The History of Ice Cream | Food: Now and Then | NowThis

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Early ice cream flavors included asparagus, cheese, and bread crumbs.

The first scoop of ice cream is over 2,500 years old.

People didn't have freezers back then, so the first scoops of ice cream were made with snow and ice. Alexander the Great reportedly loved to pour honey and nectar on snow, but emperors of the Tang dynasty are credited as the first people to eat frozen, milk-like concoctions.

Eventually people learned that the combination of ice and salt could be used to freeze things, so they started to experiment. They first messed around with wine slushies, which eventually gave way to sorbet in Italy. Milk was eventually added to the mix, but only the wealthy were allowed to taste it.

But in 1660, the recipe was set free to the public and people went crazy — including our first president. George Washington apparently spent a total of $200 on ice cream one summer. In the late 1800s, ice cream soda at fountains became popular as technology made the treat more accessible.

Ice cream in cones became popular at the 1904 St Louis World’s Fair, where some people say the waffle cone was invented. Prepackaged ice cream was available at supermarkets in the 1970s, but there still have been plenty of specialty ice cream shops created since then that make the most interesting and indulgent flavors.

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Who else searched this up while eating some late night ice cream? 🤤🤤

BossinAZ_EnT

Think we all need to be extremely grateful for the things humans have done for other humans to enjoy.

gloomsouls

"Earlier recipes uses asparagus, grated cheese, and bread crumbs as flavourings for ice cream."

>refuses to elaborate further

GilangRabbani

Truely one of the sweetest and mouth-watering eateable items. I hardly fail to miss the delicious item at any banquet or any other party.

rubiksharma

Around 550 BC, Iranians are believed to have created a sweet frozen dessert called *Faloodeh*, which is made of ice, honey, saffron, and fruits. The Persian Empire (today Iran) is believed to have created *Sharbat*, a chilled dessert drink.

ShahanshahShahin

So ice cream was invented in China, I thought it was invented in Iran

ninjapirate

Let's all remember that there were and are many frozen desserts, but ice cream is a dairy product. Telling how the ancients flavored their ice with honey and herbs is great but it's not ice cream until butterfat gets involved.

davidholubetz

Me eating ice cream while watching this😋

LoveHK_.

You were missing something ice cream was originally served in plates but then the employees ran out of plates so one of the employees took a waffle and rolled it into a waffle cone.

Projectzks

Great research! I'm unsure about hokey-pokey referring specifically to ice cream on a cone, as the consensus seems to be that it was a general term for cheap ice cream sold by street vendors, with one old encyclopedia describing it as blocks of multicolored ice cream in the vein of Neapolitan. Then again, the name seems to have found itself appropriated by various frozen treats over time, from an 1870s precursor to the popsicle to modern New Zealand ice cream containing eponymous honeycomb toffee.

danielstreeter

And here I thought ice-cream was Roman classic.

unknownbenefactor

"I'll get 2 toots, a hokey pokey, ... then I guess i'll turn myself around"

Me: *chokes on my pepsi from laughing*

DID NOT EXPECT THIS !!

heavenly_