# I love ice cream but it's almost priced too high for what iI think its worth. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 23, 2013, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-ice-cream-but-its-almost-priced-too-high-for-what-ii-think-its-worth/651133 "2013-02-23T01:00:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Strassia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e8c25b/32.png) [@Strassia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Strassia)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2013, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-ice-cream-but-its-almost-priced-too-high-for-what-ii-think-its-worth/651133/21 "2013-02-23T16:04:16Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > Just curious - where do they sell ice cream in gallon containers? In the grocery stores here, you get either 1.5 or 1.75 quarts - no one even make half-gallons any more. > > That’s what pisses me off. I know prices go up - everything goes up. I remember my dad driving across the street to a different gas station because it was .23 instead of .24 a gallon. But to this day, gas is still priced by the gallon. But ice cream? Not where I live. Tuna used to be in a can of 6.5 oz, but the last time I bought it, it was 6 oz and it cost more. Canned pumpkin used to contain a pound. Now it’s something like 14.5oz - I can deal with the increased cost per unit, but my recipe calls for a pound! > > Just yesterday, I bought a few boxes of tissues - same size box I’ve been buying forever, but instead of 200 tissues, it’s now 184 - 8% reduction in product for the same price. Toilet paper rolls are narrower than they used to be. Paper towels now claim _150 sheets!!!_ per roll, but the sheets are the skinny ones - you need 2-3 as many as one or the old regular size, and of course, the price went up. > > Sorry to hijack, but this aggravates me to no end. Stealth price increases are the worst! > > And now I want ice cream, dammit!!! 😛 Don’t look under the peanut butter jars. They started curving the bottoms up to shave a few ounces out without making the jars appear smaller. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2013, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-ice-cream-but-its-almost-priced-too-high-for-what-ii-think-its-worth/651133/22 "2013-02-23T16:54:52Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > Hey, I keep the lights off around the house, I take short showers, I don’t buy a ton of crap I don’t need (anymore), I don’t owe a nickel on my credit cards…I can afford $5 for ice cream. I looove ice cream and unless I get a flavor I don’t particularly care for, it’s not like it goes to waste. I feel sort of the same. I used to avoid things like that (“$6? This should be $4 tops!”) but hit a point where I said “I have a full time job, the lights are on, the bills are paid and there’s money in the account. Why am I avoiding a mild pleasure over two bucks?” ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2013, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-ice-cream-but-its-almost-priced-too-high-for-what-ii-think-its-worth/651133/23 "2013-02-23T18:21:07Z")
Blue Bell still comes in big round tubs. I think its a gallon or maybe a half gallon? It probably is half a gallon (2 qts) now that you mention it. I haven’t really noticed in years. I just grab the big round tub in the stores ice cream section. 😛 I have trouble sometimes eating the ice cream quickly enough. It gets funky after a couple months in the freezer. The auto defrost cycle thaws the ice cream and it refreezes. Causing ice crystals. Ice cream also picks up odors and tastes from food in the fridge. I wish that I had a big chest freezer. > [@FairyChatMom](#): > > Just curious - where do they sell ice cream in gallon containers? In the grocery stores here, you get either 1.5 or 1.75 quarts - no one even make half-gallons any more. > > \ > And now I want ice cream, dammit!!! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2013, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-ice-cream-but-its-almost-priced-too-high-for-what-ii-think-its-worth/651133/24 "2013-02-23T18:30:19Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > Blue Bell still comes in big round tubs. I think its a gallon or maybe a half gallon? It probably is half a gallon (2 qts) now that you mention it. I haven’t really noticed in years. I just grab the big round tub in the stores ice cream section. 😛 > > I have trouble sometimes eating the ice cream quickly enough. It gets funky after a couple months in the freezer. The auto defrost cycle thaws the ice cream and it refreezes. Causing ice crystals. Ice cream also picks up odors and tastes from food in the fridge. I wish that I had a big chest freezer. Apparently, smoothing out the surface of the ice cream to reduce surface area and then covering it with a piece of plastic wrap that’s actually touching the ice cream (not stretched above it) will slow down the freezer burn. I wouldn’t actually know from experience. Between my husband and kids, we either have new ice cream or no ice cream. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2013, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-ice-cream-but-its-almost-priced-too-high-for-what-ii-think-its-worth/651133/25 "2013-02-23T19:41:00Z")
Sometimes I think I’ll get a pint of Ben and Jerry’s, and then I’ll see the store brand (which is VERY good), the not-quite-a-half-gallon size, is less than a dollar more! If there’s pumpkin pie or dulce de leche, by golly, I’ll throw out the frozen peas and make it fit in the freezer. I’ve made ice cream, but there’s really no savings. There are no coupons for quarts of cream. Good for making special flavors, though. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2013, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-ice-cream-but-its-almost-priced-too-high-for-what-ii-think-its-worth/651133/26 "2013-02-23T19:48:36Z")
> [@salinqmind](#): > > I’ve made ice cream, but there’s really no savings. There are no coupons for quarts of cream. Good for making special flavors, though. That’s the thing. I can buy ice cream for cheaper than I can make it. It’s surprising how many foods are that way. I still cook about 6 days a week because I love it, but, unless I’m explicitly trying, it’s often cheaper to buy something prepared. And I don’t shop at places like Whole Foods or anything. ---
**Author:** ![Proudest\_Monkey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/proudest_monkey/32/13257_2.png) [@Proudest\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Proudest_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2013, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-ice-cream-but-its-almost-priced-too-high-for-what-ii-think-its-worth/651133/27 "2013-02-23T23:47:38Z")
I’m not much of an ice cream fanatic–give me a heap of onion rings or buttered popcorn if it’s break-the-diet time. HOWEVER . . . There is a scene in \*\*Zero Dark Thirty \*\*in which one of the characters eats an ice cream cone in the presence of some monkeys. That ice cream looked soooo good (the monkeys thought the same), and I haven’t been able to get ice cream out of my mind since. Prices be damned, I have a “half gallon” of Friendly’s Forbidden Chocolate, a “pint” of Haagen Dazs chocolate peanut butter, and some Ben & Jerry’s Cherry Garcia on rotation. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2013, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-ice-cream-but-its-almost-priced-too-high-for-what-ii-think-its-worth/651133/28 "2013-02-24T00:58:16Z")
When it comes right down to it, I will spend the money and buy the ice cream. I want it, I deserve it, I need it on a sufferingly hot summer night. What am I going to buy more important with the money I won’t spend on ice cream? Toilet paper (over $5 a package now!)? Doritos? (over $4 in a convenience store). 6-pack of decent beer? (Guiness, over $9). ---
**Author:** ![nikonikosuru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5f8ce5/32.png) [@nikonikosuru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nikonikosuru)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2013, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-ice-cream-but-its-almost-priced-too-high-for-what-ii-think-its-worth/651133/29 "2013-02-24T01:58:50Z")
Really, is the price of any processed food a surprise? I guess I don’t understand why people get riled up over it. You’re paying for the convenience of not having to make it at home, not having to gather the ingredients together, and not having the machinery to make it yourself. The higher the quality, the more likely the higher the price will be…I’ll take Ben and Jerry’s over some “frozen dessert milk” or whatever it’s being called nowadays. ---
**Author:** ![VernWinterbottom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/c67d28/32.png) [@VernWinterbottom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VernWinterbottom)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2013, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-ice-cream-but-its-almost-priced-too-high-for-what-ii-think-its-worth/651133/30 "2013-02-24T03:28:17Z")
> [@bobkitty](#): > > Crescent Ridge? Nope. A little farther south. Acushnet Creamery. Less than a month to wait. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Feldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lord_feldon/32/341_2.png) [@Lord\_Feldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Feldon)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2013, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-ice-cream-but-its-almost-priced-too-high-for-what-ii-think-its-worth/651133/31 "2013-02-24T04:29:04Z")
> [@lorene](#): > > What would you consider a better price? Whatever the Kroger brand costs, obviously. ---
**Author:** ![Amblydoper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/fbc32d/32.png) [@Amblydoper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amblydoper)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2013, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-ice-cream-but-its-almost-priced-too-high-for-what-ii-think-its-worth/651133/32 "2013-02-24T04:38:06Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > I have trouble sometimes eating the ice cream quickly enough. It gets funky after a couple **months** in the freezer. Clearly, you need a bigger spoon! ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2013, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-ice-cream-but-its-almost-priced-too-high-for-what-ii-think-its-worth/651133/33 "2013-02-24T04:57:29Z")
I pretty much only eat Ben & Jerry’s and I consider it worth whatever price it is. Although Hannaford store brand is actually pretty good. ---
**Author:** ![James\_Otto\_Sweet\_Heart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ac8455/32.png) [@James\_Otto\_Sweet\_Heart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/James_Otto_Sweet_Heart)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2013, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-ice-cream-but-its-almost-priced-too-high-for-what-ii-think-its-worth/651133/34 "2013-02-24T06:06:04Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > There’s certain items at the grocery store that I feel is over priced. Amen to this! I was at the store earlier today and it amazes me how much things are getting! At the store that I go to, a pack of beef made Ball Park hot dogs are now as much as $4.99!!! God bless you always!!! Holly ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2013, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-ice-cream-but-its-almost-priced-too-high-for-what-ii-think-its-worth/651133/35 "2013-02-24T06:37:34Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > If ice cream goes any higher than I may have to stop buying it. There’s a limit to how big a hole I’ll put in my wallet for this stuff. Pricing things just below the point where you won’t buy it is pretty much the goal of every retailer everywhere. ---
**Author:** ![James\_Otto\_Sweet\_Heart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ac8455/32.png) [@James\_Otto\_Sweet\_Heart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/James_Otto_Sweet_Heart)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2013, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-ice-cream-but-its-almost-priced-too-high-for-what-ii-think-its-worth/651133/36 "2013-02-24T07:00:53Z")
^^^ Amen. God bless you always!!! Holly ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2013, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-ice-cream-but-its-almost-priced-too-high-for-what-ii-think-its-worth/651133/37 "2013-02-24T18:44:40Z")
> [@James\_Otto\_Sweet\_Heart](#): > > ^^^ Amen. > > God bless you always!!! > > Holly God bless _who_ always??😕 ---
**Author:** ![James\_Otto\_Sweet\_Heart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ac8455/32.png) [@James\_Otto\_Sweet\_Heart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/James_Otto_Sweet_Heart)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2013, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-ice-cream-but-its-almost-priced-too-high-for-what-ii-think-its-worth/651133/38 "2013-02-24T18:59:56Z")
^^^ The person that I was responding to which is the person right above my message. 🙂 🙂 🙂 God bless you and them always!!! 🙂 🙂 🙂 Holly ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2013, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-ice-cream-but-its-almost-priced-too-high-for-what-ii-think-its-worth/651133/39 "2013-02-24T19:25:44Z")
> [@James\_Otto\_Sweet\_Heart](#): > > ^^^ The person that I was responding to which is the person right above my message. 🙂 🙂 🙂 > > God bless you and them always!!! 🙂 🙂 🙂 > > Holly You see that big box with “QUOTE” in it over to the right? Use _that_ to respond to individual posters’ messages. It would help alleviate _some_ confusion. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2013, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-ice-cream-but-its-almost-priced-too-high-for-what-ii-think-its-worth/651133/40 "2013-02-24T20:23:44Z")
Those who lived in California will remember Thrifty Ice Cream (from the chain of Thrifty stores). Best ever, and priced nicely. Then Thrifty’s sort of went belly up and became Rite Aid, and even those have closed here in Las Vegas. The point of this history lesson is that Walmart sells a generic brand “GV” in 1.75 quart cardboard containers. Their French Vanilla is excellent - just like Thrifty’s. And the price? **$2.95 for a half gallon**. The container looks like [this](http://www.walmart.com/ip/Great-Value-Vanilla-Ice-Cream-56-fl-oz/11047588), but buy the French Vanilla. The chocolate, chocolate chip, strawberry are also very good - and just like the old Thrifty brand (wonder if it is from the same company?) Search it out. Worth twice the price, if not more! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-ice-cream-but-its-almost-priced-too-high-for-what-ii-think-its-worth/651133.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-ice-cream-but-its-almost-priced-too-high-for-what-ii-think-its-worth/651133.md?page=3)