The First Scoop of Soft Serve

1934 - Hartsdale, Newyork. This is when the magic happened, the beginning of something which the entire world now loves, licks and lives in. Soft serves, as some of the world’s greatest inventions and discoveries happen, was an accident. During a Memorial Day weekend, the then founder of Carvel Franchise experienced a flat tire when he was on his way to sell ice creams. 

The melting ice cream had to sold, so in order to gain money for that he spent he started selling the melting ice creams after pulling over at a parking lot. Eventually the vacationers who drove through made his day. To his surprise the entire lot was sold out within a couple of days. This is how the soft serve emerged. Ever since it’s initiation, soft serves have come across various change to its formulation, making it tastier and better. Carvel’s new found success made him to deliver such treats to everyone at large and hence he owned the place where his truck broke down and he further then in addition to it, he patented machines which made such soft serves.

Apart from to that of Carvel’s history many others have claimed to found soft serves. Dairy Queen is one among them and their legendary “All You Can Eat” trial sale panned out to be a huge success at 1938. With an approximation of 1600 servings, the per scoop rate was found to be around 4.5 seconds. Though the story sounds compelling the year difference matters and due to this particular agenda the Carvel franchise gets the status of the inventor of soft serves.

Produced at a temperature of -4 degree Celsius, soft serves now has a simple enough formulation that comes with major companies following it. Machines and blends which follow such rules are a hit among companies. Establishments coming on and on with certain innovations within the vast empire of soft serves, common people never seem to seize the opportunity to move along with it. The health benefits being questioned, such establishments and soft serve producing companies have made available the zero fat and sugar products such that everyday consumption too is now a possibility.

It’s not just the taste that is preferred by the people, but also the mood changing capacity of soft serves. So, an advice from the humble writer, depression is common whereas soft serves are even more common. So, when you have a need to be with yourself, make sure there is a cone full of twirling soft serve with you. Nothing brightens your mood like the way a soft serve does.