8 Foods That Don't Come From Where You Think

Ice cream is a tricky one. You can trace the origin of ice cream to several different places depending on your definition of what constitutes ice cream. Most experts agree though that the Chinese did more for the development of ice cream than any other people, other than whoever invented the modern freezer.

The earliest known recipe for anything resembling ice cream goes back to 200BC when the Chinese would mix milk and rice and packed it in snow...which is more like cold rice pudding. But during the Tang dynasty (618-907) a new variation was created using buffalo and goat milk, allowing it to ferment and mixing it with flour.

You could of course attribute the treat to Nero though, he's alleged to have sent slaves into the mountains around Rome to gather ice, which would be mixed with fruit juices or honey to make a tasty frozen treat to keep him fresh between violin lessons. This is probably not true as there is very little evidence to support this claim and the violin wasn't even invented yet.