Rocky road
(ice cream)
Rocky road ice cream is a chocolate flavored ice cream. Though there are variations on the
flavor, it is traditionally composed of chocolate ice cream, nuts, and marshmallows.
According to one source, the flavor was created in March 1929 by William Dreyer
in Oakland, California when he cut up walnuts and marshmallows with his wife's
sewing scissors
and added them to his chocolate ice cream in a manner that reflected his
partner Joseph Edy's chocolate candy creation incorporating walnuts and
marshmallow pieces.[1]
Later, the walnuts would be replaced by pieces of toasted almond. After the Wall
Street Crash of 1929, Dreyer and Edy gave the flavor its
current name "to give folks something to smile about in the midst of the
Great Depression."[1]
Alternatively, Fentons Creamery in Oakland claims that William Dreyer based his recipe on a
Rocky Road-style ice cream flavor invented by his friend, Fentons' George
Farren, who blended his own Rocky Road-style candy bar into ice cream; however,
Dreyer substituted almonds for walnuts.[2]
The original Rocky Road ice cream
used chocolate ice cream with no chocolate chip pieces.[3]
Today, Rocky Road can be obtained based on vanilla ice cream with chocolate
chips, marshmallows and almonds.
The original wiki link on this subject can be found at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_road_(ice_cream)
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