ICE CREAM, YOU SCREAM, WE ALL SCREAM FOR ICE CREAM!



"RRRRINGG! RRRINGG!"

HEY! Do you hear that? Wait, is it? "Rrringg! Rrringg!" YES! Quick, grab your change and run down the street 'cuz here come the "Ding Dong" Ice Cream Truck!!

Ah, the memories of being able to buy a 35 cent ice cream cone. Now you end up paying premium costs.
The rising prices of ice cream are accelerating a recent trend — companies shrinking packages but keeping prices the same in what effectively is a net price increase. In January 2004, Wilbraham, Mass. based Friendly's rolled out its 56-ounce half-gallon tub — down from the standard 64 ounces.

Quote from breyers: "Breyers has always taken great pride in offering the highest quality products at reasonable and fair prices. Recently, the price of all of our ingredients, most of all the fresh cream we use in our products, has gone up dramatically. Manufacturing and transportation costs also have increased significantly with the surge in fuel oil prices. Because of these economic conditions and in order to remain competitive, Breyers® made the difficult decision to reduce the size of our basic pack to 48 ounces. As always, you can expect the same great Breyers® quality that has been our standard for more than 135 years."


Retail and restaurant ice cream make up a $20 billion business in the United States, where nearly 1.6 billion gallons are produced each year, according to Bob Yonkers, chief economist for the International Dairy Foods Association.

That's inflation for you. But I am commited to helping you fellow ice cream lovers out, divulging top secret info on how to get discounts or free (does that word "free" even mean "free" anymore?) glorious yummy ice cream. I have found several sites so far, check them out. Then come back often for updates!

UPDATED Feb 2009


Speaking of 35 cent ice cream, here's a little touching story for you all.

"Two Nickels and Five Pennies"

When an ice cream sundae cost much less, a boy entered a coffee shop and sat at a table.  A waitress put a glass of water in front of him. "How much is an ice cream sundae?" "Fifty cents," replied the waitress. The little boy pulled his hand out of his pocket and studied  a number of coins in it.  "How much is a dish of plain ice cream?"  he inquired. Some people were now waiting for a table, and the waitress was impatient. "Thirty-five cents," she said angrily.  The  little boy again counted the coins.  "I'll have the plain ice cream."  The waitress brought the ice cream and walked away.  The boy finished, paid the cashier, and departed. When the waitress came  back, she swallowed hard at what she saw. There, placed neatly beside the empty dish, were two nickels and five pennies - her tip.



Allover USA Sites


Hershey's Ice Cream - My personal favorite!
Contests from time to time

Ben and Jerrys Ice Cream
Free Cone Day - Usually occurs in the spring once a year

Healthychoice Ice Cream
Register for their newsletter and print out $1 off coupon

Dreyers & Edys Ice Cream
Take the vanillaology quiz and get a $.75 coupon

Popsicles
cool kid site

Carvel Ice Cream

Good Humor - Breyers

Turkey Hill Ice Cream
Survey

Turkey Hill Ice Cream will come to your birthday party!

Haagen-Dazs
Sign up for Haagen-Dazs rewards

Dippindots Ice Cream

Baskin-Robbins
Sign up for a free cone on your birthday

Nestle
Contests

Marble Slab Creamery
join the kids club for free ice cream!

Dairy Queen
Join fan club and get free coupons!



AK
Yarnells

FL
Garys Ice Cream

Bedford Farms Ice Cream
Have a sundae party!

Treadwell's Ice Cream
Coupon for Peabody

NY
Perry's Ice Cream
Free tour and sample

NJ
Here's the Scoop!
coupons for Manville and South Plainfield

Lollypops Homemade Ice Cream
Coupons

PA
Dairy Queen
Coupons for Erie

Ice Cream World
Coupons for Allentown

Wisconsin
The Ice Cream Station
Totaly FREE Cone in Horicon


Lots of people ask about the difference between ice cream and gelato. (Not us ice cream lovers!) But here goes for you un-enlightened: Gelato has a richer, more concentrated flavor than regular ice cream, and generally has both less fat and less air (which is referred to as "overrun" in the business). Gelato takes a little longer to freeze and will not freeze as firm as American ice cream. It should resemble very thick pudding.

ICE CREAM RECORDS!!!

Most Ice Cream Eaten In 30 Seconds
The record for eating the most ice cream in 30 seconds using a teaspoon was set by America's Diego Siu, who ate 264 g (9.3 oz) at the Central Florida Fair, Orlando, Florida, USA, on March 2, 2003. Guinness World Record rules insist that the ice cream – which must be a standard vanilla flavor – is removed from the freezer five minutes before the attempt begins, and that it is eaten straight from the container using just one teaspoon in one hand.

Largest Blended
Got a sweet tooth? The Dairy Queen ice-cream shop of Chicopee, Massachusetts, USA, made a soft-scoop ice cream and oreo cookie dessert weighing 2,411.5 kg (5,316.6 lb) at Riverside Park, Agawam, Massachusetts on July 1, 1999.

Largest Ice Cream Cake
An ice cream cake weighing 4,064 kg (8,959 lb 6 oz) was made by Baskin Robbins, Galadari Ice Cream Co. at the Jumeirah Beach Hotel, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, on July 14, 1999.

Largest Ice-Cream Freezer Collection
For the last 16 years, Dr. Steven C. Wilson, of Fayetteville, Arkansas, USA, has collected 132 individual ice-cream freezers.

Largest Ice-Cream Sandwich
Hy-Vee, Inc., in conjunction with Wells' Blue Bunny, Metz Baking Company, and Giese Sheet Metal, made an ice-cream sandwich weighing 1,115.8 kg (2,460 lb) in Dubuque, Iowa, USA, on February 27, 1998.

Largest Ice-Cream Sundae
The largest ice-cream sundae weighed 24.91 tonnes (54,915 lb), and was made by Palm Dairies Ltd. in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, on July 24, 1988.

Largest Popsicle
In August 1997, Jan van den Berg and friends from the Dutch village of Katwijk aan den Rijn, with the help of manufacturers Iglo-Ola, made a giant Rocket weighing 9.081 tonnes (20,020 lb). The titanic thirst-quencher was 6.5 m (21 ft) long, 2.26 m (7 ft 5 in) wide, and averaged 1.1 m (3 ft 7 in) thick. The former record holder, a 7,915-kg (17,450-lb) popsicle, was well and truly licked! Made from water, dextrose, sugar, and additives, it contained enough frozen liquid to make 250,000 ice cubes. The popsicle measured a quarter of the length of the Mercury spacecraft, which launched Alan Shepart, America’s first man in space.

Longest Banana Split
The residents of Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania, USA, made a banana split measuring 7.32 km (4.55 miles) in length along Market Street, Selinsgrove, on April 30, 1988.

Now here are some cool links to send VIRTUAL Ice Cream to your family and friends!


Mail a Meal! Ice cream Sundaes

How to make Liquid Nitrogen Ice Cream

Order some Freeze-dried ASTRONAUT ICE CREAM here!

Ice cream site filled with recipes, links, and more!

Sign up for Penn States' famous Ice Cream Short Course!

How to make ice cream

DOC WILSON'S ICE CREAM PAGE

Ice Screamers - Join the club of ice cream lovers

We All Scream for Ice Cream!
The Book: The Scoop on America's Favorite Dessert By Lee Wardlaw

Ice Cream University
Holds ice cream seminars, from how to start your own ice cream business, to advising, to gelato tours in Italy!

The National Ice Cream & Yogurt Retailers Association

Wooden nickel ice cream memorabilia

Where Have All the Sundaes Gone?
Ice Cream Parlors: 15 of the country's best old-fashioned shops

724 Ice Cream recipes / By Leon Brocard
My favorite is the Fried Mexican recipe!




Ice Cream Fun Facts

Ben and Jerry's send the waste from making ice cream to local pig farmers to use as feed. Pigs love the stuff, except for one flavor: Mint Oreo
The average person eats 26 servings of ice cream a year, according to The NPD Group, a market research firm.
  1. Ice Cream was invented in China in about 200 B.C., when a soft, milk & rice mixture was further solidified by packing it in snow.
  2. Roman emperors are alleged to have sent slaves to mountain tops to bring back fresh snow which was then flavored and served as part of their famous food orgies.
  3. The first hand-crank ice cream freezer was invented in 1846 by Nancy Johnson.
  4. In 1851, Jacob Fussell, a milk dealer in Baltimore, converted his milk plant into the first ice cream plant in the United States.
  5. In 1921, the comissioner of Ellis Island made the decision to treat all incoming immigrants to a taste of something truly American, by serving them ice cream as part of their first meal.
  6. In 1943, Brigham's ice cream parlours offered three flavors of ice cream--vanilla, chocolate, and coffee--and sold hot fudge sundaes for 20-cents, or 25-cents with nuts.
  7. On August 7, 1977, Dennett D'Angelo set a world record for eating 3 pounds, 6 ounces of ice cream in 90 seconds.
  8. New Englanders enjoy a hearty 39 pints of ice cream annually, or about 14 pints more per year than the average American.
  9. The United States is the ice cream capital of the world, with US citizens spooning on average nearly 23 quarts per year.
  10. Vanilla and Chocolate flavor ice creams are the top two flavors Americans crave-- with the fastest growing flavor nationally being coffee/mocha, with sales up 15% since 1996.*
  11. One out of every five ice cream eaters share their ice cream with their dog or cat.*
  12. Vanilla is the #1 ice cream flavor in the United States, equalling about 20% of the nation's total ice cream sales. In New England, consumption of vanilla ice cream is even higher, accounting for 25% of total ice cream sales.

    Source: International Dairy Foods Assoc., The Latest Scoop. *Source: Dairy Foods Newsletter, July 1997.




    A man and his small son stopped at the ice cream counter. The man asked what flavors of ice cream there were. The employee pointed to the blackboard listing them, and replied, "All the above, except chocolate chip." The man turned to his son and inquired, "Do you want vanilla or chocolate, Chip?" Thinking he had not heard, the clerk repeated, "We are out of chocolate chip." The customer seemed to ignore her and asked the boy again, "Vanilla or chocolate, Chip?" Exasperated, The counterlady stated for a third time, "Sir, we are out of chocolate chip." With a deep sigh, the man faced her and patiently explained, "Madame, my son's name is Chip." -Sharon Anderson, Family Circle Magazine

    Ice Cream Personality test

    Are you ready to learn about your personality?

    A national manufacturer of ice cream, Edy's Grand Ice Cream, commissioned an ice cream flavorology study to determine how ice cream preferences relate to personality. The study, conducted by Dr. Alan R. Hirsch (M.D.), Neurological Director of the Smell & Taste Treatment and Research Foundation in Chicago, revealed that distinct personalities correspond with ice cream flavors.

    OK here goes!!!Pick a flavor of ice cream from the following:

    1) Vanilla
    2) Chocolate
    3) Butter pecan
    4) Banana
    5) Strawberry
    6) Chocolate chip

    Click HERE for the Answers!



    THE ULTIMATE ICE CREAM QUESTION:
    What causes an ice cream headache??
    Short-lived headaches may occur after eating very cold foods or foods high in nitrites or monosodium glutamate. Headache pain does not involve the brain tissue or bones of the skull, which are insensitive to pain. Headache pain is associated with nerves and blood vessels around the brain; certain nerves of the face, mouth, and throat; and the muscles in the head and neck. When the nerves in these structures become over-stimulated, inflamed, or damaged, pain signals flash along neural pathways to the brain, and the person experiences a headache. (Compton's Interactive Encyclopedia)

    EVERYBODY JOIN IN! THE WORDS TO THE I SCREAM SONG!

    In the land of ice and snow
    Up among the Eskimo
    There's a college known as Oogie-wawa.
    You should hear those college boys
    Gee, they make an awful noise
    When they sing their Eskimo tra la la.
    They've got a leader, big cheer leader, oh what a guy!
    He's got a frozen face just like an Eskimo Pie.
    When he says, "Come on, let's go!"
    Though it's forty-five below
    Listen what those Eskimo all holler:
    I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream!
    Rah, rah...Oogie de wawa rah rah rah!
    Tuesday, Monday, we all scream for Sundae!
    Sis, boom, Aurora borealea, bah!
    Boola boola
    Sasparoola
    We've got the chocolate
    I'll take vanoola
    I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream!
    Rah, rah, ice cream soda or gingerale pop!
    Father mother
    Sister brother
    When they've had one at lion
    They want another
    Colleges may come and go
    But the world will never know
    Any other place like Oogie-wawa
    Oxford, Cambridge, Eaton too
    Football teams would all turn blue
    When they played a game with Oogie-wawa
    Those Eskimos looked mighty tough when they took the field
    And people said, Ah, they're the team that never will yield
    Then with gore and flying fur
    Just to show how tough they were
    All those Esquimos began to holler
    Iceberg, Lindberg, Sol Berg and Ginzberg,
    Ice cream Cohen.
    I scream, you scream, everybody wants ice cream.
    Rah, rah, raaazberry!

    BIG FEET - BIGGER HEART


    It was an unseasonably hot day. Everybody it seemed, was looking for some kind of relief, so an ice cream store was a natural place to stop.

    A little girl, clutching her money tightly, entered the store. Before she could say a word, the store clerk sharply told her to get outside and read the sign on the door, and stay out until she put on some shoes. She left slowly, and a big man followed her out of the store.

    He watched as she stood in front of the store and read the sign: No Bare Feet. Tears started rolling down her cheeks as she turned and walked away. Just then the big man called to her. Sitting down on the curb, he took off his size-12 shoes, and set them in front of the girl saying, "Here, you won't be able to walk in these, but if you sort of slide along, you can get your ice cream cone. "

    Then he lifted the little girl up and set her feet into the shoes. "Take your time," he said, "I get tired of moving them around, and it'll feel good to just sit here and eat my ice cream." The shining eyes of the little girl could not be missed as she shuffled up to the counter and ordered her ice cream cone.

    He was a big man, all right. Big belly, big shoes, but most of all, he had a big heart. -Anonymous


    ICE CREAM FOR THE SOUL

    As they prepared to eat dinner at a restaurant, Kim Kane's six-year-old son asked if he could say grace. As they bowed their heads he said, "God is good. God is great. Thank you for the food, and I would even thank you more if mom gets us ice cream for dessert. And Liberty and justice for all! Amen!"
    Along with the laughter from the other customers nearby Kim heard a woman remark, "That's what's wrong with this country. Kids today don't even know how to pray. Asking God for ice-cream! Why, I never!"
    Hearing this, her son burst into tears and asked, "Did I do it wrong? Is God mad at me?" As Kim held him and assured him that he had done a terrific job and God was certainly not mad at him, an elderly gentleman approached the table.
    "He winked at my son and said, 'I happen to know that God thought that was a great prayer.' 'Really?' my son asked. 'Cross my heart.' Then in theatrical whisper he added (indicating the woman whose remark had started the whole thing), 'Too bad she never asks God for ice cream. A little ice cream is good for the soul sometimes.'"
    Naturally, Kim bought her kid's ice cream at the end of the meal. What happened next came as a complete surprise.
    "My son stared at his for a moment and then did something I will remember the rest of my life," Kim explains. "He picked up his sundae and without a word walked over and placed it in front of the woman. With a big smile he told her, 'Here, this is for you. Ice cream is good for the soul sometimes and my soul is good already.'


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