Helps you get pregnant and 9 more interesting facts about ice cream

Fact 1. The waffle cone came from greed

Previously, ice cream was sold exclusively in plastic plates. Until one day at a fair in St. Louis, an ice cream vendor ran out of plates. In order not to lose customers, he began to wrap cold balls in waffles – he was not at a loss, in general, he showed boldness. It was back in 1904. And now ice cream in a waffle cone is the most popular in the world.

Fact 2. Vanilla is a luxury

Vanilla ice cream is considered a classic and is preferred by most people with a sweet tooth. However, before it was called nothing less than a delicacy. This is because until the XNUMXth century, vanilla was very difficult to obtain. This is now at our service and vanilla essence, and sugar, and pure vanillin, and the pods of this plant – whatever your heart desires.

Every man to his own taste. And so much so that you are amazed! Ice cream is not only ice cream and crème brulee. And not necessarily sweet. How do you like parmesan or asparagus ice cream? Or maybe sour cream or cucumber, violet or beer? There is black ice cream, in green cones, even “for adults” and – phew, a nightmare! – celery.

Fact 4. Ice cream helps to get pregnant

And this is not fiction, but a fact scientifically confirmed by the Harvard School of Public Health. It turns out that this nutritious dessert contains the fats you need for ovulation. The study was carried out not even on mice, but on humans. The experimental group of women who were fed ice cream had increased fertility compared to the control group, where women did without dessert.

Fact 5. Ice cream has a headache

First pleasure, then payback. It turns out that headaches after eating ice cream are not uncommon. The thing is that the nerve endings in the mouth react aggressively to cold and send endless SOS signals to the brain that the body is losing heat. The blood vessels at this point begin to contract sharply.

But when the temperature regime is restored and the blood begins to flow through the vessels at the same rate, a headache begins. There is only one way out: eat ice cream slowly, savoring the taste.

Fact 6. A child invented an ice cream stick

Children in general have invented a lot of ingenious things. And 11-year-old Frank Epperton distinguished himself in 1905. The boy forgot in the evening on the porch of the house a bottle of lemonade and a cocktail stick, and in the morning he found that the entire contents of the bottle were frozen to the stick. After 20 years, he monetized his ice cream stick idea. What would we do without you, Frank!

Fact 7. Ice cream for $ 1000

The most expensive ice cream is served at New York’s Serendipity restaurant. What do gourmets pay such money for? Of course, for an exclusive. After all, the chef will prepare for you an incredible mix of Parisian fruits, chocolate of the highest standard, marzipan cherries, Madagascar vanilla and gilded dragees. The ice cream will be covered with a thick edible gold leaf, and if you have this splendor, you will be offered a golden spoon decorated with diamonds, which you can take away as a keepsake.

For the first time, an ice cream recipe was recorded in a cookbook already in 1665. Among the ingredients was a spice from China, mace. It is made from a nutmeg shell. The mace tastes the same as the nut itself, but much stronger. Another ingredient in the “prehistoric ice cream” was orange blossom water.

Fact 10. Ice cream is a source of the hormone of happiness