Toppings:

The favorite topping is still chocolate syrup.

The biggest ice cream sundae ever made was 12 feet high and made with 4,667 gallons of ice cream and 7,000 pounds of toppings in Anaheim, Calif., during 1985.

Sales:

Super premium and premium ice cream represent about 41.4 percent of the total dollar sales of ice cream.

Ice cream is an $11 billion retail industry.

Vanilla:

80 percent of the world's Vanilla Bean used for ice cream is grown in Madagascar.

Novelties:

Ice cream novelties such as ice cream on sticks and ice cream bars were introduced in the 1920's.

Adults consume nearly one-half of all ice cream novelties.

About one-third of the ice cream sold in the United States is vanilla. Chocolate and Neapolitan (layers of different flavors) rank next in popularity. (This statement is different to yours gillyharold)

Sherbet contains about twice as much sugar as does ice cream,

Ice cream is served in many parts of the world, but Americans eat more of it than do the people of any other country. Americans eat an average of about 15 quarts (14 liters) of ice cream annually.

WYB, "vanilla" and "vagina" are etymonologically related? Both are from the Latin word for "sheath", or more precisely, "scabbard", the holder for the sword of the soldier or gladiator (from the Latin for sword; that's how the gladiolus flower was named). tjoeb};>