3 ms·
Yes, at least if you follow the weird requirements to qualify as “ice cream” in the US. The gelatos that Italians usually enjoy do not have enough butterfat to
by kortilla 4y ago
Yes, at least if you follow the weird requirements to qualify as “ice cream” in the US. The gelatos that Italians usually enjoy do not have enough butterfat to be considered “ice cream” by the USDA. So strictly speaking, people in Italy eat very little “ice cream” because their traditional recipes don’t use enough fat.
Incidentally, this is why places that serve Italian-style ice cream have to explicitly market it as “gelato” and not “ice cream”.
Total derailment from your actual question, but a
- Avshalom 4y agoYeah some quick searches suggest we eat ~3x as much as Italy but it's hard to tell what all is being included in worldatlas.com or whatever Notably there's also sherbets, frozen custards, soft-serve, frozen yogurt and a shit ton of cheap frozen-dairy-dessert. Not counting the various non-dairy frozen stuff like granita, sorbet, "Italian ice" VS whatever else they're eating over in Italy
- deeg 4y agoSimilarly, a lot of the dairy desserts sold by fast food in the U.S. isn't considered ice cream. E.g. nothing sold by Dairy Queen can be called ice cream.
- shusaku 4y agoIronically if you can label your frozen dessert as gelato it will demand a higher price
- chrismcb 4y agoProbably because it is better
- Fire-Dragon-DoL 4y agoThat's funny. Thank you for the explanation. I've come to Canada and people started talking to me about the difference between gelato and icecream. I kept saying "to me there is garbage gelato and good gelato" (I'm Italian), so I had no idea what they were talking about
- ragazzina 4y agoThe confusion is also caused by the fact that in Italy, gelato is always translated in English as "ice cream", but for English speaking people they are different things.