I don’t know why in my head that vanilla was the first ever flavor of ice cream then everything else was just vanilla but adding flavors and ingredients. That’s not the case at all! Chocolate actually came BEFORE vanilla.
This is because the earliest version of frozen desserts started in Naples, Italy, in 1693. Chocolate came first for ice cream because they would take their common drinks such as hot chocolate, coffee, and tea and turn them into frozen desserts.
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