1. Soft Serve/Frozen Custard got its start on the boardwalks of the Jersey Shore
2. George Washington once spent $200 at an ice cream parlor.
3. ThomasJefferson was an avid ice cream maker.
4. Smugglers and cartels in Madagascar launder their illegal money through the vanilla extract industry.
5. Vanilla comes from the only edible part of certain orchids.
6. The average American consumes 22 gallons of milk a year....the average penn state student consumes 48 gallons a year.
7. Hershey's signature taste comes from adding sour milk to the formula.
8. Gelato has no legal requirements for naming. You can call anything Gelato and there is nothing the government can't do about it. (I won't name names but some grocery store brands are taking liberties on this)
9. An estimated 90% of people on a gluten-free diet do not have a gluten sensitivity and is believed to be a case of mass hysteria.
10. Italian water ice (or wooder ice for my philly friends) contains egg whites while normal water ice does not. The egg whites are added to get more air incoporated into the final product and make it lighter and smoother.
I'm still waiting to hear about how it was first discovered we could drink the strange white fluid coming out of the cow and if we freeze it with sugar it will be a delicious snack....
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