Ice cream bar: Difference between revisions

{{Short description|Frozen dessert on a stick}}

{{Distinguish|ice cream parlor|ice cream sandwich|choc ice}}

{{For|the snack on a stick that doesn't contain ice cream|Ice pop}}

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An '''ice cream bar''' is a [[frozen dessert]] featuring [[ice cream]] on a [[Popsicle stick|stick]]. The confection was patented in the US in the 1920s, with one invalidatedin1928.

== Description ==

An ice cream bar is a [[frozen dessert]] on a stick. It features [[ice cream]], distinguishing it from an [[ice pop]], which does not contain any ice cream.

[[File:Ice cream bar patent drawing.png|thumb|Nelson's drawing from his patent]]

In the US, the [[Eskimo Pie]] chocolate bar was invented in Iowa by a pharmacy owner named Chris Nelson,<ref>{{Cite web |date=2011-09-14 |title=The History of Ice Cream |url=http://www.papafilipou.com/ice-cream/the-history-of-ice-cream |access-date=2023-04-24 |website=PAPAFiLiPOU.COM |archive-date=2022-12-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221209215221/http://www.papafilipou.com/ice-cream/the-history-of-ice-cream |url-status=live }}</ref> who was inspired by a boy named Douglas Ressenden who could not decide between candy and ice cream.<ref name="Duan" /> They were named "I-Scream-Bars" in the original test run.<ref name="Duan" /><ref>{{Cite web |last=Eschner |first=Kat |title=The Weird, Brief History of the Eskimo Pie Corporation |url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/weird-short-history-eskimo-pie-corporation-180961840/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180718144601/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/weird-short-history-eskimo-pie-corporation-180961840/ |archive-date=2018-07-18 |access-date=2023-04-24 |website=Smithsonian Magazine |language=en}}</ref> One of the earliest advertisements for Eskimo Pies appeared in the November 3, 1921 issue of the ''Iowa City Press-Citizen''.<ref>{{cite web |title=Eskimo Pies |url=http://firstmention.com/eskimopies.aspx |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070711193816/http://firstmention.com/eskimopies.aspx |archive-date=2007-07-11 |access-date=2007-08-12}}</ref> A patent was awarded in 1922,<ref name="auto">{{Cite web |title=Why Ice Cream Soared in Popularity During Prohibition |url=https://www.history.com/news/ice-cream-boom-1920s-prohibition |access-date=2023-04-24 |website=History.com |date=28 January 2021 |language=en |archive-date=2023-02-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230221092639/https://www.history.com/news/ice-cream-boom-1920s-prohibition |url-status=live }}</ref> but invalidated in 1928.<ref name="Duan">{{cite web|last1=Duan|first1=Charles|title=Ice Cream Patent Headache|url=http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2015/10/what_the_history_of_eskimo_pies_says_about_software_patents_today.html|website=Slate|access-date=26 October 2017|date=20 October 2015|archive-date=18 July 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180718151049/http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2015/10/what_the_history_of_eskimo_pies_says_about_software_patents_today.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

According to the [[Good Humor]] ice cream company, confectioner [[Harry Burt]] invented ice cream on a stick in 1920, and was granted a patent in 1923.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Our History|url=https://www.goodhumor.com/us/en/our-history.html|access-date=2020-08-19|website=Good Humor|language=en|archive-date=2020-08-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200812114523/https://www.goodhumor.com/us/en/our-history.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://inventors.about.com/od/foodrelatedinventions/a/ice_cream.htm |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120719074908/http://inventors.about.com/od/foodrelatedinventions/a/ice_cream.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=July 19, 2012 |title=History of Ice Cream }}</ref><ref name="auto"/> This product also was enrobed in chocolate,<ref>{{Cite web |date=2016-09-08 |title=Ohio's Ice Cream Innovation: The Novelty Bar |url=https://dannwoellertthefoodetymologist.wordpress.com/2016/09/08/ohios-ice-cream-innovation-the-novelty-bar/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210210041750/https://dannwoellertthefoodetymologist.wordpress.com/2016/09/08/ohios-ice-cream-innovation-the-novelty-bar/ |archive-date=2021-02-10 |access-date=2023-04-24 |website=dannwoellertthefoodetymologist |language=en}}</ref> and other products were produced.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ice Cream Bars {{!}} Good Humor |url=https://www.goodhumor.com/us/en/products/bars.html |access-date=2023-04-24 |website=www.goodhumor.com |archive-date=2023-03-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230301190518/https://www.goodhumor.com/us/en/products/bars.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

== Gallery ==

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File:Making ice cream bars (19385755595).jpg|Making ice cream bars

File:Crunky Ice cream 2.jpg|[[Crunky]] ice cream bar

File:Three Mickey Mouse Ice Cream Bars.jpg|alt=Three outstretched hands old popsicle sticks holding ice cream bars shaped like the silhouette of Mickey Mouse's head|Ice cream bars shaped like the silhouette of [[Mickey Mouse]]'s head.

File:Central Street (Zhongyang Dajie), Harbin 7 Modern (Madie'er) ice scream.jpg|Modern (Madie'er) ice cream in Harbin.

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== See also ==

* [[Choc ice]]

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[[Category:Ice cream|Bar]]