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Leo Abstract's avatar

Yes about that. The ordinary size container in the freezer section is only a half gallon, but they don't last long in the hands of the chronically overfed. The bulk tubs are a gallon, or at dairy outlets, three gallons. Also, remember that people who eat too much usually eat quite steadily and I have seen people make an alarming amount of progress through a three gallon tub of ice cream over the course of 16 waking hours.

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John Lawrence Aspden's avatar

I'm going to have to try this. I don't often eat ice-cream, but my intuition is that a couple of bowls would be enough. I'll try and find a large tub of PUFA-free ice cream and see what happens.

With double cream, when I drank an experimental 600ml pot my immediate reaction was 'wow! that was nice', and I drank a second pot. Then I felt pretty unwell for some hours and didn't eat again for a day or so.

The second time I tried it, I managed about half a pot before I just became unable to drink any more. It wasn't a physical problem, I'm sure that if someone was pointing a gun at my head I could have drunk a load more, I just really didn't want to.

I wonder if what's going on is that whatever mechanism says 'high calories! careful!' is just broken somehow. I wonder what could break it?

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