5 POINT
5 POINT
5 POINT: Brain 🧠
Topic: 5 ice cream stories you probably don't know yet - this evening may never be the same again! 🍦
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1. Ice cream used to be the food of the "rich only."
In ancient Roman times, Empress Nero instructed his servants to run up the mountain, scoop down the snow, and mix it with honey and fruit, becoming the "early ice cream of the world" intended only for the elite.
📚 Source: National Geographic
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2. The country that eats the most ice cream in the world is... "New Zealand"! 🇳🇿
It averages nearly 30 liters more per year than the United States, which we think is the master of ice cream, because cold air is not a barrier, but it increases the taste of ice cream!
📚 Source: World Population Review
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3. Vanilla flavor... used to be derived from the "smell glands of musk deer." 😳
In the era before synthetic vanilla was not yet available, humans used "Castoreum," a substance from the musk deer's gland mixed in vanilla-flavored desserts. Although it has disappeared from the market, it is a hallucinatory fact of this tender dessert.
📚 Source: Smithsonian Magazine
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4. Japan used to really make "squid" and "bamboo charcoal" flavored ice cream! 🍦🦑
This creative country is known for its strange ice cream flavors, from wasabi, aubergine, to bamboo charcoal that are said to help detox the body.
📚 Source: Japan Today
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5. The only "non-melting" flavor of ice cream is that of NASA. 🚀
Called Freeze-based ice cream or "space ice cream," it undergoes a freezing process and then sucks the water out. It leaves only a crispy touch flavor, but retains everything the same flavor.
📚 Source: NASA Official Site
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"Sometimes things look cold...Always hide the heat of history like a word of ice cream melted down with a truth you never knew. "













































































