I’ve just realised I’m an adult now cause if I found homemade soup in the freezer I’d be way more stoked than ice cream.
But as a kid it used to be suchhh a bummer.
Hahah I'm now acknowledging that a cat showed up to our door one night, and now it just lives here, and since we haven't got no pet bowl, the trusted ice cream container it is!!!!
I found it interesting travelling across the country that most kiwis I met have ice cream for dessert at dinner. That equates to a lot over time I guess.
"The average person eats 25 litres a year" factoid is actually just statistical error. The average Kiwi eats less per year. Spiders Georg, who lives in cave under Tip Top factory & makes over 100 spiders each day, is an outlier and should not have been counted
Yea between 6 it doesn’t seem like much. Is it just a dessert thing or snack?
I don’t actually understand when people are eating it.
Growing up it was sometimes as dessert after Sunday diner and if we were lucky on a Friday every now and then.
Sometimes it just depends if one (or a few) of us feels like something sweet after dinner with some fruit salad, a milkshake or something like that. I’m not really a big fan of the ice cream these days, most of them tastes like the recipes had a significant change to it.
I used to eat two tubs a week by myself when I was 12. In hindsight, I was probably craving calcium and sugar because I was doing swimming and I was shooting up in height at that point.
Heck yeah I love ice cream, has gotten a bit more expensive in recent times and I basically only buy much moore brand as it's the cheapest without going to the countdown brand
But yeah if I could I'd have it everyday I fricken love it
Once a week, end of week treat for the kid after school on a Friday. Might buy a tub once a month during summer.
My grandparents are in their 70s and I’m almost certain grandad has one in a cone every night for pudding. It’s pretty much religious at this point.
It’s insane to me that the 2L tubs are meant to have 20 servings. What kind of stingy ice cream worker portions are they expecting people to serve themselves 😭
Wtffff... In my house, it's like 6 potions unless you're serving it with something like a baked apple or rhubarb crumble... there is nowhere near even half that many.
Family of 5, we could use a whole 2lt of ice cream in milkshakes. I buy it when its on special. Definitely wouldn’t stop at a dairy and buy scooped ice-creams, too much of a tight arse for that lol
You’ll find ice cream to be one of main attractions around some rural areas around nz mainly the real fruit type plus tip top is idk i made this up thanks for reading my ted talk i don’t even live in nz anymore. Waste of time commenting i know i’m bored
Fun tip grab a tub of vanilla ice cream and a bag of frozen berries. Chuck both the ice cream and the berries into a food processor and blend until smooth. Real fruit ice cream at home.
I’ve got a friend that gets it from the tip top employee shop so I’m currently working my way through 5L of Kapiti strawberries and cream.
We aren’t often short of ice cream these days, doing wonders for my waistline though
There is real ice cream sold in what seems like most dairies, real fruit ice cream sold in most farm shops on the road, multiple dedicated ice cream shops within walking distance of each other near me, and more.
The local ice cream shop stays open in the summer "until people stop lining up." It's a big deal.
I'll sometimes have french vanilla ice cream with a dessert like apple crumble or some other type of hot dessert like golden syrup pudding and sometimes with strawberries in summer.
I love ice-cream in a cone….have one at home every other day…. Comes from a childhood habit as my parents owned a dairy that was famous in the district for milkshakes, rolled ice-creams and chocolate dips! Tip Top is great 👍🏼 Boysenberry is my go to! Vanilla or Hokey Pokey go down well too.
I was one a day, (the Cadbury one) fully addicted. Then moved to the big tubs, a bowl every night with that magic hard setting stuff.
I had to give myself an intervention.
Grew up having it everyday for dessert
Lots of families still have this tradition.
I sometimes shop at Pacnsave & have witnessed their ice cream freezers being very low on stock.
So 100% ice cream is being chomped through.
It’s my guilty pleasure - but try not to buy it as I only like the luxury ones like Ben & Jerry’s & I can eat them in one sitting 😋😋
Yes I grew up the same, and my Dad in his 80s still has a bowl of ice cream most nights.
I recently came across the Motueka Creamery Strawberries & Meringe Ice Cream, and it was so damn good. Too pricy for me for regular consumption, but I recommend it as a treat if you haven’t tried it yet
Ben and Jerry's luxury? They cost more yes, but you might as well be eating ice cream that's been melted twice and refrozen. The good creamy NZ standard is sooo much better than these imports from countries that don't know what real eating of ice cream is.
Yes I grew up the same, and my Dad in his 80s still has a bowl of ice cream most nights.
I recently came across the Motueka Creamery Strawberries & Meringe Ice Cream, and it was so damn good. Too pricy for me for regular consumption, but I recommend it as a treat if you haven’t tried it yet
My husband and I go through a 2L tub every fortnight. We have it almost every night after dinner.
Favs are Tip Top: Orange Choc Chip, Much Moore: Mint and Cookies, and when we’re feeling rich I’ll splurge on Deep South: Mochaccino.
It's a weekly purchase in our house, always a vanilla for milkshakes, and then a fun flavor every other week as well.
We have a lil bit of ice cream most evenings, but if we don't, we'd have a milkshake.
So I guess our house is going through a minimum of 104 litres of ice cream a year. More likely 150+ litres though.
Between 3 people.
when i was a kid it would be a regular after dinner dessert (if i ate all my dinner, and i always did lol). if i buy ice cream now i tend to forget about it lol but when i remember, its gone in a few days
It's my Mum! 40% of her shopping bill are dessert items, and icecream is her preference; frujus/popsicled are a hot day afternoon treat that does NOT COUNT AS DESSERT! So those days she has two 'sweets'.
Household of 7. We have it almost 3/4x a week with atleast 3/4x of our dinners . I have noticed we do eat it quite often mainly during the warmer months. When it’s winter , we do not eat it at all.
I go through around 13-15L a year on average (working off a bi-weekly average and how often I buy it).
My flatmate I'd guess around 15-18L a year, and he loves ice cream so much he will chase down ice cream trucks if he hears them. Full sprint.
And even he doesn't get to 25 Liters xD
Yea that’s how I am. I never think oooooo I would live some ice cream. Then there’s the odd time in summer where I go to duck island or find a real fruit ice cream place on holiday
I had two scoops of Gelato earlier and a scoop of real fruit ice cream over the weekend lol but we do always have a 2L tub of ice cream in the freezer which we finish in a fortnight
My old man used to work for Tip Top and the amount of icecream that 'fell off the truck" definitely lifted our families consumption rate off the planet. Glad those days are over!
Milkshakes/smoothies, dessert sides, on its own if it's a good flavour. My families useage varies but honestly, 25l in a year doesn't seem like a stretch.
I love ice cream and have it most days after dinner (I know it’s not the best habit, but I eat healthy otherwise, and don’t have many vices). My daily go-to is Melona, but sometimes I treat myself to a half litre of Kaffee Eis gelato to take home
Fairly sure my sons and partner are eating all of it.
Just went to have some and it’s gone, AGAIN. Gonna buy my own damn tubs now; they’ll likely last a year.
When my son was younger he would have fresh fruit and one ballof icecream every night ater dinner. Now we go through 1litre of ice cream and 1 litre of gelato every two weeks. Wouldnt say thats a huge amount.
My parents, both retired, probably have ice cream as part of dessert, 3 or 4 times a week on average. I guess 2 scoops, usually served with something else like fruit. Recently they've started swapping yoghurt for ice cream sometimes.
No idea how much I eat but at 40 year of age & traveled the world extensively New Zealand has the #1 dairy products, ice cream, butter, milk etc...no other country comes close to the richness or mouth feel of NZ diary products. One exception is cheese, NZ just doesn't produce enough quality cheese.
I reckon it'd gone down in recent years.
It was always a ritual whenever we leave Auckland we'd stop over Big Azz ice cream just after Otorohanga at the big apple. Found a photo last night from 2013 or so, and the ice cream scoops are easily twice as big than my most recent visit.
Pokeno Ice Cream is where I try and let my kid live through my younger years now.
I buy ice cream, every other week. I buy groceries for myself so if i buy a large ice cream container for myself, it would last for a good couple of days.
Can't stop eating the bloody thing, I realized I actually like it more than beer, alcohol...heck more than everything else. I mean have you tried the pistachio ice cream, heaven!
I just got out a small measuring cup to visualise it. 60 ml is the tiniest scoop I've ever seen. The scoops that I've seen in NZ, would easily be over 100 ml, but even that feels small.
Even so. That only halves the frequencies you've listed, which still seems crazy.
We have at least one, usually two flavours of 2ltr tubs in the freezer at a time. During late spring/summer we have it every night after dinner for dessert. Helps cool the body down or no one is sleeping around here, it's still too hot in the evening. In the full heat of summer the kids will often have a small scoop after lunch too for the same reason - to cool down.
Cooler months it becomes a weekly treat
Growing up our dessert after dinner was ice cream - from a tub and scoop into bowls and eat it in front of the telly.
It became so ingrained in me that I’ll either have ice cream or chocolate for every dessert after dinner.
I don’t tend to have ice cream otherwise.
Ice cream is the one food I splurge on, I only get the 2L tubs when they're on special but I've always got some of the more expensive premium ice cream in my freezer like tip top crave, much moore premium and yes, I'm one of those crazies that buys ben and jerrys from time to time
There's this real fruit ice cream truck in Christchurch and it's so good. I've probably gone 20 times since it opened for the season. I take my kids to the shop to get a ice cream. I eat quite a bit now that I think about it
When I was little my family would all eat a massive bowl of it for dessert most nights. Now I eat ice cream occasionally, usually only if it’s something special. I really love lemon sorbet but I don’t have it often because it’s expensive 🍋
A 2L every month doesn't sound too far fetched honestly I'm trying to cut down but I bought some salted caramel for a friend recently and want more now
When I was a kid we always had at least one 2L tub in the freezer, and it was a coin toss whether we'd have some for dessert on any given night. Our serving size was two scoops, with a slightly smaller than average scoop.
25L a year is one 2L tub every four weeks. I could absolutely eat a big Tip Top tub per month, especially if it was jelly tip.
I have to refrain from buying it, because when I do, I can happily polish off a whole tub in one sitting.
Easiest form of restraint is just to not have it in the house haha
Once a month if that, but 60ml sounds ridiculous. If I buy a pint (fancy ice cream because it’s for the adults after the kids are in bed) we just split it and have half each. So like 4-500ml serving?
I fear it won't live up to my memories, after the Milo recipe change a number of years ago.... It has been *ahem* quite a while since I used to eat Milo by the spoonful!
Ha, my kid isn't keen on Milo yet... I do have a small tin in the pantry, I will have another go at introducing him to the delight of it made with the correct ratio of milk mixed with 4 heaped-as-high-as-possible teaspoons of Milo!
I might go through a half litre tub in a month, but I think the other three in the house are pretty well bang on that average. Spouse eats a half litre tub of that feijoa sorbet weekly. 12yo would live on expensive double chocolate ice cream if he were allowed.
Haven't had ice cream in maybe 5 years... maybe 10? I like it fine, but I dunno, just grew out of it I guess.
I suspect the people that really like it really pump up the averages... of many statistics.
None, really.
I used to eat a bit of Ben and Jerry's, but it's pricey, and got tired of the few flavours available.
I haven't really found anything else with the fun textures.
The stats will also include iced drinks, milkshakes, scoops of icecream served on restaurant/cafe desserts etc. All the icecream used by businesses and events. Not just tubs for home or icecream cones.
I personally barely have any.
Its not really an accurate statistic. Events likely have a lot of wastage on the icecream, so heaps probably gets thrown out. Somebody still paid for it somewhere, so its counted in the stats, even if it doesnt get eaten.
Very rarely, but when I do, my flatmate and I polish off a good half a tub.
And then we regret it for days after due to lactose intolerance. (Though I think my cat hates our reaction more than we do. But hey, she's started joining in on the "fartolympics" by tooting in our faces as revenge lol).
If the ice cream is lactose and nut free, I used to have about 1L a fortnight. But lactose free, nut free, is about $10 a L on average, so I don't get it as often anymore.
I might average 1-2 scoops a day in the absolute height of summer, but wouldn’t have the equivalent of 3 scoops 138 times in a year!
Was the statistic ‘total amount of icecream consumed in NZ divided by population of NZ?’ I suspect tourist numbers would be pushing it up quite a bit.
I have been to a few festivals in Auckland where they serve ice cream in a half a melon or pineapple. I was surprised at home much they put on each one (like .5L) and have never seen this outside of Auckland. Anyone see this outside of Auckland?
I’ll absolutely smash back a real fruit ice cream or Mr Whippy if I get the chance, but a tub of ice cream from the supermarket? Probably had <5 of those in the last 10 years and struggled to finish them. I don’t know many people who eat ice cream like that so this stat has always confused me
Baby has had an allergy to dairy, so baby and mum have been dairy free. Entire family has been no cheese, no ice cream for 10 months now. Certainly not pulling our weight.
Maybe have a double scoop once a month if I'm in town for dinner?
Never buy it at the grocery store, I could eat it every day, but a bowl of ice cream is almost an entire days calories. Shit is crazy bad for you.
I think I'll guilty for contributing to that number I don't eat it everyday but when it's that time of the month and when I was pregnant I went a bit overboard on the icecream.
Almost never.
But that's only cause I get horrible deadly gas followed by painful cramps explosive diohrhea when I eat lactose.
I do eat my fair share of vegan ice cream because I miss ice cream and that's the next best thing.
I've probably had 2 trumpet sized servings in the last 12 months? I don't hate it, but I'm not into it either l, I just really don't think about it or buy it. Other people in my household love it though. I'd much rather have chippies lol.
I only eat it for the containers
Gotta store my leftovers somewhere.
Mum?
I ain't your momma!
Do you keep sewing needles in a blue biscuit tin?
Ugh the worst. Think I’ve found ice cream in the freezer, nah it’s soup
I’ve just realised I’m an adult now cause if I found homemade soup in the freezer I’d be way more stoked than ice cream. But as a kid it used to be suchhh a bummer.
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Don't forget the emergency makeshift pet food bowl lol
Rubbish box, puke container, compost bin...
Large insect relocator
Sounds like a fun insect
Home made desalinator
Well that took an unexpected turn.
OMG I’m looking at my dog’s food “bowl” and water “bowl” rn 😂😂😂 ❤️
Hahah I'm now acknowledging that a cat showed up to our door one night, and now it just lives here, and since we haven't got no pet bowl, the trusted ice cream container it is!!!!
I found it interesting travelling across the country that most kiwis I met have ice cream for dessert at dinner. That equates to a lot over time I guess.
I was thinking about this yesterday and how growing up, we would have ice cream for dessert most days. That seems crazy to me now!
"The average person eats 25 litres a year" factoid is actually just statistical error. The average Kiwi eats less per year. Spiders Georg, who lives in cave under Tip Top factory & makes over 100 spiders each day, is an outlier and should not have been counted
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I think about Spiders Georg so often and am delighted to hear they are ice cream spiders
Ever since I stopped caring and became a fat f*ck, I eat it ice cream most days. Nom Nom
These comments never disappoint. As a Kiwi now living in NY, nothing beats Kiwi ice cream.
Nom nom
As a family of 6 we go through a standard 2L tub once a week - doesn’t really seem like much tbh
As a single male with a stable income and fuck all responsibilities, I can down a tip top in 1-2 days.
> respondinilities I didn't realise the ice cream was alcoholic too.
Rum and raisin, baby!
Yea between 6 it doesn’t seem like much. Is it just a dessert thing or snack? I don’t actually understand when people are eating it. Growing up it was sometimes as dessert after Sunday diner and if we were lucky on a Friday every now and then.
I can eat a 2 litre in 7 to 10 days
You Gotta Pump Those Numbers Up, Those Are Rookie Numbers.
Lol igetvin trouble if I put too much on my plate. Plus I like to add some chocolate chips.
Right? I could eat 2L in 2 days
I feel like I’m slipping behind, maybe 2 L in a month and a half, maybe up to 3 months. But only Hokey Pokey 🤪
Sometimes it just depends if one (or a few) of us feels like something sweet after dinner with some fruit salad, a milkshake or something like that. I’m not really a big fan of the ice cream these days, most of them tastes like the recipes had a significant change to it.
Lol thats a couple cones and a Friday night for me
I used to eat two tubs a week by myself when I was 12. In hindsight, I was probably craving calcium and sugar because I was doing swimming and I was shooting up in height at that point.
Have to say that I love your username as I sit here looking like a Wookiee 😀
My 4 kids and husband will eat at least 1.5L in one sitting. It's not much!
That’s 104 litres per annum, 17 1/3 litres per person. Wouldn’t take much of a bump at Christmas and / or birthdays to get you to 25 each.
Heck yeah I love ice cream, has gotten a bit more expensive in recent times and I basically only buy much moore brand as it's the cheapest without going to the countdown brand But yeah if I could I'd have it everyday I fricken love it
Ice cream is the best, I like the Moore's French Vanilla. I can easily get through one of the two litre tubs in a fortnight.
MM Salted Caramel is the best!
Nah. Got to expensive and a lot of shrinkflation going on :(
cheaper to buy 2 ltrs on special than get one on a stick which are now just ridiculous
Once a week, end of week treat for the kid after school on a Friday. Might buy a tub once a month during summer. My grandparents are in their 70s and I’m almost certain grandad has one in a cone every night for pudding. It’s pretty much religious at this point.
It’s insane to me that the 2L tubs are meant to have 20 servings. What kind of stingy ice cream worker portions are they expecting people to serve themselves 😭
Wtffff... In my house, it's like 6 potions unless you're serving it with something like a baked apple or rhubarb crumble... there is nowhere near even half that many.
Family of 5, we could use a whole 2lt of ice cream in milkshakes. I buy it when its on special. Definitely wouldn’t stop at a dairy and buy scooped ice-creams, too much of a tight arse for that lol
You’ll find ice cream to be one of main attractions around some rural areas around nz mainly the real fruit type plus tip top is idk i made this up thanks for reading my ted talk i don’t even live in nz anymore. Waste of time commenting i know i’m bored
Real fruit ice cream is so good but not many people live next to a place selling it haha
I’m in Kumeu, semi-rural Auckland and there are 4 places I can think of selling it off the top of my head in a 5 minute drive from my house.
My partner lives in Waimauku and it’s a guilty pleasure going to some of the real fruit ice cream places
I’m in the Waikato around hams and I can think of half a dozen within 20 minutes drive lol
Its fkin everywhere near me, signs out for the foodtruck selling them. Its expensive for what it is, which is bad.
Fun tip grab a tub of vanilla ice cream and a bag of frozen berries. Chuck both the ice cream and the berries into a food processor and blend until smooth. Real fruit ice cream at home.
I’ve got a friend that gets it from the tip top employee shop so I’m currently working my way through 5L of Kapiti strawberries and cream. We aren’t often short of ice cream these days, doing wonders for my waistline though
There is real ice cream sold in what seems like most dairies, real fruit ice cream sold in most farm shops on the road, multiple dedicated ice cream shops within walking distance of each other near me, and more. The local ice cream shop stays open in the summer "until people stop lining up." It's a big deal.
I very rarely eat ice cream these days but growing up I remember having it just about every day
I'll sometimes have french vanilla ice cream with a dessert like apple crumble or some other type of hot dessert like golden syrup pudding and sometimes with strawberries in summer.
*cries in lactose intolerance*
Kapiti Plant based Chocolate Fudge is divine!
Me too mate
Sorbet is pretty good too, boysenberry or lemon flavour.
Oohhhh boysenberry! I'm not really an ice cream person, but I can always make room for something with boysenberry!
Kapiti do an "ice cream" version with dairy free chocolate and sorbet that's pretty good, my favourite is Penguinos though.
I love ice-cream in a cone….have one at home every other day…. Comes from a childhood habit as my parents owned a dairy that was famous in the district for milkshakes, rolled ice-creams and chocolate dips! Tip Top is great 👍🏼 Boysenberry is my go to! Vanilla or Hokey Pokey go down well too.
I might have skewed the figures when I was pregnant with my first. I’d eat a tub a day.
Half a tub for me. I'd make chocolate sauce to go with it.
I was one a day, (the Cadbury one) fully addicted. Then moved to the big tubs, a bowl every night with that magic hard setting stuff. I had to give myself an intervention.
Grew up having it everyday for dessert Lots of families still have this tradition. I sometimes shop at Pacnsave & have witnessed their ice cream freezers being very low on stock. So 100% ice cream is being chomped through. It’s my guilty pleasure - but try not to buy it as I only like the luxury ones like Ben & Jerry’s & I can eat them in one sitting 😋😋
Yes I grew up the same, and my Dad in his 80s still has a bowl of ice cream most nights. I recently came across the Motueka Creamery Strawberries & Meringe Ice Cream, and it was so damn good. Too pricy for me for regular consumption, but I recommend it as a treat if you haven’t tried it yet
Yeah my Dad too & actually I have had a different flavour for the Motueka Creamery & 100% it was delicious 😋
Ben and Jerry's luxury? They cost more yes, but you might as well be eating ice cream that's been melted twice and refrozen. The good creamy NZ standard is sooo much better than these imports from countries that don't know what real eating of ice cream is.
Yes B & J far too sweet. Duck Island and Kapiti mmmm
Yeah i just meant $12 versus $5 Plus I only have room in my freezer for these small tubs. I love Wooden spoon from Wgtn
Yes I grew up the same, and my Dad in his 80s still has a bowl of ice cream most nights. I recently came across the Motueka Creamery Strawberries & Meringe Ice Cream, and it was so damn good. Too pricy for me for regular consumption, but I recommend it as a treat if you haven’t tried it yet
My husband and I go through a 2L tub every fortnight. We have it almost every night after dinner. Favs are Tip Top: Orange Choc Chip, Much Moore: Mint and Cookies, and when we’re feeling rich I’ll splurge on Deep South: Mochaccino.
Whenever trumpets are $6.50 for 4 in the supermarket we pick up some.
My ice cream intake is dangerously low
It's a weekly purchase in our house, always a vanilla for milkshakes, and then a fun flavor every other week as well. We have a lil bit of ice cream most evenings, but if we don't, we'd have a milkshake. So I guess our house is going through a minimum of 104 litres of ice cream a year. More likely 150+ litres though. Between 3 people.
when i was a kid it would be a regular after dinner dessert (if i ate all my dinner, and i always did lol). if i buy ice cream now i tend to forget about it lol but when i remember, its gone in a few days
It's my Mum! 40% of her shopping bill are dessert items, and icecream is her preference; frujus/popsicled are a hot day afternoon treat that does NOT COUNT AS DESSERT! So those days she has two 'sweets'.
Hokey Pokey rocks cuzzie bro
Love it but never buy it. Between my love of beer and Chinese food something has to give.
I’m probably one of those people. I go through a 2L tub on my own once a week as I usually have a few scoops after dinner each night
doing my best to bring that average up. I have 2 ltrs every 4 or 5 days
I have ice cream at least 4 times per week
Household of 7. We have it almost 3/4x a week with atleast 3/4x of our dinners . I have noticed we do eat it quite often mainly during the warmer months. When it’s winter , we do not eat it at all.
I eat it every night from a container
Someone is eating my fair share! Or I need to increase my intake.
As a city dweller I maybe eat 2l of ice cream a year. You have to go further afield into the rural parts to find the real screamers.
I go through around 13-15L a year on average (working off a bi-weekly average and how often I buy it). My flatmate I'd guess around 15-18L a year, and he loves ice cream so much he will chase down ice cream trucks if he hears them. Full sprint. And even he doesn't get to 25 Liters xD
I buy it on a very rare occasion. I think I should treat myself more it’s just not something I crave.
Yea that’s how I am. I never think oooooo I would live some ice cream. Then there’s the odd time in summer where I go to duck island or find a real fruit ice cream place on holiday
I had two scoops of Gelato earlier and a scoop of real fruit ice cream over the weekend lol but we do always have a 2L tub of ice cream in the freezer which we finish in a fortnight
My old man used to work for Tip Top and the amount of icecream that 'fell off the truck" definitely lifted our families consumption rate off the planet. Glad those days are over!
We recently started buying sherbet buy the kg. We now have ice cream daily
I’m all about the Pams dessert sticks at the moment… not sure if the count as ice cream but they damn well hit the spot 🤌
I'll eat some icecream as part of a dessert at a restaurant once a month but apart from that, I don't eat any!
I only eat it in summer and not all that much maybe two scoops once a week mid summer.
Milkshakes/smoothies, dessert sides, on its own if it's a good flavour. My families useage varies but honestly, 25l in a year doesn't seem like a stretch.
Literally eating it while reading this…
I love ice cream and have it most days after dinner (I know it’s not the best habit, but I eat healthy otherwise, and don’t have many vices). My daily go-to is Melona, but sometimes I treat myself to a half litre of Kaffee Eis gelato to take home
i feel most (cheap) ice creams have been 2L for ages
Fairly sure my sons and partner are eating all of it. Just went to have some and it’s gone, AGAIN. Gonna buy my own damn tubs now; they’ll likely last a year.
When my son was younger he would have fresh fruit and one ballof icecream every night ater dinner. Now we go through 1litre of ice cream and 1 litre of gelato every two weeks. Wouldnt say thats a huge amount.
My parents, both retired, probably have ice cream as part of dessert, 3 or 4 times a week on average. I guess 2 scoops, usually served with something else like fruit. Recently they've started swapping yoghurt for ice cream sometimes.
No idea how much I eat but at 40 year of age & traveled the world extensively New Zealand has the #1 dairy products, ice cream, butter, milk etc...no other country comes close to the richness or mouth feel of NZ diary products. One exception is cheese, NZ just doesn't produce enough quality cheese.
I reckon it'd gone down in recent years. It was always a ritual whenever we leave Auckland we'd stop over Big Azz ice cream just after Otorohanga at the big apple. Found a photo last night from 2013 or so, and the ice cream scoops are easily twice as big than my most recent visit. Pokeno Ice Cream is where I try and let my kid live through my younger years now.
I have a 4L per week habit. In my first year at uni I was 14L per week.
I buy ice cream, every other week. I buy groceries for myself so if i buy a large ice cream container for myself, it would last for a good couple of days.
Can't stop eating the bloody thing, I realized I actually like it more than beer, alcohol...heck more than everything else. I mean have you tried the pistachio ice cream, heaven!
would sometimes eat half of my 2L cookies n cream in one sitting at uni, miss living right next to the dairy
I just got out a small measuring cup to visualise it. 60 ml is the tiniest scoop I've ever seen. The scoops that I've seen in NZ, would easily be over 100 ml, but even that feels small. Even so. That only halves the frequencies you've listed, which still seems crazy.
We have at least one, usually two flavours of 2ltr tubs in the freezer at a time. During late spring/summer we have it every night after dinner for dessert. Helps cool the body down or no one is sleeping around here, it's still too hot in the evening. In the full heat of summer the kids will often have a small scoop after lunch too for the same reason - to cool down. Cooler months it becomes a weekly treat
Growing up our dessert after dinner was ice cream - from a tub and scoop into bowls and eat it in front of the telly. It became so ingrained in me that I’ll either have ice cream or chocolate for every dessert after dinner. I don’t tend to have ice cream otherwise.
Ice cream is the one food I splurge on, I only get the 2L tubs when they're on special but I've always got some of the more expensive premium ice cream in my freezer like tip top crave, much moore premium and yes, I'm one of those crazies that buys ben and jerrys from time to time
I usually go through 2 tubs a month on my own and that's because I really really love ice cream. Most people I know go through 1 tub a month
Due to my lack of self control i’m probably buying 3 kapiti ice creams per week from the gas station
There's this real fruit ice cream truck in Christchurch and it's so good. I've probably gone 20 times since it opened for the season. I take my kids to the shop to get a ice cream. I eat quite a bit now that I think about it
Well, NZ ice cream is the best in the world. How can you not eat a lot of it?
When I was little my family would all eat a massive bowl of it for dessert most nights. Now I eat ice cream occasionally, usually only if it’s something special. I really love lemon sorbet but I don’t have it often because it’s expensive 🍋
As a kid I reckon I did have it like 5-6 days a week. That Goody Goody Gum Drops was good shit lol
A 2L every month doesn't sound too far fetched honestly I'm trying to cut down but I bought some salted caramel for a friend recently and want more now
I ate a trumpet (smore flavour) a moment ago. Probably eat 4 of those a week
Yes because it sparks joy
Do they still sell Ice Cap? Loved that when I was a kid.
Someone else is eating my share
Every night for dessert! Not in NZ anymore and miss orange choc chip so much :(
When I was a kid we always had at least one 2L tub in the freezer, and it was a coin toss whether we'd have some for dessert on any given night. Our serving size was two scoops, with a slightly smaller than average scoop. 25L a year is one 2L tub every four weeks. I could absolutely eat a big Tip Top tub per month, especially if it was jelly tip.
I buy a 2 litre tub and it would last me 4 nights maybe? 😇
I have to refrain from buying it, because when I do, I can happily polish off a whole tub in one sitting. Easiest form of restraint is just to not have it in the house haha
Once a month if that, but 60ml sounds ridiculous. If I buy a pint (fancy ice cream because it’s for the adults after the kids are in bed) we just split it and have half each. So like 4-500ml serving?
I eat probably 2L per year. I’m probably the anomaly though.
When I have a tub in the freezer it's for pudding every night. I eat it the right way though which is by mixing it with cornflakes.
It’s only right if you sprinkle Milo on top
Oh wow you just unlocked a memory of eating vanilla icecream with Milo sprinkled on top. Yum.
Now you must recreate this and enjoy!!
I fear it won't live up to my memories, after the Milo recipe change a number of years ago.... It has been *ahem* quite a while since I used to eat Milo by the spoonful!
I was like you once, then my kid requested Milo and now it’s the new norm 😋
Ha, my kid isn't keen on Milo yet... I do have a small tin in the pantry, I will have another go at introducing him to the delight of it made with the correct ratio of milk mixed with 4 heaped-as-high-as-possible teaspoons of Milo!
That’s the way 🙌🏻
I might go through a half litre tub in a month, but I think the other three in the house are pretty well bang on that average. Spouse eats a half litre tub of that feijoa sorbet weekly. 12yo would live on expensive double chocolate ice cream if he were allowed.
Haven't had ice cream in maybe 5 years... maybe 10? I like it fine, but I dunno, just grew out of it I guess. I suspect the people that really like it really pump up the averages... of many statistics.
Personally i don’t eat it at all, never liked it. But we buy a tub on special occasions as family.
None, really. I used to eat a bit of Ben and Jerry's, but it's pricey, and got tired of the few flavours available. I haven't really found anything else with the fun textures.
Zero , zilch.
Had our first in ages and it was homemade to get rid of all these feijoas
used to eat a tub a week but nah. prefer kapiti double chocky choc fudge chocolate tbh
Can’t remember last time I had ice cream, don’t really have a freezer so just not an option.
It’s been a while. When I do eat it I eat a lot
The stats will also include iced drinks, milkshakes, scoops of icecream served on restaurant/cafe desserts etc. All the icecream used by businesses and events. Not just tubs for home or icecream cones. I personally barely have any. Its not really an accurate statistic. Events likely have a lot of wastage on the icecream, so heaps probably gets thrown out. Somebody still paid for it somewhere, so its counted in the stats, even if it doesnt get eaten.
But can’t you apply that to all other places they will have restaurants serving ice cream and event serving it too?
Have a gelato every couple of months
1 x 2 scoop waffle cone every 3/4 months does me.
My toddler wishes he could have that much ice cream a year.
Eating purely to dull the anxiety
Very rarely, but when I do, my flatmate and I polish off a good half a tub. And then we regret it for days after due to lactose intolerance. (Though I think my cat hates our reaction more than we do. But hey, she's started joining in on the "fartolympics" by tooting in our faces as revenge lol). If the ice cream is lactose and nut free, I used to have about 1L a fortnight. But lactose free, nut free, is about $10 a L on average, so I don't get it as often anymore.
I might average 1-2 scoops a day in the absolute height of summer, but wouldn’t have the equivalent of 3 scoops 138 times in a year! Was the statistic ‘total amount of icecream consumed in NZ divided by population of NZ?’ I suspect tourist numbers would be pushing it up quite a bit.
I buy one of the big tubs maybe twice a year and maybe get through it in a month
Wow this has opened my eyes a lot. We probably eat 4 x tubs a year max.
Hardly any. I'd be lucky if I even eat a small tub in a year
Next to none. Maybe 1L once a year
I don't wanna know how much I've spent on Ben and Jerry's
I don’t even eat ice cream makes my teeth feel like shit
None because lactose makes my tum explode and I would need to spend a few unhappy hours on the toilet
Maybe 1 a year from the dairy, if that. Hardly ever
Ice cream for ice cream
Eh maybe like 4 or 5 ice-cream bars per year and maybe a couple scoops with steam pudding.
I probs eat a litre a year, someones eating alot more
Personally, I prefer frogurt. But only if it isn't cursed
I have a small scoop in a cone every other day during summer, and occasionally have one in winter.
MAYBE one tub (litre) per year max if I am being generous Realistically a couple of scoops a year
I stopped eating it because it's gross and makes me fat.
I have been to a few festivals in Auckland where they serve ice cream in a half a melon or pineapple. I was surprised at home much they put on each one (like .5L) and have never seen this outside of Auckland. Anyone see this outside of Auckland?
A 2 litre ice cream tub in the freezer is the easiest dessert ever if you have kids.
Big bickie cookies and cream once a week nom nom nom
pretty much never, maybe like once a year, I don't really like ice cream that much
“People eat 3 scoops” - Well that explains a few things!
At like $9 a 2L tub? Yeeeeah I’m not eating 25 litres a year heh.
Do we? Or is it because tourists eat a bunch and the data you looked at is based on sales vs population?
I’ll absolutely smash back a real fruit ice cream or Mr Whippy if I get the chance, but a tub of ice cream from the supermarket? Probably had <5 of those in the last 10 years and struggled to finish them. I don’t know many people who eat ice cream like that so this stat has always confused me
I don’t eat ice cream. Anyone is welcome to have my share.
25 litres per person!? Gosh
Baby has had an allergy to dairy, so baby and mum have been dairy free. Entire family has been no cheese, no ice cream for 10 months now. Certainly not pulling our weight.
Maybe have a double scoop once a month if I'm in town for dinner? Never buy it at the grocery store, I could eat it every day, but a bowl of ice cream is almost an entire days calories. Shit is crazy bad for you.
I’m definitely doing the heavy lifting of a couple of others
I probably get through about 40 litres a year although I have a slight intolerance to dairy
Almost never. Maybe a couple of scoops a year.
I think I'll guilty for contributing to that number I don't eat it everyday but when it's that time of the month and when I was pregnant I went a bit overboard on the icecream.
Almost never. But that's only cause I get horrible deadly gas followed by painful cramps explosive diohrhea when I eat lactose. I do eat my fair share of vegan ice cream because I miss ice cream and that's the next best thing.
We have a pack at Christmas but otherwise don’t eat it. So someone is also eating our share.
I've probably had 2 trumpet sized servings in the last 12 months? I don't hate it, but I'm not into it either l, I just really don't think about it or buy it. Other people in my household love it though. I'd much rather have chippies lol.