Ice Cream Essay

Destiny Barber
English 4
Period 7
Ms. Mays
Dec 11, 2013
Ice – Cream Taster
Only a handful careers in the entire world sound as improbable as that of ice cream taster. Think a career where one works eating the delicious treat known as ice cream. Your day at your job will start with the understanding that you will have tasted thirty-one flavors (yes that’s right 31), by lunch ("Ice Cream Taster | CareerSearch.com"). If that doesn’t give you a stomach ache then I don’t know what. This is a dream many kids have. To grow up to be an ice cream taster sounds good to me. Just visualize sitting on your back patio drinking lemonade and being able to tell your friends, “Oh you know I paid for that Lamborghini by eating ice cream. That’s right a Lamborghini, eating ice cream. In your face.” I plan to tell you the qualifications, a day in the life, facts, and salary of an ice cream taster.
The history of ice cream goes all the way back to the Fourth century B.C. Early allude to this amazing delicacy involve the Roman emperor Nero (A.D. 37-68) who demanded ice to be brought down from the mountains and merged it with fruit toppings, and King Tang (A.D. 618-97) of Shang, China who had a stroke of genius to creating ice and milk combinations. Ice cream was most likely token over from China back to Europe. Over time, recipes for ices, sherbets, and milk ices progressed and were distributed in the well liked Italian and French royal courts. After the dessert was imported to the U.S., it was distributed by many well-known Americans. George Washington and Thomas Jefferson served it to their guests. In 1700, Governor Bladen of Maryland was recorded as having served it to his guests. In 1774, a London caterer named Philip Lenzi announced in a New Y...

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...t for taste but also for texture, smell, consistency and a very large variety of other components. But honestly, at the end of the day, it will be the taste that really matters the most.
Overall, this career is important to our society because nobody wants bad ice cream. And no one by ice cream the company will have to cut back. This then will cause people to loose their jobs. Then the unemployment rate + poverty will rise. Finally our country will fall and become a waste land (that escalated quickly). I think this career would be good for me because I will be making money doing something I love (eating).
Source: http://inventors.about.com/od/foodrelatedinventions/a/ice_cream.htm http://www.cookinglight.com/cooking-101/meet-the-chef/the-man-with-the-million-dollar-taste-buds-00400000005776/ http://www.scoopyscoop.com/2013/01/you-can-be-ice-cream-taster-too.html