Ice Cream Delight

From: Sandeep Dhar
Subject: JOKE-CLEAN: Ice Cream delight

Ice cream is fun, or so you thought.

Here is an excerpt of a writeup that appeared in the Saturday morning Indian newspaper The Hindu, dated 20th July, 1996.


Did you know that ice cream contains 30% of ordinary non-boiled, non-filtered tap water, 6% fat, 7-8% sugar and about 50% air?

It is not vegetarian unless stated otherwise. It starts off as a slab of fat toughened to be made rubbery to hold large volumes of air pumped into it.

Something is added to this aerated mix to resemble cream, make it gooey and stick to the spoon. This something is an injection of glue, produced from parts of animals no one eats: Udder, Nose, Tail and Rectal skin. This glue gives the satisfying smooth taste when passed between tongue and roof of the mouth.

It is regrettable home-made ice creams have given way to such a horrible non-veg mixture. The average ice cream contains the following substances

  1. Diethyl Glucol - Used as an egg substitute in ice creams. Also used in anti-freeze and paint removers.
  2. Peperonal - Vanilla substitute. Other uses Anti-lice medicines.
  3. Aldehyde C17 - Gives you Cherry taste in ice creams. Used in dyes and rubber factories.
  4. Ethyl Acetate- Pineapple substitute in Pineapple ice creams. Known to find uses in Leather and Textiles. Causes lung, liver and heart damage.
  5. Butraldehyde - Provides nut flavour in ice creams. Used in rubber cement.
  6. Amyl Acetate - Banana flavour; Good oil paint solvent.
  7. Benzyl Acetate - Tasty Strawberry flavor and a good nitrate solvent.
So when you treat your friends and near ones next time for an ice cream delight, don't tell them that your are actually treating them to a bowl of glue, polluted water, anti-freeze, oil paint, lice killer, nitrate solvent and lots of air. After all, you want to delight them!