I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream!<\/i><\/p>\n
Classic vanilla has been replaced. July is National Ice Cream month in the United States (yes it exists!), and to honour this universal frozen treat, we thought we\u2019d celebrate here in Canada as well- after all, it\u2019s summertime and there\u2019s always room for ice cream! While the Italians are famous for their gelato and the French love their sorbet, North Americans are hopping on the ice cream train (er, truck?) and creating their own unique flavours.\u00a0 In 1984, President Ronald Regan designated July as National Ice Cream month and the third Sunday of July as National Ice Cream Day (this year, it falls on Sunday, July 21).<\/p>\n
King Tang of the Shang Dynasty is said to have created an icy, milk-flour recipe in 618-97 AD that was the first incarnation of ice cream.\u00a0 Later, the Roman Emperor Nero sent his servants to the mountain-top to gather snow and fruit to make a sweet concoction that more resembled the ice-cream of today.\u00a0 Fast forward through Marco Polo bringing the idea to Italy and the invention of the first ice cream machine in the 1840s, to ice cream becoming such a favourite and a staple that Ben and Jerry\u2019s<\/a> and Baskin-Robbins<\/a> are household names.<\/p>\n Ice cream is becoming as diverse as its admirers all over the world.\u00a0 People are experimenting with flavour profiles that aren\u2019t limited to traditional dessert ingredients. With cheddar cheese ice cream in the Philippines, jalapeno ice cream in Mexico, and octopus ice cream in Japan, it\u2019s clear that each nation is applying their food customs to this frozen dessert. The ice cream shop Heladeria Coromoto in Venezuela has close to 900 flavours and 80 different flavours available daily.\u00a0 They hold the Guinness World Record for the longest list of flavours- including avocado, plantain, chilli, shrimp, and Pepsi.\u00a0 It seems like anything can be made into ice cream, and there\u2019ll always be people willing to eat it.<\/p>\n In Canada, we may be less adventurous customers and ice cream connoisseurs, but that doesn\u2019t mean that we don\u2019t have our own tasty ice cream parlours with a hint of rebellion.\u00a0 You can find exotic flavours at Mario\u2019s Gelati<\/a> in Vancouver, such as the Asian-inspired black sesame, durian, and lychee, or garlic and Dijon mustard flavours. In Muskoka, Belly Ice Cream<\/a> serves up basil gelato and Thai watermelon sorbetto, and Ed\u2019s Real Scoop<\/a> in Toronto has been known for their red hot chili chocolate and Guinness ice cream.<\/p>\n If you\u2019re more of a traditionalist and opt for the nostalgic flavours, they\u2019re always around too. The trendy, self-serve, pay-by-weight, frozen yogurt shops are popping up everywhere.\u00a0 Menchie’s<\/a>,\u00a0CC Swirls<\/a>, and Yogurty\u2019s<\/a> have a large following of people prepared to make their own, more classic creations.<\/p>\n It\u2019s not like we need an excuse, but National Ice Cream month is just another reason to indulge, return to our childhood and conjure images of hot, summer days and the memorable melody of the ice cream truck.\u00a0 While unusual is interesting, I\u2019ll take two scoops of cookies \u2018n cream, please- after I try the lobster sorbet.<\/p>\n What\u2019s your favourite bizarre ice cream flavour and where can we try it?\u00a0 Tell us in the comments below!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream! Classic vanilla has been replaced. July is National Ice Cream month in the United States (yes it exists!), and to honour this universal frozen treat, we thought we\u2019d celebrate here in Canada as well- after all, it\u2019s summertime and there\u2019s always room for ice cream! […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":8091,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":""},"categories":[3551],"tags":[],"modified_by":"Amanda Stancati","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tripcentral.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4953"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tripcentral.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tripcentral.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tripcentral.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tripcentral.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4953"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/www.tripcentral.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22231,"href":"https:\/\/www.tripcentral.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4953\/revisions\/22231"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tripcentral.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tripcentral.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tripcentral.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tripcentral.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}