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Ice Cream Freezer!


At the Museum of Appalachia's 25th Annual Tennessee
Fall Homecoming, October 7-10, 2004 at Norris, Tennessee,
amongst the old-time farm machinery was arguably the most
popular gasoline-powered, stationary-engine setup of them all:



That's a 5-gal. White Mountain freezer!



He has a stick in his right hand that he uses to stir the
ice and salt. It's probably touching bottom in this position.
The stick just stays there between uses.



Sorry about the lousy shot -- you should be able to read:
JOHN DEERE 1933 1 1/2 HP.



What a well-used 5-gal. freezer can looks like. This is
an original can, going back to 1990 when he built the rig.
The guy in the gray t-shirt and the woman are serving ice
cream to customers at $2 per serving. There was always a line.



Very precise; do you suppose it's also accurate?
Let's see now, 2,229,165 divided by 5 equals 445,833 batches per year, which if
they made it every day of the year would be 1,221.5 batches per day, or 50.8
batches per hour, 24 hours a day.

Naaahh, they couldn't mean to give the impression that they turn out this much
ice cream with that little antique John Deere engine. What could the sign mean?

(According to USDA, U.S. ice cream production for 2003 was 1.3939 billion gallons,
including regular, lowfat, and nonfat -- guess which varieties accounted for the
biggest and smallest numbers.)

Moral: Don't take everything you read at face value.