Choc ice explained

Choc ice
Course:Dessert
Served:Cold
Main Ingredient:Ice cream (typically vanilla flavour)
chocolate

A choc ice (British English) or ice cream bar (American English) is a frozen dessert generally consisting of a rectangular block of ice cream—typically vanilla flavour—which is thinly coated with chocolate. Related products may also include other fillings with the ice cream and be styled similar to candy bars. The term has also been used as a racial slur.

Description

A choc ice is a generic frozen dessert generally consisting of a rectangular block of ice cream—typically vanilla flavour—which is thinly coated with chocolate.

History

Ice cream enrobed in chocolate was invented in the 1920s. Confectioner Harry Burt invented the chocolate-enrobed ice cream on a stick in 1920,[1] and was granted a patent in 1923.[2] [3] In 1921,[4] the Eskimo Pie chocolate bar was invented in Iowa by a pharmacy owner named Chris Nelson,[5] who was inspired by a boy named Douglas Ressenden who could not decide between candy and ice cream;[6] [7] a patent was awarded in 1922, but invalidated in 1928. The Klondike bar was also invented in 1922.[8] [9]

Brands

In many countries, there are numerous versions of this dessert which are produced under many different brand names.

A notable American brand is Klondike,[10] [11] which introduced its Klondike bar in the United States in 1922.[12] Related products include frozen confections that enrobe fillings with the ice cream and appear similar to candy bars (e.g., Snickers ice cream bars[13]).

Racial slur

The term choc ice has also become a racial slur used to describe any person who is figuratively "black on the outside, white on the inside".[14] [15]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: geschenke2015 . 2016-09-08 . Ohio's Ice Cream Innovation: The Novelty Bar . 2023-04-24 . dannwoellertthefoodetymologist . en . 10 February 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210210041750/https://dannwoellertthefoodetymologist.wordpress.com/2016/09/08/ohios-ice-cream-innovation-the-novelty-bar/ . live .
  2. Web site: Our History . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20200812114523/https://www.goodhumor.com/us/en/our-history.html . 2020-08-12 . 2020-08-19 . Good Humor . en.
  3. Web site: Why Ice Cream Soared in Popularity During Prohibition . 2023-04-24 . History.com . 28 January 2021 . en . 21 February 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230221092639/https://www.history.com/news/ice-cream-boom-1920s-prohibition . live .
  4. Web site: 2011-09-14 . The History of Ice Cream . 2023-04-24 . PAPAFiLiPOU.COM . 9 December 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221209215221/http://www.papafilipou.com/ice-cream/the-history-of-ice-cream . live .
  5. Web site: Eskimo Pie Corporation Records Collection search=null SOVA . 2023-04-24 . sova.si.edu . 25 March 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230325220440/https://sova.si.edu/record/NMAH.AC.0553#:~:text=Biographical%20/%20Historical,-Biographical%20/%20Historical&text=Eskimo%20Pie,%20America%27s%20first%20chocolate,in%20royalties%20on%20his%20product. . live .
  6. Web site: Duan . Charles . 20 October 2015 . Ice Cream Patent Headache . live . 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 . 18 July 2018 . 26 October 2017 . Slate.
  7. Web site: Eskimo Pies . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070711193816/http://firstmention.com/eskimopies.aspx . 2007-07-11 . 2007-08-12.
  8. Web site: Ice Cream History - Discover Amazing Facts and Folklore . 2023-04-24 . Homemade-Dessert-Recipes.com . 2 December 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221202161631/https://www.homemade-dessert-recipes.com/history-of-ice-cream.html . live .
  9. Web site: In 1922, Klondike bars sold for just 10 cents apiece. They're technically cheaper now . 2023-04-24 . CBS58 . en . 19 August 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220819182158/https://www.cbs58.com/news/in-1922-klondike-bars-sold-for-just-10-cents-apiece-theyre-technically-cheaper-now . live .
  10. Web site: Klondike. klondikebar.com. 17 January 2021. 17 January 2021. 15 December 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20181215043056/https://www.klondikebar.com/. live.
  11. Web site: Klondike introduces the best ice cream bar ever conceived!. unileverusa.com. 14 April 2014. 16 January 2021. 22 January 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210122000522/https://www.unileverusa.com/news/press-releases/2014/klondike-introduces-the-best-ice-cream-bar-ever-conceived.html. live.
  12. Butko, Brian. Klondikes, Chipped Ham, & Skyscraper Cones: The Story of Isaly’s. Stackpole Books (July 2001).
  13. Web site: 2021 . 2020-12-15 . Snickers JUST Dropped NEW Peanut Brownie Ice Cream Bars, and We've Already Got a Craving . 2023-04-19 . Taste of Home . en-US . 18 January 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220118053211/https://www.tasteofhome.com/article/snickers-peanut-brownie-ice-cream-bars/ . live .
  14. News: Rio Ferdinand claims 'choc ice' term is common slang, not racist. The Guardian. 15 July 2012. 12 January 2021. 14 February 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210214132520/https://www.theguardian.com/football/2012/jul/15/twitter-rio-ferdinand-john-terry-ashley-cole. live.
  15. News: Detective faces racism allegations after reportedly describing a BAME colleague as a "choc ice". Yorkshire Post. 9 December 2020. 14 December 2020. 14 December 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20201214092213/https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/crime/humberside-police-inspector-faces-misconduct-hearing-racism-accusations-after-allegedly-referring-bame-colleague-choc-ice-3062466. live.

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