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.

That was way easier to follow than a Bay action scene.

It was actually a temporary oil workers' camp.

Sick submission, dude.

There is so much good music on that album.

I think those were cubs.

Love the Michael Jackson tilt to his hat.

I am SO EXCITED about this movie! !! !!!(!)

*beg

I've sold one car for scrap... and now I feel bad.

Translation of dolphin-speak: "Eh, look at this robot turtle. Pretty good! Almost had me fooled from a distance."

This story got even better today. Can't wait to see what Jon's remarks are about this afternoon's press conference.

*kill

Well, yes, but so are tomatoes and potatoes. (In this climate, anyway. One seasons and they're toast.)

Watching the body language of the batter, you can see him go from "Shit, did I kill him?" to "He caught it? WTF!"