Is there anything more American than that? Okay, apple pie. Baseball. Football. Mom. But aren't they all better with ice cream?
So to complete my most recent conference experience, I enjoyed a quick tour of the Blue Bell Ice Cream factory outside Tulsa. I had no idea they knock out 100,000 gallons of ice cream...per day! Wow! I also had no idea that cartons of ice cream enter a blast freezer upside down where they are super chilled to minus 68 degrees Fahrenheit. (I will note I was a little disappointed our tour guide could not give me the quick answer to how cold that was in Kelvin. Oh well.)
In any case, I did not even think about the issues they brought up with starting a company a hundred years ago to make ice cream given "everybody" made their own. In any case, if you need a quick diversion while in Tulsa for you and or kids, this isn't a bad one. For a few bucks you get to see ice cream pretty much straight from the cow to the carton and enjoy a couple of scoops or sugary goodness.
P.S. For those of you I know who are wondering about the Fahrenheit to Kelvin thing I can not tell you the formula, but I can say that -68 F would be 217.5944.
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