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unusual facts about ice cream


Baba Zula

2006 - Dondurmam Gaymak - soundtrack for Dondurmam Gaymak ("Ice Cream, I Scream") by Yüksel Aksu (Rh Pozitif)


Center for Science in the Public Interest

In 2003, it worked with lawyer John F. Banzhaf III to pressure ice cream retailers to display nutritional information about their products.

Dreyer's

, a subsidiary of Nestlé, is a United States-based producer of ice cream and frozen yogurt founded in 1928 as Edy's Grand Ice Cream in Oakland, California by Joseph Edy and William Dreyer.

Dulce de leche

In 1997, the ice cream company Häagen-Dazs introduced a dulce de leche-flavoured ice cream.

Genipa americana

Genipa americana is cultivated for its edible fruit, which are made into drinks, jelly, sherbert and used in ice cream.

J. Lyons and Co., Greenford

Sold under the Lyons Maid brand, the factory was continually expanded as the company battled Unilever's Wall's Ice Cream brand.

James S. Doyle

Since then he has been a senior adviser to Business Leaders for Sensible Priorities, a non-profit set up by Ben Cohen of Ben & Jerry's aimed at convincing the public of a need to shift 15% ($40 billion-plus) from defense procurement of Cold-War weapons to domestic programs such as child health insurance and Head Start.

Kitchen Kabaret

Mr. Dairy Good is a singing milk carton who emerges from a refrigerator holding an old fashioned radio-style floor microphone close to his mouth, crooning introductions to three dairy products: Miss Cheese, Miss Yogurt, and Miss Ice Cream - in the style of 1930s costume extravaganzas.

Los Chinos de Ponce

Los Chinos de Ponce (English: "The Chinesemen of Ponce"), formally King's Ice Cream, is an ice cream store located at Calle Marina 9322 in the city of Ponce, Puerto Rico, in front of the town square, Plaza Las Delicias, opposite the historic Parque de Bombas.

Lunch counter

Typical foods served were hot and cold sandwiches (e.g., ham and cheese, grilled cheese, BLT, patty melt, egg salad), soups, pie, ice cream (including sundaes, ice cream sodas and milkshakes), soda, coffee and hot chocolate.

Ocean pout

In June 2006 the Unilever company announced that it would use genetically modified yeast to grow antifreeze proteins based on a gene from the ocean pout, and use it to improve the consistency and storage properties of its ice cream brands.

Plenty International

Plenty's "Soyarias" now operated by ADIBE in Sololá and San Bartolo, Guatemala, introduced soy dairy and soy ice cream microcredit enterprise in the 1980s.

Rick Cronk

Though not a failure, the chain struggled and then in 1977 Cronk and close friend and associate, T. Gary Rogers, purchased Dreyer's, which was then a popular ice cream company operating exclusively in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Sealtest Dairy

Sealtest also sponsored an ice cream store at the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World in Florida named Sealtest Ice Cream Parlor and Sealtest Ice Cream Wagon.

Seven deadly sins

The ice cream company Walls released a limited edition series of Seven Deadly Sins-inspired Magnum ice creams in 2003.

Sin Parar

Sin Parar or Sem Parar (Non Stop in English) is the name of a line of candy bars and ice cream made by Nestlé.

Spaghetti

Spaghettieis: an ice cream dessert which looks like spaghetti with tomato sauce.


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99 Flake

The pop-electronica duo The KLF used ice-cream van iconography and included the phrase "Make mine a 99" in their 1991 single version of "Justified and Ancient".

Abba Abba

An elaborate passage describes how the Italian Gulielmis were transformed into English Wilsons "during a wave of anti-Italian feeling occasioned by alleged ice-cream poisoning in the 1890s in the Lancashire coastal resorts of Blackpool, Cleveleys, Bispham and Fleetwood".

Aria di sorbetto

As most of the vendors sold Sorbetto (a Sorbet) and Gelato (an ice cream) and other sweets, such arias came to be known as "sherbet arias" because of what they signified to the audience.

Blue Bell Creameries

Blue Bell sells its ice cream directly in only 22 states, mostly in the Southern United States, although Blue Bell ice cream has also been eaten aboard the International Space Station and at Camp David.

At his suggestion, the company was renamed Blue Bell Creameries in 1930 after the Texas Bluebell, a wildflower that is native to Texas, which, like ice cream, thrives in summer.

Chris Bashinelli

As a part of Bridge the Gap TV, Bashinelli has interviewed figures including Paleontologist Richard Leakey, former NBA player and Humanitarian Dikembe Mutombo, and the Founders of Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield.

Cookie dough

Ice cream containing cookie dough was first popularized by Fabulous Phil's Gourmet Ice Cream using homemade cookie dough and Ben & Jerry's retail ice cream, chocolate chip cookie dough, using cookie dough from food distributor Rhino Foods.

Douglas C. Bennett

Earlham College, during Bennett's tenure, gained national media attention when political analyst and Fox News commentator William Kristol, was hit with an ice cream pie by a student while giving a speech on foreign policy in March 2005.

Dove Bar

Dove Bar is an American ice cream bar, created by Leo Stefanos at Dove Candies & Ice Cream in Chicago in 1956, and introduced nationally in 1985.

Farm Sanctuary

In 2007, Farm Sanctuary partnered with Turtle Mountain, a dairy-free ice cream company, and vegan cartoon artist Dan Piraro to promote So Delicious Dairy Free Kidz and the Farm Sanctuary Kidz Club.

Garfield statues

The town of Upland is erecting "Ice Cream Lover Garfield", to be placed near Ivanhoe's Restaurant, 979 S Main Street.

Garlic ice cream

In accordance with a stereotype that Jews tend to add garlic to most of their food, a novel by Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz depicted Polish Jews eating garlic ice cream.

Glacio

Glacio NV is a Belgian ice cream producer based in Beerse, Belgium.

Glasgow Ice Cream Wars

In Grand Theft Auto: Vice City you can drive around in an ice cream van to sell drugs.

Green tea ice cream

During a certain period of the 1980s in Japan, Meiji Dairies started selling its Green Tea Ice Cream with Lady Borden Brand, however after a while Meiji Dairies stopped selling that product.

Hennig-Olsen Iskremfabrikk

Kristiansand resident Sven Hennig-Olsen (1899–1945) learned the art of making ice cream during a stay in Chicago.

High's Dairy Store

The right to produce High's brand of ice cream was sold in 1989 to Kay's Ice Cream, based in Knoxville, Tennessee (which was subsequently acquired by C. F. Sauer Company in 1990).

Ice cream sandwich

In Scotland and Ireland they are known as "sliders" or an ice cream wafer, and are usually served as vanilla ice cream sandwiched between two rectangular chocolate wafers.

Ivan Ulz

Some of the supporting musicians who performed on Ice Cream Man went on to have successful careers of their own, including Jackson Browne, Lowell George, Roy Estrada, Jimmy "Guitar" Smith, and Dick Rosmini.

Although he did not perform on the album, legendary blues guitarist Steve Mann co-wrote two of the tracks on Ice Cream Man: "Beginning to Find My Way" and "Circles Under Squares."

Jack Parow

It was released on a USB flash drive in the shape of an ice-cream-cone and featured 10 songs and 6 full-length music videos.

John Farris

His short story I Scream. You Scream. We All Scream for Ice Cream. was adapted for the Showtime anthology series Masters of Horror in 2007.

Lead Sails Paper Anchor

Other games include: "Dan Becomes Guitar Hero" a game similar to Guitar Hero, "Travis Makes McTreyu Burgers" a remake of the 1982 arcade game BurgerTime, "Marc Busts Ghosts" a game similar to Ice Climber, and "Brandon Falls Down Into Hell" where the Brandon Saller character fights off creatures from hell while collecting ice cream cones.

MadFiber Ice Cream

Proponents of the ice cream have included Mayor Dave Cieslewicz, Madison Schools Superintendent, Dan Nerad, and Dean of UW-Madison's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Irwin Goldman.

Mauna Loa Macadamia Nut Corporation

The visitors center is a tourist attraction with its self-guided tour of the processing plant (viewed from the outside on a second-floor walkway due to safety and sanitation concerns) and large gift shop with homemade macadamia ice cream for sale and free samples of every flavour variation sold by the company.

Mochi

In the United States the grocery chains Trader Joe's, H Mart, Lotte, and Mollie Stone's sell mochi ice cream in flavors of chocolate, mango, coconut, green tea, coffee, red bean, vanilla, and strawberry.

Mochi ice cream

Mikawaya's mochi ice cream products are now sold in major American supermarkets, including Albertsons, Trader Joe's, Ralphs, and Safeway.

North Carolina Executive Mansion

The home was built originally in 1939 by Tom Brimer, who was then owner of Good Humor Ice Cream.

Otis Campbell

In the 1986 television movie Return to Mayberry, it is revealed that Otis is now completely sober and employed as the town's ice-cream man.

Peters Ice Cream

Michelides Tobacco Factory, a building which was for a while the Peters Ice Cream factory in Perth, Western Australia.

Renato Zero

He had several different jobs, including an appearance in an advertisement for ice-cream, work as a dancer in a TV show, playing and dancing in two musicals and a couple minor roles in two Fellini movies.

Rick Cronk

William F. "Rick" Cronk (born 4 October 1942) is an American businessman who was co-owner and president of Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream.

Schoep's Ice Cream

Schoep's ice cream is not generally distributed outside of the Midwest United States under the Schoep's brand, but instead as Walgreens brand Ice Cream.

Serendipity 3

It is made with 5 scoops of the Tahitian vanilla bean ice cream, Madagascar vanilla covered in 23K edible gold leaf, drizzled with the world's most expensive chocolate, Amedei Porcelana, and covered with chunks of Chuao chocolate, which is from cocoa beans harvested by the Caribbean Sea on Venezuela's coast.

Spymob

Spymob is a pop rock band, from Minneapolis best known for their appearance on the 2003 Star Trak Entertainment compilation The Neptunes present Clones, with the song "Half Steering Half Eating Ice Cream."

Sundae

Supporting Ithaca's claim to be "the birthplace of the ice cream sundae", researchers at The History Center in Tompkins County, New York, provide an account of how the sundae came to be: On Sunday, April 3, 1892, in Ithaca, John M. Scott, a Unitarian Church minister, and Chester Platt, co-owner of Platt & Colt Pharmacy, created the first historically documented sundae.

Superman ice cream

The name of the ice cream comes from the colors of the comic book superhero Superman, though it is not licensed through DC Comics.

Telstar Regional Middle/High School

In 1968, a controversy brewed up when a local Baptist minister attempted to get the school to not use the novels Demian by Hermann Hesse, The Emperor of Ice-Cream by Brian More, and Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes in an English class.

The Stuff

Some of the substance props or stand-ins for the real Stuff used in the movie included lots of Häagen-Dazs ice cream, yogurt, and, for one scene involving an enormous avalanche-like effect of Stuff crashing through a wall, fire-extinguishing foam.

The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit

The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit is a 1998 film set in East Los Angeles directed by Stuart Gordon, written by Ray Bradbury and starring Edward James Olmos, Joe Mantegna, Esai Morales, Clifton Collins Jr. (credited as Clifton Gonzalez Gonzalez), Sid Caesar, Howard Morris and Gregory Sierra.

Vasudhara Dairy

It has branches (ice cream manufacturing plants) in Nagpur and Boisar.

Wells Enterprises

Wells is the third largest ice cream maker in the United States, with five percent market share behind Nestlé (Häagen-Dazs, Dreyer's, Mövenpick) and Unilever (Ben & Jerry's and Breyers Ice Cream).

What Shall We Do Now?

The image of Pink is contorted and transformed into an array of objects relating to the materialistic nature of Pink's wall: a naked woman, ice cream, an MP-40, a hypodermic needle, a black Fender Precision Bass guitar, and a BMW M1.

Wild Bill Hagy

Hagy grew up in Sparrows Point, Maryland and drove an ambulance, an ice cream truck, and eventually a cab until he retired in 2004.

Yasim Mohamed

Mohamed was enrolled at Humber College, but dropped out halfway through his first year, and took a job as a baggage handler at Pearson Airport, before finding new work at the Rogers Centre selling ice cream at Toronto Blue Jays games.