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Ice cream used to be "ice cream". If you left an ice cream sandwich on the sidewalk in the summer sun, within minutes you would be left with a puddle of melted white cream and two chocolate 'sandwiches' floating in it (and even those sandwiches were falling apart from the heat).

Ice cream hasn't been ice cream for a long time now. If you leave an ice cream sandwich on the hot sidewalk in the summer sun now, even 10 hours later it'll still be in mostly its same shape unmelted as there is nothing to melt - it is just artificial, white, foaming chemicals. Even the chocolate sandwiches will be unphased by the sun. It is 'food' in the sense that it is technically 'edible' due to not causing the body to react to its toxic nature by trying to eject it from the stomach.

Even some Breyer's ice cream (which I've seen some note as supposedly having mostly good, natural ingredients) isn't really ice cream. Put some Mint Chocolate Chip in a bowl and let it melt and you'll end up with a bowl of a large foam island floating on a small pool of green water. They all put chemicals that foam up and expand in cold temperatures. It can also be stored at higher temperatures since it doesn't readily melt and can withstand periods of low or no cooling. This makes shipping a lot cheaper and shelf life longer. Also, if a store had a power outage for a short period of time in summer (like an hour or two) and it was usually long enough that all of the ice cream had to be thrown out as it melted to an unacceptable level. Now stores can go for 7-8 hours without power before the 'ice cream' is beyond the point of being able to still be sold.

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it is technically 'edible' due to not causing the body to react to its toxic nature by trying to eject it from the stomach

That's the nicest thing we can say about it.

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Breyer's stopped producing ice cream a few years years ago and now produces what they call "dairy dessert", until they can replace dairy ingredients with artificial ingredients to simulate dairy.

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If it doesn't melt, it's not ice cream. I've noticed the ice cream I've bought in the past decade or so doesn't melt the way it should. Then there's the butter. It used to get soft at room temperature, and was easy to spread. Today's butter has something added to it that prevents it from getting soft. You can't spread it without destroying your slice of bread, even at room temperature. These products are not ice cream or butter -- they just carry the names "ice cream" and "butter."

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Weird, both the ice cream I get and the butter I get react normally the same as when I was a kid. I buy some generic brand of butter from Costco and usually get Tillamook icecream.

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is cause you're buying the dankest store bought ice cream available.

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High fructose corn syrup hurts my wife's stomach so we don't buy any ice cream that has it so we're a bit limited on what brands we buy.

I will admit I have a soft spot for Tillamook too having visited their factory a couple times in the town in Oregon as a kid.

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I get the cheap generic butter, keep it on the counter and it always seems normally soft to me.

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More examples of fake food. The world is absolutely obsessed with fakery and it seems fake food and fake pharmaceuticals are tops on the list. P.T. Barnum would be amused by all of this for sure.

Already, I won't buy any pharmaceutical products because I don't trust any of it anymore. I'm growing my own food because I don't trust much of what I buy at the "grocery" store either. They're debating whether to reveal if foods contain GMOs or not and want to change the definition of HFCS so people are confused as whether the ingredients contain it or not. Absolutely sick!

Now the whole fake meat debacle. There is an agenda to force us to eat lab produced concoctions of chemicals that appear to be meat like. Of course, they can't call it what is because people wouldn't willingly buy it. So, they redefine meat because people are comfortable buying meat. Now they pretend it's meat. It should be called Trans-meat since it's not meat at all: merely pretending to be meat.

Disgusting!

(Ps) China, of course is the master of fake: they've been perfecting fakery for decades. Whatever this shit is, is not safe to consume for humans. It's not possible to convince me it's consumable.

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(Ps) China, of course is the master of fake: they've been perfecting fakery for decades. Whatever this shit is, is not safe to consume for humans. It's not possible to convince me it's consumable.

The ultimate example, fake grains of rice. I'm not kidding, this was a real thing a few years ago. Chinese were selling rice that was made up of tight little rolls of white paper that simulated rice grains. How they could make a profit from this is beyond me, but somehow they did it.

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At Wendy's fast food another guy there to a frosty "wendy's icecream" and just tossed it onto the walkway on a 80+F day in the sun. The thing was still a round by hollowed out ball the same color but some evaporated by non drained away "melted". It was still there 2 days later more like dough than anything dairy.

This is not new and if it doesn't melt then does it fully digest is my question?

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Much of it does not. McDonalds is known to use an edible plastic in their shakes.

This is considered to be beneficial by some people; if you can't digest it, it doesn't have any calories, and fatties who pay attention can look at it and say "oh, it only has xxxx [4 digits] calories? That's not bad." Assuming you actually can't digest any of it, and assuming it doesn't cause you GI troubles, I suppose you could argue it's healthier. I'd argue the crap is included for economic rather than health reasons.

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The company claimed to use a ‘viscosity-enhancing agent’ to prevent the ice cream from melting easily, but assuring everyone that its product still met the national food safety standards.

Since lots of jelly candies in Asia do contain gelatin, maybe the ‘viscosity-enhancing agent’ is something similar?

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Ice cream that doesn't melt? Next up, frozen pizza that doesn't cook, and a hot dog that doesn't give you cancer. Then we'll pop over to Anticlutch for the Gay Weather to see how those Sandals resorts are doing this weekend.

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The last frozen pizza I heated up melted through the oven rack and made a giant mess. I guess because I let it defrost too much on the counter white the oven preheated.