Fun Facts
Here are some fun facts about gelato and ice cream from around the world ...
Japan has a chicken wing-flavoured ice cream! Yes — savoury meets sweet in one unique scoop. But they didn't stop there — they’ve also created squid ink, wasabi, and even raw horse meat ice cream flavours!
In Canada, more ice cream is sold in the winter than in the summer. Cold treats for cold weather? Why not!
In Kansas, it was once illegal to serve ice cream on cherry pie. (We’re glad that law melted away.)
An ice cream parlour in Venezuela scooped its way into the Guinness World Records with a mind-blowing 860 flavours on the menu.
After World War II, Americans celebrated with ice cream — in 1946, the average person consumed over 40 pints!
The first ice cream cone was reportedly invented at the 1904 World’s Fair in St. Louis, when a waffle vendor helped out an ice cream seller who ran out of bowls.
King Charles I of England loved ice cream so much, he supposedly paid his chef to keep the recipe a royal secret.
The world’s largest ice cream sundae weighed over 24 tons and was made in Canada in 1988 — it had more than 63,000 litres of ice cream!
