[Ice cream fact 1] The popular phrase, “I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream” comes from a song written by Howard Johnson, Billy Moll and Robert King in 1927.
[Ice cream fact 2] When an American general attempted to restrict the amount of ice cream served to the overseas troops during the Korean War, the Pentagon made an official statement to reassure the troops that they would still be served ice cream at least three times a week.
[Ice cream fact 3] When town leaders in Evanston, WY, made it illegal to sell ice cream sodas on Sundays, shop owners invented the ice cream sundae. They replaced the soda with syrup to get around the law, and they replaced the ‘y’ in Sunday with an ‘e’ in order to avoid offending religious leaders.
[Ice cream fact 4] The ice cream cone was invented at the St. Louis World's Fair in 1904, when a Syrian named Ernest E. Hamwi used batter at his waffle booth to make cones to help out his neighbor, an ice cream vendor who had run out of bowls.
[Ice cream fact 5] A shop in Ireland serves a caramelized-brown-bread flavored ice cream. It was invented during hard times when Irish folk were hesitant to waste old bread and found ways to transform it into desserts.
[Ice cream fact 6] Rocky Road was originally marketed during the Great Depression as a metaphor for coping with the economic crash.
[Ice cream fact 7] The United States alone produces an average of 1.6 billion gallons of frozen dairy products a year.
[Ice cream fact 8] A Warner’s Bros. cartoon made during WWII features Bugs Bunny driving an ice cream truck amidst attacking Japanese troops, handing out chocolate-covered grenades.
[Ice cream fact 9] In 1843, Nancy Johnson received the first American patent for a hand-held ice cream maker.
[Ice cream fact 10] Artisan-made ice cream is a rising trend. In the United Kingdom and Ireland alone there are around 1,000 small producers of expensive and elite ice cream products.
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