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AMUSING FACTS : FOOD & DRINK > ICE CREAM
  • Baskin Robbins once made ketchup ice cream. This was the only vegetable flavoured ice cream produced. However, they discontinued it since they thought it would not sell well.
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    (Added: Sun Sep 21 2008 By Gauher)
  • Back in the 1790's a cookbook had recipes available for ice cream flavors such as parmesan, and ginger ice cream.
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    (Added: Fri Oct 31 2008 By Gauher)
  • Baskin Robbins plain vanilla ice cream is the number one selling flavour and accounts for a quarter of their sales.
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    (Added: Fri Oct 31 2008 By Gauher)
  • Great Britain has the highest consumption of ice cream than any other European nation.
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  • The hot fudge sundae was invented at C.C. Brown's Ice Cream Parlour on Hollywood Blvd.
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  • The largest ice cream sundae was made with 4,667 gallons of ice cream, was 12 feet high and had 7000 pounds of toppings on it. This was made in Anaheim, California in 1985.
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    (Added: Fri Oct 31 2008 By Gauher)
  • Eighty percent of the Vanilla Beans which are used to make ice cream is grown in Madagascar.
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    (Added: Fri Oct 31 2008 By Gauher)
  • There are some ice creams that are 75% air.
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  • In 1984, Ronald Reagan declared the month of July to be "National Ice Cream Month."
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  • In 1988, the largest ice cream sundae in history was made. It was made in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, and weighed in at over 24 tons.
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    (Added: Fri Oct 31 2008 By Gauher)
  • Of all the days of the week, the most popular day for people to eat ice cream is Sunday.
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    (Added: Fri Oct 31 2008 By Gauher)
  • One out of five people that eat ice cream binge on ice cream in the middle of the night. The person is usually between 18 - 24 years old.
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    (Added: Fri Oct 31 2008 By Gauher)
  • The Ice Cream cone was invented in the summer of 1904 by Charles Menches. It made its debut one year later at the St. Louis World Fair.
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    (Added: Sun Sep 21 2008 By Gauher)
  • In 1945, the first "floating ice cream parlor" was built for sailors in the western Pacific. This "floating ice cream parlour" could produce ten gallons of ice cream every seven seconds.
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    (Added: Fri Feb 8 2008 By Gauher)



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