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Article: We all scream for ice cream!
- Article from:
- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- July 13, 2004
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Ice cream is a popular frozen dairy food. It consists mostly of
milk products, sugar and water. Ingredients called emulsifiers and
stabilizers hold the mixture together. Ice cream manufacturers make
their product in hundreds of flavors, but about half the ice cream
sold in the United States is vanilla. Chocolate and strawberry rank
next in popularity.
No one knows when ice cream was first made. There are claims that
in the first century, Nero enjoyed an "ice-cream-like dessert." Nero
had servants run to the mountains for fresh snow and then race back
to the palace before it melted so he could enjoy the frozen treat
topped with fresh fruit. In 1295 the Italian trader Marco Polo
returned to ...