It might have been better if he put a clock on the table with the ice cream. Still that's pretty weird for a frozen food. Anyone know what they're made of?

The youtoube comments say it contains Guar gum, Carboxymethyl cellulose, and Carrageenan... it'll hold its shape, but it would have more of a jelly or marshmallow texture than an icecream once it was warmed up.

Mmmmm, unwrap me another artificially-flavored congealed polysaccharide shit-brick honey, I can't stop eating them!

Great for campers!

Also great for shitty logistics:
"Boss, the ice cream hasn't been cooled for 2 days, we should throw it out."
"Nah, just put it in the freezer again when there is room, no one will notice. We should even be charging extra for the added salmonellae!"

Seems when the dog put its nose in it it became pretty runny...

Edit: oops that was the REAL ice creaom

Cheap ice cream contains a lot of fillers like that so that the product is a bit more forgiving to freeze/thaw cycles (eg, shipping, sitting on a loading dock, stored in a sub-optimal freezer). Also, fillers are cheaper than, you know, actual cream.

When ice cream partially melts and refreezes (even slightly), tiny ice crystals form in it, making it less creamy. That's why it's important to keep ice cream really cold. If you load the dairy dessert up on guar gums and the like, it retains that "creamy" mouthfeel even if it's been melted and refrozen.

This actually used to be Worse. When I was a kid, you could leave any ice cream on the counter over night and it would look like it had just been scooped. It wasn't until consumers became more discerning a couple decades ago that store bought ice cream actually became food.

Will it kill you? No. Is it even bad for you? No. Does it taste good? Yes. So who gives a shit. The stuff they use to keep its shape is probably not worse for you than the sugar they sweeten the product with. And that is a natural product. It is the same thing with the "Organic Food" trend. The naturalistic fallacy abounds in this day and age, even with all of the science that shows that GMOs are treated exactly the same in the human body as non-GMOs. People still believe that just because something has an unpronounceable name, it is immediately bad for you, when nature itself is the thing we have to fight against.

McDonald's milkshakes (er, I think officially just "shakes"), don't melt either. They just kind of dry up and solidify.

Astronaut ice cream doesn't melt either. I used to love that stuff when I was a kid, but I haven't seen it anywhere for a while. Probably the same stuff. So the moral is that it's probably NASA that invented that ice cream sandwich. How many food products can you buy that required a hundred million dollar engineering budget and won the Cold War?

80 degrees isnt a hot day. Might have to put a long sleeve shirt on if its that cold.

Consumer Reports looks into why Walmart Ice Cream doesen't melt and compares it with other Ice Cream.