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I don’t know, but the cost of a scoop of ice cream in the states is like $4… maybe more. In Amsterdam, you get it everywhere for €1.50 to €2. So, when it is sum
by dr_dshiv 4y ago
I don’t know, but the cost of a scoop of ice cream in the states is like $4… maybe more. In Amsterdam, you get it everywhere for €1.50 to €2. So, when it is summertime, an ice cream a day is pretty typical consumption. Meaning, it has become more luxury to have ice cream in the states. (Maybe I’m wrong, this is a sense I have, open to correction).
- aidenn0 4y agoI live in the US and I don't think I've ever paid $4 for a scoop of ice cream in the US, but I haven't bought a scoop in the last two months, so perhaps the recent supply chain/inflation issues have happened. There is one place I know that charges $4 for what they call a single scoop, but it is about 3x bigger than any scoop elsewhere, and it's a pricey place in general ($8.50 for a malt).
- selimthegrim 4y agoI paid $5.75 for one (including tax) in Sierra Madre (suburban LA) yesterday.
- asdff 4y agoIt depends on where you go. It could cost half that if you went to, like, thrifty ice cream instead of what I'm guessing was a Salt and Straw. To say nothing of the men with bells selling icecream all over LA county on a given day...
- selimthegrim 4y agoYou are right Handel’s was cheaper per scoop
- selimthegrim 4y agoMother Moo
- wrycoder 4y agoTwo kiddie sugar cones yesterday in NH, $4.75 each.
- chrisseaton 4y agoYou can buy ice cream by the gallon (4.5 litres!!) in the US. It can’t be that expensive! In the UK half a litre (a pint) is considered a lot of ice cream.
- grzm 4y ago5 quarts (4.7 liters) is common size. Yes, it's cheap. But not usually very good quality, though.
- rootusrootus 4y agoIn the gallon size that is probably true. Nobody really buys it in that size unless they're feeding a gaggle of children at a birthday party who don't give two shits about how awful the ice cream quality is. Personally, I prefer my ice cream to have exactly four ingredients: milk, cream, sugar, cocoa. The end. Nothing else. I've had to switch brands a couple times because they cave to pressure to make their chocolate ice cream more creamy. No! I like it a bit dry, it's got cocoa in it! LOL
- grzm 4y agoMe, too! Tends to be a bit more pricey, but well worth it, in my opinion.
- chrisseaton 4y ago> I prefer my ice cream to have exactly four ingredients: milk, cream, sugar, cocoa No egg yolks?
- rootusrootus 4y agoNot in chocolate ice cream, no. At least, not in the kinds I've liked best. And, I guess, I don't really like eggs in vanilla either. French vanilla just tastes off to me. I guess what I'm trying to say is that my preferred ice cream style is "philadelphia style"
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- kortilla 4y ago> I don’t know, but the cost of a scoop of ice cream in the states is like $4… Only in hip ice cream places. $4 is about the going rate for those 1.5 quart (1.4 liter) cartons at the grocery store.
- wyager 4y agoHip places charge like $15 for a cup of ice cream and do weird (but tasty) gastronomy gimmicks like liquid nitrogen freezing or maltodextrin usage. You pay more than $4 at normie chains like coldstone.
- 1123581321 4y agoColdstone serves 5-12oz plus toppings made and mixed on-premise. Something like a food truck cup or cone is closer to $2. Baskin Robbins is perhaps $3 for a one scoop cone. But like the other user said, many Americans would rather buy a half gallon or gallon from a grocery store or c-store for $5 and eat too much of it. :)
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- sjf 4y agoThe grocery store is always going to be cheaper. $4 is the low end of a single scoop in the bay area. And not for some hipster, plant-based organic ice cream either, this is at a regular parlor like Fenton's.
- kortilla 4y agoDairy Queen. If “regular parlor” is followed by a restaurant not present outside of the bay, it’s not going to be representative.
- sjf 4y agoAt the Baskin Robbins closet to SF (Daly City) a single scoop is $3.59. After tax that's pretty close to $4 for the most chain-est ice cream I could think of. (The DQ doesn't have photos of their menu on Google maps).
- jmyeet 4y ago$4? Maybe if you're buying artisanal gelato from SF, West LA or Manhattan. Think Salt and Straw.
- rootusrootus 4y agoSalt & Straw is higher than that. $4 used to be the kids scoop price, but that was like five years ago.
- Rebelgecko 4y agoEven Rite Aid is up to like $2/scoop
- mertd 4y agoThe quantity of ice cream that is considered a "scoop" is very country dependent. The American scoop is... American.
- grzm 4y agoAnd volumetric! (Having a hard time seeing people weighing servings at the ice cream parlor, though.)
- Fire-Dragon-DoL 4y agoYeah, I'm still shocked when I want two flavors and they give me those giant balls... In Italy we have the opposite problem though. Since the scoop size doesn't have a standard, you might find the server in training and get a gelato that's half the size of the one of your friend, which paid half the price
- spywaregorilla 4y agoIn MA. A pint of ben and jerry's has been $5 for me; going up to $6 during supply chain woes. A good ice cream shop is more like $5, but the cost scaling is weird and you can normally get like 3x more ice cream for 1.2x cost with larger sizes. The scoops are large. Per volume I think its much more expensive in other countries personally.
- chrismcb 4y agoTypically a scoop in the us is two to three times that in Amsterdam.
- barbazoo 4y agoUsed to be 1DM back in my days...