Interesting Facts
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Vanilla comes from the plant vanilla planifolia
The most poplar topping for ice cream is chocolate syrup
The World's top 5 consumers of ice cream in order;
USA, New Zealand, Denmark, Australia, Belgium/Luxembourg
Licking the bowl clean after eating ice cream is admitted by
approx 13% of men and approx 8% of women
The biggest Ice cream sundae
12 ft tall made with 4,667 gallons of ice cream
Binging on Ice cream in the middle of the night
is done by one out of five ice cream eaters
it's noted that men binge more often than women
Approx 9% of milk poduced by dairy farmers in the US
goes to producing Ice Cream
Citizens of Omaha, Nebraska
eat more ice cream per person than any other Americans
Immigrants at Ellis Island were served
Vanilla Ice Cream as a part of their Welome to America meal
Most unusual flavors of ice cream
avocado, garlic, azuki bean, jalapeno and pumpkin
Weirdest Ice cream Flavor of all
Dill Pickle, which was made for expecting mothers
One out of five pet owners
share their ice cream with them
President Ronald Reagan
made July nation Ice Cream month
http://www.drspock.com/article/0,1510,5941,00.html
http://www.ice-cream-recipes.com/ice_cream_facts.htm