When it comes to ice cream favourites we're doubling (and tripling) down on chocolate, cookie dough and cheesecake.
Hot fudge, toffee and peanut butter also factor into the frozen fun.
Have it in a cone, a cup or a sundae or one of those patented Blizzards from Dairy Queen, McFlurry from McDonalds or Frosty from Wendy's.
Or, eat it straight out of the carton or tub you buy it in from the grocery store.
We're making you drool for a frozen treat because today is National Ice Cream Day -- the best excuse you'll have all year to indulge in sweet celebration.
Skip (which has shortened its name from Skip the Dishes) has crunched the numbers from Canadians who have ordered ice cream on its home-delivery platform.
Ice cream lovers in BC account for 19% of all the home-delivery orders for frozen treats in the country.
And here are the top 5 flavours of ice cream we're craving:
1. chocolate
2. cookies and cream
3. hot fudge sundae
4. cookie dough
5. strawberry cheesecake
What's ice cream without toppings? Here are Canadians' favourite toppings:
1. cheesecake pieces (see, I told you we were doubling down)
2. chocolate chip cookie dough (and tripling down).
3. toffee pieces
4. cookie crumbles (think Oreo, chocolate chip and oatmeal fudge)
5. peanut butter cups
Skip has 33 categories of food (including ice cream under desserts) you can order from 50,000 retailers and restaurants in 450 cities and towns across Canada.
In Kelowna, ice cream can be ordered from Dairy Queen, Marble Slab Creamery, Parlour Ice Cream, Ice Cream Lab, Wendy's and a myriad of convenience and grocery stores.
Of course, you can also go out for ice cream at any of these places.
Or, buy at any of these spots, bring your ice cream home, stash it in the freezer and enjoy it anytime you want -- such as in the heat of the day on the patio or on the couch at night, straight from the carton, while watching Netflix.
National Ice Cream Day is also the opportunity for a little history lesson.
In 1984, US President Ronald Reagan proclaimed July National Ice Cream Month and the third Sunday in the month as National Ice Cream Day.
Early US presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Ben Franklin all loved ice cream.
First Lady Dolley Madison served ice cream at the inaugural ball of her husband James Madison in 1813.
But, the origins of ice cream go back thousands of years to when the Persians would collect snow from mountain tops in the winter and store it in underground chambers to keep it from thawing.
The snow would come out in the summer and tossed in a bowl to have concentrated grape juice poured over it to be served as a frozen treat.
In 700 AD, the Chinese the further perfected freezing and cooling foods with a mixture of ice and salt.
Ice was 'farmed' in the winter from frozen lakes and rivers and kept solid year-round under straw and bark.
But it's Naples, Italy (also the birthplace of pizza) that lays claim to being the first to freeze sweetened milk over ice and salt, creating the first true ice cream in 1642.
It wasn't until the 1940s that electric home freezers would become widely used.
Until then, you'd have to run to the store, which had bigger, effective ice boxes or early commercial freezers, buy ice cream and either eat it there and then or hustle home and eat it right away.
Since you have a freezer at home now, you can store and eat ice cream any time you want.
Or, you can even try your hand at making your own ice cream.
Blend together cream, whole milk, sugar, egg yolks, vanilla extract and a bit of salt and put it in a pan and pop it in the freezer.
Haul it out every half hour or so and whisk it to break up chunks and scrap solids from the edges.
Repeat this several times until it turns into ice cream.
Thumbnail photos by Ian Dooley, Irene Kredenels and Dovile Ramoskaite on Unsplash.
