Magnum is an ice cream

Ice cream

Ice cream is a frozen dessert usually made from dairy products, such as milk and cream, and often combined with fruits or other ingredients and flavours. Most varieties contain sugar, although some are made with other sweeteners...

 brand

Brand

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 owned by the British/Dutch Unilever

Unilever

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 company, and sold as part of the Heartbrand line of products in most countries. It was originally made by Frisko in Aarhus

Aarhus

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, Denmark

Denmark

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. The original 1987 Magnum (later rebranded as Magnum Classic) consisted of a thick bar of vanilla

Vanilla

Vanilla is a flavoring derived from orchids of the genus Vanilla, primarily from the Mexican species, Flat-leaved Vanilla . The word vanilla derives from the Spanish word "", little pod...

 ice cream on a stick, covered with white or dark chocolate

Chocolate

Chocolate is a raw or processed food produced from the seed of the tropical Theobroma cacao tree. Cacao has been cultivated for at least three millennia in Mexico, Central and South America. Its earliest documented use is around 1100 BC...

, with a weight of 86 gram

Gram

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s (120 ml). In 1994 the company also started selling Magnum ice cream cone

Ice cream cone

An ice cream cone, poke or cornet is a dry, cone-shaped pastry, usually made of a wafer similar in texture to a waffle, allowing ice cream to be eaten without a bowl or spoon...

s, and in 2002 an ice cream sandwich

Ice cream sandwich

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Starting in 1992 the company added Magnum Almond

Almond

The almond , is a species of tree native to the Middle East and South Asia. Almond is also the name of the edible and widely cultivated seed of this tree...

, Double Chocolate, and other flavors.