Some interesting facts about ice cream
The invention of ice cream is widely credited to Emperor Nero of Rome, it was a mixture of snow, honey, nectar and fruit pulp.
The most popular flavour is, unsurprisingly, Vanilla. And the most popular topping? You guessed it, Chocolate sauce!
An average single cone is only 140 calories and takes around 50 licks to demolish. Better yet, most lollies are under 100 calories.
The ice cream cone is a very environmentally friendly form of packaging and was invented at the St. Louis World Fair in 1904.
Britain is europes third biggest consumer of ice cream with children aged 2 - 12 and adults over 45 eating the most ice cream per person. It takes 12 Litres of Milk to make 1 Litre of ice cream.
It takes twelve gallons of milk to make one gallon of ice cream.
Sundays see more ice cream being sold than any other day.
It is estimated that the average consumption in the UK is 8 litres per person per year.
Around 5% of ice cream is shared with a pet.
Why is a 99 called a 99?
There are many theories as to how the name 99 came about. Our current favourite is that the Flake was Cadbury's 99th chocolate bar. One thing that is for sure is that it actually had nothing to do with the price! Once upon a time they were a lot less than 99p!
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