ICE CREAM POPULAR

Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 October 1939, Page 6

ICE CREAM POPULAR

MANY MILLIONS OF GALLONS. When the future historian of the first half of the twentieth century records the changes in English life during that period he will not be able to ignore the enormous increase in the consumption of ice-cream, comments a writer in the ‘‘Manchester Guardian.” It is not, perhaps, generally realised that there has been a corresponding advance ir\its popularity in the United States. Today, according to the “New York Times Magazine,” citizens of that country consume more than eight times as much per head as they did in 1900. During 1938 their total amounted to 275,000,000 gallons of icecream, in addition to 9,000,000 gallons of assorted ices. And these figures leave out of the reckoning the unknown quantities hardened in domestic refrigerators and produced in small plants that make less than 5,000 gallons each per year. About one-sixteenth of the milk supply of the United States is absorbed in the production of ice-cream. The quantity produced commercially in 1938 used up 85,714 tons of sugar. 61,161 tons of butter fats, 61.611 tons of milk solids other than fats, and 1,785 tons of gelatine. It is estimated that the industry employs 20,000 persons in the manufacture of ice-cream.