Edy operated a homemade candy and ice cream parlor at 122 North Broadway in Billings, Montana during the 1910s.

William Dreyer also ran a business in the 1920s, an ice cream manufacturing venture in the California dairy country community of Visalia.

The chocolate, marshmallow, and nut flavor was named Rocky Road as a means of describing the ice cream's texture as well as the troubled economic times of the Great Depression.

[4] Edy and Dreyer are also credited with originating the Toasted Almond and Candy Mint flavors.

Cook's vision was to provide American families with a truly premium ice cream they could enjoy at home.

[5] In 1977, with sales of $6 million and an employee base of 75 people, Cook sold the company to T. Gary Rogers and W.F.

Most other ice cream manufacturers, with the notable exception of Blue Bell, followed the downsizing move.