Funny America.

[JackLuis]

I found this an amazing statistic! (from the Wikipedia.)

"Ice cream is an extremely popular dessert in the United States. Americans consume about 15 quarts (more than 13 liters) of ice cream per person per year — the most in the world.[41] As a foodstuff it is deeply ingrained into the American psyche and has been available in America since its founding in 1776: there are records of Thomas Jefferson serving it as a then-expensive treat to guests at his home in Monticello. In American supermarkets it is not uncommon for ice cream and related products to take up a wall full of freezers."

and
"Per capita, Australians and New Zealanders are among the leading ice cream consumers in the world, eating 18 liters and 20 liters each per year respectively, behind the United States where people eat 23 liters each per year.[25] Brands include Tip Top, Streets, Peters, Sara Lee, New Zealand Natural, Cadbury, Baskin-Robbins and Maggie Beer. A popular ice cream flavour in New Zealand, Australia and Japan that originated in New Zealand is hokey pokey."

Holy Hillary! 23 Liters a year, that damn near two liters a month!

Maybe they are all like Michel Moore!
Or Rush Limbaugh!

 

[Austin8]

We eat i scream every night, my dads eatin i scream every night for the last forty years, sometimes homemade, but mostly our brand of choice is Blue Bell from a small creamery in Brenham Tx. dont know about litres we buy ours in the 1/2 gallon tubs.

Ice Cream Time is: 8:00 pm cst.

 

[3113]

Holy Hillary! 23 Liters a year, that damn near two liters a month!

I'm behind on my quota! Haven't had ice cream since...um...when was the last time I had ice cream? Well, anyway, it couldn't have been more than a scoop or two.

 

[3113]

I'm a float or milkshake person, by the way. If I had ice cream it was in one of those two ways. Hmmm. Rootbeer float....

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Not only is ice cream an American obsession but the hand-cranked ice cream freezer is an American invention. It's one of those wonders from the second half of the XIX Century when Americans were coming up with new ways to do any possible task. Today, with freezers that have built-in refrigeration units, you can have home-made ice cream any time you want instead of saving it for Fourth of July picnics and family reunions. What I like best about the newer versions is that I can make up ice cream that has no impact on my diabetes. Y'gotta love it--to the tune of 23 liters a year. Yeah, baby, smear me with ice cream and lick it off!

 

[Austin8]

Not only is ice cream an American obsession but the hand-cranked ice cream freezer is an American invention. It's one of those wonders from the second half of the XIX Century when Americans were coming up with new ways to do any possible task. Today, with freezers that have built-in refrigeration units, you can have home-made ice cream any time you want instead of saving it for Fourth of July picnics and family reunions. What I like best about the newer versions is that I can make up ice cream that has no impact on my diabetes. Y'gotta love it--to the tune of 23 liters a year. Yeah, baby, smear me with ice cream and lick it off!

good point bear, my son is lactose intolerant, so for him I sub in coconut milk, and agave nectar he likes it just as much as we enjoy the more conventional recipe!

 

[voluptuary_manque]

good point bear, my son is lactose intolerant, so for him I sub in coconut milk, and agave nectar he likes it just as much as we enjoy the more conventional recipe!

As a baking ingredient, I despise coconut, especially the dried flakes. However, I've learned that coconut milk is the bees' knees. I put it in my Afro-California hot sauce, stews, gravies, all kinds of stuff. And the idea of putting it into ice cream is intriguing. I wonder what else should go into a pseudo-Thai ice cream . . .

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Although I do like ice cream....the numbers you quoted are hokey. In the first paragraph it says that Americans eat 13 liters of Ice Cream a year. Then in the second paragraph it say that Americans eat 23 liters of Ice Cream a year. Which is it? That's a ten liter difference. And anyway a liter is small compared to the half gallon tubs that ice cream is sold in.

A half gallon is just over two liters, so a half gallon a month isn't all that much when you think of it being eaten over a 30 day period.

 

[JackLuis]

Although I do like ice cream....the numbers you quoted are hokey. In the first paragraph it says that Americans eat 13 liters of Ice Cream a year. Then in the second paragraph it say that Americans eat 23 liters of Ice Cream a year. Which is it? That's a ten liter difference. And anyway a liter is small compared to the half gallon tubs that ice cream is sold in.

A half gallon is just over two liters, so a half gallon a month isn't all that much when you think of it being eaten over a 30 day period.

Blame Wiki, What surprised me is that that is the per person average. I imagine that there are a lot of people who don't eat much at all, so it means that there are some that must be some half gallon a day types out there.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

According to the University of Wisconsin, the latest figures run 14.4 lbs. per person. And remember that includes infants far too little to eat that much.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Blame Wiki, What surprised me is that that is the per person average. I imagine that there are a lot of people who don't eat much at all, so it means that there are some that must be some half gallon a day types out there.

When I was growing up the parents would go to the grocery store once a week, there were always two half gallon containers of ice cream. They would be gone by the time they then again went to the store.

When I myself was raising my family, when we could afford it, there were at least two half gallon containers of ice cream in the freezer. Now that I'm older, I hardly ever have ice cream...but I ate enough to keep my per capita going for years to come.

 

[JackLuis]

When I was growing up the parents would go to the grocery store once a week, there were always two half gallon containers of ice cream. They would be gone by the time they then again went to the store.

When I myself was raising my family, when we could afford it, there were at least two half gallon containers of ice cream in the freezer. Now that I'm older, I hardly ever have ice cream...but I ate enough to keep my per capita going for years to come.

How many people ate how much ice cream then? a family of four would eat, what 80 half gallons a year?

I have eaten some at that rate but it made me fat.

Now I'm in to nuts and twigs and feel a lot better.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

We decreased the quantity and increased the quality. Best of both worlds that way, more pleasure and fewer calories.

 

[3113]

As a baking ingredient, I despise coconut, especially the dried flakes. However, I've learned that coconut milk is the bees' knees. I put it in my Afro-California hot sauce, stews, gravies, all kinds of stuff. And the idea of putting it into ice cream is intriguing. I wonder what else should go into a pseudo-Thai ice cream . . .

Thai tea, of course. Thai iced tea ice cream...yum!

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Thai tea, of course. Thai iced tea ice cream...yum!

Oh, absolutely! Hmmm . . . the tea would have to be steeped quite strong to mix it with the coconut milk to make ice cream out of it. This will require experimentation. Fortunately, we have an entire summer of warm weather to do it in.

 

[Huckleman2000]

All you damn people eating unhealthy food and bankrupting our healthcare system! I don't eat ice cream, and yet my tax dollars go to fund the highest rates of Type 2 diabetes in the world! Ice cream should be outlawed, and anyone who eats it should receive a stiff jail sentence. That would fix it all. Why should I pay for your good eatin'???

[yes, I'm being sarcastic.]

 

[LaRocha]

I have family members that eat cookies and ice cream seemingly every night of their lives while they watch television. They're heavily overweight and borderline obese. Fat people are funny, heart disease, diabetes and all that shit isn't. I support highers taxes on garbage food, it's not about paying the penalties for what you're doing to your body, it's about making your kids fat and then making them have to foot the bill for your ill health age 45-70.

 

[cloudy]

I have family members that eat cookies and ice cream seemingly every night of their lives while they watch television. They're heavily overweight and borderline obese. Fat people are funny, heart disease, diabetes and all that shit isn't. I support highers taxes on garbage food, it's not about paying the penalties for what you're doing to your body, it's about making your kids fat and then making them have to foot the bill for your ill health age 45-70.

When you're working out heavily five days a week, a little bit of ice cream isn't even a factor. Depends on the lifestyle. With my schedule, I can eat anything I want, within reason.

 

[TxRad]

Ice cream quota

I had no idea

I'm way behind. My small cone at Diary Queen twice a week is going up to the large one.

There is a madness to my method. Don't eat the fries and have an ice cream cone instead.

 

[OzoneRed]

A popular ice cream flavour in New Zealand, Australia and Japan that originated in New Zealand is hokey pokey."

I give up, what's in hokey pokey ice cream?

 

[Austin8]

I give up, what's in hokey pokey ice cream?

Hokey pokey is a flavor of ice cream, invented in New Zealand and consisting of plain vanilla ice cream with small, solid lumps of sponge toffee. The original recipe until around 1980 consisted of solid toffee, but in a marketing change Tip-Top decided to use small balls of sponge toffee instead.

It was "invented" by Brian Simone in Dunedin in 1953 using broken hokey pokey crumb from Cadbury mixed with vanilla ice cream and became an instant success. The hokey pokey would normally have been used in the Crunchie bars but because they were broken were unusable, but was purchased by Simone for His experimental flavour.
It is the most popular flavour after plain vanilla in New Zealand, and a standard example of Kiwiana. It is also exported to Japan and the Pacific.

"Hokey pokey" was a slang term for ice cream in general in the 19th and early-to-mid 20th centuries in several areas — including New York and parts of Great Britain — specifically for the ice cream sold by street vendors, or "hokey-pokey" men.

The vendors, said to be mostly of Italian descent, supposedly used a sales pitch or song involving the phrase "hokey pokey", for which several origins have been suggested.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Ice cream quota

I had no idea

I'm way behind. My small cone at Diary Queen twice a week is going up to the large one.

There is a madness to my method. Don't eat the fries and have an ice cream cone instead.

Better yet, skip the cone and pour chocolate sauce over the scoop.

 

[Weird Harold]

Better yet, skip the cone and pour chocolate sauce over the scoop.

but then my fingers get all sticky.

 

[JackLuis]

My wife is on a diet and I haven't had a Hokey Pokey in years.

Or ice cream either.

 

[Tio_Narratore]

And don't forget that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, that distinctively made-in-America brand of Christianity, bans all stimulants, including alcohol, coffee, and tea. Ice cream is the indulgence of choice for Mormons; anyone know the stats for ice cream consumption in Utah?