Ice cream is a sweet frozen dessert made from milk or cream, sugar, and flavorings like vanilla, chocolate, or strawberry. When you eat ice cream on a hot summer day, the cold creaminess melts on your tongue while the sweetness makes your taste buds happy.

People have been inventing ways to freeze sweetened milk and cream for hundreds of years. In the 1840s, a woman named Nancy Johnson invented a hand-cranked ice cream maker that made the process much easier. Before that, making ice cream required lots of ice, salt, and patient stirring. Today, machines do most of the work, though some families still enjoy cranking homemade ice cream together.

Ice cream comes in countless flavors and forms: scoops in a cone, sundaes with toppings, milkshakes, ice cream sandwiches, and more. Some people prefer simple vanilla, while others seek out unusual flavors like green tea or lavender honey.

The phrase ice cream social refers to a community gathering where people eat ice cream together, and if something is really easy, you might say it's like selling ice cream on a hot day.