Simon's Commitment
Ice Cream comes in many shapes, flavours and sizes. It also comes in degrees of creaminess. The creaminess relates to the amount of air relative to the amount of butter fat used to make the ice cream. The ice cream I make is super creamy. It has the highest level of butter fat allowed for ice cream. If it were any higher we would be making flavoured butter, not ice cream.
Here at Simon's we make all our ice cream on the premises to ensure the freshness and quality of our product. Our milk contains 14% butter fat and less than 10% air. Air is the most most important ingredient in ice cream. The less air there is, the less ice crystals can form, which helps enusure the smooth creamy quality that our ice cream is known for. ( known in the industry as super premium ice cream ) Our commitment to you our customers is to provdide a ice cream experience you will not forget.
Interesting Facts about Ice Cream
The most popular flavor of ice cream in the U S A is vanilla in the N.C & S.C. areas our most popular flavor is chocolate.
Vanilla comes from the plant vanilla planifolia - a member of the orchid family - grown mainly in Madagascar but also Mexico, parts of South America, Tahiti and islands off E. Africa. The vanilla extract produced from the plant in each of these areas has its own very distinct characteristics.
The most popular topping for ice cream is chocolate syrup.
Ice cream as an industry has an estimated global value of 7.5 billion (USD 11bn).
The world's top 5 consumers of ice cream in order are: USA, New Zealand, Denmark, Australia, Belgium/Luxembourg. In the USA, July is officially recognised as 'National Ice Cream Month'; designated by President Reagan in 1984, the idea behind it was for people to celebrate the fun in ice cream as well as recognising its nutritious value.
In the UK, there are more than 1,000 ice cream companies with annual consumption estimated at 8 litres per person. Extra fascinating fact - ice cream consumption in the USA is circa 21 litres per person per year.
Americans love ice cream as much as ever. In 2007 Americans spent over $12 billion on ice cream, frozen yogurt and similar products and no less than 91% of adults and 98 per cent of children ate ice cream in that year.
Licking the bowl clean after eating ice cream is admitted to by approx 13% of men and 8% of women.
Binging on ice cream in the middle of the night is apparently done by 1 out of every 5 ice cream eaters! Also, they're usually in the 18-24 year old age bracket and its' claimed that men do this more than women!
Sharing ice cream with a pet cat or dog is done by approx 5% of people.
Biggest ice cream sundae - 12ft tall made with 4,667 gallons of ice cream - California, USA 1985.
The best temperature at which to serve ice cream is believed to be 8 degrees F.
Ice cream figured in the lives of some of the most famous people in history including Marco Polo, Emperor Nero and Charles I. (See ice cream history page)
Elvis Presley is said to have loved ice cream - apparently his favorites were chocolate milkshakes and peach ice cream.
Many songs refer to ice cream in their lyrics - eg. 'Your love is better than ice cream' (Sarah McLachlan)
Approx 9% of milk produced by dairy farmers in the USA goes into producing ice cream.
