Ice Cream

“I scream, You scream, we all scream for Ice Cream” heard round the world, July 19, National Ice Cream Day .

In 1984, the month of July was declared National Ice Cream Month by President Ronald Regan. So to the millions of cones, scoops and sundaes we OGR’s have enjoyed, a little tribute to this universal treat….

Americans consume the most in the world -about 15 quarts a year.

Although chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry are the traditional favorite flavors and once enjoyed roughly equal popularity, vanilla is the most popular with chocolate the runner up.

In the Mexican town of Dolores Hidalgo ice cream flavors include beer, cheese, cactus petal, avocado, tequila, corn, black and red mole, pigskin and shrimp.

Haagen-Dazs anything but an exotic Scandinavian recipe.
The Brand name was created by a Polish immigrant, Reuben Mattus and his wife, Rose.
For years they sold ice cream but it never did well till the ‘60’s when they invented the name Haagen-Dazs and put it on a map of Denmark.
The two dots over the “a’ in Haagen bear no such usage in Danish.

Carl's Ice Cream (also known as "Carl's Frozen Custard" is a roadside ice cream stand located at 2200 Princess Anne Street, Fredericksburg, Virginia.
Since 2005, the stand, with its Art Moderne architectural facade, has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Carl Sponseller founded it in 1947.
The 1940s era Electro Freeze machines continue to serve the frozen treat.
The ice cream is hand scooped, with a signature “twist” added to the top by the disher.

Evinrude outboard motor was invented due to ice cream.
In 1906 Ole Evinrude fiancé wanted ice cream while they were picnicing on a Wisconsin lake.
He rowed to shore and then realized if he had a motor the trip would be easier and less likely the ice cream would melt.
So the birth of the famous Evinrude!!

Spumoni, or spumone (from spuma "foam"), is a molded Italian ice cream made with layers of different colors and flavors, usually containing candied fruits and nuts.
August 21 is National Spumoni Day in the United States.
November 13th is National Spumoni Day in Canada.

When Jackie Gleason dined he often ordered roast beef with a scoop of ice cream on it.


The ice cream soda, is a float (United States and East Asia),
a spider (Australia and New Zealand)
or a brown cow (Hong Kong).

“Overrun” to ice cream is the amount of air inserted into it during processing. Ice cream would be a solid un-scoop able mass without.
Don’t pay for air, cheaper ice cream is loaded with it.

Before Margaret Thatcher was Britain’s Prime Minister, she was a chemist investigating the air in ice cream and studied methods of ice cream quality by injecting it with air.




President Barack Obama does not like ice cream or sweets.
Perhaps stemming for his teen part-time job at Baskin-Robbins in Hawaii.
But his first date with Michelle, he took her to a Baskin-Robbins
and .....“I asked it I could kiss her.
It tasted of chocolate”

In 1986 when Clint Eastwood ran for mayor of Carmel, Calif., ice cream was a major campaign issue.
It seems town leaders banned the sale of ice cream cones. Eastwood won and it was "bye-bye" to
that ordinance.





See you there. We'll save you a spot. It's our treat......







Winnie and I will never say no to one of these cold ones -




Ciao for now!!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DJ RICK WRIGLEY

Winnie writes……
Hail to our Chief!!
Our own DJ Rick Wrigley is celebrating his birthday. We all wish him the best along with a few well chosen quotes to enjoy and ponder......

And like Bactine (introduced in 1950 as the first modern day antiseptic product replacing iodine) may it help take the sting out of the upcoming 364 days…..
"Time and Tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of thirty."

"Inside every older person is a younger person - wondering what the hell happened."

"Old age isn’t so bad when you consider the alternative."


"Age is a number and mine is unlisted."



"The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age."

"Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair."

"As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can't remember the other two."

"Thanks to modern medical advances such as antibiotics, nasal spray, and Diet Coke, it has become routine for people in the civilized world to pass the age of 40, sometimes more than once."

"When I have a birthday I take the day off. But when my wife has a birthday, she takes a year or two off."

"The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left."

"Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter."

"You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake."


"Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough."

"Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act."

"Men grow old, pearls grow yellow, there is no cure for it."

"Life is one long process of getting tired."

"Let us respect gray hairs, especially our own."

"Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you have not committed."

"When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it happened or not."

"Call this an unfair generalization if you must, but old people are no good at everything."

"Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen."

"Of late I appear To have reached that stage When people who look old Who are only my age"

"I'm sixty years of age. That's 16 Celsius."

Good Old 4th & Summer

In a few days, as we are watching our local fireworks displays screaming their salutes to the Stars and Stripes and a Happy Birthday America, remember how “Our Generation” understood freedom and independence in simpler way.









Remember our parent’s pride as they told us of their WWII and the Korean War experiences. Returning to a free country and for their buddies who died for freedom and independence.






Remember starting every school day with a prayer and the Pledge of Allegiance. We never thought twice about saying “One Nation UNDER GOD“, because President Eisenhower and our Nation believed it was a basic American freedom and liberty to add these words.


Remember when we never locked a door. Freedom was a front door left open and backed by a flimsy latched hook and eye wood screen door.


The only “Intruders” we knew were ants at a family picnic.






Security was a full moon.

“Motion detector lights” were flickering fireflies when we stepped out on the front porch to enjoy the freedom of a warm Summer night.
Remember how we’d beg Mom for a Mason jar to catch those fireflies.

And a remedy for mosquitoes, was Dad lighting a few “punk” sticks, then watching their thin trails of smoke inch up to the moon.

Remember the clanging bells of the Good Humor Ice cream truck.

Racing after it and slapping down a nickel borrowed against next week’s allowance for a Dixie Cup or ice cream bar.

Remember sitting on the front porch, visiting with the neighbors, and listening to the AM radio’s music drifting through the front room window.

Remember hot summer nights. No air conditioning and sleeping on the front room floor. Windows, wide open and a small oscillating table fan giving little relief as we stood taking turns standing in front of it to keep cool.




Remember neither we or our neighbors were well-to-do; yet we never worried about any of them stealing from us. We’d borrow tools, a cup of sugar or, a favor. It was always a returned with a handshake or “anytime you need it, just ask”.


So get out there and de-isolate the kids and grand kids from the TV, video games and the computer.

Celebrate our Nation’s Birthday.

Savor the freedom of indulging in an extra piece of good old-fashioned fried chicken and ice cold watermelon.

Share some with friends and neighbors and welcome those famous “intruders“.

Stop that ice cream truck. Pull out that currency and thank God His name is on it.

Make room on the front porch for family , friends and fireflies and treasure freedom while watching fireworks screaming salutes to the Stars and Stripes.





From Winnie, Happy 4th to all!!