- US President George Washington was a huge fan of ice cream. He loved ice creams so much that in the year 1790, he spent $200 on ice cream in the summers alone. That would be equivalent to $5000 by today’s standards.
- The popular ice cream brand Ben & Jerry's has customers all over the world, except in Antarctica. It sells ice cream worth $500 million every year.
- There is a unique ice cream pops brand available in Japan, called the Kanazawa, which can stay frozen at room temperature for upto an hour. The recipe for Kanazawa was discovered accidentally, but they are now popular all over Japan.
- ‘Brain freeze’ or ‘ice cream headaches’ are what happens when an extremely cold food touches the roof of a person’s mouth, which causes the blood vessels to constrict rapidly, which in turn affects the sensitive nerves initiating a cold-stimulus headache.
Jojo Yuen/Unsplash. Italy has more than 19,000 ice cream parlors
- There are more than 19,000 ice cream parlors in Italy alone, called gelaterias. Most of them are small family-owned businesses, and employ around 69,000 people.
- The first modern ice cream was prepared in Italy in the 1600s in renaissance Florence, when a cooking competition at court discovered this cold dessert which gained instant popularity worldwide.
- Americans consumed around 2.7 billion liters of ice cream in the year 2006 alone.
- Ice cream is an extremely popular dessert in New Zealand, where an average person consumes about 22 liters of ice cream in a year. The most loved flavors in New Zealand are vanilla and hokey pokey, which is again vanilla but with toffee chunks.
- Americans loved ice cream so much that during the first World War, the Hoover Administration ordered ice
- It was in College Station, Texas, where the largest ice cream sundae ever was presented. The ice cream sundae was made and consumed by 4000 people, who ate the entire thing within 30 minutes.
Couleur/Pixabay. A cow produces enough milk in its lifetime to make 7500 gallons of ice cream.
- The milk produced by an average cow in its lifetime can produce 7500 gallons of ice cream,
- China was the top country to consume the most ice cream in the year 2016, which was around 4.3 billion liters.
StockSnap/Pixabay. Hospitals in Europe were criticized for not serving ice cream to American soldiers injured in war.
- Emphasizing the American love for ice cream, an American criticized European hospitals for not giving ice cream to those American soldiers who were injured during war and were hospitalized inEurope, claiming that every hospital in the US feeds its patients ice cream during recovery.
