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In 1984 President Reagan declared July "National Ice Cream Month" and the third Sunday of the month "National Ice Cream Day".
MacaroniKID Acadia-St. Landry has the scoop on some of the best places to get your favorite flavor of ice cream with unique options to suit everyone's preference!
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Brew & Scoop
415 Creswell Lane, Opelousas
Open 7 days a week
6:30am - 8pm
Brew & Scoop has something for everyone from starting your day off with coffee to an afternoon treat with milkshakes, smoothies, and of course, delicious scoops of ice cream! Find Brew & Scoop on Facebook
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iNdaMix Rolled Ice Cream
1536 South Union Street
Open Monday thru Friday 1pm -8pm
Saturday & Sunday from 12pm - 8pm
If you're looking for something a little different to satisfy your sweet tooth, roll on into iNdaMix Rolled Ice Cream located in Opelousas! They serve up hand-crafted rolled ice cream in an assortment of favorite flavors, toppings and so much more. They are frequently adding new items to the menu so it's definitely worth more than one trip. Follow iNdaMix on Facebook and Instagram
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Located at 16509 Hwy. 190 in Port Barre
Totally Twisted is open Monday through Saturday from 7am to 6pm ready to serve you with a wide variety of options from meal replacement shakes to loaded teas, snow cones, creamy ice cream and much more! We have a MacKidAcadia exclusive deal for you when you show this photo at the counter and tell the lovely ladies at Totally Twisted that MacaroniKID sent you. This offer is valid on Thursday, July 13th only!
Here are some fun facts we thought you might also enjoy with that cool scoop:
- 90% of the U.S. population eats ice cream.
- Americans eat more than 23 pounds of ice cream every year — we're the top ice cream consuming nation in the world.
- The majority of U.S. ice cream and frozen dessert businesses are family-owned and have been around more than 50 years.
- The world's biggest ice cream sundae, made on July 24, 1988, took four hours to create and weighed nearly 54,917 pounds!
- Immigrants at Ellis Island were served vanilla ice cream as part of their "Welcome to America!" meal.
- The first ice cream truck hit the streets in 1920.
- The five most popular flavors in the U.S., according to sales, are vanilla, chocolate, butter pecan, strawberry, and Neapolitan (in that order).
- Chocolate syrup is the favorite topping.
- 85% of the vanilla beans used for ice cream are harvested in Madagascar.
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