National Ice Cream Day is July 16, 2017

Let’s celebrate this fun day together.

The 3rd Sunday in July is National Ice Cream Day. But if you miss that day, don’t worry, this whole month is National Ice Cream Month.

View this brief history of ice cream. Ice cream started as a winter, ice/syrup delight for the wealthy. It is now a worldwide, creamy treat available year round to the masses. Stats indicate that Americans prefer ice cream over other desserts. And that we eat 4-6 gallons of ice cream per year.

 

NINE FUN FACTS ABOUT ICE CREAM

1. In the summer of 1790, President George Washington splurged and bought $200 worth of ice cream (about $3,000 today). I don’t know if he shared.
2. Dolley Madison (wife of James Madison, President of the United States from 1809 to 1817) preferred oyster ice cream.
3. 18th century cookbooks offered, weird to me, recipes like parmesan ice cream and asparagus ice cream.
4. Grocery stores started selling ice cream in the 1930’s.
5. Ice cream had become so popular with Americans during WWII that it became an American symbol. Therefore, Mussolini banned it in Italy.
6. Soft serve ice cream was “developed by a team of chemists in Britain, whose membership included Margaret Thatcher. They found a way to double the amount of air per unit volume in ice cream. This, in turn, made the ice cream cheaper to make (less ingredients, more air), and made it possible to have a relatively simple machine make it to order from a spigot.” (Daven Hiskey)
7. Ice cream headaches last 10-30 seconds and sometimes up to five minutes.
8. Hawaiian Punch syrup was developed in 1934 and was first sold as an ice cream topping. In 1946 the company was sold. The new owners began offering it in drink form.
9. The residents of Portland, Oregon eat more ice cream than residents in any other American city.

HOW TO OBSERVE

• Come to Cordova Neighborhood Church on Sunday, July 16, 2017.  Share a box of your fave frozen treat. We will splurge between the services and after the 2nd service.
• Create an ice cream craft. Check out my Ice Cream Pinterest board.
• Do a taste test. Find out which ice cream is the best tasting. These folks discovered the tastiest store bought vanilla.
• Listen to songs about ice cream.
• Make some ice cream.  Do so with a machine or in a bag.
• Share an ice cream memory. Tell us in the comments or at your own social media space.
• Take a selfie or group shot eating ice cream. Post on social media using #NationalIceCreamDay.

Your Turn . . . What ever you do, enjoy some Ice Cream.  . . . Then tell us about it.

Related Internet Posts . . . 

• Explore The Delicious History of Ice Cream
• HAWAIIAN PUNCH WAS ORIGINALLY AN ICE CREAM TOPPING 
• The History of Ice Cream
• WHAT CAUSES ICE CREAM HEADACHES?