No rocks, no ice cream

Factual Questions
1

…What does that mean? Is it a geology reference?

Thanks to anyone who can clue me in.

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Can’t help much, but apparently it refers to this article:

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Thanks. I found that on Google too, but I can’t find the article itself. If you know where I can find and read it, that would be great.

I guess I should have clarified that in the OP.

4

WAG: maybe no rocks of salt? Salt is needed to make the ice extra-cold for home-made ice cream makers, so, no rock salt, no ice cream.

5

This “no rocks, no ice cream” thing was posed as a trivia question (just for fun, no credit) by my 7th-grade son’s science teacher. I tried the “rock salt needed to make ice cream” angle, but she said that wasn’t it. One of the kids suggested that it meant “rewards come after hard work,” but she said that, although she admired his philosophical bent, that wasn’t it either.

Googling the phrase turns up a couple of links on petrology, but no explanation. The internet has let me down! Grrr!

Thanks to anyone who offers help or guesses. This is starting to drive me a little crazy.

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Looking at the referenced article isn’t much help, but I think it might be a reference to the way our current (at least in 1981) models for plate tectonics are not very accurate. We can model a tectonic plate as a rock (ie rigid) or as ice cream (ie a viscous fluid), but the reality is that large slabs of hot rock behave in way that is not really consistent with either. Seems a bit advanced for 7th grade, though.

BTW, I’m a ice cream eating geologist :stuck_out_tongue:

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Maybe they’re talking about this. I found it using my google-fu, but I don’t know enough to evaluate it. (I also find the site design completely bonkers - looks like a student’s page, maybe).

Anyways, do with that what you will.

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Hey now! That might be what I’m looking for. If that article doesn’t do it, I’ll phone up the AZ Geological Survey (or just drive down there).

Thanks!

10

That’s kinda funny…I’m an ice cream professional and an amateur geologist…you’re a geology professional and an ice cream amateur.

But I digress.

I have nothing important to add.

11

Just to continue this hijack a little:

Are you involved in the production of ice cream, or have many people’s dreams at last come true, and there’s actually a “professional consumer of ice cream” position somewhere out there?

12

I thought Rocky Road launched one of the biggest ice cream producers to dominance early on.

No rocks, no ice cream, because Rocky Road is named after a rocky road (portion of Route 66). Vanilla? Chocolate? BAH! The ice cream industry would have collapsed.

13

Apparently, it was Rocky Road ice cream that launched Dryers, the biggest ice cream producer anywhere. Yeah - I said it.

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Yes, (according to Food Network) I saw an interview with a guy who’s job it was to taste the ice cream. :stuck_out_tongue: His taste buds were insured! I want that job!

15

No soap: radio!

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Dryers is known as Edy’s on the East Coast, BTW.

17

Part of my job responsibilities include the consumption of a portion of each batch of ice cream/sherbet/frozen yogurt we make. I have so much work in the summers that I outsource to friends, neighbors, and aquantances. We call it “Quality Assurance”

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Try one of the other ones!

~~ G.W.B.

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Yes, but did you know it was to avoid confusion with Breyers?