• Around 5% of people share their ice cream with a pet!
  • Approximately 13% of men and 8% of women admit to licking the bowl after eating ice cream!
  • The invention of the ice cream cone is linked to the 1904 Worlds fair in St. Louis, where an ice cream vendor reportedly didn't have enough dishes to keep up with demand so he teamed with a waffle vendor who rolled his waffles into cones.
  • It takes approximately 50 licks to polish off a single scooped ice cream cone.
  • Children between the ages of 2 -12 and adults over 45 eat the most ice cream
  • Vanilla is the most popular ice cream flavour and chocolate sauce is the favourite topping!
  • According to the Guiness book of world records the largest ice cream sundae was made in Alberta Canada in 1988 weighing in at 55,000 pounds!