Thursday, July 13, 2006
This is a significant month for one of our preferred foods — ice cream. Today is the 100th ceremony of the birthday of Tom Carvel, who made-up the machine that makes soft-serve ice cream.
July also marks the opening of the ice cream sundae, made by Wisconsin druggist Edward Berner in 1881 to skirt the strict Sabbath laws of the time. And the ice cream cone became well-liked this month in 1904 at the Saint Louis World's Fair.
To top it off, this Sunday has been chosen National Ice Cream Day. We eat an average of 27 pounds of frozen dairy products each year, plus 17 pounds of regular ice cream and seven pounds of the low-fat variety.
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