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The article refers to Magnum ice creams a lot, and makes it easy to infer that it is a British ice cream although it never actually says that. There's one clue in the article:

> The Magnum debuted in Germany in 1989, and hit the UK the year after.

Curiosity piqued, and one wikipedia article later [0], it turns out that it was originally a Danish invention developed in the late 1980s, first mass produced in Autumn 1988. It also mentions a Belgian needing to develop the needed chocolate in 1987.

Of all places I would not have guessed Aarhus was the home to Magnum, and it's celebrated with a gym called Friskohus (Frisko is the Danish Unilever sub-brand) on the site today.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnum_(ice_cream)



A magnum is basically a choc ice on a stick. Choc ices go back to the 1920s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choc_ice


It's really not the same thing. The coating is significantly thicker and more closely resembles real chocolate.




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