| The history behind the novelty ice cream No images? Click here  What Are Dippin' Dots, Really? The History of Cryogenic Ice Cream If you were a kid in the US in the 1990s, or really any year since, you probably remember your first taste of Dippin’ Dots. Maybe it was at an amusement park, a cool treat after the thrill of riding your first roller coaster under the summer sun. Or maybe it was in between innings at a baseball game, after begging your parents for what felt like hours. Regardless, you’ll never forget the sensation of the impossibly cold, impossibly round bits of ice cream. There was the crunch of biting into them, and then the sweet release of letting the ice cream melt, ever so slowly, on your tongue. Back then, getting to eat a bowl of Dippin' Dots was far more urgent than understanding what they actually were or where they came from. But the history of the theme park staple is a story-worthy treat of its own. More food history 
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