Did anyone else’s family refuse to buy Ice CREAM but got Ice Milk instead?

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djtodd242@reddit

My mom went on a health food kick around 1980.

I still give her a hard time about carob. Chocolate substitute? What a cruel lie to tell a child.

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punkwalrus@reddit

That and beets/raisins were "nature's candy." Then parents wondered why teens never listened to them.

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Efficient-Hornet8666@reddit

God help the house that put raisins in my Halloween bucket.

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When my son was little, we were trick or treating, and one house on out block had a LOT of angry parents by the front door. It was the house giving out religious pamphlets telling kids to accept Jesus Christ as their god and master or they would go to hell. Ooooh... man, it was like a mob.

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SnooOnions973@reddit

I’m sorry - that was probably my mum.

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SnooOnions973@reddit

Unfortunately I had to - I was made to feel like a sinner if I didn’t (and besides, they were too busy trying to “catch” my runaway big sister). To this day I eat like a 10 year old.

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djtodd242@reddit

I'll be the lone voice that says I actually like raisins. Oatmeal raisin cookies? Mmmmmmm

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Ok_Fig7692@reddit

I put them in homemade rice pudding, too.

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judgeejudger@reddit

Did ya soak them in rum first?

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Cheese-Manipulator@reddit

I do that with ham.

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judgeejudger@reddit

To each their own. Bon appetit

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Ok_Fig7692@reddit

I didn't know that was a thing. I'll have to try that next time.

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Cheese-Manipulator@reddit

I put them in my oatmeal.

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Chutson909@reddit

Hell yes….mmmm

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Moist_Return_3020@reddit

Oatmeal raisin cookies are epic… unless they are dry and hard. That’s just weird and uncomfortable, man.

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rottenbox@reddit

I like raisins in their place. Trail mix? Sure. Oatmeal cookies? Sure. Handful as a snack? Ok, not my first choice but I'm fine with it.

My mother in law adds then to stuffing. At Thanksgiving and Christmas my brother in law and I make a box of stove top for ourselves. Because raisins have no place in stuffing.

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VikingDadStream@reddit

Ok, that actually sounds kinda awesome

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MommyXMommy@reddit

Wait until you find them in a curry. Hmph.

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SadRepublic3392@reddit

Golden raisins belong in some Indian naan, and it’s amazing. And their curry too.

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judgeejudger@reddit

In curry’s and raisin’s defense, I came across a lovely spicy curry that was coconut milk base, tomatoes, tons of spices, potatoes, peppers, green beans…..and about half a cup of gold raisins. It was great.

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MommyXMommy@reddit

All raisins are indefensible lol

Grapes, however, my favorite snack!

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DaisyJane1@reddit

Raisins only belong in Raisin Bran.

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mandmranch@reddit

Oh hell no. No raisins in stuffing or potato salad. Thats not good at all. Who told her raisins go in dressing?

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djtodd242@reddit

Hard agree.

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Cheese-Manipulator@reddit

My mom got me hooked on cadbury raisin and nut bars.

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SadRepublic3392@reddit

I love them too. Raisin oatmeal, and the cookies. Chocolate covered raisins - I used to buy a bag at work each day (thank god that was only a HS job!). I add raisin to oatmeal and extra to my cereal.

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newbie527@reddit

Oatmeal raisin cookies are a cruel hoax. How many times did I think I was getting chocolate chip cookies only to taste disappointment?

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missfitz1@reddit

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2dznotherdirtylovers@reddit

My fav

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phillymjs@reddit

Was your house one of the ones that handed out those little Sun Maid boxes at Halloween instead of real candy?

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punkwalrus@reddit

No, actually. My parents never gave me the carob/raisin lies. But I grew up where other parents did, and their kids' parties were hella-lame.

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redrehtac@reddit

I don’t mind raisins but it would never occur to me to buy them because I don’t like them THAT much. One day I open a cupboard and there was a giant box of raisins. Apparently my husband went in to a grocery store and spent cash money on a life time supply of raisins. Been together for years and I’ve never actually seen him eat a raisin. The more times I type raisins the more it looks like a fake word.

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EntertainerNo4509@reddit

Yeah, candy is natures candy. GTFO here parents.

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SummerBirdsong@reddit

I can agree with her on the raisins being nature's candy but the beets are a stretch and a half.

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gravitydefiant@reddit

My mom is still, in 2025, pretending that carob tastes just like chocolate.

In other news, I just cannot understand how I ended up with an eating disorder...

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SnooOnions973@reddit

Oh my friend in eating disorders- my mother would go on every damn trendy diet even before they were trendy. The worst was alfalfa sprouts. Not only were they disgusting, they gave the entire family gas! As a 10 year old, I was very shy at school. No wonder.

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NYCWENDY1@reddit

Same 😑

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AlfhildsShieldmaiden@reddit

Ditto.

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Blue22Studio@reddit

Same. I never developed a healthy relationship with food, and it’s still hard. Food in my house growing up was either about restriction or reward. Nothing in between. My mother gave me diet “pills” when I was 12.

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GeorgiaYork@reddit

I was 5’4” and 110 pounds at 14yo. My mother told me to lose 5 pounds. She always told me I was fat. I couldn’t lose the 5 pounds and that started a lifetime of dieting and self-shaming.

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FireBallXLV@reddit

Those Women came from moms the Doctors called “ Tea and Toast “ women . Being Fat was seen as a moral failing -I think Gluttony is a major sin in the Catholic Church .

I am saying it was not just vanity for our Moms -it was seen, as I said, as a Moral Failing if you were fat . Sad …..

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GeorgiaYork@reddit

Definitely. It was all about appearances, not substance.

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wolfysworld@reddit

My sisters were 9 and 11 when they got taken to the diet Dr. I still can’t believe a Dr put kids that young on diet pills. Needless to say no one who grew up in our house has a good relationship with food.

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Amazing-Butterfly-65@reddit

Me and my 2 sisters all had eating disorders , and none of us have a good relationship with food to this day sadly

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wolfysworld@reddit

Yes, very similar outcome in our family.

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toxchick@reddit

I was on the rotation diet with my mom (300,600 and then 900 calories a day) with my mom when I was (checks notes) 12. Kids do not know the pressure to be thin and fucked up standards we went though. My daughter couldn’t believe Lena Dunham was fat shamed in the 90s, but remember the jeans you needed pliers to zip up in the 80s?

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SheSellsSeaShells967@reddit

Also ditto

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afschmidt@reddit

Remind her that will be YOU who decides which retirement home she goes to.

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Flux_My_Capacitor@reddit

My aunt told me the same lie and my parents went along with it.

I don’t let any of them live it down.

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DcubedWY@reddit

I would beg my mom to get the carob rainettes in the 1970s. She wouldn’t keep candy in the house and chocolate was too pricey for the amount of sugar it had, so I rarely bought it myself. I would buy the cheaper candy at 7-11 so I could get more. But very occasionally my mom would get the carob raisins, I liked them. Waxier than chocolate, but I wasn’t picky about sugar.

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Tim-no@reddit

My Mum too. Our punishment was liver once a week and puffed rice for breakfast.

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TheOldJawbone@reddit

We drank skim milk.

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writerlady6@reddit

It's come a long way. It's not translucent & grayish anymore.

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Tim-no@reddit

My first 6 yrs of life we had powdered milk, then moved to skim. Even now, 30+ years later, 2% tastes kinda rich.

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MommyXMommy@reddit

Powdered or liquid? lol

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TheOldJawbone@reddit

Both but frequently powdered. It’s a wonder I didn’t turn out even worse

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judgeejudger@reddit

Spent the night at a friends house once, and it happened to be “liver night”. Dumped about half a bottle of ketchup on, and swallowed pieces whole, then threw it up later that night. Never went to Steph’s house on the last Friday of the month ever again!

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Tim-no@reddit

I remember trying to hide it in our mouths ( my sister and I) and then going to the bathroom to spit it out.

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djtodd242@reddit

I was denied chocolate. You were abused. Please, accept this hug of sympathy.

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RealityOk9823@reddit

https://achewood.com/2005/01/13/title.html

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Ok_Fig7692@reddit

I feel you - my mom was on an anti-preservative/anti-sugar kick around the same time, because she thought the sugar made me hyperactive.

No, mom, it was fucking ADD combined with a learning disability. Only took me 30 years to figure that out for myself.

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mary_wren11@reddit

Yeah, my mom has a whole sugar free cooking for kids cookbook. Frozen bananas covered in carob, hot cocoa mix made with powdered milk and carob powder, weird hard jello squares made with plain gelatin and fruit juice. I once ate an entire Dr pepper flavored chapstick because I was so desperate.

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Lumpy-Return@reddit

Ice pops were frozen orange juice in those plastic molds.

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vixenlion@reddit

Abuse comes in all forms

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Blue22Studio@reddit

Ugh those juice gelatin cubes!!

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Ok_Fig7692@reddit

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jellitate@reddit

🤣🤣🤣

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WoolshirtedWolf@reddit

Same. Came home one day and the house was cleaned out. I can't think of a faster way to alienate someone from a new idea than to hit them with this is the way it's going to be from now on. I honestly believe that is where my fasting habit started.

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Blue22Studio@reddit

I feel this hard.

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valiumblue@reddit

OMG core memory unlocked. Carob was nothing but a LIE!

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Cheese-Manipulator@reddit

If I have to choose between carob and without I'd rather go without.

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Thick-Fly-5727@reddit

SAME!! Wtf was that bullshit?!?

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horsenbuggy@reddit

I'd rather eat AYDS

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One_Hour_Poop@reddit

I've had some decent carob. It exists.

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Effective_Pear4760@reddit

Yeah, there is. Whoever told them it tasted like chocolate. Cause it sure doesn't.

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ThePicassoGiraffe@reddit

We did carob too but because I was sensitive to dairy and I don’t know if straight cacao was available back then

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BigFitMama@reddit

Ah that weird akaline musky flavor of carob frosting. Least it was sweetish.

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holidayoffools@reddit

Best friend and I went to an Easter egg hunt where the "chocolate" eggs were, unbeknownst to us, carob. We thought the eggs tasted weird but proceeded to eat s shit ton nonetheless. Have not touched carob since.

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occidentallyinlove@reddit

Are you me? I harass my mom about carob regularly.

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CheeseburgerSmoothy@reddit

What the hell ever happened to carob anyway? Why is it no longer a thing? These new generations need to experience it!

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PlumbutterOnToast@reddit

"Any religion that embraces carob is not for Carl Carlson."

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vixenlion@reddit

I am thankful I don’t know what carob is

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kvmw@reddit

I think all of us were traumatized thinking we were given candy when we got a tigers milk bar.

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Shoots_Ainokea@reddit

When you're starving they're a Godsend.

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scottwricketts@reddit

Core trauma unlocked. I blocked out all existence of those.

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mary_wren11@reddit

Our treat was those sesame and honey candies from the health food store, and they are good but we only got two each. After I left home, I ate two candy bars a day for at least a year. But I still think sugar cereal and sweetened peanut butter taste weird.

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Otherwise_Carob_4057@reddit

Really?

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PrettyGreatOldOne@reddit

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mahonia_pinnata@reddit

One of my most memorable negative food experiences as a kid was a piece of carob melted between two Girl Scout shortbread cookies. I think my mom was trying to make reverse Oreo or something. just no.

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texasbelle778@reddit

This and sherbet absolutely RUINED one of my birthdays. I still haven't forgiven the culprits. 😑

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Happy_Blackbird@reddit

Oh, good Christ, the rainbow sherbet. Ick.

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DaisyJane1@reddit

My aunt hosted a baby shower one time and served a punch with pineapple juice, ginger ale and lime sherbet. It was DELICIOUS. I like Creamsicles, too (orange sherbet and vanilla ice cream).

Ice milk blows, tho.

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Peachy33@reddit

I swear my mom made something like that at every event we had! And I loved it. I think she used sprite though?

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Glockenspiel-life32@reddit

I think this is what we always had. It was so delicious! I believe the recipe was just lime or may rainbow sherbet and spite or 7 up. There may have been another ingredient but I don’t remember. If memory serves, I think we just put scoops of sherbet in the punch bowl and then poured the soda over it. You didn’t really mix it up or anything. It was so good!

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Peachy33@reddit

I think my mom poured sprite into the bowl and then added some pineapple juice. Not too much but enough to flavor the sprite. And then the sherbet was added when guests started to arrive.

I’m going to make this next time I have a family gathering.

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Glockenspiel-life32@reddit

Yes! I think this was the ingredient I couldn’t remember! I used to make this punch all the time growing up. I felt like there was something else besides soda and sherbet but couldn’t remember since it was never written down and these kinds of drinks went out of favor.

People today don’t know what they’re missing lol. And this is from someone who doesn’t even really drink soft drinks. It’s not a moral reason or anything like that, I just never liked soda, but those punch mixes were the best.

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Weatherbeaster1993@reddit

I think that drink was a 70/80 thing.

Also my mom bought ice milk by accident and we never let her live it down

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Glockenspiel-life32@reddit

I still believe this is the only purpose of sherbet. I grew up in the time when punch was a thing. Sherbet makes it, I don’t think those recipes would work with real ice cream and I don’t believe sherbet was meant to be eaten alone as an ice cream replacement.

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cookiesandpunch@reddit (OP)

My mother made that same mix but used champagne instead of ginger ale or pineapple juice. Her Tupperware parties always bordered on being housewife ragers!

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Cool_Intention_7807@reddit

My kinda mom!

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cookiesandpunch@reddit (OP)

My sister and I snuck into one when the dining room buffet table was unwatched. We got our little selves lit on that punch and heavily dosed pecan/bourbon balls.

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judgeejudger@reddit

Dude, it was my job to clear the dinner table when my folks threw dinner parties. So while they all drifted into the living room, I was working my way around the table sampling everyone’s boozy drinks 🤣

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holidayoffools@reddit

Yes, this baby shower punch was bomb!!

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QueenMEB120@reddit

This sounds so good!

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New_Guava3601@reddit

Oh it was so good at kids parties... covers the taste of vodka.

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Happy_Blackbird@reddit

Hahahahaha. Perfect.

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TRIGMILLION@reddit

My parents were always buying sherbet because it's what they liked. It was ok but we had to beg for ice cream.

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Lanky-Amphibian1554@reddit

Sherbet is great if you take it for what it is. Still prefer ice cream though.

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occidentallyinlove@reddit

My dad’s favorite is sherbet, specifically orange. When I tell you we suffered.

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ExhaustedMouse@reddit

Orange sherbet is the best!

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No_Dog1192@reddit

I love rainbow sherbet.

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cookiesandpunch@reddit (OP)

I feel this. I’m sorry for your loss.

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FireBallXLV@reddit

It was considerably cheaper than Ica Cream .I actually liked both but then Winn Dixie had their own Dairy that won awards .

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cookiesandpunch@reddit (OP)

We got ours from either Winn-Dixie or K&B drugs.

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SquareSand9266@reddit

It was Blue Bell or home made in our house.

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wisemonkey101@reddit

That was a staple in my grandparents freezer.

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allsilentqs@reddit

We were raised on it. Got the bucket size and would reuse those buckets for years for various things. I liked ice milk but then again my mother only bought skim milk.

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Reginald_Sockpuppet@reddit

I miss the fuck out of ice milk
I'm so glad you posted this because my family has been gaslughting me about it for 30 years and saying they have no recollection of it

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MessageFearless5234@reddit

Yes! And I loved it! To this day, I wish they still made this 😆. Now, the closest thing I can get to it is a fudgesicle.

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admiralholdo@reddit

No ice milk but I do remember eating a lot of Frookies.

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FoolishFriend0505@reddit

My grandmother bought it once. Everyone, including her said it was ass. Never had it again.

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LayThatPipe@reddit

Nope. My grandfather was a salesman for a large dairy cooperative here. My father was a lifelong ice cream lover. We never got anything other than the real thing.

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JoeFromStPaul@reddit

It wasn't as good as ice cream, but it was still good!

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DialZee@reddit

That’s all my grandparents would buy.

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Designer-Mirror-7995@reddit

Thankfully, my mom was OBSESSED with Black Walnut ice cream and Cherry Vanilla ice cream with REAL (maraschino) cherries, so I never had to suffer this.

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Lonely_Storage2762@reddit

No, but in the '80s when I got married, I used to buy ice milk because it was half the price and we were on a strict budget.

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International-Rip970@reddit

This was god awful

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BobsleddingToMyGrave@reddit

Yes. And carob chips instead of semi-sweet chocolate chips.

So gross.

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Lanky-Amphibian1554@reddit

I did used to hate carob. Blasphemous impostor shite.

I was allowed candy once a week and my mother usually got it from Holland & Barrett, which is the UK’s most popular health food store.

The candy there was very good then, and still is. She used to give me sticks of barley sugar, which you can’t get any more. And Panda licorice.

More recently they had these insanely good jelly beans with real fruit flavour, but they’re discontinued now.

The carob, though - what an abomination. I don’t think they sell that shit nowadays.

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mortymouse@reddit

Yes. We got PET brand. Had to drown it in magic shell to make it edible.

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cookiesandpunch@reddit (OP)

Mmmmmm Magic Shell? Now I have a new craving.

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Lanky-Amphibian1554@reddit

Yeah! IIRC the secret ingredient was stearic acid.

I wonder if I could buy food grade stearic acid somewhere.

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Nisi-Marie@reddit

When I had my daughters, one of our favorite things was to buy ice cream, dump some cocktail peanuts all over it and then magic shell so that it hardens up around the nuts into Amazing clusters. So so so good!

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wellbloom@reddit

Upvoting for magic shell!

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TraditionalMud2696@reddit

This is the 1st time I have ever heard of ice milk, I shit you not.

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cookiesandpunch@reddit (OP)

It was not great but better than nothing

Google says: “The main difference is that ice cream has a high milk fat content, at least 10%, giving it a rich, creamy texture, while ice milk has less than 10% milk fat, resulting in a lighter, less creamy, and often grittier texture. Due to FDA regulations, the term "ice milk" was largely replaced by "low-fat ice cream" or "light ice cream" in the mid-1990s, making true ice milk harder to find in stores today. “

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Jovet_Hunter@reddit

The question is, which is more meh, iced milk or frozen yogurt?

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Avandria@reddit

I used to love frozen yogurt. There was a little health food and vitamin shop in the mall near our house when I was a kid. It had a softserve frozen yogurt machine and had a delicious tangy frozen yogurt that was amazing. I haven't ever found anything else like it. Normal frozen yogurt is just disappointing.

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klippDagga@reddit

Yes! There was a health food store in the little town that I grew up by with what had to be the same soft serve frozen yogurt.

It’s been more than forty years and I only had it once but I still think about it every once in a while and wish I could find it again somewhere.

The tangy flavor is what made it so good and memorable.

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Effective_Pear4760@reddit

Yes! I am not a fan of the stuff they call "frozen yogurt" now. I LOVE real frozen yogurt. Haven't had it in a while.

One grocery store I used to go to had perfect yogurt for freezing. Premixed, regular yogurt, not Greek yogurt (I've never tried frozen Greek yogurt). Just put the cup with the lid on into the freezer. I haven't figured out why but occasionally it'll separate a little so it has bigger ice crystals in it, which isn't great. But it still has the yummy tangy flavor. Mmm. I wonder if any store around me still has the right yogurt...

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Lanky-Amphibian1554@reddit

I remember that as a kid too! There was some kind of lemon flavoured stuff, and I would stick the carton right in the freezer and it would come out perfect.

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yellowlinedpaper@reddit

Ninja creami, try it! Tonight I ate 2 scoops of pistachio ice cream for about 30 calories. It’s amazing.

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Pernicious_Possum@reddit

Ice milk. I loved TCBY (the(this?) country’s best yogurt). Like ice cream, but with some tang. Ice milk is just frozen disappointment

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cookiesandpunch@reddit (OP)

Definitely yogurt, but I won’t turn either down. Any port in a storm I say.

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methos3@reddit

Christ who wants more “grit” in their ice cream?

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RainbowDarter@reddit

The grit was mostly ice crystals and disappointment.

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Lanky-Amphibian1554@reddit

I seem to remember I liked the texture.

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North_Key80@reddit

Yup, this.

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Ok-Lion1661@reddit

Lions fans ! LFG!!!!

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macarenamobster@reddit

Hate me if you want, but ice milk was great from a machine in a cone. Crisp, refreshing, not too heavy. Very cold.

I actually prefer vanilla ice milk in a cone at the end of a big meal to another dessert.

Any other situation, regular ice cream is better. Eating ice milk with a spoon is depressing.

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True_Bluejay_3977@reddit

Dairy Queen...yum

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yellowlinedpaper@reddit

I guess they didn’t have stabilizers back then?

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Eighth_Eve@reddit

Isnt yhat just gelato?

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cookiesandpunch@reddit (OP)

No but similar. Many gelato is much more dense and creamy tasting and many gelato recipes include egg yolks which ice milk didn’t have

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Tim-no@reddit

Ice milk was good…. In a glass of milk.

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HLOFRND@reddit

What’s funny is a decent chunk of what people think is “ice cream” in the frozen section isn’t actually ice cream. The fine print calls it “frozen dairy dessert” or something similar.

It has to do with the % of cream or milk fat, I think, but it applies to a lot of Breyer and Dreyers products. Same with the Oreo brand ice cream sandwiches. It’s not considered ice cream.

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SteveArnoldHorshak@reddit

Breyer’s is actually getting sued over labeling their vanilla product "ice cream" for years.

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phillymjs@reddit

How the mighty have fallen. They ran commercials about the ingredients in their ice cream vs. their competitors, and now half their stuff in the freezer section can't legally be called ice cream.

And don't get me started on the steady whittling down of the quantity. Gimme a nice half-gallon brick like in that ad I linked.

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firewifegirlmom0124@reddit

Blue Bunny is another one that is a “frozen dairy dessert”

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TraditionalMud2696@reddit

I have notice the frozen dairy dessert before, usually steer away from it though. Like I would “processes cheese food” or whatever it says on individually wrapped cheese slices.

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SadRepublic3392@reddit

Same!

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SardonicusR@reddit

I feel like it was more of a Midwestern thing? That is certainly where I know it from, during my 70s and early 80s childhood.

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TraditionalMud2696@reddit

I’m from Michigan, turns out I remember eating it (people mentioning the ice crystals jogged my memory), but I always thought it was just cheap or freezer burned ice cream. Never knew it had a different name.

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MirSydney@reddit

Same, and as an actual Dutch person I'm horrified to think anyone would even believe we woud be associated with this.

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Nein-Toed@reddit

Same, Carob too.

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Luckygecko1@reddit

The Reason Ice Milk Isn't A Thing Anymore

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TraditionalMud2696@reddit

I do remember eating, what I thought was ice cream, with the ice crystals. I guess I have had it and didn’t realize.

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cookiesandpunch@reddit (OP)

That was interesting, thank you

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tupelobound@reddit

Pretty sure what they serve at Dairy Queen, Chick-fil-a, etc is technically ice milk

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Matrinka@reddit

My mother was a nutrition fan. We were lucky to ge ice milk. Sure, ice cream was way better, but I learned to live what was the norm. I only buy the pure fatty deliciousness now, since I buy it rarely... But I'd love to taste that crunchy old classic.

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caryn1477@reddit

Same

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airwalker08@reddit

Thanks for not shitting us

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Lanky-Amphibian1554@reddit

They didn’t refuse to buy ice cream, but they did buy ice milk at times. I liked it just fine. Funny, I was just thinking about it.

My parents applied a selective version of the Feingold diet, whereby I wasn’t allowed artificial colours or flavours. This was probably no bad thing, since it filtered out a lot of non-nutritious crap. It did however limit the foods we could eat, and we were in a remote area with not all that much choice. If they bought ice milk, it was probably because it was there.

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Scifidelis@reddit

Abomination. My family only believes in ice cream

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ringwraith6@reddit

I grew up with ice milk and diet pop (I still mourn Tab). I always thought that the homemade ice cream (with the hand crank thingie) just tasted sooooo much better. I was an adult before I actually got to eat store bought ice cream. The homemade stuff is still better...but even store bought ice cream is still better than ice milk/currently "low fat" ice cream.

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Dramatic_Side_856@reddit

I miss chocolate chip ice milk

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Secret_Asparagus_783@reddit

In addition to ice milk (now low-fat ice cream) back then, there was Bordon's Charlotte Freeze, which was cheaper than ice cream so mom bought a lot of it. It was made with vegetable fats and tasted pretty much like the real thing.

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SubstanceNo1544@reddit

We were so broke we MADE iced milk. Cap full of vanilla extract into a glass of milk in the freezer for a couple hours.

BOOM, ghetto ice cream

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Ok_Fig7692@reddit

My grandmother had an ice cream maker... we did it a couple of times at the family vacation house. It was fun and I remember thinking it tasted like the store brand.

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Secret_Asparagus_783@reddit

Did you lick the "dasher" afterwards?

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SpokeAndMinnows@reddit

We made it also. It was an easy recipe for kids to do. I actually prefer it over ice cream, which is too heavy for me.

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LuckyBallnChain@reddit

We added sugar to the milk and poured it into plastic sandwich bags with the little ties and froze. If I remember correctly we would get similar frozen icee things when we visited family in Mexico.

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Medical-Resolve-4872@reddit

This is how those were made!? My fam in El Paso would put a strawberry in the bag

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SubstanceNo1544@reddit

I forgot to add the sugar in my recipe.. that was definitely in there lol

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judgeejudger@reddit

I tried to freeze juice in the ice cube trays, like that Saturday morning thing between cartoons. Just slopped juice all over the freezer and my ma was not pleased 😂

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Repulsive_Drawl@reddit

My Dad bought it, but I think it was because it was cheaper.

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PlumbutterOnToast@reddit

Dairy Queen's done alright by it

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PossibilityDecent688@reddit

It was cheaper.

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Lexidazesickle@reddit

Yes!

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Educational_Seat3201@reddit

Nope! My dad absolutely refused to substitute real ice cream! To this day I honor him with a bowl before bedtime.

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cork5ea@reddit

No, but I’d totally eat this.

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joelkeys0519@reddit

Oh man—frozen desserts in the box. Totally forgot about this 🤯

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ProperBar4339@reddit

My best friend’s mother was perpetually on a diet. She used to buy ice milk, and it was awful

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nowandnothing@reddit

Never heard of it. What was it actually like?

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Embarrassed_Wrap8421@reddit

My Mom did this once —bought ice milk for us instead of ice cream. We ate it but regarded it as an unfortunate experiment. Never again.

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carmineragu@reddit

Yep we always had ice milk except for birthdays then we got Breyers Vanilla.

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silkywhitemarble@reddit

We used to have chocolate ice milk bars in elementary school as a treat around holidays. Never had it at home, though.

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xjeanie@reddit

Good heavens NO!

I admit I like froyo but never had anything like that.

I don’t know, my mother was an incredible cook. She actually enjoyed it and all kinds of wonderful stuff was made with her lovely hands. I realized how spoiled I was in this regard. Include my Nana and Aunts as well because they also were amazing.

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karlat95@reddit

My grandmother bought ice milk. Never liked it. Do they still make it?

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CauchyDog@reddit

Funny, no... But my depression era grandmother did all sorts of stuff including mixing milk powder and sugar and stirring it into a half frozen slush.

But my friend and I still enjoyed it in early 80s watching all the tv shows. Often under the dining area table covered with sheets, blankets covering the floor, doors and windows open in summer... Ah, memories!

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Shoots_Ainokea@reddit

It was cheaper.

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trustyfriend71@reddit

I remember ice milk! We still got ice cream though so I don’t know what went into the decision making process, ice cream or ice milk I was glad to have it.

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Sufficient_Stop8381@reddit

We got that. It was allegedly healthier or something? And gross.

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NeeliSilverleaf@reddit

I suspect it was cheaper.

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fumbs@reddit

No it's part of the low fat fads. It didn't have as many calories.

My granny always bought it but my mom bought the real stuff.

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NeverEverMaybe0_0@reddit

No, it was definitely the lower cost.
I don't know if we were poor, but we were barely above that.

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NeeliSilverleaf@reddit

It was both. It wasn't until they started marketing it specifically as low fat that they upped the price.

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wildgriest@reddit

All we ate was ice milk in the 1970s to early 1980s… then there was a pause, all of the sudden Dreyer’s appeared in the freezer.

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Cheese-Manipulator@reddit

Ice cream's coupon clipping cousin.

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Kalenie9744@reddit

I had a weird aunt that wouldn't splurge for ice cream, just ice milk. She was the only person that wouldn't. She would insist it was just as good as ice cream. She spent the difference at Taco Bell. She wasn't eating it because she was healthy. I hated those sleepovers.

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Dismal-Mastodon-8359@reddit

Yes, always ice milk, and vanilla at that. I was allergic to chocolate until I was 17 so the treat options were slim growing up 🤣

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ignored_rice@reddit

Grandpa couldn’t have ice cream anymore, so we bought him ice milk. Remember it well.

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Thick-Fly-5727@reddit

I am triggered.

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PaleDreamer_1969@reddit

I’ve never heard of it until now. Interesting

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Lost-Platypus8271@reddit

we got mellorine and that shiz was fire 🔥

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IncommunicadoVan@reddit

Yes we did, and it was yucky and unsatisfying compared to ice cream.

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Fun-Diver7512@reddit

My mom was cheap, so we had ice milk for dessert.

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Nipper6699@reddit

I freeze my own chocolate milk. It's just as good... better since it's cheaper. Lol

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Happy_Blackbird@reddit

Yup. But, I admit, I actually loved ice milk and still do (aka: chocolate sorbet!)

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impostershop@reddit

I don’t know what people are complaining about! When I was a kid (70s) sometimes in the summer my mom would come home with a bucket of ice milk from Dairy Queen (hello Dennis the menace) and it was the best thing ever!

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cookiesandpunch@reddit (OP)

I remember some people did genuinely prefer it. I don’t know if my grandmother did or if it was just her stoic, Spartan, Methodist belief in “not being too showy.”

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Medical-Resolve-4872@reddit

Yes and I miss it! Impossible to find now (thanks a lot, fro yo!)

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mopnopples@reddit

I got roasted hard by my son for using my blender to make chocolate milk slushies. Especially because I use skim milk. Now I remember what inspired my decision to do it.

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frostedpuzzle@reddit

Yes.

And carob instead of chocolate

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Ok-Bug4328@reddit

Another indication of modern prosperity. I haven’t seen that in years.

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charliefoxtrot9@reddit

Ayup. Luv those ice crystals

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SaharaUnderTheSun@reddit

Unflavored for me!

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Glockenspiel-life32@reddit

Well, most of my family we would get ice cream, but they rarely bought it. But we could always get ice milk at my grandparents. My grandfather who must have only been in his 50’s at the time had major heart bypass surgery back in the 80’s. The kind where they just rip you open and odds are more in favor of dying than surviving it. He was put on an extremely low fat no salt diet. He loved real ice cream, but was only allowed ice milk. He always had some in the freezer. We learned to appreciate ice milk because we could get it all the time. Real ice cream, not so much. That was a luxury.

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Pernicious_Possum@reddit

My dad’s family in PA would buy that. Total garbage

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sunshinechica1@reddit

I have never heard of that. It doesn't sound good. Can't be very creamy

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ActionMan48@reddit

Ice milk is trash.

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ktappe@reddit

No. My parents insisted on real ice cream. Usually Breyers. Back when it was real ice cream.

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ChrisFullerton1974@reddit

They still make ice milk. It’s just called low-fat ice cream now.

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DJErikD@reddit

I miss McDonald’s ice-milk based shakes.

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DaisyJane1@reddit

The last time I got a milkshake from there, it had a roach in it ....and it got up the straw.

I haven't been back.

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Ok_Fig7692@reddit

God, I wouldn't get one from them if you paid me. Taste like chemicals. Any other big name fast food place is fine but I'll never have a McDonalds shake again.

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BobbyFan54@reddit

Does anyone remember the fad with diet chocolate soda?? OMG that stuff was so nasty. It was that and Ice Milk

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judgeejudger@reddit

Diet chocolate fudge soda….🤢

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NeeliSilverleaf@reddit

Canfields. It was better than the Tab and Fresca (both room temperature) that were the other options at my Grandma's.

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FrostnJack@reddit

In a household where most good things were “of the devil” somehow Ice Milk was tossed into the bin’a hayell. Thankfully ice cream was god-breathed or whatever.

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GenXyupornope@reddit

Nope

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magenta_thompson@reddit

My aunt bought this stuff. To me it was like an entire container of the top layer of old ice cream in the freezer

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judgeejudger@reddit

My ma went on a tofutti kick for awhile.

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Baebarri@reddit

We got mellorine.

Mom switched to Blue Bell after we were out of the house.

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AmourTS@reddit

Margarine, miracle whip, ice milk. Those were the days!

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mandmranch@reddit

Nothing wrong with icemilk. It just has less butterfat and fat solids.

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GatorOnTheLawn@reddit

Yes, because it was cheaper. Not everyone could afford regular ice cream.

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ennuiandapathy@reddit

My mom bought ice milk whenever she was dieting.

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Grandmaster-HotFlash@reddit

Ice milk was just refrozen melted ice cream. Bleh!

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Happy_Resource7311@reddit

Nasty disappointment

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PiratesTale@reddit

I miss it actually

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Designer_End5408@reddit

Yes!!! I just said this in the ice cream choices thread. So yuk!

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Btdtsouthside@reddit

Yall make me feel so normal. Seaweed spaghetti. Carob cake. Alba 66 shakes. Home made yogurt. Terrible era.

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Phlink75@reddit

OP I hope you remembered this when you chose their nursing home.

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seamuwasadog@reddit

No, but we tried ice milk. Once. Never again.

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OmChi123456@reddit

Ha! Ice milk and carob was the thing. WTF?

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cookiesandpunch@reddit (OP)

Carob is plainly of the devil!

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FairBaker315@reddit

Carob is for dogs.

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OmChi123456@reddit

I didn't really mind it. I feel the same about chocolate. I've always been a fan of the total garbage candy that's sour and full of food coloring and chemicals 😂

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Hyattville5@reddit

Yes. I did that most of the time.

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HelloKitty110174@reddit

Yes! My mother did!

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ms_rdr@reddit

Yes. Then set the freezer so cold that only my dad was strong enough to scoop it. Then made fun of me for letting it sit until it was soft enough to actually enjoy.

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kalitarios@reddit

This post sent me way back. My Aunt and Uncle used to travel overseas all the time, and Europe was a popular destinaton from them. this reminds me of the nights of 4 hours of slides (with that round slide projector, click-click, click-click)

Anywho, they brought this over one time, and I was excited to try it, but it didn't taste like ice cream, kinda like how I was bamboozled by saltwater taffy as a kid.

I have both fond and frustrated memories of this, but nothing bad. thanks for the post, I just dusted off a long-forgotten memory!

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Nisi-Marie@reddit

I would like to hear how saltwater taffy has wronged you

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kalitarios@reddit

I have PTSD from what smelled amazing NOT being gum. My grandfather gave me a box of what I thought was strawberry, watermelon and grape candy and it didn't taste like it. I believe I got really upset about it, like irrationally upset. I ate it of course, but I hated every bite.

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cookiesandpunch@reddit (OP)

👍🏼

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mcsangel2@reddit

Omg core memory unlocked

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apple_pi_chart@reddit

My mom was on a health kick in the 1970s, so we had Ice Milk for dessert, no cookies, soda, chips, or sweet cereal allowed in the house except special occasions. After my parents had their blow out parties I would get up early while they were sleeping it off and scrounge any goodies (usually soda) that I could find. Also, when I had some money I would go to the corner store and buy as much junk food as I could.

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JediWinchesterThe3rd@reddit

We used to get Sealtest ice milk and it came in the box shaped container that never closed properly once opened. Ahhh the good old days!

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cookiesandpunch@reddit (OP)

My mother would occasionally unfold the box and serve it in slices, especially Neapolitan

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Open_Bug_4251@reddit

I always preferred the ice milk bars. I think maybe they didn’t melt as fast. Or I’m imagining that.

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herodotus69@reddit

Yup. But I was allergic to milk.

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AlfhildsShieldmaiden@reddit

I kinda liked ice milk — more refreshing than ice cream.

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whydoIhurtmore@reddit

Yep. It was cheaper.

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Shawnieboy67@reddit

Wintergreen or unflavored ice milk?

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HiddenHolding@reddit

I…uhhh. Preferred and prefer ice milk. Those razor sharp chocolate-ish shards of ice milky delight felt so good shredding my gums as a kid

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Ok_Jellyfish3215@reddit

All. The. Time.

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NL_Gray-Fox@reddit

As a Dutch person i don't know how I feel about this, I'm also assuming it's not Dutch at all and no way in hell I'm googling Dutch pride because I know I'll get to see a lot or hairless white guys wearing military boots.

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cookiesandpunch@reddit (OP)

LOL - Why are all of those naked men wearing orange scarves?

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NL_Gray-Fox@reddit

You lucky bastard you found gay pride/kings day (basically the same thing).

No military boots with either white or red shoelaces.

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cookiesandpunch@reddit (OP)

Actually it was just a wild guess

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irmarbert@reddit

We tried some and it was gross.

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DeadpoolOptimus@reddit

Nah, we just got the no name (store brand) shit.

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Banjo-Hellpuppy@reddit

Ice milk. A prime example that there have always been bad ideas

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No_Conversation_5661@reddit

This has unlocked a vague memory for me.

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El_Comanche-1@reddit

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These was as close to ice milk I got to…

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RollingTheScraps@reddit

We are all buying this now. The name was changed with the FDA in the 90s. It's the same fat content as Frozen Dairy Dessert. Real Ice Cream is getting harder to find.

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RandomObserver13@reddit

Um, no? What even is this monstrosity?

As far as my dad was concerned, dessert was part of dinner and there’d damn well better be at least a couple half gallons of ice cream in the freezer. So what if he ended up 350+, that’s what his momma did and damn if that should ever change!

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Jerking_From_Home@reddit

Ugh I had totally forgotten about this abomination until right now. Like frozen YooHoo. Blecch.

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Sufficient-Pin-481@reddit

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This just looks…wrong

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cookiesandpunch@reddit (OP)

Ice Cream/Milk used to come in a brick-shaped, folded box

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imadork1970@reddit

My dad's parents raised dairy cows. We ate real ice cream, whipped cream, and butter.

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katievera888@reddit

It was all the rage

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Crowofsticks@reddit

Once

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jmthomas87@reddit

My mother made the mistake of buying that a couple times. Only twice. My father was NOT happy when he was expecting to have a nice bowl of vanilla ice cream after supper and she hands him ice milk.

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equal_poop@reddit

I once mistakenly bought ice milk and was promptly sent back to the store to buy ice cream. I had to cross a major 4 laned street and walk 2 blocks to do this. I never made that mistake again.

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cosmoboy@reddit

A lot of ice milk bars for us kids but mom hated ice milk and would buy only the cheapest boxed ice cream.

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Daelda@reddit

My father worked at an ice cream plant - so we got free ice cream all the time! Instead of milk in oatmeal, we'd use ice cream - try it, it's awesome!

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Fun-Appointment-7543@reddit

My grandmother too!

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IWNCGTA@reddit

Did Dairy Queen used to be ice milk? My grandma would go to DQ and have them give her half a gallon or so and we’d eat that with desserts.

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cookiesandpunch@reddit (OP)

Yep

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ExhaustedMouse@reddit

I actually prefer ice milk!

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nwh527@reddit

Light n Lively lemon chiffon ice milk was delicious, like lemon sherbet.

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JCNunny@reddit

Farm Store Ice Milk all the time lol. After my dad's quadruple bypass, he couldn't have 'regular' ice cream, so we couldn't either. He still smoked though.

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MrBully74@reddit

As a dutchman I have to ask, wtf is this even?

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Sea-Air4927@reddit

Yes. I forgot about that. Probably explains why I like skim milk and Chick fil A’s watery ice cream.

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HeavyNeedleworker707@reddit

As a kid I loved ice milk. I liked the lighter texture I guess.

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sanityjanity@reddit

So disappointing.

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VicLap45@reddit

We got Sealtest Ice Milk one time. The only reason I liked it was because it was easier to scoop as a kid as it was softer. But my dad wasn't having it as we were a Breyer's family (before they lost their minds and changed their formula).

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Middle-Chemical9220@reddit

Ugh. My mom used to buy Sealtest.

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BoldBoimlerIsMyHero@reddit

Yep. My mom still prefers it. I believe it’s still sold as low fat ice cream

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marshallkrich@reddit

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Imaginary_Attempt_82@reddit

My grandma!

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thesuperd75@reddit

My grandparents bought that. It was less expensive, and money was tight. But I don’t remember complaining!

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garitone@reddit

Next time you buy "ice cream" look at the ingredients! A lot of the cheaper brands try to stretch the definition of ice cream by filling their cartons with pretty cheap ingredients. Corn syrup, fructose, carob bean gum, cellulose gum, tara gum, xanthan gum, guar gum, and added color all work to make these look like ice cream, but certainly not taste like it.

You might long for the days of ice milk.

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cookiesandpunch@reddit (OP)

I pretty much buy Blue Bell Ice Cream exclusively and even that isn’t as simple as it used to be

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holidayoffools@reddit

We got it because it was cheaper. Same with margerine instead of butter. Real dairy always cost more. Is ice milk still made?

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Soggy_Motor9280@reddit

You must be a old as fuk Gen X

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cookiesandpunch@reddit (OP)

Born in 1973. Old as fuck to many.

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Soggy_Motor9280@reddit

I’m 77’ , you aren’t that bad!👍🤣

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PussyFoot2000@reddit

Never heard of ice milk. I imagine it's more crystallized looking. But I'm just guessing

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federationoffear@reddit

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zombie_spiderman@reddit

Unflavored for me!

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Cumulonimbus_2025@reddit

Yup. Ice milk. Now known as low-fat ice cream. Think ice milk sounds better.

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RedditSkippy@reddit

I remember my great aunt once bought it by mistake and she was HORRIFIED.

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MishmoshMishmosh@reddit

No but I remember ice cream in those boxes. They should bring them back

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lazygerm@reddit

My Gramma was overweight and some kind of diet. Nutrisystem 2000, Weight Watchers and the like. She would serve ice milk sometimes. Ooof. She stopped and just ate less real ice cream.

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Jarleyhartbarvis@reddit

WHY WOULD YOU MAKE ME REMEMBER THAT SHIT. So so awful. It wasn’t even as good as a glass of chocolate milk.

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feelingmyage@reddit

No, but my grandma, who was fat, always bought this for herself.

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6dc4me@reddit

My dad would buy this instead of ice cream. Im guessing because it was cheaper.it wasn't because it tasted better

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warwatch@reddit

My grandmother.

A woman who only feared two things: spending money and fat.

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Minirth22@reddit

My mom must be a relative

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mutnik@reddit

I grew up with ice milk. Never understood why but it being cheaper explains it.

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Minirth22@reddit

My mom! She always bought ice milk from Braum’s, but I thought it was just an Oklahoma thing!!!!!

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WatermelonMachete43@reddit

My dad and his peach ice milk. Mom also loved Carol.

Sigh.

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rocketman1969@reddit

Go mom and Carol! Crazy 70s.

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WatermelonMachete43@reddit

Oh jeez, stupid autocorrect...that was supposed to be carob.

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rocketman1969@reddit

Lol!

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SeeDubyaHat@reddit

Omg. Ice milk, sherbet…. The worst now but happy our broke ass family had that.

The worst was never having butter and mom putting melted country crock on popcorn. Just wrong!

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Glittering-Eye2856@reddit

My Mom. 🤦‍♀️

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Alltheprettydresses@reddit

When the grown ups were dieting, they'd get this. Didn't help an ounce.

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shellyangelwebb@reddit

My dad bought it because it was cheaper than ice cream.

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Beret_of_Poodle@reddit

My mom used to buy this stuff. But then again she would do almost literally anything to lose weight. Including -- and I'm telling the absolute truth here -- having staples put into her ears.

It also reminds me that my mother and grandmother bought me an ice cream cake from Dairy Queen for my birthday one year. They asked me if I liked it and I said sure it was fine. For some reason they interpreted that to mean that I LLLUURRRVED ice cream cake and got me one every year for the next 4 years. I was always disappointed. At one point it came up in a conversation and I told them that I prefer regular cake. They asked me why I never told them. I told them they never asked.

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7_62mm_FMJ@reddit

No.

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2fastcats@reddit

Grandma would get these and serve us slices of ice milk rather than scoops. She didn't own an ice cream scoop, I think.

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CharleyLH@reddit

Ugh, that’s how you knew your friends were being secretly abused.

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Spare-Action-1014@reddit

it tastes exactly what it sounds like, NOT GOOD

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Luckygecko1@reddit

If you mean by 'refused' that we were poor and Ice Milk was cheaper, yes.

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Separate_Wall8315@reddit

Thank you! No one seems to understand there’s a reason it tasted like crap other than it was “cheap ice cream.”

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KitchenNazi@reddit

https://i.redd.it/zxfvlcmdtfmf1.gif

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Sensitive-Rip-8005@reddit

I still cringe remembering eating artificially flavored imitation ice milk that my mom bought. Not even real ice milk! To this day, I check to make sure it says “Ice Cream” on the packaging.

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pwcWMD@reddit

Not mine

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captainbeautylover63@reddit

🙋🏻‍♂️

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Greasystools@reddit

Cruelty dressed as benevolence

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IfICouldStay@reddit

I’ll take wintergreen!

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Spiff69@reddit

Unflavored for me!!

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Warhammer517@reddit

Yep. Lucerne Ice Milk from the Safeway store in my area of Oklahoma.

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Hot_Rock@reddit

That’s all mom would buy for years. Mostly because it was slightly cheaper. When I finally tasted real ice cream I refused to eat ice milk.

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sir_grumph@reddit

I don't recall my mom deliberately buying it, but god knows my dad frequently complained about how modern ice cream "wasn't ice cream but ice milk." He seemed really irritated about it.

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grumblefluff@reddit

Frankly I preferred it, as did my grandpa, and I miss it sometimes

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The_Real_Fufishiswaz@reddit

Gross

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smoothallday@reddit

My grandparents bought ice milk all the time!

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flock-of-nazguls@reddit

Just out of curiosity, I wonder if Bingsoo is technically “ice milk”, but just shaved? (Because it’s frickin delicious).

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NeeliSilverleaf@reddit

Bingsoo is actually good though.

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Kwards725@reddit

Wow. Ice milk is wild.

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NedRyerson92@reddit

YES!!!! I tell my husband this all of the time. My grandmother would ON!Y buy ice milk and he’d never heard of it. He got the fancy Neapolitan. lol.

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XerTrekker@reddit

My grandmother used to have it in the 70s, but only chocolate, that I can remember. As a little kid I thought it was pretty good, like a fudgecicle in scoop form. I assumed it was either a product of economic hardship or a 70s fad, because by the 80s my grandparents had real ice cream. I vaguely remember asking about the ice milk then, and being told it wasn’t available or something. Makes sense, if it was renamed as low-fat ice cream or whatever.

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Splatford@reddit

only i got ice milk when i was shopping in a hurry and grabbed the wrong container ..one of things you dont notice until you get home ...aww fuck

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Gold-Perception-4467@reddit

Yes, and I refused to eat it.

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gladmoon@reddit

If that’s “Dutch Pride” then I weep for the Netherlands

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rocketman1969@reddit

And now many of the big brands are mushy "frozen dairy dessert", not ice cream. Shit won't even freeze.

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gravitydefiant@reddit

Yes.

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TubaDog9705@reddit

My grandmother bought both.

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Traditional-Panda-84@reddit

Even with her dietary restrictions ca, 1978, my mom just bought what was on sale, though her preference was sherbet.

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Intelligent_Call_562@reddit

It was cheaper, tasted pretty much the same, but was missing that creamy mouth feel. As a matter of fact I saw a couple of guys on YouTube rating grocery store ice cream, and the ice milk rated higher than some premium brands.

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CqwyxzKpr@reddit

Like yoohoo vs chocolate milk

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Geniusinternetguy@reddit

What the hell is that?

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DidelphisGinny@reddit

My next door neighbors bought only Ice Milk.

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MacSteele13@reddit

I was today's years old when I first head of "ice milk" (and I was born in the 60s)

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Funny-Nature-4602@reddit

I hated that crap as a kid

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Extra-Blueberry-4320@reddit

We always had this when my mom was on Weight Watchers. It was nasty…worse than Halo Top. And I am sure it was the reason my mom would go buy a 2 quart container of premium butter pecan ice cream that would disappear over the course of 2 days. I can’t say I blame her, TBH.

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Mysterious-Dealer649@reddit

Never heard of it and it was my grands that were kinda weird about dairy. Moms side was basically no dairy and dads side couldn’t get enough, the creamier and richer the better

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eyeroll611@reddit

Ice milk is delicious

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punkndrublic1984@reddit

I have never heard if ice milk, this can’t be real

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cookiesandpunch@reddit (OP)

Oh it’s real, but NOT spectacular

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Shour_always_aloof@reddit

Parents bought it once by accident. The old man bent three tablespoons trying to scoop it out of the carton before he gave it a good read and realized it wasn't ice cream.

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Jumpy_Cobbler7783@reddit

Up until 1994 the FDA required ice cream with less than 10% butterfat to be called ice milk.

Now it's referred to as "lite / reduced fat / or low fat".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_milk

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EssexUser@reddit

Yes! 🙄

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johnnyspader@reddit

Growing up in Canada, the Dairy Queen was ice milk. We all referred to it as ice cream, but I ‘think’ the fat content was too low to officially call it that.

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angelaelle@reddit

Yes. My mom thought it was "healthier". I hated the weird texture and total lack of flavor. At least she got the fancy Breyers instead of the Farmer Jack's store brand.

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wellbloom@reddit

WTF! No and no one I know has ever had ice milk. I’m sorry for your childhood :)

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aluminumnek@reddit

Ice milk? Never heard of that one

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cookiesandpunch@reddit (OP)

It was pretty ubiquitous among store brands in the 70s and 80s.

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