WEBVTT - How Ice Cream Works 0:00:01.160 --> 0:00:04.320 Welcome to you Stuff you should Know from house Stuff 0:00:04.320 --> 0:00:12.640 Works dot com. Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm 0:00:12.720 --> 0:00:15.800 Josh Clark, There's Charles W. Chuck Bryant, and there's Jerry. 0:00:15.840 --> 0:00:18.759 So this is stuff you should know, The Dreaming of 0:00:18.880 --> 0:00:23.640 Summer in the Middle of Winter edition. Oh my friend, 0:00:23.840 --> 0:00:26.360 ice cream is a year round treat for me? Yeah 0:00:26.760 --> 0:00:31.080 sure from Oh yeah, what you have? We're gonna buzz 0:00:31.120 --> 0:00:35.559 market a lot, probably Rocky Road and vividly Vanilla. What 0:00:35.840 --> 0:00:38.840 brand is? Oh? Yeah? Yeah, there were the lists ms. 0:00:39.760 --> 0:00:43.159 Was it heavier? Light? It was light? After reading this, 0:00:43.240 --> 0:00:45.319 I was like, man, this is very light, a lot 0:00:45.360 --> 0:00:48.440 of air in there. I taught myself to juggle with them. 0:00:48.440 --> 0:00:51.760 Oh well, that's exciting. That was a cross reference. Yeah, 0:00:51.800 --> 0:00:56.320 I'm I've been a Jerry's guy. Well, yeah, it's great stuff. Yeah. 0:00:56.520 --> 0:00:58.000 I can't have too much of it though, because I 0:00:58.040 --> 0:01:02.040 got the lactose issues. Really. Yeah, and ice cream is 0:01:02.040 --> 0:01:06.440 your favorite treat? Yeah, it's pretty sad. That's that's self hate. Yeah, 0:01:06.480 --> 0:01:09.640 ice cream followed by a large glass of milk, right, 0:01:10.160 --> 0:01:12.880 just then you just inject a bunch of casines directly 0:01:13.120 --> 0:01:16.640 into your neck. Yeah, I mean it's not like I 0:01:16.680 --> 0:01:20.199 don't have lactose issues such that any kind of milk product. Really, 0:01:20.480 --> 0:01:23.080 it's just if I overdose on it, Like if I 0:01:23.120 --> 0:01:26.080 have a a bunch of like pizza and ice cream 0:01:26.160 --> 0:01:28.680 or something. What do they call it, like mildly sensitive 0:01:28.720 --> 0:01:32.840 maybe maybe mildly intolerant. Yeah, I get the poopy butt 0:01:33.160 --> 0:01:37.399 like like you're you're cool with like, um, lactose at work, 0:01:37.480 --> 0:01:39.839 but you don't want lactose Marry and your your kid. 0:01:40.160 --> 0:01:43.640 You're that kind of intolerant to exactly. I just don't 0:01:43.640 --> 0:01:46.039 want to live in next door to me. I can 0:01:46.160 --> 0:01:48.720 I can get a I can do a pint of 0:01:48.760 --> 0:01:50.880 ice cream though, and or is it the half point 0:01:51.280 --> 0:01:53.720 the Ben and Jerry's but little one? I think it's 0:01:53.720 --> 0:01:56.120 a point. Is a point a little not the little 0:01:56.120 --> 0:02:00.600 baby one that's just like a fistful on that on seven? Yeah, right, 0:02:01.240 --> 0:02:03.280 I think it's a point, is what they sell them. Yeah, 0:02:03.280 --> 0:02:04.880 I can do a pint of like the Chubby Hubby, 0:02:04.960 --> 0:02:08.280 that's my old favorite. That's a good one. Um. Well, 0:02:08.320 --> 0:02:10.520 basically any Ben and Jerry's is good. I'm not a 0:02:10.520 --> 0:02:15.080 big fan of cherries and stuff me neither. Um. But 0:02:15.160 --> 0:02:17.680 other than that, I'm like pretty cool with with all 0:02:17.720 --> 0:02:20.800 ice cream. And I used to not like bananas and things, 0:02:20.840 --> 0:02:24.240 but now I'm like, I'm cool with bananas. Yeah, like 0:02:24.280 --> 0:02:26.800 bananas an ice cream I would never have eaten before 0:02:26.840 --> 0:02:28.960 and now I will. I'm pretty picky with my ice 0:02:29.000 --> 0:02:32.680 cream flavors. I'm trying to think of one I really 0:02:32.760 --> 0:02:35.360 don't like, and nothing's coming to mind except for stuff 0:02:35.400 --> 0:02:38.760 with cherry in it. Yeah. I don't like mint um crazy. 0:02:38.960 --> 0:02:43.320 I don't like coconut crazy. Uh. My favorite is the 0:02:43.400 --> 0:02:44.920 Chubby Hubby. And then they have, you know, have the 0:02:45.000 --> 0:02:48.480 limited runs. Uh. They have one out now called Candy 0:02:48.520 --> 0:02:52.040 Bar Pie. Candy Bar Pie, Like what kind of candy 0:02:52.040 --> 0:02:56.080 bar is I don't know. It's got nugat in it. Um. 0:02:56.160 --> 0:02:58.680 It doesn't taste like a specific candy bar though. It's 0:02:58.680 --> 0:03:00.799 not like they're trying to be like a Snicker's ice 0:03:00.800 --> 0:03:05.600 cream sneakily. It just tastes. It's just delicious. Nice. I 0:03:06.520 --> 0:03:10.640 like butterfinger and ice cream. Yeah, what about so like 0:03:10.720 --> 0:03:14.440 places to get ice cream? Jenny's is delicious. Where is that? 0:03:14.840 --> 0:03:16.840 They have it here on the West Side over by 0:03:16.840 --> 0:03:19.640 Star Provisions, And they got a new one in or 0:03:19.680 --> 0:03:22.440 in a croc Street market. There's a place in old 0:03:22.440 --> 0:03:26.600 town Alexandria outside of DC called Pops. It's like an 0:03:26.600 --> 0:03:29.880 old timey ice cream parlor. Awesome. I think I went 0:03:29.919 --> 0:03:32.680 in there actually last summer. It's awesome. But it did 0:03:32.680 --> 0:03:36.840 not did they have like candy and all that stuff? Um? 0:03:36.920 --> 0:03:38.760 Or is it just an ice cream? It's pretty much 0:03:38.840 --> 0:03:42.240 just ice cream. There's like a couple of like long cases. 0:03:42.320 --> 0:03:45.840 They've got like the old like turn of the last century, 0:03:45.880 --> 0:03:49.520 like furniture and everything in the striped wallpaper like they're 0:03:49.560 --> 0:03:52.000 doing it right. But then their ice cream stands behind 0:03:52.040 --> 0:03:56.840 it too. It's good. Uh. And then of course Friendlies, Yeah, 0:03:56.920 --> 0:03:59.960 Friendlies has the Reese's Piece of Sunday, which is probably 0:04:00.120 --> 0:04:03.160 be the greatest ice cream treat ever created in a 0:04:03.280 --> 0:04:06.080 history of humanity. Yeah. Growing up in Atlanta, they had 0:04:06.120 --> 0:04:09.560 something called Farrel's, which was they have those. They had 0:04:09.560 --> 0:04:11.960 that in Ohio too, And on your birthday they'd come 0:04:11.960 --> 0:04:15.280 out with that big drum, scare me to death. It 0:04:15.360 --> 0:04:19.440 went under the table, old school ice cream parlor, scaring 0:04:19.440 --> 0:04:22.359 the Bejesus of children every year. Now they had a 0:04:22.360 --> 0:04:25.960 lot of candy selection too. Yeah, man, let's just talk 0:04:26.000 --> 0:04:28.880 about let's just not even do this. Let's just talk 0:04:28.880 --> 0:04:31.839 about ice cream. We love. I like disflavor. I like disflavor. 0:04:32.040 --> 0:04:34.279 Everyone's starving right now for it, though, I guarantee it 0:04:34.480 --> 0:04:37.680 that intro. I have one more though. Um, have you 0:04:37.720 --> 0:04:42.400 ever been to the Plaza Fiesta I think is what 0:04:42.480 --> 0:04:47.200 it's called over on Beauford Highway. Yeah? Okay, um, they 0:04:47.240 --> 0:04:50.720 had they have a gelato place there that had tuna 0:04:50.800 --> 0:04:55.599 flavored gelato, raw tuna flavored gelato, and by god, it 0:04:55.720 --> 0:04:59.120 tasted exactly like raw tuna. You're gonna say it was good. 0:04:59.760 --> 0:05:02.600 It isn't bad, Like, yeah, if you if you like 0:05:02.680 --> 0:05:06.080 seshimi or something like that, you would appreciate this. It's 0:05:06.120 --> 0:05:08.000 not something you're like, oh man, I've got to get 0:05:08.040 --> 0:05:11.400 some tuna flavored gelato. But you're not like it's not 0:05:11.440 --> 0:05:14.039 like one bite and you spit it out. Yeah. Yeah, 0:05:14.320 --> 0:05:18.239 you're just like, this is really odd but interesting, unusually tasty. 0:05:18.400 --> 0:05:21.200 Have to try that. Yeah. My other quickly. The other 0:05:21.240 --> 0:05:23.279 thing I like lately is a little heat in the 0:05:23.279 --> 0:05:25.840 ice cream, like some of them have a little cayenne 0:05:26.160 --> 0:05:29.880 in the chocolate or oh yeah, or with cinnamon or something. Yeah. 0:05:30.200 --> 0:05:33.839 That and some salted caramel. I am so over salted 0:05:33.880 --> 0:05:37.279 caramel or bacon and sweetness. I'm just so sick of 0:05:37.320 --> 0:05:41.440 that combination. Yeah, it's all basically a rip off of 0:05:41.720 --> 0:05:47.039 Wendy's fries and a frosty dip together. That's fine, that's 0:05:47.080 --> 0:05:52.320 the original, that one like im Yeah, alright, well I'm 0:05:52.360 --> 0:05:54.920 salivating now I am as well. Let's get through this 0:05:54.960 --> 0:05:59.120 and we can go get some ice cream. Okay, you're buying, okay. Um, 0:05:59.200 --> 0:06:03.400 so the history of ice cream chuck couldn't possibly have 0:06:03.480 --> 0:06:05.080 been around. Where'd you find this? By the way, that 0:06:05.120 --> 0:06:06.400 we need to give a good shout? Was that the 0:06:06.440 --> 0:06:10.000 Dairy Association? Y yeah, yeah, the I think the International 0:06:10.080 --> 0:06:13.920 Dairy Association, the big guy, Uh, not the regional daiies. 0:06:14.600 --> 0:06:16.919 They came up with this. Uh, this kind of this 0:06:17.120 --> 0:06:22.240 history of ice cream or dairy frozen dairy treats. It's 0:06:22.240 --> 0:06:24.480 a better way to put it, because ice cream is 0:06:25.000 --> 0:06:28.720 the lion's share of frozen dairy treats, but technically it 0:06:28.800 --> 0:06:32.159 falls under the umbrella of frozen dairy treats along with 0:06:32.200 --> 0:06:36.400 things like sherbet and gelado and frozen yogurt right there. 0:06:36.560 --> 0:06:40.640 Um uh, ice cream sandwiches, yeah, novelties exactly, those for 0:06:40.760 --> 0:06:44.360 good too. Um. Well, my friend, it goes back, they say, 0:06:44.400 --> 0:06:47.719 as far as second century BC. But they can't pinpoint 0:06:47.800 --> 0:06:51.880 like a definite person or place forture. They just know 0:06:51.960 --> 0:06:55.640 that it started popping up in history. Um, like with 0:06:55.680 --> 0:06:59.800 Alexander the Great. Um, he had flavored um ice and 0:07:00.040 --> 0:07:03.120 snow with honey and nectar. Yeah, snow cone. Yeah, and 0:07:03.120 --> 0:07:04.719 that that makes sense that that would be the origin 0:07:04.760 --> 0:07:06.960 of ice cream. Um, it makes me laugh. In this thing, 0:07:07.000 --> 0:07:11.000 they said that Nero and Claudius Caesar would frequently send 0:07:11.040 --> 0:07:13.640 runners to the mountains for snow. That just seems like 0:07:13.640 --> 0:07:15.960 a very Roman emperor thing to do, Like that's like 0:07:16.080 --> 0:07:19.560 something cold and sweet. Go in like three hours later 0:07:19.560 --> 0:07:22.160 they'd come back, you know, half dead. Here is your 0:07:22.200 --> 0:07:26.640 ice snow cone exactly. But they would flavor those with 0:07:26.680 --> 0:07:29.600 fruits and juices and that was sort of, um, another 0:07:29.640 --> 0:07:31.800 part of the beginning of ice cream. Apparently all this 0:07:31.880 --> 0:07:34.640 is going on in a vacuum to like over in 0:07:34.680 --> 0:07:37.160 Asia in different places. Yeah, and the in the mid 0:07:37.200 --> 0:07:40.840 eastn Asia, um, wherever they had mountains in these areas 0:07:40.880 --> 0:07:44.960 and they could get snow and ice. Um. Because Marco 0:07:45.040 --> 0:07:49.080 Polo and I think the thirteenth century UM came back 0:07:49.320 --> 0:07:54.640 to Italy and said check this idea out frozen fruit 0:07:54.880 --> 0:07:58.600 treats and that was basically the origin of ice cream 0:07:58.640 --> 0:08:01.880 in the West. Yeah. And uh. In England they were 0:08:01.920 --> 0:08:04.760 big on what they called cream ice because England, you 0:08:05.080 --> 0:08:09.000 gotta say it's slightly funny, um, or they would probably 0:08:09.000 --> 0:08:12.600 call it proper, right. You know there's an e at 0:08:12.600 --> 0:08:16.320 the end of cream is there? No, but there probably 0:08:16.400 --> 0:08:20.400 would be uh. And um. Catherine de Medici, who we 0:08:20.400 --> 0:08:27.840 mentioned in the episode, Oh Nostradamus, Nostradamus episode, that's right, 0:08:27.880 --> 0:08:29.640 she was big on it, and she was the wife 0:08:29.680 --> 0:08:33.320 of Henry the second And back then though it was 0:08:33.400 --> 0:08:35.480 you know, in the fift hundreds, in the sixteenth century, 0:08:35.480 --> 0:08:40.000 it was only like royalty because ice was you know, 0:08:40.080 --> 0:08:42.120 they didn't have freezers and they didn't have ice machines. 0:08:42.160 --> 0:08:43.760 You needed a guy to go run up to the 0:08:43.800 --> 0:08:47.280 mountain down. Yeah, it was a big deal to have ice, unless, 0:08:47.320 --> 0:08:50.319 of course, it was winter, in which case you're like, oh, yeah, 0:08:50.360 --> 0:08:52.280 I can have a frozen treat. But if there were 0:08:52.360 --> 0:08:56.200 summer and you were enjoying a frozen dairy treats and 0:08:56.240 --> 0:09:01.959 the runner, you're rich. You're super rich. Um. So apparently 0:09:02.520 --> 0:09:07.440 by about the seventeenth century there was at least one 0:09:07.559 --> 0:09:10.160 cafe in Paris. I think it was the first cafe 0:09:10.160 --> 0:09:14.080 in Paris um that started selling ice cream to the 0:09:14.120 --> 0:09:19.960 public in sixteen sixty. They basically made it egalitarian and um. 0:09:20.000 --> 0:09:24.040 From that point on, ice cream was a definite luxury item, 0:09:24.120 --> 0:09:27.440 but you didn't have to be royalty to obtain it. Yeah, 0:09:27.520 --> 0:09:29.880 that's a good way of saying it. Um. In the 0:09:29.960 --> 0:09:33.640 United States, the first time they found it in print 0:09:34.240 --> 0:09:36.600 was in a letter in seventeen forty four by a 0:09:36.640 --> 0:09:40.400 guest of the Governor of Maryland, William Bladen or Bladden. 0:09:41.040 --> 0:09:43.800 And there was an ad in seventeen seventy seven May 0:09:43.880 --> 0:09:47.439 twelve the New York Gazette for ice cream. So it 0:09:47.480 --> 0:09:52.040 was for sure for sale to the people back then 0:09:52.640 --> 0:09:56.840 by that time. Uh, George Washington had a recipe. Thomas 0:09:56.920 --> 0:09:59.880 Jefferson had a recipe. Dolly Madison used to like this, 0:10:00.000 --> 0:10:02.040 serve it at the White House watching ate a lot 0:10:02.040 --> 0:10:04.679 of it, right, didn't they say two hundred dollars for 0:10:04.800 --> 0:10:07.000 one summer? Yeah, and I failed to go to the 0:10:07.080 --> 0:10:10.480 West Egg currency converter at of I imagine that's a 0:10:10.480 --> 0:10:12.240 lot of money. Yeah, but he may you know that 0:10:12.280 --> 0:10:14.679 he had guests and he may have shared it with 0:10:14.720 --> 0:10:16.920 his Uh oh, I would hope so. Staff. You never know, 0:10:17.200 --> 0:10:20.160 especially if that's like fifty dollars worth of ice cream. 0:10:20.640 --> 0:10:23.079 You can't eat that in one summer, even if you're 0:10:23.120 --> 0:10:26.240 Joey Chestnut, world record holder for most ice cream eating? 0:10:26.520 --> 0:10:28.800 Is he? Yeah? How much did he eat? You know? 0:10:29.320 --> 0:10:32.960 One point eight gallons in six minutes? One point eight 0:10:33.000 --> 0:10:35.600 gallons in six minutes. That doesn't seem like that much. 0:10:35.880 --> 0:10:39.560 Oh that's a lot. Yeah, that's pretty speedy, but hey, 0:10:39.600 --> 0:10:42.440 that's why he's Joey Chestnuts. Plus, don't forget the brain freeze. 0:10:42.800 --> 0:10:45.240 Oh yeah, man, do you have a thing on that 0:10:45.880 --> 0:10:48.040 brain freeze? No, I've done it. Don't be dumb on 0:10:48.080 --> 0:10:50.920 it though before do you remember what it is? Like? 0:10:51.000 --> 0:10:54.000 What is brain freeze? Yea, oh what is brain freeze? 0:10:54.360 --> 0:11:00.679 There's a there's a blood vessel that run from your 0:11:00.679 --> 0:11:05.480 brain into the roof of your mouth. It becomes um constricted, 0:11:05.679 --> 0:11:07.920 which changes the volume of your brain, which gives you 0:11:07.960 --> 0:11:11.480 a headache, which is why if you place your tongue 0:11:11.679 --> 0:11:13.880 against the roof of your mouth while you have brain freeze, 0:11:14.000 --> 0:11:17.480 it warms up that that blood vessel, allowing it to 0:11:17.760 --> 0:11:21.880 um relax again or just light a match and hold 0:11:21.920 --> 0:11:25.240 that under your roof. Your another way to go. Yeah, 0:11:25.520 --> 0:11:29.200 you'll concentrate on that pain instead of the brain freeze. Interesting, 0:11:29.240 --> 0:11:31.719 I don't get brain freeze because, um, I think it's 0:11:31.720 --> 0:11:34.160 an adult you know how not to wolf it down 0:11:34.200 --> 0:11:36.520 like that. I've gotten it accidentally though as an adult 0:11:36.559 --> 0:11:39.920 from time to time. Yeah, no, good, No, it's terrible. 0:11:40.120 --> 0:11:42.160 It's as terrible as an adult as it is when 0:11:42.160 --> 0:11:45.320 you're a child. It's probably worse as an adult debilitating 0:11:45.360 --> 0:11:49.440 you know, YEA so painful. Um. So, like you said, 0:11:49.520 --> 0:11:53.640 until around eighteen hundred, it was um mostly for for 0:11:53.679 --> 0:11:57.520 the upper class. But then, like everything else in industry 0:11:57.559 --> 0:12:02.720 in America, around that time, manufacture became more widespread and cheaper, 0:12:02.800 --> 0:12:06.240 and all of a sudden you had uh, warehouses that 0:12:06.280 --> 0:12:10.480 were big freezers, and you had shipping. Um, you could 0:12:10.480 --> 0:12:12.679 ship things cold and frozen, right, So you had like 0:12:12.720 --> 0:12:17.200 the manufacturing aspect in place. Yeah, homogenizer machines, electric power, 0:12:18.120 --> 0:12:22.079 mechanical refrigeration basically. But even still you had you had 0:12:22.120 --> 0:12:25.319 the manufacturing in place. The distribution that was still limited 0:12:25.320 --> 0:12:28.480 to say, like a store somebody who could make money 0:12:28.559 --> 0:12:31.080 by investing in some freezer cases and then selling it 0:12:31.120 --> 0:12:34.920 to the public. It wasn't until UM ice boxes became 0:12:35.000 --> 0:12:41.000 widespread in America that the ice cream industry really blew up, 0:12:41.040 --> 0:12:43.280 because then you could sell to the guy down at Pops. 0:12:43.640 --> 0:12:46.840 You could also sell to uh, pops, next door neighbor 0:12:47.040 --> 0:12:49.920 who took at home that's right to keep in this freezer. 0:12:50.000 --> 0:12:53.079 And thank god that happened. Yeah, And and actually as 0:12:53.120 --> 0:12:57.560 far as making um ice cream, that the you know, 0:12:57.640 --> 0:13:00.880 the hand crank ice cream maker that used like rock 0:13:00.920 --> 0:13:03.160 salt and all that stuff. Sure, that was invented by 0:13:03.240 --> 0:13:08.200 a woman named Nancy Johnson in the eighteen fifties, I think, 0:13:09.200 --> 0:13:12.800 and she patented it, and apparently everybody ripped her off. 0:13:13.000 --> 0:13:15.440 She sold the patent for like two hundred bucks, and 0:13:15.480 --> 0:13:17.800 the guy who bought it from her turned around and 0:13:17.840 --> 0:13:20.400 like made up fortune off of it. But I guess 0:13:20.520 --> 0:13:23.520 he ultimately got ripped off by a bunch of copycats. 0:13:23.559 --> 0:13:25.960 But that that same thing is still in use today, 0:13:26.000 --> 0:13:28.719 Like you can go by the Johnson crank that same yeah, 0:13:28.800 --> 0:13:32.200 the Johnson crank ice cream maker and make your own 0:13:32.200 --> 0:13:35.840 ice cream the eighteen fifties way. Uh well, you mentioned 0:13:35.920 --> 0:13:38.520 um take home ice cream being a big deal, uh too, 0:13:38.640 --> 0:13:40.560 as far as it's spreading. Um, I do have a 0:13:40.559 --> 0:13:43.520 little modern stat, at least from a few years ago. 0:13:43.600 --> 0:13:46.400 That is still the biggest part of the market. Um, 0:13:46.520 --> 0:13:51.280 sixty of the overall market is take home ice cream. Well, 0:13:51.280 --> 0:13:53.840 I saw that seven percent of Americans have ice cream 0:13:53.880 --> 0:13:57.800 in their freezer right now. Yeah, I don't. I can't. 0:13:58.559 --> 0:14:01.120 It doesn't stick around like you know, if you're going 0:14:01.160 --> 0:14:02.920 to get a pint, um, you might as well just 0:14:02.920 --> 0:14:05.280 plow through it and be done with it and then 0:14:05.320 --> 0:14:08.200 get some a few weeks later. You no, and I don't. 0:14:08.440 --> 0:14:10.320 I can't just keep like a gallon of ice cream 0:14:10.320 --> 0:14:12.840 in the house. That's um, oh, that's that's a bad move. 0:14:12.840 --> 0:14:15.199 It's a bad move from Yeah, it's a bad move 0:14:15.280 --> 0:14:18.760 for everybody. Well know, some people have wilpower. Yeah, I 0:14:18.800 --> 0:14:21.040 guess you're right. I don't. You're one of them. I 0:14:21.040 --> 0:14:23.400 don't keep a gallon of ice cream in my house. Yeah, 0:14:23.400 --> 0:14:26.600 but you've got willpower to a large degree, I think. Yeah, Well, 0:14:26.920 --> 0:14:28.880 you're the guy who quit smoking by just saying I'm 0:14:28.920 --> 0:14:31.160 not gonna smoke anymore. Yeah, that's true. You know. Yeah, 0:14:31.160 --> 0:14:33.760 I guess I do have a degree of willpower. Um, 0:14:33.800 --> 0:14:37.880 but I do not, so we're now in the nineteenth century, 0:14:37.880 --> 0:14:41.800 in late eighteen hundreds, and the professional soda jerk at 0:14:41.840 --> 0:14:45.120 soda fountain shops pops up and they make things called 0:14:45.160 --> 0:14:48.040 like root beer floats and coke floats and soda floats, 0:14:48.840 --> 0:14:50.600 which I haven't had one in a long time. I 0:14:50.680 --> 0:14:53.720 used to love root beer floats, but um, I don't 0:14:53.720 --> 0:14:56.280 know why. I just it's not something I see very 0:14:56.320 --> 0:14:59.200 much anymore. Well, you have to make it the trouble 0:14:59.240 --> 0:15:02.840 of eating it together yourself. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you don't 0:15:02.840 --> 0:15:05.640 see floats very often anymore. I'm sure there's some places 0:15:05.680 --> 0:15:08.240 that sell them. But they were good though. Oh yeah, man, 0:15:08.320 --> 0:15:10.880 root beer and ice cream is a winning combination. Yeah, 0:15:10.880 --> 0:15:12.400 I mean I haven't had one since I was a kid. 0:15:12.400 --> 0:15:15.960 Probably coke works too, Yeah, coke floats good to root 0:15:15.960 --> 0:15:18.480 beer floats with the thing though, I think you're right. Um. 0:15:18.720 --> 0:15:21.040 And then this was for me the fact of the show. 0:15:21.080 --> 0:15:24.680 I did not know about this religious criticism back then. 0:15:24.880 --> 0:15:27.760 They didn't like you eating things that were so rich 0:15:27.800 --> 0:15:30.840 and like a gluttonous I guess that was sinful. Yeah, 0:15:30.880 --> 0:15:34.600 well yeah, on Sundays, that is. And so in response, 0:15:35.160 --> 0:15:39.080 they took out the carbonated water or the root beer 0:15:39.120 --> 0:15:41.240 or whatever and made a Sunday and that's what I 0:15:41.320 --> 0:15:43.720 called it a Sunday originally. But apparently they were like, 0:15:44.120 --> 0:15:47.440 are you mocking us? And the Soda Jerks Union said no, no, 0:15:47.520 --> 0:15:50.080 and they changed the spelling from s u n d 0:15:50.120 --> 0:15:52.440 a Y to s u n d a eat because 0:15:52.480 --> 0:15:55.120 they were mocking them, right, yes, and they were like, 0:15:55.320 --> 0:15:59.040 this is their active retribution changing the spelling of Sunday. 0:15:59.320 --> 0:16:01.840 And the other cool two was during World War Two. 0:16:01.880 --> 0:16:04.480 Apparently it was the armed forces were all trying to 0:16:05.400 --> 0:16:08.400 outstep one another and providing ice cream to the troops 0:16:08.440 --> 0:16:10.760 in new and exciting ways because it was such a 0:16:10.760 --> 0:16:13.480 morale booster, of course to get ice cream when you're 0:16:13.480 --> 0:16:15.720 at war, right, you know, a little taste of home. 0:16:16.200 --> 0:16:18.160 And h I think that was it the Navy that 0:16:18.240 --> 0:16:21.560 had the ship. Yeah, the world's first floating ice cream parlor. 0:16:21.800 --> 0:16:24.680 That's awesome. In the Western Pacific. Well, even before that, 0:16:24.760 --> 0:16:28.240 on World War One, ice cream was deemed an essential 0:16:28.280 --> 0:16:32.200 food and so ice cream manufacturers got rations of sugar 0:16:32.880 --> 0:16:35.400 um so they could keep making ice cream during the 0:16:35.440 --> 0:16:38.360 war even though everything else is being rationed. Yeah, and 0:16:38.560 --> 0:16:41.440 Ed points out that during the Depression, everything kind of 0:16:41.480 --> 0:16:46.160 slowed down that was a non essential um including ice cream, 0:16:46.440 --> 0:16:49.440 but it never went away and um through the years, 0:16:49.480 --> 0:16:52.760 it's it's pretty much gained in popularity. I think in 0:16:52.800 --> 0:16:55.480 the seventies is when you started to see a little 0:16:55.520 --> 0:16:59.520 more health conscious efforts, like the frozen yogurts and the 0:16:59.600 --> 0:17:03.360 like fro Yo fro Yo. Emily loves the fro Yo. 0:17:03.440 --> 0:17:06.000 It's good stuff. Like the new stuff that's really like 0:17:06.080 --> 0:17:09.520 from the Greek yogurt. You know, it's tangy, changes everything, 0:17:09.640 --> 0:17:12.080 not like I think this can't be yogurt. Growing up, 0:17:12.400 --> 0:17:14.520 was that even yogurt that was just like soft service 0:17:14.520 --> 0:17:16.640 cream on it? Is it? This camp be? I thought 0:17:16.640 --> 0:17:20.040 it was the country's best yogurt tc B Y. We 0:17:20.119 --> 0:17:23.160 heard it was this can't be yogurt. Maybe it was different. 0:17:23.200 --> 0:17:26.720 I wonder it had to be the same yeah, tc 0:17:26.800 --> 0:17:29.000 B Y Yeah no, tc B I was great. I 0:17:29.040 --> 0:17:30.960 don't know what it was. I think it's still around. 0:17:31.040 --> 0:17:32.879 It had to be yogurt because they couldn't call it that, 0:17:33.000 --> 0:17:36.080 but it wasn't definitely not the tangy stuff that you 0:17:36.119 --> 0:17:41.160 seem like a pink berry and stuff like that. So good. Yeah, 0:17:41.200 --> 0:17:43.960 I'm not the hugest fan. I love that stuff. Each 0:17:44.040 --> 0:17:48.360 byte is just like it's just a trip through a 0:17:48.400 --> 0:17:53.240 flowery mead every bit. Really, Yes, do you get the 0:17:53.320 --> 0:17:55.440 vanilla and added stuff to it? Or I get the 0:17:55.760 --> 0:18:00.520 regular like the yeah, just the I guess, plain person. Yeah, 0:18:00.560 --> 0:18:03.160 and then you throw in a little mango, some blueberries, 0:18:03.520 --> 0:18:06.680 look at you, the white yogurt chips on top. That's 0:18:06.720 --> 0:18:09.399 a good combination. Or if you want to go a 0:18:09.440 --> 0:18:12.679 different route, there's like, you know, chocolate crunch and maybe 0:18:13.119 --> 0:18:18.000 some other kind of chocolate d delicious treat on top. 0:18:18.680 --> 0:18:21.000 I want some ice cream so bad. All right, well 0:18:21.040 --> 0:18:24.159 we'll get we'll get to the science of ice cream, um, 0:18:24.200 --> 0:18:28.800 which is decidedly less yummy sounding right after these messages. 0:18:46.119 --> 0:18:50.520 So buddy, you said that, um, all of that stuff 0:18:50.600 --> 0:18:55.280 is frozen dairy treats, but not necessarily ice cream because 0:18:55.280 --> 0:19:02.760 there's a definition, correct, Yes, So ice cream is a colloid, right, 0:19:03.720 --> 0:19:08.639 which is an unusual and complex substance, and actually quicksand 0:19:08.680 --> 0:19:13.040 is a colloid. It's a colloidal gel technically, um, But 0:19:13.119 --> 0:19:15.359 ice cream is a colloid. And a colloid is a 0:19:15.400 --> 0:19:18.439 substance where you have things that don't normally mix that 0:19:18.520 --> 0:19:21.560 are mixed together, and in this case, you have fat 0:19:22.280 --> 0:19:27.040 and sugar and milk mixed together with a little bit 0:19:27.040 --> 0:19:30.879 of air thrown in. And what you need to create 0:19:30.920 --> 0:19:33.720 a colloid is something called an emulsifier. That's the bonding 0:19:33.720 --> 0:19:36.920 agent that holds everything together, these things that don't normally mix. 0:19:37.359 --> 0:19:41.280 And in the earliest cases, egg yolks where the emulsifier 0:19:41.720 --> 0:19:44.240 that held everything together. And of course, if you're making 0:19:44.240 --> 0:19:46.639 ice cream at home, you can still use egg yolks 0:19:46.640 --> 0:19:48.879 as an emulsifire. It's an easy go to thing, but 0:19:49.600 --> 0:19:52.240 if you're manufacturing it on a large scale, you're probably 0:19:52.320 --> 0:19:55.040 using something like zan thing um or something else to 0:19:55.080 --> 0:19:58.040 emultify and stabilize the whole thing to hold it together. 0:19:58.359 --> 0:20:02.439 But yes, ice cream spe typically is a colloid that 0:20:02.480 --> 0:20:05.879 has undergone a very specific manufacturing process. And if you 0:20:06.320 --> 0:20:09.760 take or add different ingredients or different steps in the process, 0:20:10.240 --> 0:20:12.639 then you have something different, like frozen yogurt or a 0:20:12.720 --> 0:20:16.600 saucer of ice cream or sure bert. Yeah, because frozen 0:20:16.680 --> 0:20:19.680 yogurt isn't just yogurt that they freeze, which I never knew. 0:20:20.160 --> 0:20:23.400 It's actually during the ice cream making process they'll put 0:20:23.400 --> 0:20:27.360 in the yogurt cultures to make it frozen yogurt. Yeah, 0:20:27.480 --> 0:20:30.520 you don't start with yogurt. You make yogurt doing Yeah, 0:20:30.560 --> 0:20:33.520 I didn't know that either. Pretty cool, agreed, which is 0:20:33.560 --> 0:20:35.639 why every time I just throw the yogurt and the freezer, 0:20:35.680 --> 0:20:40.639 it doesn't taste anything like really cold yogurt. Uh. The 0:20:40.720 --> 0:20:44.960 U s d A actually has a ingredient standard for 0:20:45.000 --> 0:20:47.720 it to be labeled ice cream, which has to it 0:20:47.760 --> 0:20:49.760 has to be at least ten percent in milk fat 0:20:50.280 --> 0:20:54.280 and a minimum of six percent non fat milk solids 0:20:54.640 --> 0:20:57.560 like Casin's, and a gallon has to weigh four point 0:20:57.640 --> 0:21:01.800 five pounds. I think that's neat. Yeah, sure, because I 0:21:01.880 --> 0:21:04.920 can't get it act together and anything, but it can 0:21:05.040 --> 0:21:07.720 define ice cream. Yeah. And the reason they have the 0:21:07.760 --> 0:21:12.000 minimum or the yeah, the minimum poundage is because, as 0:21:12.000 --> 0:21:16.920 we mentioned earlier, um, lighter ice cream is generally uh 0:21:17.160 --> 0:21:20.359 cheaper because it means there's there's just more air whipped 0:21:20.400 --> 0:21:22.960 in there. And that's why Ben and Jerry's pine is 0:21:23.280 --> 0:21:26.680 like a brick in your stomach. Yeah. And um. The 0:21:26.760 --> 0:21:29.359 Grabs who wrote this points out that that's usually a 0:21:29.400 --> 0:21:31.800 general rule of thumb that the heavier the ice cream, 0:21:31.840 --> 0:21:34.960 the higher quality it is, but he points out to 0:21:35.000 --> 0:21:39.000 be fair, you need to compare like types like, you 0:21:39.040 --> 0:21:41.760 can't compare something that's loaded down with like brownies and 0:21:41.800 --> 0:21:45.480 snickers with like a plain vanilla, because you know the 0:21:45.480 --> 0:21:47.920 brownies and snickers are gonna add weight and throw off 0:21:47.920 --> 0:21:51.680 your judgment. That's right in more ways than one. Uh. 0:21:51.760 --> 0:21:54.720 Some milk fat, there is um a range of milk 0:21:54.760 --> 0:21:58.719 fat you can use. Premium ice creams max out at 0:21:58.760 --> 0:22:02.920 about sixteen percent at the most, but generally they're about 0:22:02.920 --> 0:22:06.200 fourteen uh and ice cream in general is a minimum 0:22:06.240 --> 0:22:11.000 of about ten percent. And butterfat, which is another name 0:22:11.040 --> 0:22:16.640 for its great um. Butter fat makes it taste good 0:22:16.680 --> 0:22:18.920 and it makes it creamier and richer. But um, it's 0:22:18.960 --> 0:22:22.520 interesting that they found that uh sixtent is about as 0:22:22.560 --> 0:22:24.720 high as you want to go. Though it's not like, oh, 0:22:24.840 --> 0:22:28.000 just make it fifty it would be even better. Um 0:22:28.720 --> 0:22:31.920 vomited after everybody. Well, you would and people they point out, 0:22:31.960 --> 0:22:33.800 their head points out, you wouldn't. People would need as 0:22:33.920 --> 0:22:36.399 much because it is so rich and it is so 0:22:36.520 --> 0:22:39.560 calorie rich as well. And so they found that perfect 0:22:39.560 --> 0:22:42.840 combination of enough to make you plow through that pint 0:22:43.480 --> 0:22:46.879