1Spaghettieis
Spaghettieis is a German ice cream which looks like spaghetti.
2. The popular ice cream flavor "Tutti Frutti" got its name because it literally means "All Fruits" in Italian.
3. A Venezuelan ice cream shop named Heladería Coromoto holds the record for most flavors. They have smoked trout, mushrooms in wine, hot dog and pork rind are some of the flavors they serve out of 860 flavors they own.
4. During operation PLUTO, the Allied forces laid pipe allowing them to pump a million gallons of fuel per day under the English Channel to France. The pump houses were disguised as cottages and even an ice cream shop.
5. William Dreyer named his ice cream creation "Rocky Road" due to hardships caused by The Great Depression.
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6Neapolitan Ice cream
Neapolitan Ice cream was originally made to resemble the Italian Flag (green (pistachio or almond), white (vanilla), and red (cherry)).
7. A Spanish scientist has created an ice cream that changes color as you eat it and intends to name it Xamaleón (similar to chameleon).
8. You can make banana ice cream with just one ingredient i.e., Banana.
9. Hawaiian Punch was originally an ice cream topping.
10. Eskimo Ice Cream (Akutaq) is made by using a concoction of reindeer fat, seal oil, freshly fallen snow or water, fresh berries and sometimes groundfish. Air is whipped by hand until it cools into the foam. Akutaq can also be made with moose, or polar bear meat or fat.
11Ice cream parlor
The US Navy commissioned the world's first floating ice cream parlor in 1945, capable of making 1500 gallons of ice-cream an hour.
12. Raw Horse Flesh is an ice cream flavor that is sold in Japan.
13. February 4th is the National Ice Cream for Breakfast Day in USA.
14. In Canada, more ice cream is sold in the winter months than in the summer.
15. For TV commercials, ice cream sundaes are often constructed out of scoops of lard or mashed potatoes that are covered in motor oil.
16Howard Hughes
Millionaire Howard Hughes was fond of Baskin-Robbins' Banana Ripple ice cream. His 'helpers' had to order 200 gallons from the factory before it was discontinued. A few days later Hughes announced that he didn’t like it anymore.
17. In 2008, PETA requested that Ben & Jerry's use human breast milk instead of cow's milk for their ice cream.
18. Ben and Jerry's sell a sundae named 'The Vermonster'. It contains 20 scoops of ice cream, 4 ladles of hot fudge and 500 grams of fat. It is 14,000 calories.
19. During a riot in Northern Ireland in 2010, a police officer diffused the situation by playing ice cream van music.
20. Cold Stone's "No Drip" ice cream doesn't melt because it contains Instant Pudding Mix.
21Star Spangled Ice Cream
Star Spangled Ice Cream was created as a politically conservative alternative to Ben & Jerry's, which was seen as too liberal.
22. Ben and Jerry's has a real physical graveyard in Vermont for retired ice cream flavors.
23. The world's first batch of chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream was made by Ben & Jerry's, inspired by an anonymous note left on their flavor suggestion board.
24. In 1940, scientists concluded that consumption of ice cream was the leading cause of the polio epidemic, solely based on the stats that there were more cases of polio in the summer, which was also when children ate most ice cream.
25. The FBI assigned a surveillance team to Sacha Baron Cohen while the filming of Borat due to reports of a "Middle Eastern man traveling in an ice cream truck."
