A Neapolitan is someone who comes from Naples in
Italy. So maybe that's where Neapolitan Ice
cream was invented? It is thought that
it was populised by Italian immigrants to the US.
So in one block of icecream you have three stripes of
flavour – vanilla, chocolate and strawberry.
Why those flavours? And how do
they ensure that they don't intermingle?
Probably our early Italian immigrants brought over the ideo of Spumoni and somehow it got Americanized into Neopolitan.
ReplyDeleteOh, yep! I see Wiki concurs:
Neapolitan ice cream, named after Naples, is a variation of spumoni. Cherry was changed to strawberry and pistachio to vanilla to reflect the most popular American flavor preferences
I personally loooooove the cherry & pistachio flavors in spumoni.