A History of Ice Cream
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- The surprising history of Ice Cream is both ancient and modern, and steeped in myth and legend enough to make you shiver on a sunny day.
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Melted ice cream deserves to be remembered.
My oldest child would make "ice cream soup" before she would eat her ice cream.
10 years later had another daughter. She, also, would melt her ice cream before eating it(drinking it?) . Her term for the stuff- Ice Cream Soup.
Yuck! Ice cream that is 90% melted is nasty, and even worse is partially melted ice cream that has been refrozen so that it's full of tiny little ice crystals .
Our toddler put her dish of ice cream outside in the sun to…let it dry.
😮mind bending isn’t it?
Oooh, I get it.
I am the Great Great Grandson of Jacob. His daughter Carrie was my Father's Grandmother. We have a large collection of items concerning the history of the start of his Ice Cream Company.
I tip my hat to great great granddaddy Jacob!
I want to thank him for all that he has done. May that lovely man rest in peace. Cheers 🍻🥂🍧🍨
Thank you for your service.
Whoever invented the stuff deserves our eternal thanks for the huge pleaure that ice-cream has given to millions of all ages.
I was born 67 years ago, and can still remember the jaunty tune as the Ice Cream Truck made it's rounds of the neighborhoods in my childhood. Mom would give my sister and me some change to buy a treat. I was around six at the time. 😊
That was before they played "Music Box Dancer."
I also was born 67 years ago, and being from a small town in Kansas, never had an Ice Cream truck. But we had a "Tasty Freeze" ice cream store. And my favorite to this day is the Chocolate Dipped cone.
Ours would play “The Entertainer”. What a rush it was to hear them coming. We definitely all screamed for ice cream. 😂
We have an ice cream truck here. Usually plays The Entertainer or Turkey in the Straw.
You scream,😯 I scream... 😯The police come, and things get awkward... 👮♂👮♀👮😳
Especially if donuts aren't available.
@@orbyfan Maybe they would accept ice cream cake as a suitable substitute.
The dog screams, the cat screams, and Mom screams, "Shut up!!"
😂
The Taylor company hasn't done well when it comes to keeping the McDonald's soft serve machines working.
Has nothing to do with Taylor and everything to do with staffing.
@@jamespfitz Wikipedia, and other sites beg to differ.
Argue it with them.
@@jamespfitz I've read multiple accounts that the machines are designed to drive revenue through service contracts by only being able to be serviced by the company in question. Somehow, McDonalds of all corporations is a "victim" of our woeful lack of "right to repair" laws.
Bahaha- the machines are FINE. Cleaning and maintaining them is a pain and McCrewmembers mayyyyybe occasionally blame "outage" to avoid messing with it
@@patmcbride9853yep. And we could agree with you, but then we'd all be mistaken. 🙄 It's a thing... happens every day across the country. Been there, done that
I think "milking the buffalo" is the easy part of making ancient ice cream
As a veteran Ice Cream man, i appreciate your work on this piece!
Thanks, History Guy!
good luck coming up with your own sales pitch.
As a serious lover of ice cream, I appreciate good work too. But not as much as the work of the ice cream man!!!
I could go for some vanilla bean ice cream on top of warm peach cobbler now…. 🤤
Oh. Echos of my childhood!
Truly "comfort food"! 😊
I just went to Culver's and got the flavor of the day which was butter pecan with whole halves of pecans in it! It was really delicious.
Definitely, the bean of the orchid known as vanilla is one of life's great pleasures!
Where do you learn to make ice cream?
At Sundae school.
I have a lactose intolerant friend who sells ice cream for a living.
He can’t take it, but he can dish it out.
Puns and jokes that bad should only be uttered from within a cone of silence. 😉
😂👍
Thanks to both the original post and the first response! I’m stealing both these punny jokes!
"...to the oldest of...Presidents" Well played, sir!
Ice cream also gained substantially in popularity in the first half of the twentieth century, not only because the technology to make it became more available, but also partly due to the influence of the US Navy, which used it as a morale-booster because it was something desirable that could be made on board ship, and which could be served to men on duty without impairing them (as contrasted with e.g. the British Royal Navy's rum ration). After the war, former service members returning to civilian life brought their ice cream habit with them. Some historians also credit the prohibition of alcohol, with boosting the popularity and social importance of ice cream in America; and its prominence in American entertainment has contributed to its popularity worldwide.
..just watched Fighting Lady last night...the story of carriers in the Iavific durthe War..ice cream was specifically mentioned...
ice cream machines remain a vital piece of machinery onboard US Navy ships today. I impressed my first captain by fixing the soft-serve machine on my first submarine.
@@kotori87gaming89 Your first ship assignment was a sub?
@@jonadabtheunsightly Yeah. In the USN, you can volunteer for submarines at any point. Most people volunteer either initially upon enlisting, or partway through their training. I don't think I would want someone corrupted by the surface fleet anyway. They have weird opinions about "fresh air" and "sunlight" and stuff.
@@kotori87gaming89 As a computer nerd, I can sympathize with the submariner's view on sunlight. Fresh air... that means air that's just come out of the air conditioning unit, right?
I would like to pass on a little known secret about Ice Cream that helps alcoholics trying to quit drinking as a substitute for a drink. It has sugar, is very pleasant to eat, and acts as a positive sensory reward for not having alcohol. I ate a lot of Ice Cream in 2005 but am thankfully sober today, thanks in no little part to Ice Cream (and AA).
Another Friend of Bill’s here. I leaned a bit on ice cream myself: a small bowl was a nice self-reward for making it through another day. It’s been well over a decade since I got to the point where I wouldn’t experience anxiety if I ran out of ice cream, but I still like to find a sketchy convenience store & buy a freezer burned treat as part of my weekend driving in the mountains ritual 😉
So happy you both got sober. Well done!!❤
It is more about carbohydrate replacement.
@@ftmhome That may be but it helped more than potatoes.
@@tomclayton6875 Possibly, but a big ol’ Russet with country butter, real bacon & cheese, ham, broccoli, and some sour cream sure spikes my endorphins
Damnit, now I’m hungry
13:03 I remember eating Push-Ups in the 1950's.
I fully agree... I am in my 70s and by the time I hit my teens we were eating other ice creams like Nutty Buddies, etc.
I remember eating pushups yesterday.
As a child of the '60's near Philly, Basset's French Vanilla was it for me. Today, as an old non-dairy geezer, it's Talenti Non-Dairy Cold Brew Coffee, wordlessly satisfying, or So Delicious Mint Chocolate Chip that light my lamps. I still miss the Good Humor truck, though.
I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice Cream!
I still feel happy when Mr. Softy drives through my neighborhood with such a sweet jingle.
I live in Florida. A new, small batch, house made ice cream shop opened in our neighborhood a couple of years ago. It’s going gangbusters and I’m doing my part to ensure they stay in business, especially in the hot summer months.
The best thing I've seen was the day it was so hot & there was a kid eating his chocolate ice cream & it was running down his chin, arms,& his neck. But by gosh, he was so happy.
12:55 I ate a ton of those push-ups as a kid in the 60s. I'd always roll it back and forth in my hands for a minute to make it easier to push it up.
I did the same thing, 😂 and still do it for the grandkids now!
I noshed on a chocolate mint Klondike Bar while watching this! Ice cream has got to be my favorite dessert. The Good Humor truck with it's jingling bells and the man in the white uniform was a big part of my summer when I was a kid in the early 1960's.
When it's a great ice cream, I'll gladly suffer that ice cream headache!
"Brain freeze"
I can see how ice cream vendors using ambiguous phrases like "brought ice cream to the masses" to promote themselves would muddy the waters in trying to pick this one apart! Great vid again from the History Guy
11:30 And thus the ice cream machine has forever been broken.
A food-related pet peeve of mine is ice cream that has partially melted and been refrozen due to substandard refrigeration during transport to stores or because of poorly maintained grocery-store freezers. Ice cream with grainy ice crystals isn't creamy at all!
The Marco Polo story always bothered me because the Chinese historically didn't eat dairy
I remember when my mother made some homemade Icecream 🍦 the 1st x was after we went to the Gilchreese orchards the first half gallon was Apple 🍎 mmmm. I still haven't found any since then. Peach 🍑 from the fruit we picked. Was maybe 6 years old. 🤔 Man I miss my mother dearly miss both of my parents 😭
Go to Medina, Texas. They sell apple ice cream. And HEB makes an apple pie ice cream. Makes me want some ice cream. 🥰❤️
Loved the Puns! LOL
You know what? I’m gonna go get me some ice cream. Thanks man
Thanks for posting. Beginning in 1892, when Penn State was known as The Pennsylvania State College, the School of Agriculture offered a class in dairy manufacturing during winter, "when farm work is least pressing and the boys can best be spared." Tuition was free and students were charged $5 in incidental expenses and laboratory fees. (From Penn State website) 🍦
Thanks for the story of Ice Cream. It's missing only one thing..........Pirates.
I recall a “fun facts” segment in the Sunday funny papers from the 69’s. When resort towns, beaches, and boardwalks started offering ice cream the most popular summertime flavor was oyster. It outsold vanilla, chocolate, and strawberry for over a decade if I recall.
35 years ago I rode an ice cream bike for a summer. How fast to pedal was an art. If you made the kids run too hard to catch you, they’d give up. But if you got it just right, they’d be hot and tired enough to buy two instead of one.
I make our ice cream. Granted, I use an electric maker instead of the old hand cranked ones I grew up with. No rock salt. No endless hand cranking. Tastes just as good. Lasts about as long as
I'll finish that last sentence for you: [Lasts about as long as] it takes to finish it, which isn't very long because it tastes so good! I like to make my own ice cream, too, with an inexpensive ice cream machine that has a motor but also needs rock salt and ice. The only downside to this is that without the stabilizers found in commercially-produced ice cream, my ice cream gets gummy after sitting about a week in the freezer. But if I do my job right, my ice cream is eaten up by happy family members well before that happens. So I say continue to enjoy that homemade ice cream tradition!
While many may have had ice cream for July 4th, I had mine for Canada Day, July 1st.
At 1:15, Marco Polo could *in theory* have brought the *process* for making ice cream back to Europe, but bringing actual ice cream home couldnt be done at any cost, not for all the ice in China (and Siberia too)! 😉
LOL true.
@@TheHistoryGuyChannel Teeechnically... an ice float similar to that of a very large iceberg could've been constructed with all that siberian ice. The real obstacle (among other less serious ones involving navigation) would've been getting a few whales to assist with towing that mass of ice the long way around. All to deliver a few marco of frozen goodness for a handful of zecchino. No, that would be too silly.
(Great show. You sir are a breath of fresh air. Thank you)
@@TheHistoryGuyChannel PS, a big pet peeve of mine is ice cream that has partially melted during transport and then been refrozen. If you can feel crunchy crystals on your tongue, then by definition it's no longer "creamy".
The transition of ice & milk & honey has been a rocky road.
I see what you did there. 😁
*These puns are giving me a trigeminal headache* _(brain freeze)_
Growing up, mom was adamant that ice cream was a “weekend treat only”. Until the day she died she swore my sisters and I were incorrect when we said the “ice cream sat in the freezer so long that it got a boxy taste to it.” Yes it did, mom. Yes it did!
Which brings up another issue. Until individual households owned refrigerator/freezers about 1940, ice cream was purchased from the local grocery or creamery where it was scooped into a box (hand-packed) and handed off to the customer who rushed home with it to his awaiting family where it was divided up and consumed promptly. Once you could keep it frozen at home, it could be bought on the weekly grocery run in larger quantities and served more often.
As far as my opinion I think I scream was created all over the world anywhere that there was snow. There wasn't any one person who figured out that mixing something sweet with snow would make a cool treat. 👍🏻🍦
Margaret Thatcher ice-cream story: When this is told in Britain it is said like - "She invented soft serve so she could charge the public the same price for less product" - This tale is more about the Conservative party attitude to it's own people than the ice-cream itself.
I thought the Tang dynasty invented powdered orange juice.
In Canada, ice milk is still called ice milk, and tastes bad.
That's because there's no cream -only milk
Now this is a topic that we can all enjoy
I recall the story on your channel about how ice cream in WWII was huge, great video - this as well.
National Ice Cream month! How did I miss that? I'll have to correct that error and make ice cream when the grandkids visit next week. I'll be the coolest grandparent.
Until a few minutes ago... I _had_ about a half a pint of _jenni's_ Banana Cream Pie ice cream in my freezer.
Very interesting. You didn’t touch on ice cream sandwiches or fancy frozen treats on a stick, or wrapped in paper, or the decadent banana split. Milkshakes are still very popular, although no longer served with the excess left in the metal blending cup. There’s still nothing quite like ice cream on a hot day. Thanks for posting.
That connection we share is uncanny! Atleast 4 shows per month 🙇By Golly Svengalli!
"I want everyone to throw sugar and cream at each other, then lie about it. I want to attend an ice cream antisocial." - Benson Bruno. 😋❤️🍦🍧🍨
My grandpa, who was a child in middle Ohio in the nineteen teens, told his daughter that he used to buy ice cream from a street vendor. The vendor used to put a scope of ice cream in a child's dirty little hand. There were no cone, or paper cup, or anything like that. Well, he never said he got sick from it. Makes my skin crawl, but apparently it did him no harm.
When you say “Washington spent nearly $200…”, is that in today’s money?
LMGTFY, $6827
Washington spent 6500 on ice cream, what a baller
I love ice cream but need to drastically reduce my sugar intake.
If Marco Polo brought ice cream from China to Europe, the better question is what kind of cooler was he using?
What a sweet, cool subject for July! Thanks, Lance.
I appreciate you and thank you for making content.
Homemade ice cream was a weekend treat when I was a kid. Vanilla, Strawberry, Peach and Banana was made in a churn that finally died after 20 years.
Since I am Danish and eventhough it’s a while ago I thought I’d note that during your firebombing of Copenhagen video, I think you forgot to mention that “Copenhagening” became a word for a short time. As far as I remember/know, it was used kinda like the word Terrorisem is today, though don’t quote me on that
We have a chain in the Buffalo area, called Anderson's, that sells frozen custard and the city's signature sandwich, a beef on weck. "Weck" is short for kummelweck, a kaiser roll topped with kosher salt and caraway seeds.
Well I guess pirates didn't have ice cream 😊
😂
Think of ice cream as a foam. Air bubbles surrounded by a matrix (not that one!) of ice crystals, fat and sugar solution with some form of emulsifier. The smaller the ice crystals the smoother the ice cream. The fat globes need to be "Goldy locks size", too big and the ice cream feels "fatty", too small and it does not seem creamy. Too little air and it is too hard, also too hard if it is too cold (too much ice, not enough sugar solution). The emulsifier? to hold the ingredients together before the freezing/churning process starts.
Freeze-dried ice cream requires no refrigeration, because it is stored at room temperature.
Good morning from Ft Worth TX History Guy and everyone watching... Have a scoop on me!
After Operations Desert Shield and Storm we were back in Al Jubail, Saudi Arabia after 4 months and the push through Kuwait. Myself and another Marine were wandering around and found a Baskin Robbins ice cream place. I paid $6 for a single scoop (that was 1991, so about $14 today). Best money I ever spent.
One of the main reasons the Japanese imperial navy knew the war against the US was basically over was the US Navy had an entire ship devoted to supplying ice cream to troops in the pacific while Japan could barely feed its troops and fuel their ships and planes.
Japanese troops were starving and US sailors were struggling to decide if they wanted chocolate or strawberry ice cream tonight.
Thank you for your service
Sweet!
Thanks for giving us the "scoop" on this cool topic! 😁🍦
Thankyou History Guy
Cool episode! 🤣I do wonder about the consistency, texture and taste of some of the predecessors of modern ice cream. Modern ice cream the way we enjoy it today is practically impossible without modern refrigeration. You can churn ice cream in a container surrounded by ice and salt, but if your ice cream mixture isn't thoroughly chilled (typical refrigerator temps, not frozen) before you start, it will take a long time, you'll have to keep changing that ice and salt, and the ice cream you get will not be as hard as you're used to and will melt quickly. Even after the ice cream is churned, keeping it hard requires a freezer temperature below 10F, preferably around 0F. You can do that without modern refrigeration in winter in colder climates, but not a lot of people like to eat cold desserts at that time of year. I'm guessing that a lot of the early "ice creams" were more like cold, sweet sauces or icy dressings on fruits or cakes than what we enjoy today.
Love your videos
The early history of ice cream is so vague and mythologized that even the most diligent of research historians must resort to some waffling when relating the story. 😉
Just saw this, so, of course I had to have some ice cream while I listened. I love vanilla with some homemade rhubarb sauce. Last of the rhubarb for the season, though. More rhubarb next spring, but ice cream all year long!
had ice cream for dessert with dinner last night
One thing I'm sure about is that ice cream is fattening!
Interesting.. Thank you
Hey High Guy 🤓 I am right now eating 2 scoops of butter pecan Ice Cream 🍦
We always knew you'd "gone pecan"!
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@@constipatedinsincity4424 what, Van Halen? I'm referring to a southern expression, immortalized in the song "Gone Pecan" by slide guitarist Sonny Landreth (a far better player and songwriter than EVH ever was).
O yes Mr. THG🎀 GIVE THIS OLD MAN more Lemon/Lime Sherbet please
Eye scream, you scream, we all scream for eyescream.🍦🍦🍦
😁
At the age of thirteen I got my first real job as a "Soda Jerk" that was 1975.
Whenever you get a brain-freeze from ice cream, just hold your tongue to the roof of your mouth and it will pass quickly.
*I miss Schwan's butter pickle and fudge Ripple and peanut butter*
Always learn something new here😊😊😊😊
Awesome episode. Now I want ice cream!
Damn the history, I want ice cream now!!!!!
Ice cream is so widely loved that it's one of a handful of foods whose dangerous health effects are completely ignored, and it's considered a beautiful lark, a wonderful trip for lovers or families, or celebration of summer-- rather than a probably-toxic concoction of concentrated fat and sugar.
Few foods have better managed to escape their objective value as ingested materials and instead are seen almost universally as happy engagements, more than risky foodstuffs.
Always one constipated neo-puritan to try to ruin a pleasant experience for everyone. “Probably toxic?!” Get serious.
You forgot to mention where ice cream went to in the grocery store isle. "Frozen desert" is not ice cream, but it is sold exactly like ice cream as a substitute. I got tricked a few times by that crap before I got wise to their deceiving labelling and placement. Who knows what is in it. All we know is that it tastes terrible and doesn't melt for days. What is it?
Would be nice if you outed that Jackabee.
😊. Love 💕 it !
"ICE CREAM! ICE CREAM MAN IS COMING! THE ICE CREAM MAN IS COMING! MOM! THROW DOWN SOME MONEY! *the ice cream man is coming* !!!" -Eddie Murphy ("Delirious" Show)
(edit: word spelling)
I heard the name “ frozen pudding “ in a cowboy western television Show. I think Roma people from Europe were selling it.
Thanks for explaining the Sundae spelling, that always stuck in my craw.
I love ice cream. I have figured out a way to make store-bought taste like homemade.
Add few tablespoons of whipping cream, and a few tablespoons of coconut milk, and drizzle some pure maple syrup on top.
This was a cool video!
1. Museum of Ice Cream is a thing in Austin, TX. I have no idea what it could be, but I guess it's some sort of tourist thing for families.
2. The best ice cream of northern Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Arkansas, and Missouri is Braum's without rival.
Need to do a show about the ice cream ships in World War 2.
"..oldest of.... presidents" Great line ! 😊
Best comment in the video ❤
What!?! No pirates?
Nope, not this time. They were too busy fighting over the last pint of Ben & Jerry's Blackbeard Forest Crunch. (OK, I made that flavor up, but if anyone were to invent it, it would surely be Ben & Jerry.)
My love for ice cream cannot be overstated ❤
Vanilla Bean is my favourite
I was just looking for something to watch while I ate my ice cream.😁 Cookies and Cream with chocolate syrup.
Buffalo milk has a high fat content, preferred for making ice cream. My name is Bicycle Bob and I approved this message.
May I have a scoop of the 2,000 year old ice cream please??
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Cool 😎! Ice Cream Deserves to be Remembered.
Good morning! 👋🏽 😊