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Article: Ice Cream's The Answer! What's the Question? Facts and Figures On Our Favorite Food
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- June 24, 1987
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Ice cream, perhaps more than any other food, is in our hearts and
minds and freezers. We eat it not just at the table but in the park
and on the street; and when we wake up in the middle of the night we
crave it above all foods. For some people there is no such thing as
enough ice cream.
Still, like many things that we love inordinately, we don't
examine it all that closely. In our infatuation we ignore those
nagging questions that perhaps we should be asking. How do all those
Oreos get smashed for Cookies 'n Cream? Why is pistachio ice cream
green? And what happens to a Baskin-Robbins flavor-of-the-month when