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Ice Cream

By Charlotte Goldstein and Charlotte Freedland · April 14, 2025

Ms. Hales' Class

Ice cream is magical, it is stupendous, and when you take that bite… you feel it. Ice cream was made in China during the Tang period in 168-907. Ice cream is a yummy treat for many to enjoy. Ice cream is also a frozen treat typically made from milk or cream. Ice cream always has a sweetener either sugar or an alternative, and a spice, such as cacao or vanilla. The top three ice cream flavors are chocolate, cookies and cream, and vanilla.

A funny and cool fact about ice cream is that an average American consumes 23 pounds of ice cream each year. That's about the size of a medium sized dog. Another cool thing about ice cream is America produces more than 1,000,000,000 gallons of ice cream each year. That's a lot! If you didn't know, July is national ice cream month, so eat as much ice cream as you can in July! Haha.

The original vanilla ice cream is served with whipped cream, chocolate sauce, and a wafer. A gross fact is the average number of licks to finish a scoop of ice cream is 50. Everyone thinks that the first ice cream flavor was vanilla. Do you think that? Well, if you do, it's wrong — chocolate was the first ice cream flavor made.

Some of the strangest flavors of ice cream are avocado, garlic, Stilton cheese, bacon, booger, pizza, cold sweat, pet bird, and tiger tail. Isn't that gross! The person who ate the most ice cream in one minute, on July 16 in 2017, Isaac Harding Davis, ate 806 grams of ice cream. Do you think you can beat it! Ice cream is something that you will never forget.