Five things about ice cream

It was huge! —On July 24, 1988, Edmonton’s Palm Dairies made a 24-tonne ice cream sundae. It contained 20,270 kgs. of ice cream, 4,394.4  kgs. of syrup and 243.7 kgs. of toppings to total 24,908.8 kgs.

Milk = ice cream — To make one gallon (3.8 litres) of ice cream takes12 lbs. (5.4 kgs.) of milk.

Spicy ice cream? — Can you imagine an ice cream made with an ice cream base, hot sauces, pequín, habanero and Thai chili peppers?  If you can and you want to try it, Sunni Sky’s Homemade Ice Cream will ask you to sign a waiver before eating it.

Favorites — According to the Canadian Dairy Information Centre, the favourite ice cream flavours in Canada are vanilla, chocolate, strawberry, butterscotch, coffee, milk chocolate chip and maple walnut.

Brain freeze —the scientific term for an ice cream headache is sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia.

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