When I was a kid, mellorine* was always in square (actually rectangular) cartons, and I think ice cream came in round cartons. I don't remember the ice cream all that much because we couldn't afford it very often so we usually had mellorine instead.
I haven't noticed anything labeled "mellorine" in at least 30 years. Ice cream in square cartons is still usually much cheaper than ice cream sold in round cartons; I wonder if that's a holdover from the mellorine days?
Best regards, Bob
*Mellorine is a frozen dessert that resembles ice cream, but contains vegetable oil or animal fat instead of much of the butterfat. Imagine "ice milk" fortified with shortening.
When I was a kid, mellorine* was always in square (actually rectangular) cartons, and I think ice cream came in round cartons. I don't remember the ice cream all that much because we couldn't afford it very often so we usually had mellorine instead.
I haven't noticed anything labeled "mellorine" in at least 30 years. Ice cream in square cartons is still usually much cheaper than ice cream sold in round cartons; I wonder if that's a holdover from the mellorine days?
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*Mellorine is a frozen dessert that resembles ice cream, but contains vegetable oil or animal fat instead of much of the butterfat. Imagine "ice milk" fortified with shortening.
I have never heard of such a thing, but you suddenly reminded me of my elderly Irish aunt, she would buy these squarish boxes of Napolitan? ice cream ... chocolate, strawberry and vanilla. Thanks for the memory.
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When I was a kid, mellorine* was always in square (actually rectangular) cartons, and I think ice cream came in round cartons. I don't remember the ice cream all that much because we couldn't afford it very often so we usually had mellorine instead.
I haven't noticed anything labeled "mellorine" in at least 30 years. Ice cream in square cartons is still usually much cheaper than ice cream sold in round cartons; I wonder if that's a holdover from the mellorine days?
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*Mellorine is a frozen dessert that resembles ice cream, but contains vegetable oil or animal fat instead of much of the butterfat. Imagine "ice milk" fortified with shortening.
I have never heard of such a thing, but you suddenly reminded me of my elderly Irish aunt, she would buy these squarish boxes of Napolitan? ice cream ... chocolate, strawberry and vanilla. Thanks for the memory.
nancy
This dessert reminds me of the diabetic ice cream they serve at the assisted-living apartments where my f-i-l lives. It is sooo slick, I wouldn't doubt a bit that they make it this way, as well as use a sugar substitute. They forget to label it diabetic and give it to me sometimes when I'm visiting, but now I can pick it out by sight. Dee
When I was a kid, mellorine* was always in square (actually rectangular) cartons, and I think ice cream came in round cartons. I don't remember the ice cream all that much because we couldn't afford it very often so we usually had mellorine instead.
I haven't noticed anything labeled "mellorine" in at least 30 years. Ice cream in square cartons is still usually much cheaper than ice cream sold in round cartons; I wonder if that's a holdover from the mellorine days?
In this part of Canada ice cream always used to come in bricks, pints, quarts or half gallons. It was only the bulk ice cream sold to ice cream bars and soda fountains that got the round tubs. Sherbet came in round containers.
Yuck! Pseudo-ice-cream made from lard and Crisco! Here's what it says:
Mellorine is a food produced by freezing, while stirring, a pasteurized mix consisting of safe and suitable ingredients including, but not limited to, milk-derived nonfat solids and animal or vegetable fat, or both, only part of which may be milkfat. Mellorine is sweetened with nutritive carbohydrate sweetener and is characterized by the addition of flavoring ingredients.
Mellorine is a food produced by freezing, while stirring, a pasteurized mix consisting of safe and suitable ingredients including, but not limited to, milk-derived nonfat solids and animal or vegetable fat, or both........
Sounds like Cool Whip (grease whip, as I call it) and cheaper American cheese products.
Mellorine is a food produced by freezing, while stirring, a pasteurized mix consisting of safe and suitable ingredients including, but not limited to, milk-derived nonfat solids and animal or vegetable fat, or both........
Sounds like Cool Whip (grease whip, as I call it) and cheaper American cheese products.
Artificially flavoured and coloured edible oil products. I had a slice of cheap cheese slices a few months ago. What the hell is that stuff. It doesn't taste like cheese.
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Sounds like Cool Whip (grease whip, as I call it) and cheaper American cheese products.
Which reminds me of I-Hop's "whipped topping". Just one of the many reasons to hate IHOP food.
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When I was a kid, mellorine* was always in square (actually rectangular) cartons, and I think ice cream came in round cartons. I don't remember the ice cream all that much because we couldn't afford it very often so we usually had mellorine instead.
I haven't noticed anything labeled "mellorine" in at least 30 years. Ice cream in square cartons is still usually much cheaper than ice cream sold in round cartons; I wonder if that's a holdover from the mellorine days?
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*Mellorine is a frozen dessert that resembles ice cream, but contains vegetable oil or animal fat instead of much of the butterfat. Imagine "ice milk" fortified with shortening.
I have never heard of such a thing, but you suddenly reminded me of my elderly Irish aunt, she would buy these squarish boxes of Napolitan? ice cream ... chocolate, strawberry and vanilla. Thanks for the memory.
nancy
I've never heard of it either. Now I'm curious about it. Of course this person did not know what oleo was until someone in this group patiently explained what it was.
I certainly remember it, growing up in the south in the fifties.Tasted kind of like ice cream, cost somewhat less.
I've been waiting for someone to mention MelloRolls, those short cylinders of ice cream wrapped in a paper band, which was removed as the rolls were placed in a wafer cone. A cousin of Mellorine?
Completely artificial - a product for the new milennium!
gtoomey
Thanks Greg.
(actually, it is a holdover from the last millenium, and it's not completely artificial -- it's artificial ice cream made from mostly natural ingredients)
I remember loving Neapolitan Ice Cream, and I remember it used to come in square cartons when I was a child. I do not remember Mellorine, but based on the description of how it's made, I don't feel especially deprived. On the other hand, it sounds as if the ice cream at my high school snack bar may have been a close relative.
I still have a fondness for Neapolitan ice cream and will sometimes buy a Neapolitan Ice Cream sandwich out of sheer nostalgia. Eskimo pies are another great childhood love, although I have upgraded my tastes sufficiently to eat a dark chocolate/vanilla ice cream Dove or Hagen-Dasz bar instead when I indulge.
Mellorine was the poor mans ice cream back in the fifties. I remember it well because we were one of the poor. Real ice cream cost 29 cents and you could get mellorine for 19 cents. We wolfed it down like it was the real stuff.
I was born in 52. I can remember saying " Oh, ice cream." And my mother would answer "No. Its mellorine." Tasted great to a kid like me, but I can remember it seemed to leave a coated feeling in your mouth. [IMG]/img/vbsmilies/smilies/eek.gif[/IMG]
It is neopolitan ice cream with the three flavors. Trying to find any store that still sells mellorine. Most people I know have never heard of it so I would like to find some so they can try it out.
