Okay, we have National Ice Cream Day, Free Cone Day, then the whole month of July is National Ice Cream Month…and on June 7 we celebrate just one flavor: National Chocolate Ice Cream Day. The first chocolate ice cream was born in 1692, when the Italians froze their hot chocolate to make a new treat. Today chocolate the most popular ice cream flavor, followed by butter pecan and vanilla. The real question is, do we have a flavor for every day of the year?
Wee ones: If you count up the top 10 flavors, how high can you count? Try it!
Little kids: Birthday Cake is the 9th most popular flavor. How many flavors are even better-liked than that? Bonus: If you eat a scoop of the 1st, 4th, and 7th most popular flavors, what number flavor do you probably scoop next?
Big kids: There are 2 pints in a quart, and 4 quarts in a gallon. If you eat a whole gallon of chocolate ice cream, how many pints is that? Bonus: If you eat 14 pints and your friend wolfs down 2 gallons, who ate more ice cream?
The sky’s the limit: If you’re making sundaes for friends, and you put 3 scoops of vanilla and 2 scoops of chocolate in each dish, which flavor will run out first if you start with 16 pints of vanilla and 12 pints of chocolate?
Answers:
Wee ones: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15. See how many of them you can get!
Little kids: 8 flavors. Bonus: The 10th flavor.
Big kids: 8 pints. Bonus: Your friend ate more (16 pints).
The sky’s the limit: Vanilla will run out first. 12 pints of chocolate would need 3/2 as many pints of vanilla to match, which would be 18.