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You can buy ice cream by the gallon (4.5 litres!!) in the US. It can’t be that expensive! In the UK half a litre (a pint) is considered a lot of ice cream.

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You can, but most people don't unless it's for a party or something. Even then, it's almost always by the half gallon (which, of course, isn't actually a full half gallon any more) or pint. The latter becoming more common of late.

Maybe it’s changed, but growing up in Wisconsin those gallon pails of Kemps seemed pretty ubiquitous.

5 quarts (4.7 liters) is common size. Yes, it's cheap. But not usually very good quality, though.

In the gallon size that is probably true. Nobody really buys it in that size unless they're feeding a gaggle of children at a birthday party who don't give two shits about how awful the ice cream quality is.

Personally, I prefer my ice cream to have exactly four ingredients: milk, cream, sugar, cocoa. The end. Nothing else. I've had to switch brands a couple times because they cave to pressure to make their chocolate ice cream more creamy. No! I like it a bit dry, it's got cocoa in it! LOL

> I prefer my ice cream to have exactly four ingredients: milk, cream, sugar, cocoa

No egg yolks?

Not in chocolate ice cream, no. At least, not in the kinds I've liked best. And, I guess, I don't really like eggs in vanilla either. French vanilla just tastes off to me.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that my preferred ice cream style is "philadelphia style"

Me, too! Tends to be a bit more pricey, but well worth it, in my opinion.

Are we talking about eating it all yourself or sharing with the entire family?

I mean, it's icecream. It's good in the freezer for a _long_ time.

That's the size it's available in, so either.

You can usually only find cheap low quality ice cream in gallon sizes.

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