# How fast do / should you go through a tub of ice-cream? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 7, 2011, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-fast-do-should-you-go-through-a-tub-of-ice-cream/602160 "2011-11-07T12:46:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![perfectparanoia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a5b964/32.png) [@perfectparanoia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/perfectparanoia)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2011, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-fast-do-should-you-go-through-a-tub-of-ice-cream/602160/21 "2011-11-07T20:54:40Z")
Ice cream in my freezer gets freezer burn and pitched after about 6 months. We usually only buy it for putting atop birthday cake or pie (which we seldom have). We do, however, go out for a scoop of ice cream about once a month. Then we can all get what we want. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2011, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-fast-do-should-you-go-through-a-tub-of-ice-cream/602160/22 "2011-11-07T21:18:22Z")
They’re supposed to last more than an hour? ---
**Author:** ![typoink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecb155/32.png) [@typoink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/typoink)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2011, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-fast-do-should-you-go-through-a-tub-of-ice-cream/602160/23 "2011-11-08T01:32:25Z")
My wife and I usually consume a “half gallon” of ice cream in 3-4 servings. We usually have a dessert four or five nights a week, so ice cream usually lasts about a week when we buy it. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2011, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-fast-do-should-you-go-through-a-tub-of-ice-cream/602160/24 "2011-11-08T07:06:16Z")
It’s not unusual for me to binge on ice cream, eating an entire pint\* in one sitting . . . then feeling really, really sick. For that reason, I don’t have it in the house. \*or a half-gallon, when I was younger. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2011, 9:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-fast-do-should-you-go-through-a-tub-of-ice-cream/602160/25 "2011-11-08T09:11:54Z")
Problem is, I never am the only one to eat it. It usually lasts a couple of days, because I intentionally try to save it. And then someone else eats like three bowls when I’m gone, even when they have ice cream with chocolate in it that they can eat. I can’t complain too much, though. I do this with pizza. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2011, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-fast-do-should-you-go-through-a-tub-of-ice-cream/602160/26 "2011-11-08T13:22:28Z")
Hubby recently bought a pint of Haagen Daz dulce de leche. 3 of us (me, hubby and grown son) took 4 days to finish if off. Granted, hubby and I ate the first servings with plain potato chips, so it was only part of the dessert. And when we are eating from a pint we never put it in a bowl or a glass but instead get two spoons and eat it directly from the carton. We’d never do that with a half gallon. ---
**Author:** ![tr0psn4j](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@tr0psn4j](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tr0psn4j)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2011, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-fast-do-should-you-go-through-a-tub-of-ice-cream/602160/27 "2011-11-08T18:33:53Z")
Sigh… Depends on if I decide to throw it away or not. See, I eat some of it then put it back in the freezer. Someone else then wants some, takes a bit, leaves the tub out to melt then puts it back in the freezer turning it into some god awful frozen cream tub. I can’t be bothered to eat that garbage once it’s thawed then frozen. ---
**Author:** ![Snickers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Snickers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snickers)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2011, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-fast-do-should-you-go-through-a-tub-of-ice-cream/602160/28 "2011-11-08T19:56:10Z")
I’m not big into ice cream. I do get Ben & Jerry’s Americone Dream now and again, but it takes me a while to make it through a pint. Like 2, 3 months? And that’s if I remember I have it - ice cream can (and has) sit in my fridge for months. We just don’t really eat a lot of it. Now, I could talk to you about salty snacks. They’re my vice. ---
**Author:** ![Lanzy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/74df32/32.png) [@Lanzy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lanzy)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2011, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-fast-do-should-you-go-through-a-tub-of-ice-cream/602160/29 "2011-11-08T20:40:13Z")
Yes, I eat a whole pint at once and it is not even close to binging. It is just perfectly normal for me. ---
**Author:** ![mrklutz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ebca7d/32.png) [@mrklutz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrklutz)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2011, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-fast-do-should-you-go-through-a-tub-of-ice-cream/602160/30 "2011-11-08T20:51:13Z")
My roommate makes ice cream, and we typically get 4 servings out of a pint. It’s very, very rich stuff, though. We probably go through 4 pints in a month between the two of us. ---
**Author:** ![wheresmymind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/91b2a8/32.png) [@wheresmymind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wheresmymind)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2011, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-fast-do-should-you-go-through-a-tub-of-ice-cream/602160/31 "2011-11-09T02:04:49Z")
In all seriousness, about 20 to 30 minutes. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2011, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-fast-do-should-you-go-through-a-tub-of-ice-cream/602160/32 "2011-11-09T04:16:11Z")
Our ice cream is in half-gallon boxes. On average, I guess I have four scoops a month. I don’t know how much the roomie eats. There are three kinds of ice cream in the freezer, and two of them have been in there for more than a month. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2011, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-fast-do-should-you-go-through-a-tub-of-ice-cream/602160/33 "2011-11-09T05:19:56Z")
> [@shijinn](#): > > i take a spoonful whenever the urge strikes me and this usually works out to be once a day on average, taking about a month(?) to go through a 500ml tub of ice-cream. i wonder if this is considered unhealthy? how do you take yours? How hot is it outside? ---
**Author:** ![Dahnlor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dahnlor/32/533_2.png) [@Dahnlor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dahnlor)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2011, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-fast-do-should-you-go-through-a-tub-of-ice-cream/602160/34 "2011-11-09T06:51:07Z")
If I buy two half-gallons of Dreyer’s on Saturday, it’s usually all gone by Monday or Tuesday. I could just buy one for $3, but the suggestive power of the 2-for-$6 sale price on the shelf is too great to resist. ---
**Author:** ![shijinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@shijinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shijinn)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2011, 8:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-fast-do-should-you-go-through-a-tub-of-ice-cream/602160/35 "2011-11-09T08:25:07Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > How hot is it outside? about 30°C. /itching for another scoop but am outside. and i just checked, half a gallon is like two litres! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2011, 10:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-fast-do-should-you-go-through-a-tub-of-ice-cream/602160/36 "2011-11-09T10:02:47Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > Back when I still ate food, I went through a pint at a sitting. My mother–_who did not like ice cream!_–asked me, “Why can’t you take a spoonful and put the rest back?” > > “You take the lid off and you throw it away,” I explained. “The lid’s job is done. It will not be needed again.”… I am quite stunned that more people do not understand this. Ice cream is not a dessert. It is a meal, and requires only a spoon and, a trash can for the container. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2011, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-fast-do-should-you-go-through-a-tub-of-ice-cream/602160/37 "2011-11-09T14:41:48Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > I am quite stunned that more people do not understand this. > > Ice cream is not a dessert. It is a meal, and requires only a spoon and, a trash can for the container. I am so stealing this line. All you ice cream lovers, try haagen daz five. Supreme ice cream at its most basic level: Cream, milk, sugar, eggs and flavoring (vanilla, chocolate, carmel, coffee, mint, strawberry or the bestest of all, lemon). ---
**Author:** ![What\_i\_think](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/94ad74/32.png) [@What\_i\_think](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_i_think)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2011, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-fast-do-should-you-go-through-a-tub-of-ice-cream/602160/38 "2011-11-09T15:57:22Z")
before it melts ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2011, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-fast-do-should-you-go-through-a-tub-of-ice-cream/602160/39 "2011-11-09T16:18:54Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Our ice cream is in _ **half-gallon** _ boxes. On average, I guess I have four scoops a month. I don’t know how much the roomie eats. There are three kinds of ice cream in the freezer, and two of them have been in there for more than a month. What store do you buy ice cream in? I need to start going there. I can only find it in three-pint cartons. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2011, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-fast-do-should-you-go-through-a-tub-of-ice-cream/602160/40 "2011-11-09T17:45:40Z")
I get about 7-8 servings out of a carton (the kind that used to be 2 quarts but is now only 1.75), and I eat one serving every day or two, so a carton lasts me about 1-2 weeks. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-fast-do-should-you-go-through-a-tub-of-ice-cream/602160.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-fast-do-should-you-go-through-a-tub-of-ice-cream/602160.md?page=3)