Added: 05/17/2006 |
Klondike Ice Cream Bar and Other Frozen Novelties - the Delicious VarietyThe history of ice cream in the 20th century is one of great change and increase in availability and popularity. Ice cream novelties as we now know them began to appear in the 1920's - the first chocolate-coated ice cream bar ("I-Scream Bar") appeared in the USA in 1919, as a cross between a chocolate bar and ice cream, and the first ice cream on a stick was the "Good Humor Bar". Both products are still on the market.
In the early 20th century, the ice cream soda was a popular treat at the soda shop, the soda fountain, and the ice cream parlor. Ice cream became extremely popular throughout the world in the second half of the 20th century after cheap refrigeration became common. Soon there was an explosion of ice cream stores and of flavors and types.
Howard Johnson's restaurants advertised "a world of 28 flavors." Baskin-Robbins made its 31 flavors ("one for every day of the month"). One important development in the 20th century was the introduction of softer ice cream. A chemical research team in Britain discovered a method of doubling the amount of air in ice cream. This allowed manufacturers to use less of the actual ingredients, saving money. The ice cream was also very popular amongst consumers who preferred the light flavor, and most major ice cream brands now use this manufacturing process.
Thanks to mass production, ice cream is widely available in most parts of the world. Ice cream can be purchased in large tubs and square pounds from supermarkets/grocery stores, in smaller quantities from ice cream shops, convenience stores, and milk bars, and in individual serves from small carts or vans at public events and places. Some ice-cream distributors who sell ice-cream products door-to-door from traveling refrigerated vans or carts, often equipped with speakers playing a children's music tune.
On the Mediterranean coast of Turkey, ice cream is sometimes sold to beachgoers from small powerboats equipped with chest freezers.
The Klondike bar is a brand name for a dessert generally consisting of a vanilla ice cream bar coated with a thin layer of chocolate. They are generally wrapped with a silver-colored wrapper, upon which the mascot for the brand, a polar bear, appears. In the UK, the generic name for this type of dessert is a choc-ice. The Klondike ice cream bar was invented by the Isaly Dairy Company of Mansfield, Ohio in the 1930s.
It is believed that the Klondike ice cream bar was named after the Klondike River in Canada's west central Yukon Territory. The company history credits the invention of the Klondike Bar to Chester but his brother Sam claims it was their father's invention. Rights to the name were sold to Good Humor-Breyers, part of Unilever. Good Humor-Breyers employs 2,400 people and operates six manufacturing facilities across the U.S. More than 200 employees work at the corporate office in Green Bay, Wisconsin. It is the largest manufacturer and marketer of branded packaged ice cream and frozen novelty products in the U.S.
So what would you do for an ice cream bar?
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