124_07OFAKids_Ice_Cream.qxp 4/25/07 12:32 PM Page 124 124 The on THROUGH TH A.D. 56–68 1782–1817 Roman emperor Nero American presidents is believed to have sent Washington, Jefferson, slaves into the mountains and Madison treat guests to fetch snow to mix with to ice cream at inaugurals fruit and honey. and special dinners. 1744 For the first time on record, American colonists dine on strawberries and ice cream. It happens in 618–907 Annapolis, Maryland. Chinese rulers have “ice men” lug ice to the palace, where it is used to make a fermented milk treat. KLES SPRIN In 1988, the world’s biggest ice cream sundae was made in Edmonton, Alberta. It weighed more than 24 tons. 124_07OFAKids_Ice_Cream 4/17/07 11:53 AM Page 125 125 HISTORY H THE AGES 1840 A serving of ice cream purchased on a steamboat costs six cents. 1860 Most towns have an ice cream parlor or saloon. Vanilla is the most popular flavor. 1870s 1880s Ice cream makers The ice cream sundae, offer many flavors, probably named for the including chocolate, day of the week and tutti-frutti, rice, costing five cents, cinnamon—even becomes popular. asparagus! 1878 The first mechanical ice cream scoop is 1866 patented. Street vendors pushing carts and wheelbarrows sell ice cream and ice milk called “hokeypokey” in cities. CONTI NUED➨ 124_07OFAKids_Ice_Cream 4/17/07 11:56 AM Page 126 126 ES The top five favorite flavors of NKL SPRI 1890 1899 A concoction made with Hokeypokey vendors sweetened milk, in New York City carbonated water, and a start selling ice cream raw egg, called a milk sandwiches for two or shake, becomes popular three cents. with men. 1893 Fried ice cream, 1904 also called Alaska Ernest A. Hamwi pie or fritter, makes and serves the first ice cream is introduced at cone, at the St. Louis the Chicago World’s Fair. World’s Fair. 1893 A magazine declares the ice cream soda—a mixture of shaved ice, sweet cream, flavored 1918 syrup, and During World War I, soda water— eating ice cream is to be America’s considered patriotic “national beverage.” because the United States has a surplus of dairy products. 124_07OFAKids_Ice_Cream 4/17/07 11:57 AM Page 127 127 HISTORY in the United States are vanilla, chocolate, Neapolitan, strawberry, and cookies ’n’ cream. 1925 The first Howard Johnson ice cream stand 1920 opens, in Wollaston, Harry B. Burt of Massachusetts. Youngstown, Ohio, makes the first ice cream on a stick. 1920 Christian Nelson in Onawa, Iowa, invents the ES chocolate-dipped Temptation NKL SPRI I-Scream Bar. His advertising slogan becomes, “I scream, It takes 50 you scream, we all scream 1930 for the I-Scream Bar.” I. C. Parker of Fort licks, on average, Worth, Texas, invents a to eat a chocolate-nut sundae on single-scoop a sugar cone and calls it cone. a Drumstick. 1921 The I-Scream Bar is renamed the Eskimo Pie. In 1927, it becomes the first ice cream bar to be sold in nickel vending machines. CONTI NUED➨ 124_07OFAKids_Ice_Cream 4/17/07 11:59 AM Page 128 128 ES NKL SPRI One out of five ICE CREACREA 1934 1940s Former radio salesman Burton Baskin opens Thomas Carvel opens his an ice cream parlor, first ice cream store, in 1935 and his brother-in-law, Hartsdale, New York. Ice cream is shipped by plane from Salt Lake Irvine Robbins, opens City, Utah, to Warm an ice cream store. Springs, Georgia, for a They soon combine Thanksgiving dinner forces to become hosted by President one company, Franklin D. Roosevelt. Baskin-Robbins. 1938 J. F. McCullough and his son, Alex, serve the first soft ice cream, in Kankakee, Illinois. Shortly thereafter, they open the first Dairy Queen, in Joliet, Illinois. 1943 Military doctors prescribe ice cream to soldiers recovering from combat fatigue. 124_07OFAKids_Ice_Cream 4/17/07 12:00 PM Page 129 129 ICE CREAMCREAM EATERS EATERS shares their treat with their dog or cat.* HISTORY 1973 2006 Boston taxi driver Dreyer’s Grand and ice cream Ice Cream opens stand owner Steve one of the world’s Herrell originates largest ice cream “mix-ins”—a choice of plants, in Laurel, candy bits and cookies Maryland. added to a scoop. 1978 Having passed a $5 correspondence course in ice cream making the year before, Ben Cohen 1985 and Jerry Greenfield A St. Louis, Missouri, open their first Ben & custard stand owner Jerry’s ice cream shop blends soft serve and in Burlington, Vermont. fruit juice to make “concrete.” This treat soon becomes the Dairy Queen Blizzard. BE A (SODA) JERK *CAUTION: Find easy-to-make ice cream Never feed your pets and soda fountain recipes at chocolate, as it may be Almanac4kids.com/guide. toxic to them..