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Subject:
Soft Serve Ice Cream History
Category: Reference, Education and News > General Reference Asked by: beckastar-ga List Price: $20.00 |
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03 Jun 2004 13:49 PDT
Expires: 03 Jul 2004 13:49 PDT Question ID: 356053 |
I've been told that Henry Swenson from Columbus, Ohio invented soft serve ice cream. Is there merit to this allegation? Where can I find testimony to this? | |
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Re: Soft Serve Ice Cream History
From: czh-ga on 07 Jun 2004 13:38 PDT |
Hello beckastar-ga, The information I?ve found indicates that the founders of Dairy Queen invented soft-serve ice cream in 1938 in Moline, Illinois. I can?t find anything about a Henry Swanson. I also found that Swensen?s Ice Cream was founded by Earle Swensen in 1948 in San Francisco. I hate to be the bearer of bad news but I can?t finding anything on Henry Swenson inventing soft serve ice cream. Sorry. ~ czh ~ http://www.davis411.com/site/DairyQueenofDavis/index.cfm The DQ Story In 1938, near Moline, Illinois, J.F. McCullough and his son Alex, developed the delicious dairy product millions have come to know as "Dairy Queen" soft serve. The MCulloughs arranged to test their new product in an ice cream retail shop in Kankakee, Illinois, owned by Sherb Noble. Noble held an "All you Can Eat for 10 Cents" sale one August afternoon. More than 1600 people lined up to try the new treat, and the McCulloughs knew they had an exciting business oppurtunity. All they needed now was an efficient way to dispense their soft serve product - and they soon located a freezer, invented by Harry Oltz of Hammond, Indiana, which could produce a continuous flow of the product. J.F. McCullough often referred to the cow as "the Dairy Queen" name originated. Thus, the "Dairy Queen" name originated. The first "Dairy Queen" store, owned by Noble, opened in Joliet, Illinois in 1940. http://whatscookingamerica.net/History/IceCream/IceCreamHistory.htm 1938 - The father and son team, J. F. McCullough (better known as Grandpa) and Alex McCullough invented soft-serve ice cream, an invention that gave birth to the Dairy Queen. Grandpa McCullough knew the mix tasted best before it was frozen into its final form, since lower temperatures numbed the taste buds, robbing the mix of some of its flavor. So he and Alex set out to find out two things: if customers liked the taste of softer ice cream and if there was a machine that would facilitate serving the creamy mix. They held a sale for "All The Ice Cream You Can Eat For 10 Cents." They dished up 1,600 servings in two hours. They also came across a prototype machine when Alex noticed a vendor selling frozen custard out of a special freezer in Chicago. http://www.qconline.com/progress98/business/prqueen2.html Dairy Queen history curls though area Nearly 60 years ago, in a small ice-cream plant in Green River, 67-year-old J.F. ``Grandpa'' McCullough and his 40-year-old son, Alex, had a brainstorm that turned into a ``Blizzard.'' The pair ended up inventing soft-serve ice cream -- an invention that gave birth to Dairy Queen. |
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Re: Soft Serve Ice Cream History
From: tutuzdad-ga on 07 Jun 2004 13:38 PDT |
The most verifiable information points to JF "Grandpa" McCullough as the modern inventor of soft serve ice cream around 1938. If your person was said to have worked on his project "after" 1938 then clearly he could not have invented it himself. Soft serve ice cream was invented by [J.F.] "Grandpa" McCullough and his son [Alex]. Their business was called the Homemade Ice Cream Company, but was later named Dairy Queen. ICE CREAM NOVELTIES http://webstu.messiah.edu/~bc1179/Pages/page%205.htm ?In January 1940, the prototype freezer was ready and was installed in "Grandpa" McCullough's basement for testing. It was during this time that "Grandpa" McCullough discovered that "soft frozen" ice cream dispensed by this new freezer tasted best when it had only 5 percent butterfat rather than the standard 10 percent or more butterfat used for regular ice cream. In fact, this newly developed "soft frozen" product was not ice cream at all, but rather ice milk. The experiments also concluded that the new "soft frozen" ice milk would taste creamier, smoother, and would hold its shape best when served at 18º F. By Spring of 1940, the McCulloughs had finished their testing and then ordered four freezers to be built to their new specifications. The first two machines were finished in May 1940 and were slated to go to Sherb Noble who had found a location in Joliet, IL, to start the new business which would serve the new "soft frozen" ice milk. The store was jointly owned by the McCulloughs and Noble but the new business could not open its doors until it had a name.? NORTH PENN DAIRY QUEEN http://www.dairyqueen.org/history.html ?In 1938, near Moline, IL, two ice cream manufacturers, J.F. "Grandpa" McCullough and his son, Alex, decided to find out how the public would react to a "soft frozen" ice cream product.? MCULLOUGH DOCUMENTS http://www.kylefamily.us/id121.htm (J F McCullough?s obituary is also listed in this page in which he is credited with inventing the first soft serve product) Let me know if this answers your question or at the very least serves to dispute the person's claim to fame about "his" property. Regards; tutuzdad-ga |
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