Amazing Facts about Ice Cream:

Ice Cream might be an 8 letter word for some people, but there is no doubt about the fact that it is an ocean of taste and pleasure for human taste buds. It is an answer to your late night cravings, beating the heat in summers, or to increase the chillness of winters. You will hardly find a person who does not like ice cream! Even if someone claims they don’t no one believes them.

You must have tried numerous ice cream flavors in your life time, but most of you are unaware of some amazing and thought provoking facts about ice cream. Who came up with the idea of ice cream? Which nations consume most ice creams and lot more? So fasten your seat belts and get ready to explore the delicious journey of ice cream from evolution to present.

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If you think ice cream is modern dessert only then you are sadly mistaken. In 5th century B.C. Ancient Greeks enjoy a dessert similar to ice cream. In 1300s Marco Polo brings an early form of Ice Cream to Europe. Americans celebrated the victory of WWII with ice cream. In 1946, they ate more than 20 quarts of ice cream per person. The major ingredient in ice cream is air. The world’s tallest ice cream cone was over 9 ft tall and scooped in Italy.

It takes an average of 50 licks to finish one scoop of ice cream. Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was part of the team that first invented the method of making soft serve ice cream. Worldwide, around 15 billion liters (3.3 billion gallons) of ice-cream are consumed every year, enough to fill 5,000 Olympic swimming pools. New Zealand consumes most ice cream in the world that accounts for 7.5 per capita, gallons per year.

Most of the Vanilla used to make Ice Cream comes from Madagascar and Indonesia    Chocolate Syrup is regarded as world’s most popular ice cream topping. Brain Freeze occurs when ice cream touches the roof of your mouth.  On June 13, 1789, George Washington became the first US president to eat ice-cream. 

 The last thing Elvis Presley ate was four scoops of ice-cream and six chocolate chip cookies. The world record for ice-cream eating is 1.75 US gallons (11.66 UK pints) in eight minutes. You must be astonished to learn such facts! Don’t think much. Eat Ice cream and spread happiness!