Ice cream around the world
This Italian frozen dessert uses more milk and less cream than American ice cream, giving it a denser texture.
What is gelato?
This Vermont based ice cream brand is often celebrated for their social justice stance and initiatives.
What is Ben and Jerry's?
Traditional ice cream boils down to just a few core ingredients: milk and/or cream, sugar, and — in custard-style recipes — this rich, thickening ingredient.
What are egg yolks?
In this 1994 film, the main character brings ice cream to his wounded platoon leader in the Navy hospital after his legs are amputated, though the gift is discarded into a bedpan.
What is Forrest Gump?
This NYC-area soft-serve truck company, famous for its jingle, has been a fixture since 1956.
What is Mister Softee?
This Korean style frozen dessert is often topped with condensed milk, fresh fruit, and other sweet mix-ins like red beans or rice cakes.
What is Korean shaved ice or bingsu?
This brand's German-sounding name was actually invented by Reuben Mattus in the Bronx to suggest old-world quality.
What is Häagen-Dazs?
This term refers to the small ice crystals that form in (and on top of) ice cream over time due to melting and refreezing, or for simply having it in the freezer for too long.
What is freezer burn (or ice crystallization)?
This 2016 Netflix show is set in a fictional Indiana town in the 1980s and features teens working at an ice cream-themed shop inside a mall called Starcourt.
What is Stranger Things?
What is the latest ice-cream adjacent craze that has taken over nyc?
Frozen Yogurt?
This popular treat wraps a scoop of ice cream in chewy, pounded rice dough.
What is mochi ice cream?
This chain's original slogan promised "31 flavors" — one for every day of the month.
Baskin Robins?
This style of ice cream is churned with more air and served at a slightly warmer temperature than regular ice cream, giving it its signature soft, smooth texture.
What is soft serve?
In this animated Disney film, a bunny police officer visits an ice cream parlor run by elephants to help her fox companion buy a treat.
What is Zootopia?
This west coast ice cream shop known for their unique flavor combinations recently made its way to NYC in 2024.
What is Salt and Straw?
In this country, ice cream vendors are famous for playfully teasing customers — flipping the cone, stretching the ice cream like taffy, or yanking it away right before finally handing it over.
What is Turkey?
This ice cream chain, founded in 1988 in Tempe, Arizona, is known for mixing candy, fruit, and other toppings into its ice cream on a frozen granite slab.
What is Cold Stone Creamery?
These two basic kitchen staples could be used to make ice cream without an ice cream mixer.
What is salt and ice?
This 2013 Disney film shares its one-word title with a dessert-freezing method, though it's really about Arendelle's ice-powered queen.
What is Frozen?
Open since 1978, this Chinatown shop is famous for flavors like red bean, black sesame, and lychee.
What is the Chinatown Ice Cream Factory?
In this country, street vendors make "rolled" ice cream by pouring liquid cream onto a frozen metal plate, then scraping and rolling it into tight spirals.
What is Thailand?
Founded in 1988, this brand makes ice cream in the form of tiny flash-frozen beads and calls itself "the ice cream of the future."
What is Dippin' Dots?
Some artisanal ice cream makers use this ultra-cold liquid, with a boiling point of -196°C, to flash-freeze ice cream in seconds and produce extremely small ice crystals.
What is liquid nitrogen?
Google named version 4.0 of this mobile operating system after a frozen treat, continuing its tradition of dessert-themed software nicknames.
What is Android (Ice Cream Sandwich)?
Founded by pastry chef Christina Tosi, this NYC-born dessert brand is known for cereal milk soft serve, confetti birthday cake, and crack pie.
What is Milk Bar?