We all scream for ice cream!

[thewayne]

I've mentioned before that I have a new favorite ice cream: Godiva's Midnight Swirl. An amazing chocolate ice cream. There's one problem with living at 9,000' - well, there's many, but one in particular with ice cream. IT EXPANDS. So in addition to it thawing a bit because it takes half an hour to get home from the grocery store, the lid pops up a bit. In the warmer months it also dribbles. In the freezer, I put it on the bottom under a metal shelf, which means - shucky darns! - you gotta eat down the ice cream a bit or the puffed-up bit will get squished down and make a mess.

Oh, horrors! You have to eat some ice cream before you put it away!

I called Russet into the kitchen as I also got her some chocolate strawberry which had the same problem.

We were both trying to come up with a bad joke - I have thoroughly corrupted her in the almost 20 years that we've known each other - I finally came up with 'We must suffer for our just desserts' which she liked and she was trying to come up with something along the lines of the Dessertderata which prompted me to say 'Go placidly amongst the noise and haste and remember the value of really high butter fat quantities' to which she told the poodles 'Will somebody go over and bite the man?'

Comments

[disneydream06]

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Godiva chocolate ice cream?
That sounds soooooooo YUMMY. :o
Hugs, Jon

[silveradept]

How regrettable that you have to eat the ice cream before you can put it away.

Much less regrettable about all the excellent joking going on.

[acelightning73]

You need some liquid nitrogen to keep your ice cream cold enough.

[starwatcher]

I'm sure it doesn't hurt your feelings to eat ice cream before you put it away -- and I guess the expansion is due to lowered pressure?

HowEVER, if you want to alleviate the thawing, my method works well. When I plan to buy foods that need to stay cold, I take a cooler (aka "ice chest) with reusable ice packs inside. I set the ice cream on one layer of cold packs, put another layer on top, then the other food on top of that, with a folded towel over the top of that. (If there's room.) I want as much insulation as possible.