In 1984, President Reagan declared July National Ice Cream Month and the third Sunday (or should we say Sundae?) of the month National Ice Cream Day. Grab a bowl or a cone and a scoop (or 2 ... or 3 ...) of your favorite flavor ice cream and enjoy! #NationalIceCreamDay
FUN FACTS:
- 90% of the U.S. population eats ice cream (I'm guessing the remaining 10% just don't have freezers).
- Americans eat more than 23 pounds of ice cream every year — we're the top ice cream consuming nation in the world.
- The majority of U.S. ice cream and frozen dessert businesses are family-owned and have been around more than 50 years.
- The world's biggest ice cream sundae, made on July 24, 1988, took four hours to create and weighed nearly 54,917 pounds!
- Immigrants at Ellis Island were served vanilla ice cream as part of their "Welcome to America!" meal.
- The first ice cream truck hit the streets in 1920.
- The five most popular flavors in the U.S. according to sales are vanilla, chocolate, butter pecan, strawberry, and Neapolitan (in that order).
- According to Twitter, however, the most-tweeted flavors are chocolate, vanilla, cookie dough, strawberry, and chocolate chip (in that order).
- Chocolate syrup is the favorite topping.
- The major ingredient in ice cream is ... AIR! Then why so many calories?!
- 85% of the vanilla beans used for ice cream are harvested in Madagascar
SWEET DEALS:
- Download the free McDonald's app for a FREE vanilla soft serve cone on July 16.
- Download the free Baskin Robbins app and choose from one of four offers: (1) buy one ice cream cone, get one for 99¢; (2) buy one single scoop warm cookie ice cream sandwich, get one for 99¢; (3) buy one classic two-scoop sundae, get one for 99¢; (4) save $2 on a Polar Pizza
- Visit Whole Foods to buy two pints of Ben & Jerry's ice cream and yogurt for $6.
WANT MORE? TRY THESE RECIPES!
- Ice Cream Bread
- Ice Cream Cake
- Frozen Hot Chocolate Ice Cream
- Toasted Coconut Snow Ice Cream
(you'll have to wait till winter for this one)
