i scream

[calimac]

A gift-giver presented me with a pint of artisanal mint chip ice cream. That's what it said on the lid, "ice cream."

I opened it up and took a couple of bites. It tasted dreadful: weird and unappetizing.

Now I looked more carefully on the side of the container. That didn't say ice cream: it said "non-dairy frozen dessert." The principal ingredient was coconut cream. Oh, yuck.

A gift-giver presented the trash bin with a pint of ice cream.

Comments

[athenais]

But...why would you give that unless you thought the recipient needed non-dairy frozen dessert? Ugh.

[calimac]

It said "ice cream" on the lid. Ice cream.

Also, non-dairy is not necessarily that bad.

[athenais]

Perhaps not. I don't generally buy non-dairy desserts, so I haven't got a lot of experience with them. I do object to the mislabelling for the principle of the thing.

[cmcmck]

I'm veggie but there seems to be a real problem since the rising popularity of 'vegan' as a cool thing for young people- they seem to want everything to be a copy of 'the real thing' which a general purpose lacto vegetarian simply wouldn't bother with.

It means a lot of young 'vegans' eat more junk food that their omnivore contemporaries.

[wild_patience]

I brought it home for him from my niece's. She had overbought ice cream. (She must have had a dozen pints.) The flavor I had was fine. The flavor I brought home was his favorite. My niece encouraged me to take it as she had purchased too much. My niece doesn't eat much herself but she has two teenage boys - I'd bet she never tried it herself and had just bought an assortment.