Fun Facts
- Blue Bunny produces more than 500 different ice cream, frozen dessert, and frozen novelty products.
- The Blue Bunny ice cream plant facility in Le Mars includes the largest free-standing freezer in the world,
which is 12-stories high and is a constant 20 degrees F below zero.
- Blue Bunny uses 1.2 million pounds of pecans annually, which equals the combined weight of 16 adult Humpback Whales, making our ice cream treats nuttier than ever!
- The average person eats about 22 quarts of ice cream a year.
- Vanilla is the most popular ice cream flavor.
- The annual tonnage of chocolate ice cream bar coating used by Blue Bunny each year would cover 45 football fields one-inch thick.
- The annual volume of wooden ice cream sticks used by Blue Bunny each year, if laid end to end, would circle the earth almost three times.
- Blue Bunny purchases enough strawberries each year to make nearly 1 million strawberry pies.
- Stacking the total number of Blue Bunny Big Bopper sandwiches produced in a year would extend over 500,000 feet into the sky – that’s more than 12 times higher than the flying altitude of commercial airplanes!
- Each year, we produce more than 100 million gallons of ice cream.
- During the busiest week of the year, a truck full of delicious ice cream products leaves Le Mars every 10 minutes, 24 hours a day.
- We produce enough frozen novelties to supply every man, woman and child in the United States with a 6-pack of frozen treats, giving new meaning to the old
saying, "I scream. You scream. We all scream for ice cream!"
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