Udders (ice cream) company is planning to franchise in other countries and develop flavours unique to those cultures. Udders specialises in alcohol-flavoured ice cream, a niche in the Singaporean ice cream industry, such as Amaretto and Rum Rum Raisin. It also sells non-alcohol based flavours, including strawberry, coffee, pistachio ice cream, and durian ice cream, the last of which has received favorable criticism from Singaporean actress Chermaine Ang. Mr Yim and his partner design their own ice-cream flavours and as of 2011, Udders has at least 30 different ice-cream flavours. In addition, it offers fried foods, in a bid to reach out to
Ice cream became popular and inexpensive in England in the mid-nineteenth century, when Swiss émigré Carlo Gatti set up the first stand outside Charing Cross station in 1851. He sold scoops in shells for one penny. Prior to this, ice cream was an expensive treat confined to those with access to an ice house. Gatti built an 'ice well' to store ice that he cut from Regent's Canal under a contract with the Regent's Canal Company. By 1860, he expanded the business and began importing ice on a large scale from Norway. Agnes Marshall, regarded as the "queen of ices" in England,