How does ice cream reach the bottom of the cone?

[toadspittle]

Does your tongue pack it down into the cone, or does it melt and leak down to the bottom, or both? Is the mechanism different in hard-scooped versus soft-serve?

Just curious. I suppose cross-sections of the cone at regular intervals throughout the eating process might shed some light on this important subject.

[eyor]

You seem to have answered your own question reasonably well

[kinoons]

I would go with the tounge action on this one -- atleast thats how I get it packed down

[Chronos]

The person making the cone also typically packs it a good bit, especially for soft-serve. At least, that's my experience from a semester of working in the campus ice-cream shop.

[ricepad]

Yes.

[Homer]

Ice cream's not the only thing you can pack deep in the hole with your tongue. Uh.. what?

I'm goin for the squoosh method. When I make a cone, I use the convex side of the spoon and squoosh it into the cone.

--Tim

[ubermensch]

if you don't want the melted ice cream from running out of the hole in the bottom of the cone, ask the server to drop a small marshmellow in the bottom of the cone...the marshmellow, in theory, plugs the hole.