Americans love frozen desserts. We spend about $25 billion on the stuff on most frozen treats. And what better frozen treats are there that are better than ice-cream and frozen yogurt. They’re both frozen treats, both dairy-based, both yummy. There are many different variety of both that it makes it harder to just pick one. Ice-cream and frozen yogurt are almost similar in texture but totally different in taste. Well at least i think so. It is almost hardly impossible to pick. So that is why I am going to talk about their history and what not. So which frozen treat will win this intense face-off?Lets start of by understanding what these frozen treats are if you have never came into contact with which i am sure most of you have. Frozen yogurt is a frozen dessert made with yogurt and sometimes other dairy products. It varies from slightly to much more tart than ice cream, as well as being lower in fat. I don't want to get into all the nutritional facts about frozen yogurt but it is a healthier alternative to ice-cream. Any who, there are many interesting things on our famous frozen yogurt. It might be surprising to some to find out that today's hottest frozen dessert treat, frozen yogurt, actually has its origins in the early 1970s. Many customers didn't particularly care for the tart taste of the original recipes. It wasn't until more sugar was introduced to help balance the dessert's tartness that it finally started gaining in popularity during the 1980s. But, even as its popularity increased through the 80s, the dessert was still largely considered a fad and in no way a serious contender to ice cream as the king of frozen desserts. By the 1990s, frozen yogurt had taken a 10% share of the frozen dessert market.
While frozen yogurt's popularity held steady through the 90s, it wasn't until the introduction of the self serve frozen yogurt franchise in the 2000s that the dessert finally started taking off. In addition to utilizing new manufacturing technologies, recipe experiments, and the addition of a huge assortment of toppings, today's frozen yogurt is tastier and healthier than ever before, making it a favorite dessert option for health-minded individuals and ice cream converts alike. So i guess you have figured out already that frozen yogurt dose not have a long story to it. Mostly because it was started not too long ago. Hopefully this gave you a pretty good idea on Frozen Yogurt. Now on-wards to the ice-cream!
Ice cream's origins are known to reach back as far as the second century B.C., although no specific date of origin nor inventor has been undisputably credited with its discovery. We know that Alexander the Great enjoyed snow and ice flavored with honey and nectar. Biblical references also show that King Solomon was fond of iced drinks during harvesting. During the Roman Empire, Nero Claudius Caesar (A.D. 54-86) frequently sent runners into the mountains for snow, which was then flavored with fruits and juices. France was introduced to similar frozen desserts in 1553 by the Italian Catherine de Medici when she became the wife of Henry II of France. It wasn't until 1660 that ice cream was made available to the general public.
The first official account of ice cream in the New World comes from a letter written in 1744 by a guest of Maryland Governor William Bladen. In 1813, Dolley Madison served a magnificent strawberry ice cream creation at President Madison's second inaugural banquet at the White House. Manufacturing ice cream soon became an industry in America, pioneered in 1851 by a Baltimore milk dealer named Jacob Fussell. Like other American industries, ice cream production increased because of technological innovations, including steam power, mechanical refrigeration, the homogenizer, electric power and motors, packing machines, and new freezing processes and equipment. Ice cream became an edible morale symbol during World War II. Each branch of the military tried to outdo the others in serving ice cream to its troops. In 1945, the first "floating ice cream parlor" was built for sailors in the western Pacific. When the war ended, and dairy product rationing was lifted, America celebrated its victory with ice cream. Americans consumed over 20 quarts of ice cream per person in 1946.
I find it very interesting on how long the ice-cream history is. And it is also interesting how we have been eating something that dates back to such a long time ago. Now, specialty ice cream stores and unique restaurants that feature ice cream dishes have surged in popularity. These stores and restaurants are popular with those who remember the ice cream shops and soda fountains of days past, as well as with new generations of ice cream fans.
I personally can't choose in between neither of theses treats. They are both absolutely delicious and for me they are both winners. Today, it is estimated that over 1.6 billion gallons of ice cream and related frozen dairy products are produced annually in the United States alone. In addition, U.S. citizens eat a whopping four gallons of ice cream per person each year on average. There were approximetly 74 million gallons of frozen yogurt produced last year. No wonder i cant choose!
