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FUN FACTS
Here are a few "mix-in" facts to discuss with friends on your next ice-cream outing:
-Federal statistics estimate the typical American eats 22 quarts of ice cream per year-about the same amount consumed per person in 1960. One-third of the ice cream is low-fat or non-fat, but there has been a concurrent rise in the consumption of premium or high-butterfat ice cream.
-The most frequent customers at the highly popular Cold Stone Creamery stores are females between 24 and 34 years old.
-Highly sensible ice cream eating-is that an oxymoron?-means you are ordering sorbet, sherbet, low-fat ice cream or low-fat frozen yogurt (not all frozen yogurts are low in fat). These choices range between 150 to 200 calories with minimal fat.
-The ice cream cone was created by "accident" at the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis. When a fellow ice cream vendor ran out of dishes, Syrian merchant Ernest Hamwi rolled some of his waffles into a cone shape to help his neighbor still keep serving up ice cream.
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ICE CREAM OR RIBS?
If you're going to indulge, indulge with understanding. When you consider that the body can metabolize only 800 calories at a given time, some of the more popular ice cream dishes have meallike proportions.
Ice cream: Two scoops of Baskin-Robbins vanilla ice cream. Caloric equivalent (500 calories): Two bowls of New England clam chowder soup.
Ice cream: Ben & Jerry's Chunky Monkey in a chocolate-dipped waffle cone. Caloric equivalent (820 calories): Full slab of ribs.
Ice cream: Cold Stone Creamery Mud Pie Mojo. Caloric equivalent (1,180 calories): Two personal pan pizzas at Pizza Hut.
Ice cream: TCBY Toffee Coffee Cappuccino Chiller. Caloric equivalent (1,200 calories): T-bone steak, Caesar salad and baked potato with sour cream.
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(c) 2003, Chicago Tribune. Distributed by Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service.
