Saturday, May 30, 2015

Eat Ice Cream, Be Happy.

The Undercover Divas were out last night, searching for something, but we weren’t sure what that was.  We had a delicious dinner, but it just wasn’t exactly what we were looking for.  Suddenly, Annod knew what we were missing… Ice Cream.  It was the perfect answer.  We did some investigating and learned some interesting facts about ice cream and decided to share them with our Undercover Diva friends. 

Ice cream is second only to cookies as the best selling treat in America.  Chocolate syrup is the worlds most popular ice cream topping.  The most popular ice cream flavor?  Vanilla!   Not surprisingly, 87% of all Americans have ice cream in their freezer at any given time.  Most will agree that eating ice cream is a very enjoyable experience.

A cow gives enough milk to make two gallons of ice cream per day, that’s 730 gallons per year.  It takes three gallons of milk to make one gallon of ice cream.  It takes about 50 licks to finish a single scoop ice cream cone.  “Brain Freeze” occurs when ice cream touches the roof of your mouth.  One in ten people admit to licking the bowl clean after eating ice cream while one in five share with their pet. 

Premium ice cream has between 11% and 15% butterfat, which makes it richer, denser and high in calories.  Regular ice cream, what you would find in containers in the grocery store, contains 10% butterfat.  Reduced fat ice cream has 25% less fat than the regular ice cream.  Soft serve ice cream is the same as regular ice cream but is served at a higher temperature.  Gelato has more milk than cream, so its fat content is significantly lower.  It doesn’t saturate your taste buds as much as ice cream so the flavor seems more intense.  It is usually flavored with fresh fruit, nuts, chocolate and other natural flavors. 

July is National Ice Cream Month.  Ice cream is happiness, condensed.  Let’s go get some ice cream.  Author Carew Papritz once said, “Eat Ice Cream, Read Books, Be Happy.”

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