We are very happy to announce our 2019 season ice cream menu,there are some very exciting new products on offer. Ellinors ice cream update their menu as trending tastes change year on year as well as the main manufacturers introducing new products.
Ellinors also offer additional menu items from selected vans along with seasonal options like the Easter Egg range.
The hot waffle and ice cream with topping of choice is proving very popular with new and returning customers.
Ice Cream Myth Busted…
One small step for man, one giant step for…Ice Cream myths?
We’ve all been there, the science museum gift shop or novelty shops dotted in those convenient tourist places we can’t seem to avoid no matter how hard we try. Quite often there’s something curious available for sale, an Ice Cream product, outside of a freezer, called Astronaut Ice Cream. Really… Ice Cream for Astronauts! Originally made for the Apollo missions, Kids nowadays know of it and always seem to want to try it, so brace your wallets when visiting the science gift shops!
11th October 1968, Apollo 7’s mission launched, on board was American Astronaut Walt Cunningham, now 86 years old and retired, and it was alleged that on board this 11 day long mission was a vanilla flavoured astronaut ice cream. A Freeze dried and completely dehydrated product, with the consistency of a cracker, no expiry date and no need to freeze either.
An original investigation made by Vox.com made a shocking discovery…Astronaut Ice Cream has NEVER been to space! So Houston…we definitely have a problem!
Walt Cunningham said when asked about the Vanilla treat “We never had any of that”
The so called Astronaut Ice Cream, which comes in Chocolate, Strawberry, Vanilla and Neapolitan flavours, was never documented going up in any other missions.
Even in 2013, a video interview with Astronaut Chris Hatfield stated “How can we have something up here that’s crumbled and crunched?” Such a product would risk small pieces of crumbly treat, in zero gravity, getting into equipment and consoles creating very big problems. It could also get into the eyes and even be breathed in if it’s floating around uncontrollably.
So there we have it, myth solved. Astronaut Ice Cream has always and always will be, safe here on earth in our gift shops as a novelty to be sold.
Space Missions now include actual freezers so astronauts are eating ice cream, but normal ice cream that we get from the ice cream van for example. So if you want Astronaut Ice Cream, go to your local ice cream van! It’s the same thing!
The key to Happiness…
We’ve all seen the films. Girl and boy break up and the classic scene where she sits on the sofa, mascara like a river down her face and in her hands, a massive tub of Ben & Jerry’s. So this raises the question, does ice cream really comfort us? And more so, can it provide us with actual Happiness?
Scientist discovered that a serving of Ice Cream does in fact bring pleasure to the centre of the brain, a similar reaction to winning money – perhaps not equal to winning millions on the lottery but hey, it’s something.
The Neuroscientists at the Institute of Psychiatry lead by Professor Michael Brammer, run FMRI scans on student volunteers who were eating vanilla ice cream and the results will please everyone. They found immediate effects on the brain, or the Orbitofrontal Cortex (OFC) to be exact, which is where emotional processing and decision making comes from. The Ice Cream played a positive effect on the area; in fact it gave a positive effect to another 5 areas of the brain! All of these areas combined with the Retrosplenial Congulate lead to one simple result. The person was emotionally happy because of the ice cream!
So there you go, science says so. Science says if your sad, go see your local ice cream Van and get a delicious whippy because you will feel better right away. Great News!
