# The popularity of Ice Cream **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 21, 2015, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-popularity-of-ice-cream/710485 "2015-01-21T15:22:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2015, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-popularity-of-ice-cream/710485/1 "2015-01-21T15:22:43Z")
I plugged “Ice Cream” into the Google N-Gram viewer, and this is what popped up: > **[Google Books Ngram Viewer](https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=ice%2Bcream&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cice%20cream%3B%2Cc0)** > > Google Books Ngram Viewer I’m not surprised that there are relatively few references at the start of the 19th century, but I am surprised at how low. I assume that’s because the Ice Industry didn’t get started until 1806, when they started cutting ice in the winter in New England or Scandinavia and shipping it in sawdust to warehouses in warmer zones. But ice cream dates back at least to the Persian empire several centuries BCE – I guess it really WAS an extremely rare luxury until the Ice Houses started. > **[Ice trade](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_trade)** > > The ice trade, also known as the frozen water trade, was a 19th-century and early-20th-century industry, centering on the east coast of the United States and Norway, involving the large-scale harvesting, transport and sale of natural ice, and later the making and sale of artificial ice, for domestic consumption and commercial purposes. Ice was cut from the surface of ponds and streams, then stored in ice houses, before being sent on by ship, barge or railroad to its final destination around t... Even more surprising, though, is the dip that started in 1945 and didn’t reverse until about 1970. What? Howard Johnson’s had been operating for decades (since 1925), and was soon joined by Carvel (1928) and Dairy Queen (1940) and Good Humor (started 1920, expanded 1930s), all of which continued to operate and expand in the 1950s. How can that family-friendly period be a nadir for ice cream? ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2015, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-popularity-of-ice-cream/710485/2 "2015-01-21T15:38:05Z")
“Chewing Gum” shows a similar rise from obscurity in the early 19th century, with a drop after 1940 to a nadir in the early 1960s. > **[Google Books Ngram Viewer](https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=chewing%2Bgum&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cchewing%20gum%3B%2Cc0)** > > Google Books Ngram Viewer Again – why? I was a kid then – there was plenty of gum stuck to the streets. You could argue that these Ngrams only reflect uses in print, but you’d think that would correlate pretty well with use – the Ngrams sample advertising as well as articles. Did people not write as much about ice cream and gum between WWII and the Baby Boomers’ coming of age? It doesn’t seem likely. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2015, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-popularity-of-ice-cream/710485/3 "2015-01-21T15:39:18Z")
Hmm – “cigarettes”, too! Only that also has a mini-decline after 1920: > **[Google Books Ngram Viewer](https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=cigarettes&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Ccigarettes%3B%2Cc0)** > > Google Books Ngram Viewer ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2015, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-popularity-of-ice-cream/710485/4 "2015-01-21T15:43:37Z")
Peppermint didn’t start out obscure in 1800, but shows the same trend: > **[Google Books Ngram Viewer](https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=peppermint&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cpeppermint%3B%2Cc0)** > > Google Books Ngram Viewer For giggles – “Heroin”. It peaks in the early 170s, then drops off and is starting to rise again. > **[Google Books Ngram Viewer](https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=heroin&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cheroin%3B%2Cc0)** > > Google Books Ngram Viewer “Marijuana”, too > **[Google Books Ngram Viewer](https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=marijuana&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cmarijuana%3B%2Cc0)** > > Google Books Ngram Viewer Not “cocaine”, though: > **[Google Books Ngram Viewer](https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=cocaine&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Ccocaine%3B%2Cc0)** > > Google Books Ngram Viewer ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2015, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-popularity-of-ice-cream/710485/5 "2015-01-21T15:47:01Z")
Hmm – “licorice” shows a similar trend > **[Google Books Ngram Viewer](https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=licorice&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Clicorice%3B%2Cc0)** > > Google Books Ngram Viewer “roller coaster” doesn’t actually dip after WWII, but seems to plateau untiul the 1960s, when it starts up again: > **[Google Books Ngram Viewer](https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=roller%2Bcoaster&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Croller%20coaster%3B%2Cc0)** > > Google Books Ngram Viewer And why should “chocolate” have a dip from WWII to the mid-1960s? > **[Google Books Ngram Viewer](https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=chocolate&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cchocolate%3B%2Cc0)** > > Google Books Ngram Viewer ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2015, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-popularity-of-ice-cream/710485/6 "2015-01-21T15:49:10Z")
My wild ass guess is chocolate was rationed during the war and hard to come by so people got used to doing without it. As it got cheaper and easier to produce again, it crept back into people’s lives and became popular again. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2015, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-popularity-of-ice-cream/710485/7 "2015-01-21T15:50:34Z")
“sex”, you’ll be happy to know, doesn’t behave like that: > **[Google Books Ngram Viewer](https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=sex&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Csex%3B%2Cc0)** > > Google Books Ngram Viewer But “movies”, although it has a later start that the above, shows that same dip from WWII through the 1960s. > **[Google Books Ngram Viewer](https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=movies&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cmovies%3B%2Cc0)** > > Google Books Ngram Viewer This can’t be a real affect. I can’t believe that people in the 1950s talked, wrote, and advertised less about Ice Cream, Chocolate, Drugs, Roller Coasters, and Movies than before or afterwards. Didn’t people then have any FUN? It must be some weird feature of the data-gathering. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2015, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-popularity-of-ice-cream/710485/8 "2015-01-21T15:55:40Z")
Fer cryin’ out loud! Even “Television” has a “stutter” at 1960, which is when its use was growing the fastest: > **[Google Books Ngram Viewer](https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=television&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Ctelevision%3B%2Cc0)** > > Google Books Ngram Viewer No doubt in my mind now – there’s something screwy about Google N-gram’s sampling or data from 1940 to 1970 or thereabouts. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2015, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-popularity-of-ice-cream/710485/9 "2015-01-21T16:24:17Z")
‘comic book’ continues to rise after WWII, but peaks in the late 1950s and doesn’t start up again until the early 1960s. > **[Google Books Ngram Viewer](https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=comic%2Bbook&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Ccomic%20book%3B%2Cc0)** > > Google Books Ngram Viewer It’s just possible – but Fredric Wertham’s anti-comic crusade was in 1954, and comics continue to go up for quite a while after that. The Silver Age started circa 1958. Even if people weren’t writing about them in news magazines until the later 1960s, there must still have been advertising material and the like by 1960 – not to mention the comics themselves. I continue to be suspicious ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2015, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-popularity-of-ice-cream/710485/10 "2015-01-21T16:26:46Z")
“Italian ice” 9with the capital letter) shows the same decline from WWII to the 1960s: > **[Google Books Ngram Viewer](https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Italian%2Bice&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2CItalian%20ice%3B%2Cc0)** > > Google Books Ngram Viewer “sundae”, too: > **[Google Books Ngram Viewer](https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=sundae&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Csundae%3B%2Cc0)** > > Google Books Ngram Viewer ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2015, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-popularity-of-ice-cream/710485/11 "2015-01-21T16:29:49Z")
“ice cream cone” dips circa 1960, although it’s not as severe > **[Google Books Ngram Viewer](https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=ice%2Bcream%2Bcone&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cice%20cream%20cone%3B%2Cc0)** > > Google Books Ngram Viewer Hot dog shows a slight dip > **[Google Books Ngram Viewer](https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=hot%2Bdog&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Chot%20dog%3B%2Cc0)** > > Google Books Ngram Viewer “hamburger” doesn’t dip, but it’s FLAT during the era when drive-in places were supposed to be popular, and MacDonald’s and Burger King started growing. > **[Google Books Ngram Viewer](https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=hamburger&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Chamburger%3B%2Cc0)** > > Google Books Ngram Viewer ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2015, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-popularity-of-ice-cream/710485/12 "2015-01-21T16:32:48Z")
There’s evben a decline for “cocktail” and “cocktails”. In the 1950s? and early 1960s? This is the Mad Men era. The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit. The Organization Man. How to Succeed in Business without really Trying. The Playboy Pad era. This was supposed to be the era of social drinking > **[Google Books Ngram Viewer](https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=hamburger&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Chamburger%3B%2Cc0)** > > Google Books Ngram Viewer > **[Google Books Ngram Viewer](https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=cocktails&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Ccocktails%3B%2Cc0)** > > Google Books Ngram Viewer Something’s wrong here. ---
**Author:** ![robert\_columbia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@robert\_columbia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robert_columbia)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2015, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-popularity-of-ice-cream/710485/13 "2015-01-21T16:43:38Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > … > > This can’t be a real affect. I can’t believe that people in the 1950s talked, wrote, and advertised less about Ice Cream, Chocolate, Drugs, Roller Coasters, and Movies than before or afterwards. Didn’t people then have any FUN? > It must be some weird feature of the data-gathering. I think so too. Maybe there is a dip in the number of available publications to search. Maybe some records were lost and/or never digitized. Sometimes publications do get lost, especially if they were intended as cheap entertainment that wasn’t meant to last. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2015, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-popularity-of-ice-cream/710485/14 "2015-01-21T18:08:35Z")
Soda Popo > **[Google Books Ngram Viewer](https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=soda%2Bpop&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Csoda%20pop%3B%2Cc0)** > > Google Books Ngram Viewer Potato Chips > **[Google Books Ngram Viewer](https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=potato%2Bchips&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cpotato%20chips%3B%2Cc0)** > > Google Books Ngram Viewer Halloween (BIG dip hitting bottom at 1960) > **[Google Books Ngram Viewer](https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=halloween&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Challoween%3B%2Cc0)** > > Google Books Ngram Viewer Bubble Gum > **[Google Books Ngram Viewer](https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=bubble%2Bgum&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cbubble%20gum%3B%2Cc0)** > > Google Books Ngram Viewer chow mein > **[Google Books Ngram Viewer](https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=chow%2Bmein&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cchow%20mein%3B%2Cc0)** > > Google Books Ngram Viewer Chop Suey has a big drop, from which it has not recovered > **[Google Books Ngram Viewer](https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=chop%2Bsuey&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cchop%20suey%3B%2Cc0)** > > Google Books Ngram Viewer Science Fiction, OTOH, gets its big dip after 1980, bottoming out in 1990 > **[Google Books Ngram Viewer](https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=science%2Bfiction&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cscience%20fiction%3B%2Cc0)** > > Google Books Ngram Viewer Sherlock Holmes declines from WWII to the mid-1960s, too! > **[Google Books Ngram Viewer](https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=sherlock%2Bholmes&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Csherlock%20holmes%3B%2Cc0)** > > Google Books Ngram Viewer “Frankenstein” shows a little decline, but “Frankenstein” (with a small “f”) show it more dramatically from WWI to 1960 > **[Google Books Ngram Viewer](https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Frankenstein&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2CFrankenstein%3B%2Cc0)** > > Google Books Ngram Viewer > **[Google Books Ngram Viewer](https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=frankenstein&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cfrankenstein%3B%2Cc0)** > > Google Books Ngram Viewer “robot” declines from the mid-1908s? Why? > **[Google Books Ngram Viewer](https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=robot&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Crobot%3B%2Cc0)** > > Google Books Ngram Viewer ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2015, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-popularity-of-ice-cream/710485/15 "2015-01-21T18:20:20Z")
“lemonade” has a LOOONG slide from the 1920s to 1980 before rebounding: > **[Google Books Ngram Viewer](https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=lemonade&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Clemonade%3B%2Cc0)** > > Google Books Ngram Viewer ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2015, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-popularity-of-ice-cream/710485/16 "2015-01-21T18:25:24Z")
“Disney” peaks in the early 1940s then declines to a level value? > **[Google Books Ngram Viewer](https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Disney&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2CDisney%3B%2Cc0)** > > Google Books Ngram Viewer What? No buzz about “Disney” with the opening of Disneyland in 1955? A negligible rise through the animated releases of the 19650s, the “Disneyland TV show”, the pioneering “Wonderful World of Color” in 1961 (one of the very few all-color TV broadcasts back then). No upticks because of the Disney creations for the 1964-5 World’s Fair (The Pepsi Cola “It’s a Small World After All”, the Ford Pavilion’s journey through time, the GE “House of Tomorrow”) I really don’t buy it. If this chart is true, Disney should’ve fired all his publicity people. Edited to add: “Walt Disney” is just as bad: > **[Google Books Ngram Viewer](https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Walt%2BDisney&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2CWalt%20Disney%3B%2Cc0)** > > Google Books Ngram Viewer ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2015, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-popularity-of-ice-cream/710485/17 "2015-01-21T18:52:28Z")
> [@](#): > > Quoth **CalMeacham** : > > “roller coaster” doesn’t actually dip after WWII, but seems to plateau untiul the 1960s, when it starts up again: Wow, post-war coasters must have been really boring, if they didn’t dip. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2015, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-popularity-of-ice-cream/710485/18 "2015-01-21T19:18:43Z")
“chocolate cake” > **[Google Books Ngram Viewer](https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=chocolate%2Bcake&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cchocolate%20cake%3B%2Cc0)** > > Google Books Ngram Viewer “layer cake” > **[Google Books Ngram Viewer](https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=layer%2Bcake&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Clayer%20cake%3B%2Cc0)** > > Google Books Ngram Viewer “caramel” > **[Google Books Ngram Viewer](https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=caramel&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Ccaramel%3B%2Cc0)** > > Google Books Ngram Viewer “marshmallow” > **[Google Books Ngram Viewer](https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=marshmallow&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cmarshmallow%3B%2Cc0)** > > Google Books Ngram Viewer “fried chicken” > **[Google Books Ngram Viewer](https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=fried%2Bchicken&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cfried%20chicken%3B%2Cc0)** > > Google Books Ngram Viewer ---
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“candy” > **[Google Books Ngram Viewer](https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=candy&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Ccandy%3B%2Cc0)** > > Google Books Ngram Viewer “pancakes” > **[Google Books Ngram Viewer](https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=pancakes&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cpancakes%3B%2Cc0)** > > Google Books Ngram Viewer and “maple syrup” > **[Google Books Ngram Viewer](https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=maple%2Bsyrup&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cmaple%20syrup%3B%2Cc0)** > > Google Books Ngram Viewer ---
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