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!!!!