 Linda Petty is an editor at CNN Living. She likes boxed mixes, tarted-up vegetables, letting produce rot in her crisper, eating breakfast at her desk and raiding your pantry. First of all, there is a big difference between “enjoying” ice cream and “needing” ice cream - so for the sake of time, we will not even discuss the one-person, one-spoon and one-carton method of scarfing down the frozen medicine of your choice. But during your saner moments – do you prefer your ice cream in a bowl or a cone? Easy question, right? For the cone, there are so many more styles of eating. One could be a licker. This style of eater - most often seen with softer versions of ice cream - can branch off into the "swirly lickers" or "one-side-at-a-time lickers." One could be a biter: the firmer ice creams encourage biting. Some people nibble slowly and gently to make their ice cream last, while other people take huge bites of frozen dessert directly from the top of the cone and the ice cream disappears quickly. This latter breed is often spotted by the pained look on their faces from brain freeze. Some mix it up – a little biting, then licking. And many people finish off their treat by biting the pointy end of the cone off and sucking those last bits of the melted dessert out. |
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Licker – guilty as charged.
Can't beat it! :D
Rob
http://www.ukcrimeprevention.com
Stopping off to get some Ice-cream on the way home now for sure...
Heres hoping the kids don't notice!! :D
Sam
Top Hat Chef
Right from the tub with a serving spoon ( y'know, those big-arse ones used to dish up veggies during family dinners!).
Forget the cones and the 99s, give me a tub of Ben a Jerry's and leave me alone!!
Great post – made the whole office think I'm nuts due to my grin all the way through :D
Tom
You gotta love a bit of ice cream, whateve the weather!! eat ice cream whenever you want!! im craving a flake 99 right about now, been so long since i had one...
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Definitely making root beer floats tonight. Best ice cream is vanilla chocolate swirl from Jersey Freeze in Freehold, NJ. I live a hour away, but make sure to stop on my way home from the shore!
This whole article – and the comments – are directing my path to get some ice cream and maybe some root beer on the way home today. Yum!
I stopped eating cones all the time with my icecream because they add more calories to an already caloric treat! But once in a while I do treat myself to a waffle cone.... Darn you Ben & Jerry's and you delicious waffle cones!!!
Nothing beats homemade ice cream. I have some raspberry swirl sitting in my freezer now. Maybe I'll just eat that for lunch...
I push the ice cream to the bottom of the cone so I'm not left with empty cone at the end.
HOLE not whole. LITTLE not littlw wow, jeez coffee obviously hasn't kicked in yet!
Cherry Garcia Frozen yogurt if I am being "good" full fat version when I am not! In the town i was from we had a small mom and pop called Foley's Ice Cream, a littlw whole in the wall family friendly place where they made their own ice cream and had a HUGE (in the opinion of a 5 year old) self service toppings bar, then they got greedy, did a ton of renovations and increased the prices considerably and closed like 6 mos later
Right out of the carton. The only people eating it is me or my girlfriend, so it doesn't matter.
I only eat ice cream once in a blue moon, but I could really go for two scoops of blueberry cheesecake in a chocolate waffle cone right now.
Angelo Brocato's on Carrollton Ave. in New Orleans has the BEST spumoni. Probly ship you some if you called. ;)
I like plain vanilla. In a cone, I swirl and lick slowly, all around it. In a bowl, slowly with a spoon...feel free to add hot fudge, vanilla and chopped nuts with a whipped cream and cherry. Don't ruin it for me with nasty soft strawberries and bananas. A treat that is hard to find that I would LOVE to have is some really good spumoni. OMG. I wish I knew where some was right now.
If I wasn't hungry before... ;)
Ice cream gives me a stomach ache so when I decide on a rare occasion to eat it, it's got to be worth the pain I'll be feeling later. I like an almond flavor ice cream with all sorts of stuff mixed in – nuts, chocolate chunks, caramel topping, whipped cream, banana, cherry on top and a cone crunched in doesn't hurt!
When I was a kid I used to buy vanilla cones off of Mr. Softie trucks and bite the bottom of the cone and suck the ice cream thru the bottom. I used to eat milk shakes with a spoon and still do.
An old friend of mine does that. I would watch him, and think he's absolutely insane. (No offense.) It would make a mess everywhere.
A friend in high school would pour milk over her ice cream.
Root beer floats anyone? I took my family on vacation to Los Angeles in 95 and we stopped by the Hard Rock Cafe where I sat and downed THREE floats on a hot July day. I loved all of them!
"And many people finish off their treat by biting the pointy end of the cone off and sucking those last bits of the melted dessert out."
That's me! (And most anyone else over the age of 50 I think). Back then, there were no sugar "cones" (that aren't conical at all), just waffle cones. Ya gotta lick the ice cream before it melts in the 100 degree sun and yeah...bite that tip off and get to work on the innards, leaving the cone for last. The chocolate and nuts were probably the best part though.
I'm sorry. I must have been redirected to some teen magazine.
These articles keep getting dumber and dumber! Who cares about whether someone licks or bites ice cream? Soooo stupid and certainly not news! CNN is really going down the tubes.
The story of those 3 hikers getting killed going over a waterfall at Yosemite is actual news and happened an entire 2 days ago. It took CNN this long to report it! Running at the back of the pack like that they must think they are in first place for the second race.
I hope another news organization starts giving them some competition in this continual news space. When there is no competition things deteriorate. CNN used to be a good source for actual news and now most of the stories are sugary blurbs for idiots like this one.Geesh!
Wow, Debbie Downer, how are ya Debbie? Let me guess, your mother denied you anything sugary because you are ADHD and were drugged from the time you were 5 just to keep HER calm. Life gets better, really. Get off the meds.
Um, in case you didn't notice, this is not the News section of the website; it's the Living and Eatocracy section. You know, where people talk about FOOD. The News stories you refer to are still there – simply click on the Home tab and then on whatever headline grabs you.
A story about ice cream in the food section? I can clearly see how you would be appalled.
These articles keep getting dumber and dumber.
I like Bubble Gum ice cream from Baskin Robbins... It's available only in the summer, so it's a special treat. Never in a cone, only in a bowl.
Oh gosh....I haven't has that since I was a kid. I really didn't know they still made it. I might have to stop by BR on the way home today!
Don't like plain vanilla too much but, having said that, I still love McDonalds vanilla cone. But my favorite ice-cream is a mix of vanilla and chocolate with some chocolate chunks and nut bits in it. I love all kinds of cones, they add to the whole enjoyment and I bite my ice-cream. If it is just plain vanilla, I really need a cone to go with it. But if it is my favorite vanilla-chocolate mix then I can eat it from anything: container, bowl, cup, you name it. Ice-cream is my favorite food in the world. Can you blame me?
Swirly licker. I just read an article on fetishes. My mind is still in the gutter.
I never eat ice cream, it's not good for you!
Neither is 90% of the things we eat - but who cares? You only live once. You might as well enjoy it.
Not true, truth2power! It's got dairy, it's got sugar and some flavors have other things in them. A good quality ice cream...never ice milk...IS good for you...but like most things with sugar or fats, use in moderation if weight or cholesterol are a problem for you. Ben and Jerrys is high quality stuff though I can rarely afford it myself. Breyers (AKA Dreyers) is almost as good and far cheaper. If you live in the south, especially Texas, Blue Bell is the one to grab. A bowl a week is not going to shorten your life It's nice to relax and just enjoy something for what it is, without worrying about what it might do to you. A bowl a week is harmless unless you have something going on like being obese or diabetic or your arteries are already oozing goo.
I remember, way back when, at one time CNN actually reported news.
I'm a biter...I hate melted ice cream running down my hand. Naaaaaaasty.
I feel like such a freak. Me and my family eat ice cream (almost daily) in a glass with a little milk, like a thick shake. We use a spoon to mix it all up and to eat it too. I don't know why but I thought a lot of people did this ; (
You'd be surprised how many people enjoy ice cream that way.
I don't eat ice cream – period. Cone or otherwise. Being thin feels better than even the best ice cream tastes!
How sad for you, not to enjoy one of life's simple pleasures. NEVER eat ice cream? Not even a taste? I would pity you, except that the tone of your post makes it sound as if you're too self-righteous to accept it. No one is saying you have to eat entire containers of ice cream every day; of course that would pack on the pounds. But as with everything else, sweet treats IN MODERATION are good for one's general well-being. Do yourself a favor – have a small scoop of your favorite flavor of ice cream once in a while, maybe just once or twice a month if you're worried about calories. It won't blow your diet, you'll still stay thin, and you'll be much happier.
Charlotte- Ice cream is so much more enjoyable when you pull the cone out of your a$$. I enjoy ice cream every now and again and I am confident that I am fitter and lighter than you.
Eating ice cream once every few months is not going to make you fat. I don't see why you never eat it.
I have sensitive teeth so I tend to bite with my lips wrapped around my teeth. Kind of like gumming it.
In a cone, swirly to keep it from dripping. In a bowl, just vanilla or chocolate and stir it up to a milk shake like thickness then mmmm mmm. My wife thinks it is funny but been doing it that way since I was a kid – and now teaching ours to do the same.
The real debate is what is your fav flavors and fav brand!
Me – Peanut Butter and Chocolate from Tillamook (although German Chocolate by them is pretty amazing too).
Since I don't live in the PNW anymore I'll enjoy Amy's here in Austin. Not the same...
One of my earliest memories is eating ice cream cones at Baskin Robbins with my father. I had a technique not listed. I call it delayed gratification. You slowly push the ice cream down into the cone while licking until the cone is full ... then the cone is quite gratifying not dry and empty. My father's technique was like the old tootsie pop commercial. How many licks does it take to get to the center Mr. Owl? One... Two... Three *crunch*... Three! My dad ate his cone in about three bites... and then was greedily eyeballing mine for the next 15 minutes... I wanted to run.
I used to do that as a kid at BR too – with my then fav (seasonal flavor) Grape Ice. So good.
Nothing is hotter than seeing the way my girlfriend lick the ice cream off the cone....oohh mannn ;)
My name is Snufagufalus. I don't exist.
I eat icecream from a coffee mug, so the heat of my hands dont melt it....
Double walled plastic sports cup, pint sized. Mo' ice cream, No meltin'!
I cringe whenever I see someone bite ice cream, because I have sensitive teeth.
From a woman's bowl.....mniam mniammmmmm
Tossing salad more likely
I shove the whole thing in my mouth at once and enjoy the intensity of the brain freeze.
I cannot believe this. You have an article about a 17-day walk for water and a stupid article asking a$$hole Americans whether or not they can tackle a cone of Ice-cream. Who the hell is the editor of the CNN website? A sadist or other variety of nematode?
Oh, please, Faustus, this is the Eatocracy BLOG, not CNN NEWS. The story to which you refer (did your read more than the headline?..of course not.) is serious NEWS. Have you ever read a newspaper? They have different sections, you know. Some of them even have comics. This is sort of like the food section of the paper. Is that simple enough for you, sweet pea?
Faustus, angry and bitter party of one?
Your table is ready in the STFU cafe.
Dr. Faustus I wish I never wrote you. You are the a to the hole.
I agree. I had no appetite for reading this article after reading about (and donating money) to famine relief in Somalia.
I honestly don't care about their 17 day walk for water. *We* live in a modern society - their level of education and government system (if any) prevent them from having things like that. It's not our fault...and quite frankly, I'm tired of my tax dollars going to foreign countries.
Phil, your tax dollars are funding greedy americans spending billions of our dollars on banks and large companies that also blow money on expensive, not needed things. You're money going overseas would mean you make the effort to call the relief agencies and donate.
And since I'm on here I like my ice cream in a sandwich. A whole box of 'em
@ matt
Incorrect. The US has sent hundreds of billions to foreign countries. Recently, we suspended $800 million in aid payment to Pakistan. That did not come from 'donations'.
I like ice cream sandwiches too! Especially the ones manufactured by North Star.
ROOT BEER FLOAT......nomnomnomnom
leecherius- yummy and so are Orange Dreams (or creams, depending on where you live)
It's best right out of the carton (Ben &Jerry's, Haagen Daz Five), but if there is another human present I go for a bowl. I like it plain, but won't say no to sea-salt caramel sauce. When it comes to cones, I'm a biter. Lickers are kind of disgusting to me. That photo of the kid makes me feel unwell.
Ice cream, ice cream, we all scream for ice cream...
I'm a biter and I'm not ashamed to say so. I've always been a fast eater, so with ice cream, which melts & tastes so good, biting is the quickest way. Yum.
Any way it gets to me. Prefer the spoon-in-carton method, personally! Most direct.
I much prefer in a waffle bowl. The cones is too messy and melts so fast. Plus waffle bowls taste so much better. :)
Cone. Lick til there's no danger of dripping (sorry, there's really no non-perverse way to phrase that, I tried), then lick the icecream into its own cone shape, with a point on top. Make a kissy-face, plant it on top of the icecream-point, and use kissy-face like a "straw".
Alternately, swoop down on the icecream from the top, open my mouth as big as I can, and go "OWWWMMMMMMMPH".
I suppose the best way to sum up my ice cream technique is "Like a five-year-old".
TCBY
@les, do those still exist? I used to love TCBY
It really depends upon my mood, the weathers temperature, and where I'm at. There are situations that it's not considered polite to just lap away at an ice-cream cone. I don't mind the bowl over the coke because while I love the taste of the cone I like the cleanliness of the bowl.
i put the coke in the bowl, not the bowl over the coke, othervise i can't access it with a straw
othervise is a word
It would be hard to get to the coke with a bowl on top....depending how much you have already done and how strong the bowl is.....my suggestion is to eat the ice-cream after coke...you wont be hungry but your mouth will already be numb
just a spoon and the container the ice cream came in.....that's all that's needed....no need to dirty dishes or fuss with a cone and have liquid ice cream run down your arm.
But will you eat it in the bathroom?
i eat it in the bathroom, you got a problem with that? on the toilet and in the shower, hell its ice cream, that's what it was made for
i eat mine with a huge glass full of ice and cold beer
I'll ONLY do a cone if it's a homemade waffle cone or a sugar cone.... those cheesy cones that come in a box and taste like styrofoam are an insult to ice cream!!! Ice cream tends to hurt my teeth, but it doesn't stop me from eating it. But eating slowly out of a bowl is probably easier for me. My favorite flavor of all time???? Haagan Daz rum raisin!! It rocks. those that come in second? Mint chocolate chip, german chocolate cake from Baskin Robbins, and raspberry sherbert.
sugar or waffle cones are the bomb. Those cheap gross ones were only cool when they had names on them and really only good if you had some hard pack ice cream at the bottom for the last bite.
double scoop of twisty soft serve at my local Big Burger...on a cone. and i lick it slowly to savor the frozen yumminess.
I like a bowl. cones are jsut to messy and require an obligation to eat at a fast pace. but to be honest,it never even makes it to the bowl. it usually is one of the half pints of ben & jerry's " Phish Phood " and it is eaten ever so quickly. :) YUMMM NOM NOM NOM NOM NOM!
It's sooooooo Hot in Texas that I take out all the frozen food,grab the container of ice cream,with a table spoon of course, and jump right in. Hey, the light does go out when you close the door.:))
I like the cone. I don't bite ice cream because I have somewhat cold sensitive teeth. I tend to eat an ice cream cone with no particular skill at all, except to shore up whichever side is melting the quickest.
Not that I object to ice cream in a cup, though. On a hot day, anything is fair game.
Cone. After all, it's meant to be enjoyed on a hot day outside, and it adds much needed texture and a change of pace at the end. I favor the technique of the "swirly licker," at least to start. But, there are times when the thing just starts to get all melty and I've gotta move on to the "ferocious biter" technique. A bit of melty is good, but getting it on your hands is bad.
Cole: You had me at swirly licker- wow when typed that sounds a lot dirtier than I intentioned- but you are my "Ice cream soulmate" sigh
Bowl, cup or straight out of the container. Ya gotta eat it fast 'round these parts or you'll have ice cream soup – whether you want it or not.
Bowl.
A large Bowl
With magic shell and reddi-whip.
nomnomnomnomnom
Cone. Swirly.
Next fav, Coke float.
Couldnt agree more!!!