Sunni Sky’s (NC) Cold Sweat Ice Cream Features Peppers So Hot You Must Sign A Waiver Before Eating It.

I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream! July 1st marks National Creative Ice Cream Flavors Day, a day to sample or wonder about the odd combinations of ice cream flavors. Skip the traditional chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry ice cream when you celebrate this holiday!

• 5th Century BC – Ice cream was first invented in the 5th Century BC by the Ancient Greeks
• 1665 – English memoirist Lady Anne Fanshawe’s recipe for orange blossom ice cream is documented.
• 1780s – Thomas Jefferson writes his own recipe for vanilla ice cream, a conventional favorite.
• 1851 – Industrial production of ice cream began in 1851 in Boston, United States.
• 1881 – A variation of ice cream, known as the sundae — which is vanilla ice cream with various syrups, garnish, and decorations — is born.
• 1984 – National Creative Ice Cream Flavors Day is celebrated on the first day of National Ice Cream Month, which President Ronald Reagan declared in 1984.
• Mitchell’s Ice Cream: Their salted butter sweet corn layers the flavors on your tongue. And their jalapeno strawberry has just the right combo of heat and sweet.
• Another great shop churning out wacky flavors is Ample Hills Creamery in New York City. With two locations plus seasonal kiosks, they are sure to satisfy some flavor-seeking tastebuds.
• Ben & Jerry’s receives more than 13,000 flavor suggestions from fans each year. They have published some of the weirdest suggestions they have received.
• New Zealand consumes more ice cream per capita than any other country, averaging 7.5 gallons per person per year.  The US is second, with an average of 5.5 gallons per person per year. That’s 44 pints!
• 90% of American households eat ice cream.
• California is the largest producer of ice cream in the United States.
• The most popular flavor of ice cream is vanilla. Next are chocolates, strawberry, cookies n’ cream
• Hawaii is home to an “ice cream bean”, a fruit that tastes like vanilla ice cream.
• One cone of ice cream can be finished off in 50 licks.
• The ” brain freeze ” effect of ice cream is triggered when cold ice touches the roof of your mouth, which causes blood vessels in the head to dilate.
• “Edible inventor” Charlie Harry Francis has created a champagne-flavored ice cream that is laced with 25 mg of Viagra.
• Charles I of England paid his chef £500 a year to keep his ice cream recipe a secret.
• Wavering between ice cream and a cocktail? You can have both; chefs have concocted alcoholic ice creams with tequila, whiskey, and bourbon, among others.
• A shop in Ireland serves a caramelized-brown-bread-flavored ice cream. It was invented during hard times when Irish folk were hesitant to waste old bread and found ways to transform it into desserts.
• In Tokyo, Japan, you can find ice cream flavored with octopus, shrimp, horseflesh, and cow tongue.
• A chocolate emporium in Maine serves butter-flavored ice cream with chunks of lobster meat.
• Sunni Sky’s Homemade Ice Cream has a “cold sweat” ice cream with peppers so hot that you have to sign a waiver before they will sell it to you.
• The popular phrase, “I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream,” comes from a song written by Howard Johnson, Billy Moll, and Robert King in 1927.
• The first ice cream produced in Japan used ice and salt collected from the city streets of Yokohama.
• Pecans are the most popular nut chunk in the US, and strawberries are the most popular fruit chunk.
• New Zealanders love ice cream, averaging 22 liters (5.8 Gallons) of ice cream per person each year. Their favorites are vanilla and “hokey pokey,” which is vanilla with toffee chunks.
• Rocky Road was originally marketed during the Great Depression as a metaphor for coping with the economic crash.
• Ice cream sales tend to increase during economic recessions.

Sources:

National Day Calendar

Ice Cream History

Fact Retriever

Ben Jerry

National Today