Ice cream

Ice Cream

Ice cream (formerly and properly ice-cream, derived from earlier iced cream or cream ice) is a frozen dessert usually made from dairy products, such as milk and cream, and often combined with fruits or other ingredients and flavors. Most varieties contain sugar, although some are made with other sweeteners. In some cases, artificial flavorings and colorings are used in addition to, or instead of, the natural ingredients. The mixture of chosen ingredients is stirred slowly while cooling, in order to incorporate air and to prevent large ice crystals from forming. The result is smoothly textured semi-solid foam that is malleable and can be scooped.

While Ice Cream varieties are known in many cultures. Its commercialization and making it a product with many hundred flavors, types and hundreds of different milk types used, is usually attributed to be a Terran specialty. Especially the Fast Food Restaurant Chain Arthur’s Swine and Dine that can be found almost on any planet and in any Union Installation is credited to make the special Chocolate Dipped Soft Serve variety a Union wide loved snack food. There is no society more addicted to soft serve ice cream than the Union Member civilization and species, the Archas. Introduced to the Archa’s by Mao Mao Vouza in 5015 during a Student Exchange visit it basically became the single most beloved food of all Archa. The two Swine and Dine Restaurants on Archa Planet report more daily and annual Soft Serve Ice cream sales than even the Flagship restaurant on Pluribus Unum. Other Ice Cream vendors and specialty restaurants also do brisk business on any of the Archa worlds. While the average Union Citizen consumes about 18 liters of Ice cream per year, the average Archa consumes more than120 liters per annum.

Soft serve is a term used to describe a type of ice cream that is softer than regular ice cream.

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