You've Been Scooping Ice Cream Wrong This Whole Time
Please excuse me while I interrupt your regularly scheduled programming to pose a very important question. I promise you, it's worth it. Raise your hand if you're familiar with these handy little cardboard boxes full of ice cream. No, I'm not talking about cartons (newb…). I'm talking about boxes. These paper boxes pack the standard half gallon of ice cream, but there's a funny nuance to their packaging.
Rather than have a standard lid over the top, these cartons have a convenient, built-in opening. Now, I'll admit, the opening is a little atypical for those used to a lidded container. But let me be clear: there is a right and a wrong way to enjoy this this ice cream, and a divided camp of people on either side of that line. Maybe you top your ice cream with jimmies. Maybe you add a swirl of strawberry sauce. Maybe you plop your scoops into a chocolate chip cookie bowl and go to town, eating the rim and all. Either way, when it comes to ice cream, there's one thing you most certainly don't do: you don't eat it like a cardboard-hungry savage, or a bear clawing its way through your camp box in Yellowstone National Park.
Clearly, the right way to scoop this ice cream is from the top. Any rational, treat-loving person knows that to properly enjoy this ice cream, you look for the seam on the top of the box, neatly run a rinsed ice cream scoop through that velvety, super-premium cream, and wiggle the scoops out into your serving vehicle of choice ( I prefer a chocolate-covered cone, because treat yo'self). Once finished, simply fold the lid back down and replace in the freezer, lidded side up, for safe-keeping. Easy as pie (with ice cream)!
But there's a monstrous bunch of Internet folk who seem to reject this logic, choosing instead to claw their way into the packaging, ripping open the box and drawing scoops from the side. They leave a perfectly good package ripped up and torn apart for the next poor, unsuspecting person.
WHAT?! WHY?! Whyyyyyyyy?!?If you're doing this, please stop. Do you live for melted ice cream? Do you love frozen leakage all over your freezer? Do you enjoy a soggy cardboard taste in your dessert? For the love of all that is frozen, put the lid down. If you won't do it for yourself, do it for the treat. Your ice cream deserves better than an over-exposed, freezer-burned top layer.
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