26Clint Eastwood
Clint Eastwood ran for mayor in the city of Carmel in California, campaigning against an ordinance banning the sale of ice cream and he actually won.
27. The name "Häagen-Dazs" is completely meaningless. The Jewish creator of the ice cream wanted a "Danish sounding" name to honor the Danish treatment of Jews during World War 2 and started saying gibberish names until he found one that he liked.
28. Ice cream testers use golden spoons to be able to taste the product 100% without a slight percentage of ‘after-taste’ from typical spoons.
29. John Harrison, the official taste-tester for Dreyer’s Ice Cream, has his tongue insured for $1 million.
30. Under the American Blue Laws of the time, ice cream sodas weren't allowed to be sold on Sundays. To circumvent this rule, they invented the ice cream sundae.
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31Ben & Jerry's Employees
All Ben & Jerry's Employees get to take home 3 free pints of ice cream every single day!
32. In July 1984, President Ronald Reagan called ice cream "a nutritious and wholesome food" and established National Ice Cream Month.
33. In Japan, they sell squid ink ice cream, in the Philippines, you can get crocodile egg ice cream, and in Maine, you will find lobster ice cream.
34. Rival ice cream truck drivers in Glasgow in the 1980s sold drugs from their trucks, shot at each other, and committed arson in the Glasgow Ice Cream Wars.
35. Since his childhood, Rupert Grint’s ambition was to become an “Ice Cream Man” and he has since bought an ice cream truck with the money he earned from the Harry Potter movies.
