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 in
the States, the average amount of ice cream eaten is an amazing 21
litres per person per year on
average, people in Scotland and Northern Ireland eat more ice cream than
those in
England and Wales
a
traditional name for ice cream is Hokey Pokey. The name originated from
early ice
cream vendors who peddled their product shouting “ecco un poco” – try
a sample
the
first real evidence of the existence of ice cream was in China’s
Tang period (A.D
618-97). King Shang had 94 ice men on his staff who helped make a dish
based on
buffalo milk, flour and camphor
the
ice cream cone is considered one of the most environmentally friendly
forms of
packaging
the
first record of a cone being used for serving appears in Mrs Marshall’s
Cookery
Book in 1888. Before then, ice cream was either licked out of a small
glass known as a
penny lick or taken away in wrapped in waxed paper
most
ice cream contains more milk protein weight for weight than is present
in milk
itself
vanilla
is still the most popular ice cream flavour by far, despite the creation
of many
new flavours – sweet and savoury – over the years
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