Today the United Dairy Farmers convenience store chain has approximately 200 locations throughout Kentucky, Ohio, and Indiana and United Dairy Farmers brand ice cream remains a regional favorite.

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By the end of WWII, with dairy-product rationing over, Americans celebrated with ice cream, reportedly enjoying more than 20 quarts per person in 1946.

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Manchester, Connecticut, institution Shady Glen began back in 1948 as a classic soda fountain and ice cream maker, the offshoot of a dairy farm.

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Popular chocolate goods such as Cadbury's Dairy Milk, Maltesers and Kit Kat are now fair trade, while ice cream producers Ben and Jerry's will switch to exclusively fair trade ingredients this year.

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That's followed by Chili's pepperoni pizza meal with homestyle fries and chocolate milk, which packs 1, 120 calories, and Dairy Queen's fried chicken strip meal with fries, a slushy drink and an ice cream bar, with 1, 030 calories.

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"I have been stunned by how much dairy there is in Shanghai compared with 12 months ago - there are coffee houses, ice cream parlours, frozen yoghurt bars, " she said, noting that the market in UHT milk drinks is also growing.

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Occasionally, comics-industry types assert that comics are good at telling stories in lots of different genres, which misses the big picture in the same way as a dairy-industry type insisting that milk can be made into lots of different flavors of ice cream.

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His boyhood had been spent in and out of his father's ice-cream plant, and in 1935 he started such a plant himself, the Wilber Farms Dairy in Buffalo.

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