You scream! I scream! We all scream for Ice Cream! In 1984 President Ronald Reagan declared July "National Ice Cream Month" and the third Sunday of the month "National Ice Cream Day." Grab a bowl, a cone, a scoop or two of your favorite ice cream and enjoy! Not that you need another reason to celebrate but there are even more special "ice cream" related days to celebrate in July! Looking for more things to do to help entertain and engage your kids? we've got you covered. Happy #NationalIceCreamMonth and #NationalIceCreamDay
Where to find Yummy Frozen Treats near Conejo Valley-Malibu-Calabasas
National Ice Cream Days in July:
- July 1 🍨 Creative Ice Cream Flavors Day
- July 7 🍓 Strawberry Sundae Day
- July 17 🍑 Peach Ice Cream Day
- July 21 🍨 Ice Cream Day - 3rd Sun. in July
- July 23 🍦 Vanilla Ice Cream Day | ✨ Sprinkle Day | 🥜 Peanut Butter and Chocolate Day 🍫
- July 25 🍫 Hot Fudge Sundae Day - Invented at C.C. Brown's DTLA
- July 26 ☕ Coffee Milkshake Day
Fun "ice cream" things to do with your kids:
- 5 Super Yummy Ways for your Family To Enjoy Ice Cream
- Ice Cream Craft: Ice Cream Painting
- STEM Fun: Make Ice Cream in a Bag in Just 15 Minutes
- DIY Frozen Hot Cocoa Ice Cream
- DIY Ice Cream Cake
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Share these fun facts with your favorite ice cream lover:
- 90% of American households eat ice cream - I'm guessing the remaining 10% just don't have freezers?
- Americans eat more than 23 pounds of ice cream and related frozen desserts every year — we're the top ice cream consuming and producing nation in the world.
- The majority of U.S. ice cream and frozen dessert businesses are family-owned and have been around more than 50 years.
- July is the busiest month for ice cream production and when almost 3/5 of all ice cream is produced followed by June and May.
- It takes 12 pounds of whole milk to make one gallon of ice cream.
- The world's biggest ice cream sundae was made on July 24, 1988 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It took four hours to create and weighed 54,917 pounds 13 oz!
- The first ice cream parlor in America opened in 1776 in New York City.
- Immigrants at Ellis Island were served vanilla ice cream as part of their "Welcome to America!" meal.
- The first ice cream truck hit the streets in 1920.
- The most popular ice cream flavors among U.S. consumers are Chocolate, Cookies N' Cream, Vanilla, Strawberry and Chocolate Chip - according to the International Dairy Foods Assoc.
- Chocolate is the most popular topping.
- A version of the ice cream cone was introduced at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair when an ice cream vendor ran out of cups
- Waffle cones beat out sugar cones, but more people prefer a bowl.
- 84% prefer to purchase their ice cream at the grocery store and eat it at home.
- The major ingredient in ice cream is . . . AIR! But why so many calories?!
- 85% of the vanilla beans used for ice cream are harvested in Madagascar.
Local Ice Cream facts:
- California is the nation's largest ice cream producer and also produces more milk than any other state.
- After the stock market crash in 1929 Rocky Road ice cream was created in Oakland, CA to make people smile during "rocky" times, it remains one of the more popular flavors.
- Ice Cream Brands from California: Baskin-Robbins | McConnell's Fine Ice Cream | Straus Family Creamery | Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream | Foster's Freeze
- The Hot Fudge Sundae was invented at C.C. Brown's in Downtown Los Angeles
Ice Cream or the sweet frozen desserts that inspired them originated centuries. Mixing snow with a variety of flavors possibly in Rome, and most definitely in China eventually made their way it Italy and France where they added milk and cream eventually becoming what we know today as ice cream. Learn about the ice cream connection to our founding fathers in the early days of the United States of America. The exact dates and some of the origins and details are unclear, but here is some info to get you started exploring the origin of ice cream created long before refrigeration. This once rare treat reserved for the privileged can now be enjoyed by all.
Want to learn more?
- Ice Cream History
- Almanac - The History of Ice Cream
- PBS - Explore The Delicious History of Ice Cream
- The Evolution of Ice Cream and Ice Cream for America
- The Complete History of Ice Cream Cones
- The first ice cream scoop patented by Alfred L. Cralle
- National Ice Cream Day: Ten super cool records that have yet to be licked
- The Biggest Ice Cream in the World Needed to Get Airlifted To Enter the Record Books!
- Guinness World Records: Ice Cream
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This previously published article has been updated by Brenna Gutell, Publisher for Macaroni KID Conejo Valley - Malibu - Calabasas.
