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Facts
- Annual sales of ice cream in the United States exceeds $3 billion.
- The United States produces more ice cream than any other country; about 13 quarts a year per capita.
- All commercial ice cream contains air. Without whipping in the air, ice cream would be a solid block of frozen cream,
unable to scoop.
- Harry Burt invented the chocolate covered vanilla ice cream bar on a stick in Youngstown, Ohio in 1920--and Good Humor
was born.
- William A. Breyer began hand-cranking pure, all natural Breyers ice cream in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1866.
- Samuel Isaly, a descendent of a well-known Swiss dairy farm family, began producing what would eventually become America's
#1 selling ice cream novelty--the Klondike Bar--in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1929.
- Cone production in 1924 reached a record 245 million.
- Today millions of rolled cones are turned out on machines that are capable of producing about 150,000 cones every 24
hours.
- America's best selling ice cream flavor is vanilla
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