Welcome to Le Mars, Iowa... Where Life is sweet!
Here’s the scoop… Le Mars, Iowa - "The Ice Cream Capital of the World". Officially designated as such in 1994, Le Mars has been the home to Wells Enterprises Inc. , makers of Blue Bunny® brand ice cream, since the company’s founding by Fred H. Wells, Jr., in 1913. Today, more ice cream is produced in Le Mars, Iowa, by a single company than in any other city in the world! While we love to promote ice cream, we have so much more to offer! So, whether you are staying awhile or just passing through, we invite you to experience the “local flavor”!
-From http://www.lemarsiowa.com/map.htm
Ice Cream Sculptures Map
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The centerpiece of the expansion is a 900,000-square-foot (84,000 m2) plant with a 12-story tall refrigeration plant called the "South Ice Cream Plant" because it is on the south side of town (on 1 Blue Bunny Drive). The plant employs 1,000 and produces 75 million gallons of frozen treats, with the milk coming mainly coming from three large dairy farms in Iowa.
The plant has led to the claims the company is the world's largest family-owned and managed dairy processor and the world's largest manufacturer of ice cream in one location, and with Le Mars claiming to be the "Ice Cream Capital of the World".
-From Wikipedia
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Facts:
Blue Bunny® uses more than 130 million sticks a year for our treats—enough to lay end-to-end from New York to San Francisco and back again.
Blue Bunny® uses 396,295 pounds of pecans annually. That would fill almost 5,000 18-wheelers!
Blue Bunny® purchases 865,000 pounds of strawberries each year. That’s enough to make more than 250,000 strawberry pies! Now you know why we call it Double Strawberry!
Blue Bunny® makes more ice cream sandwiches in a year than it takes to stretch across the Great Wall of China one and a quarter times—more than 100 million sandwiches!
At one time, it was against the law to serve ice cream on cherry pie in Kansas.
Waffle cones were invented at the 1904 World’s Fair when an ice cream vendor ran out of dishes.
Our ice cream freezer is 12 stories high and a city-block long, making it one of the largest (and coldest) freezers in the world!
Blue Bunny® makes more than 50 million gallons of ice cream a year. That’s enough to fill 75 Olympic-size pools and still have some for yourself!
Music:
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"Hackbeat" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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They Make so much ice cream in Le Mars, IA that they are the Ice Cream Capital of the World.
