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- It takes 12 pounds of whole milk to make one gallon of ice cream!
- It takes 21.2 pounds of whole milk to make one pound of butter!
- It takes 10 pounds of milk to make one pound of cheese.
- Americans eat the equivalent of 10 acres of pizza every day!
- Americans eat an average of 29 pounds of cheese every year -- over a lifetime that's more than a ton of cheese!
- Greeks eat the most cheese - an average of 54 pounds per year!
- The tradition of making Swiss cheese in 200 pound wheels began in the Middle Ages when the government taxed cheesemakers on the number of pieces of cheese they produced - not the total weight.
- Vanilla is America's favorite ice cream flavor.
- George Washington enjoyed ice cream so much he ran up a $200 ice cream bill one summer.
- The milk mustache advertising campaign was launched in 1995.
- Cows have an acute sense of smell - they can smell something up to 6 miles away!
- The natural yellow color of butter comes mainly from beta-carotene found in the grass the cows graze on.
- An average dairy cow weighs about 1,400 pounds.
- Milk is better for cooling your mouth after eating spicy food. Milk products contain casein, a protein that cleanses burning taste buds.
- Wisconsin in the only producer of limburger cheese in the U.S.
- Most cows chew at least 50 times per minute.
- There are approximately 340-350 squirts in a gallon of milk.
- Cows drink 35 gallons of water a day -- the equivalent of a bathtub full of water!
- According to legend, cheese was discovered accidentally, when an Arabian merchant was carrying milk in a pouch made from the stomach of a freshly killed calf. The hot desert sun and the rennet remaining in the pouch caused the milk to separate into curds and whey.
- The milk bottle was invented in 1884. Plastic milk containers were introduced in 1964.
- Wisconsin has the best tasting cheeses because of the grass the cows eat. The grass in less acidic than in other parts of the country, creating milder flavored cheeses.
- Average U.S. cow produces 53 lb of milk per day, or 6.2 gallons.
- Average cow eats . . . 20 lb hay, 20 lb corn silage, 10-20 lb corn, 6-12 lb supplement (fortified with protein, energy, vitamins & minerals)
- Consumer spending on dairy products is $74.6 billion dollars annually about 1.33% of personal income.
- 12.27 % of the food dollar is spent on dairy products.
- In a food survey several years ago, respondents voted milk to be safer than water.
- 1000 new products are introduced every year (ex. ice cream candy bar, yogurt with sprinkles, Dean's Milk Chugs, etc.)
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