Rocky roa ice cream is a chocolate flavor, recently ranked tenth in popularity in the United States. Though there are variations on the flavor, it is traditionally composed of chocolate ice cream, nuts and marshmallows. The flavor is claimed to have been created in March 1929 by William Dreyer when he cut up almonds and marshmallows with his wife's sewing scissors and added them to his chocolate ice cream during the Great Depression. The company claims it was then so named "to give folks something to smile about in the midst of the Great Depression." Another host says the flavors were created by a Milton Ainbinder, while owning an ice cream toppings factory. Alternately, Fentons Creamery in Oakland, California, claims that William Dreyer based his recipe on a Rocky Road ice cream invented by his friend, Fentons' George Farren, who blended his Rocky Road candy bar into ice cream; however Dreyer substituted almonds for walnuts.