{{Short description|Flavour of ice-cream}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2020}} {{Infobox food | name = Raspberry Ripple | image = Raspberry-ripple-ice-cream.jpg | image_size = 300px | caption = Homemade raspberry ripple ice cream | alternate_name = | place_of_origin = United Kingdom | region = | creator = | type = Ice cream | served = Cold | main_ingredient = Raspberry syrup, vanilla ice cream | variations = | calories = | other = }}
'''Raspberry ripple''' is a popular flavour of ice cream particularly in Great Britain and also elsewhere {{Where|date=October 2023}}. It consists of raspberry syrup injected into vanilla ice cream. "Raspberry ripple" was also the name given to other raspberry-flavoured food products in the 1920s.<ref>{{cite news|title=Announcing the opening of a new A&P store|date=12 April 1926|work=Daily Kennebec Journal| publisher = Heritage Microfilm, Inc.#NewspaperArchive|quote=Rasperry Ripple fancy cookies 33c LB}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Whitney|first=Parke|title=A Lot of Applesauce|date=10 June 1927|work=Gastonia Daily Gazette| publisher = Heritage Microfilm, Inc.#NewspaperArchive|quote=Evidently the old fellow had gormandistic tendencies for such quaint things as "Taffaty tarts", "Raspberry Ripple", "Mint Julep", and "Rosemary Snow".}}</ref>
The term "ripple" in ice cream manufacture and consumption may have originated in the United States where from the 1930s, it was used to denote any type of ice cream ribboned through with coloured and flavoured syrup.<ref>{{cite journal|date=19 November 1939|journal=Ice Cream Trade Journal|publisher=ICTJ Pub. Co|location=New York|issn=0096-2031|title=Fudge ripple ice cream}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Green Meadows Ice Cream|date=25 November 1939|work=Racine Journal Times| publisher = Heritage Microfilm, Inc.#NewspaperArchive|quote=Ripple Ice Cream – You'll like it!}}</ref> Around this time, machinery had been developed which would allow ice cream to incorporate fruit paste separately in a marbled effect.<ref>{{cite book|title=Report of the Thirty-third Annual Date Growers' Institute|volume=33|year=1924|publisher=Date Growers' Institute|location=Coachelle, California|quote=the development of a date ice cream made by the ripple-process is being conducted with the cooperation of the Carnation Company. In this process a heavy date syrup-paste mixture is folded into a vanilla base ice cream to give a marbled effect.}}</ref> Raspberry ripple has been a popular variant ever since.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=JkQaAAAAIBAJ&sjid=MSUEAAAAIBAJ&dq=raspberry-ripple&pg=6186%2C2961534|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120715010932/http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=JkQaAAAAIBAJ&sjid=MSUEAAAAIBAJ&dq=raspberry-ripple&pg=6186,2961534|url-status=dead|archive-date=15 July 2012|title=Walgreen Ice Cream Raspberry Ripple|date=8 July 1948|work=The Milwaukee Journal|page=12|access-date=8 June 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Wall's Dairy Raspberry Ripple|date=19 September 1959|work=The Times|page=1|location=London}}</ref>
==In popular culture== Raspberry ripple is Cockney rhyming slang for nipple and cripple.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cockneyrhymingslang.co.uk/slang/raspberry_ripple_1|title=Raspberry Ripple is Cockney Rhyming Slang for Nipple!|website=Cockneyrhymingslang.co.uk|access-date=28 December 2017|archive-date=29 December 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171229112309/http://www.cockneyrhymingslang.co.uk/slang/raspberry_ripple_1|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/ouch/play/top_ten/ten-examples-of-disability-cockney-rhyming-slang.shtml|title=BBC – Ouch! (disability) – Play – Top Ten – Ten examples of disability Cockney rhyming slang|website=BBC|access-date=28 December 2017}}</ref>
==See also== * Millie's Cookies * Wall's (ice cream)
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==External links== * [http://www.hub-uk.com/foodpages07/recip0306.htm Example recipe] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061029193230/http://www.hub-uk.com/foodpages07/recip0306.htm |date=29 October 2006 }}
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Category:British desserts Category:Vanilla ice cream Category:Flavors of ice cream Category:Raspberry dishes
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