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Pot luck: when did ice-cream make it big in the theatre? | Alistair Smith by Alistair Smith

Frozen dessert and a baking auditorium aren't the most obvious of partners, but at some point in the last 150 years the half-time ice-cream became a British institution. When ... and why?Ice-cream during the interval is an age-old theatre tradition. But, as I was tucking into my miniature tub of mint choc chip in the stalls the other day, I started to wonder why, how and when the stuff first made its way into our the…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:17AM on January 18, 2011

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