Over the last few days, a lot has been made about Walmart’s ice cream sandwiches and their gross way of not melting the way that ice cream should melt. But what about a name brand ice cream sandwich? We put a Nestle ice cream sandwich to the test in our 2nd installment of Will it Melt?
12 noon, 97 degrees
It is an unusually cool day (by Palm Springs standards anyway), but as the ice cream sandwich is unwrapped – we see that just being exposed to the heat for a few short minutes has the “artificially flavored vanilla” ice cream starting to soften and ooze out of the ice cream bar.
12:10pm, 97 degrees
10 minutes have now passed and the vanilla filling has almost entirely liquified – which compared with Walmart’s ice cream, is very, very encouraging.
12:20pm, 99 degrees
20 minutes in to the experiment and nothing even remotely resembles ice cream anymore. There is now a bubbly, white substance that looks not at all appetizing.
Just look at all of that froth!
And while coffee aficionados may pay extra for some of this foam at Starbucks, we will pass what used to be our Nestle ice cream sandwich into the dumpster – relieved that there are still ice cream sandwiches sold in stores that actually melt.
