been transformed to sound Danish and sophisticated.
- Ben & Jerry’s first produced a cookie-flavored ice cream in 1991. The flavor was created based on an anonymous suggestion.
- Food photographers often photograph modified mashed potatoes and place them on ice cream boxes.
- We often have a headache after eating ice cream. Why? Because the nerve endings at the top of the mouth are not used to the cold, they send a signal to the brain that the body is losing temperature.
- Apple pie served with ice cream was invented in a hotel in New York, when one of the guests, several days in a row, ordered ice cream with his apple pie.
- Ice cream with fruit and whipped cream was invented in the late 1890s.
- Professional ice cream testers use real gold spoons to try them, because when trying several flavors with the same spoon, you do not taste the previous ice cream.
- The earliest versions of Neapolitan ice cream tasted pistachio-vanilla-cherry. They looked like an Italian flag.
Enjoy!!
