Coles and woolies give no fuck at all for sell price because the manufacturer will often "contribute" the shortfall between buy/sell price on the shelf.
The only person getting screwed is the supplier, the customer has a choice.
Of course it is, it's an investment in my body and my gainz, anything you buy to better yourself is an investment...
They would charge exactly the same if it was by weight.
Ice cream doesn't have to weight 1kg per liter, some ice creams are supposed to be lighter and creamier. It doesn't have to be dense like a brick.
Agreed, can't see why it should weigh the same as water...doesn't the same volume of ice weigh less than water anyway?
Real ice cream is essentially frozen custard. Nothing beats it for taste if you can be bothered making it (and have an ice cream maker)
Isn't the size/weight/density rather irrelevant if you're happy paying the price for the product and quantity you're getting?
Correct, but it's not "lighter and creamier" because some fairy waived it's magic wand over it. It's "lighter and creamier" because it's pumped full of tiny nitrogen bubbles. So, you are not buying 2L of ice cream. You are buying about 1.5L of ice cream and a lot of inert gas. I do believed that it was Margaret Thatcher in her pre-PM job as an industrial chemist who perfected that particular ploy to boost profits for ice cream makers.
That's why real ice cream, if I may use that term, is denser. It's just cream, sugar and a few flavours and/or fruit bits.
Bulla, Cadbury, non name, etc is pumped full of nitrogen to bulk it up. It also makes it easier to scoop and is less solid to eat.
Ice cream, being a solid, should be sold by weight. Like ice cream's dear and close cousins, butter, cheese, cottage cheese, etc. That's all sold by weight.
Bottom line is that it's just another marketing scam. Knowledge is power.
Real ice cream is essentially frozen custard. Nothing beats it for taste if you can be bothered making it (and have an ice cream maker)
Isn't the size/weight/density rather irrelevant if you're happy paying the price for the product and quantity you're getting?
Before entering politics, former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher put her Oxford chemistry degree to good use with a research job at food manufacturer J. Lyons and Co.
Tasked with whipping more air into ice cream, she produced a type of ‘soft-scoop’ cream which could be pumped through a machine. It heralded Mr Whippy vans and the ‘99’ cone.