Scoop for thought

Fun Snack Facts

Kulfi is a dense Indian dessert that is molded in a horn
shape and is flavored with South Asian sweets like pistachio, rose water, mango, even saffron.
Semfreddo is an frozen dessert you can slice. Its part ice
cream, part mousse. It is flavored with chocolate, pureed
fruit, and nuts.
The coolest new
street snack in
Thailand is I Tin
Pad. An ice cream
frozen on a metal
disc like a pancake
and scraped into ice
cream cylinders.
Photo by MCT Campus

Hawaii made the

paramount of Sundaes with Shaved
Ice. This treat has
a vanilla ice cream
center, topped with
a Snow Cone with
fruit, a variety of flavors, toppings, and
whipped cream.
Photo by MCT Campus

Americas Favori te Ice Cream Flavors

33% of Americans
love Chocoholic.
34% of Americans
love other flavors.
60% of Americans
love Vanilla.

By Camille Vitale

I scream! You scream! We all scream for ice cream!

While many people enjoy these cool treats, not everyone knows where the favorite frozen
treat comes from.
Most people feel everything new is now and that all the innovations to ice cream have
happened in recent years. Even though the new versions of ice cream are hard-packed, softserve, frozen custard, gelato or fro-yo, it was centuries ago when ice cream was created.
The origins of ice cream go back to the second century B.C. with no specific date or origin. However, some historians say that ice cream origins trace back to China around 200 B.C.
The Chinese dish was a mix of rice and milk, frozen by snow. As the story goes, Chinas King,
Tang of Shang, had 90 men mix flour, camphor and buffalo milk together with ice. They used
pots filled with salt as the first ice cream machines.
Thousands of years later, Marco Polo returned from his travels to the far east, bringing
back the original sherbet recipe to Italy. England discovered ice cream around the same time,
calling it Cream Ice. The recipe transformed into ice cream with the addition of cream,
sugar and eggs around the 16th century.
The first establishment to serve ice cream to the public was Caf Procope in France in
the 17th century. Like a Dairy Queen reserved for only the upper class. Now, anyone can get
gourmet ice cream almost anywhere.
I like to go to Cold Stone and Menchies for my ice cream, senior David Kumiega said.
Maryland Governor Thomas Bladenin first introduced Americans to ice cream on May
19, 1744. In 1851, Baltimore dairyman Jacob Fussell opened the first ice cream factory. Ice
cream was not sold in grocery stores until 1939.
Many cities in New York claim to have invented the ice cream sundae, but its unknown
who was the real founder. All that is known is that the sundae was served in soda fountains
around the 1880s.
There are many branches on the ice cream family tree from around the world, including
Italian ice (a sweetened frozen treat made with fruit, flavorings, and is similar to sorbet),
and Spumoni (an Italian ice cream with three stripes of flavors including cheery, pistachio,
chocolate, vanilla and strawberry).
The creation of Snow Cones, or Shaved Ice, is also a mystery. Some say it was invented in
1850 when blocks of ice began to be sold. Ice wagons would carry the blocks and sell kids ice
shavings. Others say Samuel Bertin created it in 1919 during the Texas State Fair.
The Slurpee, an icy, flavored beverage, was created by accident in the 1950s. Omar Knedik, the owner of a Kansas City Dairy Queen, was having technical issues with his ice cream
machinery. He improvised by pouring soda into the machine instead.
There are many different fruity flavors to Slurpees.
My favorite flavor of a Slurpee is Blue Raspberry, junior Robert Wist said.
Ben and Jerrys was founded in 1978 in Burlington, Vermont. They are known for both
their natural and wild flavor combinations. They market their flavors with fun, popular
names of trends with cult followings such as Cherry Garcia, Caramel Santana and The
Tonight Dough. They have so many flavors that they have an actual flavor graveyard yes,
in the ground.
Ben and Jerrys is my favorite ice cream brand, junior Salena Speagle said.
No matter if its Spumoni or pie a la mode (with ice cream), people will still be screaming
for ice cream.