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I challenge the main points of this article and would say people eat less ice cream because the 'Ice cream' section of grocery stores is now full of 'Iced desse

I challenge the main points of this article and would say people eat less ice cream because the 'Ice cream' section of grocery stores is now full of 'Iced desserts' that mimick ice cream but do not count as full dairy ice cream and MANY people, including my own Boomer parents don't even realize they now buy 'iced desserts' instead of 'ice cream'. It's a slow and subtle change, and one could argue that grocery stores carry what sells, but after pointing out the difference, they returned to buying the slightly more expensive 'ice cream'. Trickery

bacchusracine 3y ago
Absolutely this. I'm reminded of the old Breyers ice cream commercials where they'd have some kid read the chemistry farm that was their competitors' product. Gum this, gum that, etc etc. Sadly the company later decided that if they couldn't beat them they should join in too and adulterated their product just as bad if not worse. I'm not pretending that anything with a scary name is bad or that all natural things are by default good but ice cream is frozen cream with some flavoring, not all these insane emulsifiers that cheapen the product and taste. It's no wonder people fall out of love with ice cream when it's no longer what it used to be. It doesn't help that options that provide an actual ice cream product are increasingly treated as an ultra luxury product and start charging double what the adulterated product can go for--but I was willing to pay for real ice cream. Sadly the only option I have these days is a foreign product at those higher rates, because the local supermarket has discontinued selling the other brand which still made natural ice cream in favor for some kind of partnership with Breyers.