zxcvbob wrote:

> 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.