# 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:** 5\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2011, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-fast-do-should-you-go-through-a-tub-of-ice-cream/602160/41 "2011-11-09T18:08:55Z")
> [@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? I don’t think there’s a wrong way to do it, actually, but we have had ice cream that developed ice crystals and had to be thrown away (just threw out half a tub). I think it was in there more than a month, though. I think you probably have about three months if you don’t let it melt and then put it back in the freezer, melt and then put it back in the freezer. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2011, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-fast-do-should-you-go-through-a-tub-of-ice-cream/602160/42 "2011-11-09T18:27:13Z")
Nothing like frozen sugar and fat . I can not eat ice cream. My wife buys it and when I think about having some ,it is too late. She wipes out a quart at a sitting. She sits a lot. ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2011, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-fast-do-should-you-go-through-a-tub-of-ice-cream/602160/43 "2011-11-09T19:42:34Z")
> [@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? 500 ml is just over a pint in our archaic US measurements. A “standard serving” of ice cream per the package is a half cup, with a pint being 2 cups, so that 500 ml container is only “four servings”. If you manage to make that last a month, there’s something not quite RIGHT with you ;). That’s certainly NOT an unhealthy rate, for sure, even if you eat it every day. Even if you had “a serving” (half cup / 125 ml) every day, that’s certainly possible to work into your normal daily caloric intake without weight gain. Us: Well, the year Moon Unit was born was a stressful one, for a number of reasons. We could have chosen to deal with it using any number of medications, from liquid OTC (alcohol) to prescription (Xanax), but instead chose Breyer’s ice cream. A half gallon would last the 2 of us for 2-3 days. Our reasoning: No matter HOW shitty the day had been, at the end of it there was always something to look forward to. It helped. It really did. Nowadays, we’ll get 6-8 servings out of a 48 ounce container (those half-gallons SHRUNK) if we have it in the house. ---
**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, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-fast-do-should-you-go-through-a-tub-of-ice-cream/602160/44 "2011-11-09T19:46:53Z")
4 servings to a pint? In Lilliput, maybe. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2011, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-fast-do-should-you-go-through-a-tub-of-ice-cream/602160/45 "2011-11-10T00:57:00Z")
I like ice cream, but it doesn’t inspire any passion in me. I’ve had a tub in my freezer for six months at a time before finishing it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-fast-do-should-you-go-through-a-tub-of-ice-cream/602160.md?page=2)