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.

"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?

> *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

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?
>
> 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.

Most soft-serve frozen custard products (Carvel, Dairy Queen, etc.)
used to be made of mellorine... perhaps still.

http://tinyurl.com/42g9w

Sheldon

"Nancy Young" > wrote in message
...
>
> "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?
>
>> *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

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.

Sheldon wrote:

> Most soft-serve frozen custard products (Carvel, Dairy Queen, etc.)
> used to be made of mellorine... perhaps still.
>
> http://tinyurl.com/42g9w
>
> Sheldon

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.

On 2005-04-08, Mark Thorson > wrote:

> 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.

nb

Mark Thorson wrote:

> Sheldon wrote:
>
>
>>Most soft-serve frozen custard products (Carvel, Dairy Queen, etc.)
>> used to be made of mellorine... perhaps still.
>>
>>http://tinyurl.com/42g9w
>>
>>Sheldon
>
>
> Yuck! Pseudo-ice-cream made from lard and Crisco!
> Here's what it says:

My husband has always referred to Dairy Queen as "frozen lard".

--Charlene


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notbob wrote:

> On 2005-04-08, Mark Thorson > wrote:
>
> > 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.

Dog3 wrote:
> "Nancy Young" > wrote in
> :
>
>
>>"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?
>>
>>>*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.
>
> Michael
>


Oleo[margarine] it to butter as mellorine is to ice cream. It is a very
apt comparison. I have no idea why I started thinking about it this
morning, but now I'm gonna have to look for the stuff just to see if it
is still sold.

Bob

_.-In rec.food.cooking, notbob wrote the following -._
> 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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In article > ,
Dog3 > wrote:

> "Nancy Young" > wrote in
> :
>
> >
> > "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?
> >
> >> *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.

Isaac

zxcvbob wrote:

> I haven't noticed anything labeled "mellorine" in at least 30 years.

See http://www.deluxeicecream.com/packages/Mellorine.html
"Fudge Ribbon - Artificial Flavour Added - Contains Animal Fat"

Completely artificial - a product for the new milennium!

gtoomey

Gregory Toomey wrote:
> zxcvbob wrote:
>
> > I haven't noticed anything labeled "mellorine" in at least 30
years.
>
> See http://www.deluxeicecream.com/packages/Mellorine.html
> "Fudge Ribbon - Artificial Flavour Added - Contains Animal Fat"
>
> Completely artificial - a product for the new milennium!

Only the flavor is artificial, mellorine is composed of all natural
ingredients.

Sheldon

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?

Felice

Gregory Toomey wrote:
> zxcvbob wrote:
>
>
>>I haven't noticed anything labeled "mellorine" in at least 30 years.
>
>
> See http://www.deluxeicecream.com/packages/Mellorine.html
> "Fudge Ribbon - Artificial Flavour Added - Contains Animal Fat"
>
> 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 do appreciate the link. :-)

Bob

Sheldon wrote:

> Gregory Toomey wrote:
> >
> > Completely artificial - a product for the new milennium!
>
> Only the flavor is artificial, mellorine is composed of
> all natural ingredients.

The cheapest, awfulest, worst-for-you, all-natural ingrediants,
such as beef fat, lard, and coconut oil. YUCK!

Note that the FDA says (capitalization added):

> 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.

You can't make mellorine with all cream -- that would be
ADULTERATED mellorine! I presume this is because the
dairy industry doesn't want anybody to make mellorine
that's TOO GOOD! It would be tough competition against the
lower grades of ice cream.

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.

Melissa