The History of Ice Cream | Food: Now and Then | NowThis

Early ice cream flavors included asparagus, cheese, and bread crumbs.
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The first scoop of ice cream is over 2,500 years old.
People didn't have freezers back then, so the first scoops of ice cream were made with snow and ice. Alexander the Great reportedly loved to pour honey and nectar on snow, but emperors of the Tang dynasty are credited as the first people to eat frozen, milk-like concoctions.
Eventually people learned that the combination of ice and salt could be used to freeze things, so they started to experiment. They first messed around with wine slushies, which eventually gave way to sorbet in Italy. Milk was eventually added to the mix, but only the wealthy were allowed to taste it.
But in 1660, the recipe was set free to the public and people went crazy - including our first president. George Washington apparently spent a total of $200 on ice cream one summer. In the late 1800s, ice cream soda at fountains became popular as technology made the treat more accessible.
Ice cream in cones became popular at the 1904 St Louis World’s Fair, where some people say the waffle cone was invented. Prepackaged ice cream was available at supermarkets in the 1970s, but there still have been plenty of specialty ice cream shops created since then that make the most interesting and indulgent flavors.
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[@BossinAZ_EnT]

Who else searched this up while eating some late night ice cream? 🤤🤤

[@chubchub1307]

Ice cream with a waffle cone 🤤

[@Joshstix95]

I was thinking this exact question ... cause I woke up in the middle of the night and had nothing to search while eating icecream lol then I saw this haha

[@akirusgauge7094]

I see you're also a man of culture...

[@xizheng2856]

I did

[@googleuser4053]

LoL its 10.31 pm and decided to check on ice cream history ..

[@gloomsouls]

Think we all need to be extremely grateful for the things humans have done for other humans to enjoy.

[@GilangRabbani]

"Earlier recipes uses asparagus, grated cheese, and bread crumbs as flavourings for ice cream." >refuses to elaborate further

[@rubiksharma5387]

Truely one of the sweetest and mouth-watering eateable items. I hardly fail to miss the delicious item at any banquet or any other party.

[@Inyourhideyhole]

Good God 😳

[@nicholasmcdougald3737]

I miss the icecream trucks😫

[@BadBoyBird]

In the UK there still there and when I always see it I just go and there and buy it lol

[@Mela-lc7th]

Where I live there are some ice cream trucks in the summer

[@connormclernon26]

MIKAEEL THE GAMER even in Glasgow? After the Ice Cream Wars?

[@SandyRed881]

One just past by my house playing the lambda song!😂

[@devlinburns8496]

Connor McLernon yea I live in Glasgow and I see ice cream trucks

[@LoveHK_.]

Me eating ice cream while watching this😋

[@ShahanshahShahin]

Around 550 BC, Iranians are believed to have created a sweet frozen dessert called *Faloodeh* , which is made of ice, honey, saffron, and fruits. The Persian Empire (today Iran) is believed to have created *Sharbat* , a chilled dessert drink.

[@priyanksaikia5549]

It started from China and then went to West Asia and Middle East and then to Italy...Italians,I believe, also patented the Cone.

[@ShahanshahShahin]

@@priyanksaikia5549 Nope

[@danielstreeter6738]

Great research! I'm unsure about hokey-pokey referring specifically to ice cream on a cone, as the consensus seems to be that it was a general term for cheap ice cream sold by street vendors, with one old encyclopedia describing it as blocks of multicolored ice cream in the vein of Neapolitan. Then again, the name seems to have found itself appropriated by various frozen treats over time, from an 1870s precursor to the popsicle to modern New Zealand ice cream containing eponymous honeycomb toffee.

[@ninjapirate123]

So ice cream was invented in China, I thought it was invented in Iran

[@priyanksaikia5549]

Yes..There are these dessert jokes..Between an Italian and A Chinese Man Arguing for the Worlds Best Cuisine, The Chinese Man who got angry eat the Italian Man's Ice Cream and left him with the Cone which The Italian later Had to bite down..

[@Projectzks]

You were missing something ice cream was originally served in plates but then the employees ran out of plates so one of the employees took a waffle and rolled it into a waffle cone.

[@danielstreeter6738]

Well...that's one story, and it's probably a hodgepodge of various, unrelated bits of history. Most accounts of the first ice cream cone describe a similar situation, only with open-air food vendors at the World's Fair mentioned in the video. Multiple vendors have tried to take credit, and there's not much surviving evidence to judge between them. For all we know, the cones were invented by some obscure person before the fair and only received global attention there, with others quickly copying it and claiming credit. That being said, if you ever make your own waffle cones, you'll quickly realize that it would be completely impractical to use a typical modern waffle. It requires a very particular thin and dry/sugary waffle that turns hard when it cools, otherwise it can't roll up properly and would unfold and mash in one's hands. Because cones have to be shaped quickly and while still hot, it's very hard to do it without a specially-made wooden roller; the idea of a person inventing it on the spot from a flat waffle doesn't seem feasible. For that reason, it seems most likely that ice cream cones evolved from krumkake or something similar.

[@Projectzks]

Can’t believe you replied to this comment anyways that was the only explanation I only remember that info from like a reading I did in school about how ice cream was first made

[@williampennjr.4448]

that may have been the first ice-cream cone, far from being the first ice-cream. If its true, that didn't happen until the 20th century. The first ice-cream dates back at least a hundred years earlier.

[@hichammahmoud5546]

Alexander the Great was 350 Bc not 50 AD

[@davidholubetz177]

Let's all remember that there were and are many frozen desserts, but ice cream is a dairy product. Telling how the ancients flavored their ice with honey and herbs is great but it's not ice cream until butterfat gets involved.

[@unknownbenefactor8029]

And here I thought ice-cream was Roman classic.

[@priyanksaikia5549]

Naah they were Chinese Classics...The Hot Ice Creams too were invented in China.

[@heavenly_5466]

"I'll get 2 toots, a hokey pokey, ... then I guess i'll turn myself around" Me: *chokes on my pepsi from laughing* DID NOT EXPECT THIS !!

[@salmasunshine7238]

Lol me too

[@lifeisactuallyveryboring.7771]

LOVE that stuff.

[@baconboi6175]

Watching this while eating ice cream

[@eshu1112]

Americans sure do love ice cream hahaha. So cute ❤️❤️❤️

[@rapper_6888]

These memories from so long make me feel so young and feel like I'm in those years from Way Way back in the day

[@jerrettbarkley456]

I can’t wait to have my first DQ blizzard in a very long time next weeek

[@hamedhamdan9906]

I am watching this while munching on ice cream 😂

[@ocdnforark]

Asparagus, grated cheese, and bread crumbs? Ew!~

[@jmdelaquesta28]

Cheese flavor ice cream taste good it’s one of our favorites ice cream in the Philippines

[@jasinsworld3095]

Even king solomon used to have ice with the fruits

[@ShahanshahShahin]

Myth

[@jasinsworld3095]

@@ShahanshahShahin there was a passage in english, and i found it there

[@luckylad12]

😢😂

[@oliviagudgohucruz642]

Lovely video. I had my fingers crossed Ambergris would be mentioned :o

[@mcmallard9785]

Only the wealthy could have it Me: **lockdown flashbacks**

[@maxinewest1326]

Pictures of ice cream, looks good

[@sinoroman]

the last joke was good

[@ghoulwhip9724]

Okay after watch that video now I'm craving ice cream

[@Hi_Tselmeg1271]

Did u know Mongolia made the icecream?

[@jennifergowing2709]

this helped me with a school project to.

[@gargantuaism]

God it's so easy to be a kid today writing a report.

[@rosetta23]

Us lactose Interolant people be crying 😭 in our graves rn

[@gaygranola]

Am currently watching this while eating a whole tub of ice cream for a fully immersive experience

[@dennismiller95]

dont touch my sandwiches, im tell yall nowwwww!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@davidholubetz177]

2:50 I want to go back in time

[@charli.has.no.talent5114]

CHRIS ILY ❤❤

[@cheese-y1y]

I'm eating ice while watching this.

[@cheese-y1y]

I meant ice cream lol

[@BrownSillyCat]

Same

[@dogecointechnocrat]

I need to research for an essay and im dying helpppp

[@Lunarbutterflytarot]

Eating Edy's Neapolitan ice cream while watching this

[@DemiDemiGlace]

Eating Haagendazs’ rum rasin while watching this at 12am

[@firouzabedi1634]

That’s Persia.

[@furyz9290]

2021 anyone??

[@ReviveHF]

Before the proliferation of modern refrigeration methods, only countries like Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Ancient Persia and Ancient China have to conditions and expertise to manufacture ice. So if you met any Southeast Asian netizens arguing about who invented Ice Cendol or Ice Kacang, just let them watch videos like this, because Ice Cendol or Ice Kacang were basically desserts influenced by foreign inventions.

[@boogeymann6686]

Ice cream good

[@luckylad12]

The END

[@mariaareyan417]

ok but not only americans knows and enjoy ice cream

[@RelmNTRealm]

ya cause I'm a New Zealander and love to enjoy an icy treat too but apart from that I loved the vid ;3

[@revo2321]

She's so cute ☺️❤

[@victoriap2519]

,,where is my diabetes?!?,,

[@GODWITHUS0712]

That wasn't the original ice cream The original ice cream flavor was just ice

[@yums4625]

i was just curious

[@jakemake2735]

This is all wrong let number 5 tell you the real history of ice cream

[@mistalion1]

icecream without mentioning Maraş/ Turkey

[@ashleighbraddock3080]

Yummy! 👇🏻 only ture ice cream people can like

[@mr.walkdkwn3025]

eating some chocolate chip right now

[@fromagefromage5157]

came here after p'gun class, hi yall

[@briannakamura4078]

Ookkk😊

[@Selorsell]

Fun fact: During the Mongol empire Mongols created ice cream

[@bgk77777]

I think the original ice cream come from Syria. Just putting KZbin Syrian ice cream . More 500 years ago they know it

[@brandonaguiar3966]

😊

[@gone6442]

No i prefer chocolate

[@adude849]

Oh my god why add 54-86bce on Alexander he was a corpse that time and he was alive 300years ago which is on the 300s bc

[@peykanjavanan2226]

Ice cream is Came From Iran not middle east Also We still eat snow and sour grapes

[@aawa24]

....Iran is part of the Middle East

[@gerald1812]

​@J purple ramen It isn't historically, Iran is a cold region for the most part surrounded by mountains and snow while it might be just north of the Arabian Peninsula , it shares very little geographically, language or culture wise with the rest of the middle east except for the fact that is currently a muslim nation (wasn't historically). So saying Persia would be far more accurate than saying 'middle east'.

[@gerald1812]

@@aawa24 It isn't historically, Iran is a cold region for the most part surrounded by mountains and snow while it might be just north of the Arabian Peninsula , it shares very little geographically, language or culture wise with the rest of the middle east except for the fact that is currently a muslim nation (wasn't historically). So saying Persia would be far more accurate than saying 'middle east'.

[@aawa24]

@@gerald1812 what do you mean historically? I think you're confused, historically there was no such thing as the Middle East, its a label given to a region they dont have to be similar in climate and language/culture. Additionally, there are similarities in culture but thats a different discussion you were once part of the ottoman empire and other islamic empires, that is simply a historical fact. I dont know if your Iranian or as you may call yourself "persian", but you dont have to be in denial of Arab and Islamic influence on your culture.

[@0000lola0000]

But how did they have ice cream all those years before Refrigeration? 🤔

[@emilynguyen7670]

Lola Mtl they use ice

[@0000lola0000]

@@emilynguyen7670 Sweetie, how did they have ice in the Middle East hundreds of years ago?

[@TMC3Official]

Lola Mtl maybe from mountains

[@throwshade243]

Lola Mtl Sweetie, Are you dumb? Boo, let’s say you visit Antarctica what do you see there? I.C.E & S.N.O.W Do you seriously think people didn’t have bad weather hundreds of years ago, yes I know they didn’t have any way of preventing it from melting but they used Ice therefore we’re reckoning it was cold enough for the ice not to melt

[@gerald1812]

​@@0000lola0000Lola, the video maker is dumb ice cream is specifically came from Iran/Persia, which is mostly a cold country with lots of mountains and Snow it is also not historically part of the Middle East. It used to be divided into Persia (north region) and Arabia (southern region) they share very little in terms of geography, language and culture.

[@luckylad12]

Bruh

[@ConalRF]

2:43 - How to turn video likes into dislikes.

[@matt2522]

That sundae thing was a bizarre non sequitur. Why would the soda, but not the sundae, be considered overly indulgent by those religious people? This needed to be addressed… But the video was cute at least.

[@danielstreeter6738]

In terms of the ice cream soda ban, it's an old story that lacks evidence to begin with, but it could still be true on the assumption that only sodas were specified in that area's blue laws, making it a loophole that the ice cream sellers took up on a legal basis rather than a moral/religious one. That said, the Ithaca claim mentioned here (which surrounds the oldest surviving reference to the sundae in print, as seen in the video) never actually mentions the blue laws, but rather attributes the name to the day it was invented.

[@rachelyf2009]

Me XD

[@AnkurPandeyef]

my god...the host must have put on few pounds just eating ice cream while shooting this video..

[@lostandgone9929]

Don't turn yourself around your back fat pops out

[@MiMayonGo]

Lets tell joe biden about this

[@RonieNerbes-mt9ko]

I Love Jonna Napire 🧡💛❤ March 17, 2024

[@noblenormie1179]

Alexander the great literally judt continued a persian desert. But sure eurocentrism bs