Raise your spoon high for National Ice Cream Month and even higher for Crystal ice cream!

Crystal is the very best in summertime treats and in Foster Farms Dairy quality. While July is the official month to celebrate ice cream — as if you needed a special month to eat ice cream — it’s also a great time to celebrate that Crystal is locally produced in the Central Valley and made with only the freshest ingredients.

“For over 60 years, our family has produced ice cream using only the freshest ingredients,” said Jeff Foster, President and CEO of Foster Farms Dairy. “We’re proud to offer the same, classic, award-winning recipe – just in a new package.”

Fun Facts About Ice Cream

It takes an average of 50 licks to polish off a single-scoop ice cream cone. Challenge your friends & family to a Lick-Off, and see who finishes first!

One of the major ingredients in ice cream is air. Without it, the stuff would be as hard as a rock.

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

In 2003, Portland, Oregon bought more ice cream per person than any other U.S. city.

Americans consume the most ice cream in the world per capita, with Australians coming in second. In 1924, the average America ate eight pints a year. By 1997, the International Dairy Foods Association reported that the figure had jumped to 48 pints a yearIt takes 12 lbs. of milk to make just one gallon of ice cream.

Vanilla is the most popular flavor in this country, snagging anywhere from 20 to 29 percent of sales. Chocolate comes in a distant second, with about 9 to 10 percent of the market

While popular lore claims that the ice cream cone was invented at the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis, a New York City ice cream vendor actually seems to have created the cone in 1896 to stop customers from stealing his serving glasses. He patented the idea in 1903 and it took off in popularity at the World's Fair the next year