According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the biggest ice cream sundae in the world was made in Alberta, Canada, in 1988. It weighed nearly 55,000 pounds. The same year, a baking company and a sheet-metal firm in Dubuque, Iowa, teamed up to produce the world's largest ice cream sandwich, which tipped the scales at nearly 2,500 pounds. And, in 1999, Baskin-Robbins created an ice cream cake at a beach hotel in the United Arab Emirates that weighed just under 9,000 pounds.  Do you think we could convince Grandpa Ray to out do some of these records?

In 1984, President Ronald Reagan designated July as National Ice Cream Month and the third Sunday of the month as National Ice Cream Day.

Ice cream became a sensation at the White House in 1812, when First Lady Dolly Madison served it at the second inaugural ball.

Nancy Johnson invented the first hand cranked ice cream freezer in 1843.

In 1851, Jacob Fussell, a milk dealer in Baltimore, converted his milk plant into the first commercial ice cream plant.

Each American consumes around 22 quarts of ice cream a year.

Approx 9% of milk produced by dairy farmers in the USA goes into producing ice cream.

Sharing ice cream with a pet cat or dog is done by about one of every five people.

In 1999, it was reported that the good citizens of Omaha, Nebraska, ate more ice cream per person than any other Americans.  Tell that to the line of people at Temptations on the 4th of July!

Immigrants at Ellis Island were served vanilla ice cream as part of their Welcome to America meal.