Fred's Fun Fact: First Ever Ice Cream Flavor

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Bread's fun, fat bread.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
Learn so much? All right, I want you guys, guess
what would you say is the oldest ice cream, the
oldest flavor of ice cream? What would you guess it is?
I know, I know. Let's see, you're really racking your
brain for this green sea.

Speaker 3 (00:29):
That's the one. That's a three that my grandma used
to well, that's three flavors cream actually started.

Speaker 4 (00:35):
Okay, vanilla, chocolate, harrier, pistachio.

Speaker 2 (00:39):
Pistachio ice cream is about two thousand years older than
chocolate or vanilla. Persians were making ice cream as early
as five hundred BC, often flavored with pistachio. Chocolate and vanilla,
on the other hand, are native to the New World
and wouldn't make it there for another two thousand years. Wow,
do you ever think about that? I mean, this is
like a very high thought to have. But do you

(01:00):
ever think like, we live an average of You don't
have to record this po Okay, you're making a I'm
just doing that. We live an average life of what
is seventy eighty ninety years whatever it is, and we're
talking about it two thousand years ago, soy twenty five
generations of people have lived over that period between the
time that pistachio and chocolate Vanila ice cream, Like our

(01:22):
life is like that, like irrelative to the whole entire
scope of things.

Speaker 4 (01:27):
Right, what was the George Washington fact? You said that
he didn't know about dinosaurs or something or was that
someone else?

Speaker 2 (01:33):
It was someone else he lived as close to him.
I think that was a fun fact.

Speaker 4 (01:36):
Yeah, no, you said something else about a founding father.
And then somebody said that I remember, but I can't be.

Speaker 2 (01:42):
Expected to remember all that I know anything. I memorize
all that

Speaker 1 (01:46):
Because more Fresh show next