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watermeadow Sun 29-Jun-25 14:32:59

When I was a child ice cream came in small blocks which were put between two wafers. You could get the same thing covered with chocolate and they cost 6d.
Then there were family-sized blocks, brought home from the shop wrapped in newspaper as insulation. They were vanilla or striped, chocolate, strawberry and vanilla.
The ice cream then tasted of margarine and I dread to think what it was made from. Better ice cream came from the Italians and then came Mr Whippy, with whipped emulsion which had never seen actual cream and a 99 chocolate stuck in the top.
I think it was the 90s before we started to buy good dairy ice cream in cornets or tubs and I love it! In Rome there were a hundred flavours and even supermarket ice cream is pretty good now.
On this boiling hot day, which ice cream do you fancy?

Allira Wed 02-Jul-25 16:45:51

Available in some supermarkets now, I believe.
But better in the ice cream parlour.

JamesandJon33 Thu 03-Jul-25 06:40:07

We live in Wales….endless Joe’s ice cream.

Twopence Fri 04-Jul-25 17:10:14

Vanilla ice cream made by Hockings of Appledore. Wonderful.