cshenk wrote:
> Dave Smith wrote:
>
>> On 2020-12-16 12:49 p.m., Sheldon Martin wrote:
>>> On Tue, 15 Dec 2020 20:33:51 -0500, Dave Smith
>>
>>> In the '50s most people bought hand dipped ice cream that they ate
>>> right away, there were no factory packaged half gallons or quarts,
>>> home freezers were too small to fit a quart nor were they cold
>>> enough to keep ice cream for more than a couple hours.... ice cream
>>> contains salt so didn't freeze well in home freezers back then.
>>
>> Ice cream contains salt??? There may be just a pinch of salt in some
>> recipes. I never used it. There is enough sugar in it to lower the
>> freezing temperature, and the alcohol in the vanilla extract. Old
>> hand cranked ice cream makers used a combination of ice and rock
>> salt. The salt acted to reduce the freezing point of water to help
>> the heat transfer to freeze the product.
>
> I'm not sure if Sheldon ever made icecream but the salt goes in the
> outer container, not in the actual ice cream just like you say.
>

Popeye probably made jewish ice cream. Who knows what that
incorporates as ingredients. Hell, he probably used human breast
milk. Or even semen.

Could have whacked off over it too. Maybe served it up with varnish
kashas or other jewish tortillas.