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Who’s For Ice Cream?

In 1984 President Ronald Reagan
designated July as National Ice Cream
Month! Isn’t that a fab idea? I think the UK
should definitely follow suit on this one.
Around 25% of all ice cream
sold in the UK is vanilla. As
a nation it seems we’re not
terribly adventurous. Here are
some more frozen facts:
The earliest known reference
to ice-cream in English was in
1672.
Approximately 15 billion litres
of ice-cream are consumed
worldwide every year - enough
fill 5,000 Olympic swimming pools.
According to NASA, ice-cream is among
the top three items most missed by
astronauts on space missions: the others
are pizza and fizzy drinks.

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When Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield
went into business as Ben & Jerry, they
only chose ice-cream because bagelmaking equipment was too expensive! Who
knew?
There is actually a diet
called ‘The Ice Cream
Diet’...seriously! It was
developed in Venice by
an ice cream store (no
surprises there).
It involves ‘cleansing’
your body and mind
by eating five pints of
raw coconut-based
ice-cream a day for four
straight days...I assume that’s if you don’t
give yourself brain-freeze or a coronary
first!
Happy Ice Cream Month!

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