American Ice-Cream

When I was preparing to come to America my friend Lisa, who had lived in New Jersey for a year, told me that one of the things that America does better than Australia is ice-cream. That's partly true; I certainly wasn't disappointed when I came here and discovered such ingredients as chunks of cookie (sic.) dough and mini peanut butter cups. The only flavour I miss is boysenberry (which is ironic, given that boysenberries were first cultivated at Knott's Berry Farm in California).

Then I saw this at the supermarket:

I'm not sure what to think. Americans seem to like crunch in their ice cream. They have a lot of nuts and occasionally chunks of cone mixed in (or even chocolate-coated ice cream cone fragments). But popcorn!?