July is National Ice Cream
Month, so here are a few ice cream facts.
In 1984, President Ronald Reagan declared the third Sunday in July
to be National Ice Cream Day and the month of July to be National
Ice Cream Month.
Per capita ice cream consumption in the US is about 5 1/2 gallons.
It takes about twelve pounds of whole milk to make one gallon of
ice cream.
French Ice Cream is enriched with egg yolks.
More ice cream is sold on Sunday than any other day of the week.
It takes 50 licks to finish a single scoop of ice cream.
The top five most popular ice cream flavors are: vanilla,
chocolate, Neapolitan, strawberry, and cookies n' cream.
Vanilla makes up about twenty five percent of all ice cream sales.
Neapolitan ice cream is ice cream made up of blocks of chocolate,
vanilla, and strawberry ice cream side by side in the same
container. Giuseppe Tortoni, a Neapolitan (living in Paris)
created many layered ice cream cakes and the term Neapolitan was
named after him.