Article: Ice cream continues to be a summer favorite Here's the SCOOP

THE SCOOP ON ICE CREAM

* It takes 12 pounds of milk to make one gallon of ice cream.

* People normally lick ice cream cones more than 50 times before finishing the cone.

* Americans eat an average of six gallons of ice cream per person each year, which is more than any other country.

* More than 90 percent of Americans consume ice cream each year.

* The U.S. ice cream and frozen dessert industry was more than a $20 billion industry in 2000.

* July is the month in which the most ice cream is sold and was declared "National Ice Cream Month" by former President Ronald Reagan in 1984.

SOURCES: Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream Inc. and International Dairy Foods Association

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