{"id":10052,"date":"2019-07-31T12:12:44","date_gmt":"2019-07-31T19:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=10052"},"modified":"2019-08-08T12:17:26","modified_gmt":"2019-08-08T19:17:26","slug":"history-of-the-ice-cream-sammie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2019\/07\/31\/history-of-the-ice-cream-sammie\/","title":{"rendered":"History Of The Ice Cream Sammie"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

from The Boston Globe<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Birth of the cool: The story behind the ice cream sandwich, an icon at 120 <\/h1>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0Devra First<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ice cream sandwiches speed along the line at the HP Hood Ice Cream plant in Suffield, Conn. (LANE TURNER\/GLOBE STAFF)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I am standing in the middle of a room that looks like a cross between a Rube Goldberg machine and Willy Wonka\u2019s chocolate factory. There are networks of silver pipes overhead, shiny vats of citric acid and huge sacks of sweet whey, dials and switches and hoppers where hot-pink peppermint candy is crushed into bits. Conveyor belts ferry tubs and boxes and the containers called scrounds. Or is it squrounds? There is some debate over the spelling, but it\u2019s pronounced the same either way. It describes the round-cornered square cartons that are particular to the ice cream trade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is the whirring, clicking, clanking, buzzing heart of the HP Hood Ice Cream Plant, a long, squat brick building with a flagpole out front and the words \u201cIce Cream Division\u201d spelled in white curlicue letters along one side. It\u2019s one of the original Hood plants, here since the early \u201960s. \u201cThere aren\u2019t too many of those left,\u201d says plant manager Peter Fabbri. \u201cIt\u2019s one of the few.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this 10,000-square-foot space, about 85 employees produce all kinds of goodness: the 60 or so Hood ice cream and sherbet flavors, the premium brand Brigham\u2019s, Lactaid ice cream (Hood has an exclusive licensing arrangement), oat milk, and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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