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Ice cream or ice-cream is a frozen dessert usually made from dairy products, such as milk and cream, and often combined with fruits or other ingredients and flavours.
Most varieties contain sugar, although some are made with other sweeteners. In some cases, artificial flavourings and colourings are used in addition to (or in replacement of) the natural ingredients. This mixture is stirred slowly while cooling to prevent large ice crystals from forming; the result is a smoothly textured ice cream.
The most popular flavor of ice cream is Vanilla.Vanilla comes from the plant vanilla planifolia - a member of the orchid family - grown mainly in Madagascar but also Mexico, parts of South America, Tahiti and islands off E. Africa. The vanilla extract produced from the plant in each of these areas has its own very distinct characteristics.
The most popular topping for ice cream is chocolate syrup.
The world's top 5 consumers of ice cream in order are: USA, New Zealand, Denmark, Australia, Belgium/Luxembourg. In the USA, July is officially recognized as 'National Ice Cream Month'; designated by President Reagan in 1984, the idea behind it was for people to celebrate the fun in ice cream as well as recognizing its nutritious value.
In the UK, there are more than 1,000 ice cream companies with annual consumption estimated at 8 litres per person. Extra fascinating fact - ice cream consumption in the USA is circa 21 litres per person per year.
Americans love ice cream as much as ever. In 2007 Americans spent over $12 billion on ice cream, frozen yogurt and similar products and no less than 91% of adults and 98 per cent of children ate ice cream in that year.
Licking the bowl clean after eating ice cream is admitted to by approximately 13% of men and 8% of women.
Sharing ice cream with a pet cat or dog is done by approximately 5% of people.
Biggest ice cream sundae - 12ft tall made with 4,667 gallons of ice cream - California, USA 1985.
The best temperature at which to serve ice cream is believed to be 8 degrees F.
Ice cream figured in the lives of some of the most famous people in history including Marco Polo, Emperor Nero and Charles I.
Elvis Presley is said to have loved ice cream - apparently his favorites were chocolate milkshakes and peach ice cream.
Many songs refer to ice cream in their lyrics - eg. 'Your love is better than ice cream' (Sarah McLachlan)
Approx 9% of milk produced by dairy farmers in the USA goes into producing ice cream.
A slush or a slushie is a generic term for a flavored frozen drink.
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