Mint chocolate chip
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Type | Ice cream |
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Main ingredients | Mintice cream,chocolate chips |
Mint chocolate chipis anice creamflavor composed of mint ice cream with small chocolate chips. In some cases the liqueurcrème de mentheis used to provide the mint flavor, but in most casespeppermintorspearmintflavoring is used. Food coloring is usually added to make itgreen,but it may be beige or white in "all natural" or "organic" varieties.
According to the International Dairy Foods Association (IDFA), 3% of all ice cream sold in 2000 was mint chocolate chip, making it the 10th-most popular flavor of ice cream.[citation needed]In a July 2017 survey by IDFA, mint chocolate chip was ranked as America's 4th most popular ice cream flavor.[1]
Because of its popularity, the flavor is used in other foods such ascookiesandmeringues.Ice cream manufacturerBaskin-Robbinshas created a hard candy named "mint chocolate chip" that tastes similar to their ice cream of the same name (which is one of their "permanent flavors" ).[2]
Some brands name it chocolate (or choco) chip mint, mint 'n chip, or just mint chip.[citation needed]
History
[edit]Baskin Robbins cites Mint Chocolate Chip as being one of the original 31 flavors when they began operations in 1945. Howard Johnson'srestaurants were serving the flavor by the early 1950s,[3]which would become a common flavor into the 1960s and 70s. Previously, Howard Johnson's was responsible for inventing chocolate chip ice cream under George R. Pitman.[4]
The domestic terroristTimothy McVeigh's last meal before he was executed for the1995 Oklahoma City bombingwas two pints of mint chocolate chip ice cream in the federal penitentiary inTerre Haute, Indiana.[5]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^"National Ice Cream Month survey press release".IDFA.July 2017. Archived fromthe originalon 2017-12-22.
- ^"Baskin Robbins Permanent flavors".Archived fromthe originalon 2011-10-10.
- ^"VINTAGE HOWARD JOHNSON'S 28 FLAVORS ICE CREAM SHOP & RESTAURANT LOCATION GUIDE".eBay.Archivedfrom the original on 23 February 2022.Retrieved22 February2022.
- ^"Let's Take a Look at Howard Johnson's".Good Housekeeping.Vol. 143, no. 4. October 1956. pp. 61–62.ProQuest1847831535.
- ^Janis, Lauren (2001). "At the execution".Columbia Journalism Review.40(2): 8–9.GaleA76693164.