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The Science of the Brain Freeze or Ice Cream Headache

April 3, 2026March 24, 2012 by Eric Troy / CulinaryLore
kids eating tri-color popsicles

There is something about the ice cream headache or brain freeze. Maybe you know what I’m talking about. It is nothing short of agonizing, and yet as kids, we would purposely ate our ice cream cones too fast to bring one on. And then we screamed, partly in pain and partly with the thrill of … Read more

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