Americans have loved to eat ice cream for well over a century.
Neapolitan ice cream was very trendy in this decade.
It’s made of several flavors of ice cream pressed together into one block to be sliced and served—a technique that originated in Naples, Italy.
Though any ice cream flavor can be used, the most familiar Neapolitan combination features chocolate, vanilla and strawberry.
This decade also saw the invention of the ice cream cone.
The sherbet typically consisted of fruit juice and water—sometimes liqueurs or milk were added, and they were sweetened with sugar or honey.
Wanting to make a dessert to cheer people up during the bleak days of the Great Depression, the duo stirred marshmallow bits and chopped almonds into chocolate ice cream.
We have Italy to thank for the rum and raisin flavor combination.
In Sicily, rum-soaked Málaga raisins were stirred into vanilla gelato.
This ice cream flavor regained in popularity in the ’70s and ’80s, too.