If you thought ice cream originated in Italy, you are dead wrong. You have to thank the ancient Chinese for that, and explorer Marco Polo for bringing it over to the old continent.
The Tang Dynasty emperors (618 – 907 AD) are believed to have been the first to have “a frozen milk-like confection”.
India’s most loved Kulfi Falooda is actually from Iran. Faloodeh is a unique Iranian dessert consisting of starch vermicelli noodles semi-frozen in a mixture of rose water and syrup.
When an ice cream vendor at the St. Louis World's Fair ran out of bowls in 1904, a waffle maker helped out by rolling his pastries into the cone shape.
Many people are perplexed regarding the original flavor of ice cream. While vanilla is commonly believed as the origin of all flavours, historical evidence suggests that chocolate was the first flavor. .
Traditional Indian ice cream, also known as Kulfi dates back to the 16th century.
According to Guinness World Records, the frozen treat, known as byakuya (meaning white night) in Japanese, is was selling for 880,000 yen ($6,380) per serving, making it the world’s costliest ice cream.
In 1984, US President Ronald Reagan declared July National Ice Cream Month, with National Ice Cream Day to being celebrated every year in America.
In 2022, the title for the most avid ice cream eaters in the world went to the people of New Zealand. The average Kiwi consumes 28.4 liters of ice cream in a year.
Due to the fact that there were more polio cases in the summer in 1940, scientists believed that ice cream was the cause of polio.