Ice Cream
I don't believe that "low cal" ice cream tastes as good as regular ice cream. And I don't believe the ice cream makers do either. Why? Because if it were just as good, what would they make the higher calorie ice cream for?
posted by NJWT at
7:15 PM
13 Comments:
My God! He posted!
I agree.
5:46 AM, April 18, 2007
Thanks for still reading!
And what's with all the cheapskates? Why wait in a crowd for free ice cream that only costs 3 bucks anyway??
8:18 PM, April 18, 2007
I read your blog every day, even though you practically NEVER update. Where's my thanks?
9:34 PM, April 19, 2007
Well thank you too Valerie! It was kind of a catch 22 - I assumed nobody was reading at this point. Perhaps I'll dust off the cobwebs.
2:53 AM, April 20, 2007
I still read it too!
4:41 AM, April 20, 2007
Nice Dreams.
5:22 PM, April 20, 2007
OK OK, I feel like a let down, now!
I'll think of something soon....
10:08 AM, April 22, 2007
Post about how you feel people from New Jersey are the real New Yorkers.
12:48 PM, April 22, 2007
That's crazy talk.
8:47 PM, April 22, 2007
They continue to make the higher calorie ice cream for the hordes of people who maintain that it tastes better than low cal ice cream without even sampling the healthier fare!
Having tried both, though, I can confidently say that the higher calorie ice cream does taste better -- but not so much better that, if I ate ice cream on a regular basis, I wouldn't replace it with the lower calorie ice cream in order to lower my caloric intake. Seeing as how I only buy ice cream maybe two or three times a year, though, I generally go with the higher calorie kind.
Unless, of course, the frozen yogurt or sorbet is on sale, in which case I'd get that. That stuff does taste just as good (though different, naturally) as ice cream and is lower in calories.
11:36 AM, April 24, 2007
But if you ate the chemically altered ice cream regularly, you'd be fatter than if you ate the good ice cream occasionally. And I've tried both and maintain that the naturally occuring ice cream is better, although that is an interesting theory that it still exists or would still exist if only to appease.
5:37 PM, April 24, 2007
But if you ate the chemically altered ice cream regularly, you'd be fatter than if you ate the good ice cream occasionally.
This is true, which is why I go with the good ice cream occasionally -- but if ice cream were a regular staple of one's diet, the low calorie ice cream (or, even better, frogurt!) would be the way to go.
But yeah, since one can't count on all companies to reduce fat and calories in their ice creams across the board, none of them do -- because whichever one did would lose the vast majority of its customers like that! In the (far off) future, however, I suspect that the FDC will set new requirements for nutrition standards and force all companies to reduce the fat and calories in ice cream products. Then, unless you make it yourself, you'll only be able to get the "good" kind via illegal means.
I now want to write a short story about ice cream houses in the ghetto.
6:55 PM, April 24, 2007
That would actually be a good thing. If real ice cream were only available through the black market, you couldn't help but only eat it occasionally, be it due to price or simply availability.
6:58 PM, April 25, 2007
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