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The Ice Cream Container

 Supreme ice cream, Blue bunny, Ben and Jerry's.


We all love ice cream (at least most of us do).

So when we go to the store with our parents we convince them to buy the family size of our favourite flavours.


This ice cream becomes the go-to snack for movies and hot afternoons.


However, in African homes, these ice cream buckets have another use. A use that the makers of ice cream tubs didn't plan for at all.




It is used to store soup.


That's right. When the ice cream is all gone our parents make us wash up the inside to pack soup and stew and beans and anything that is NOT ice cream.


We have all been victims of the cruel prank.

We go to the freezer and see a tub of our favourite ice cream flavour. Just as we are about to exclaim 'ice cream!' we open it and see soup or stew.


It's the cruelest joke you can pull on a hopeful anyone- year-old.


At least we can say we follow the three R's


Reduce. Reuse. Recycle.


Though I'd really prefer to have ice cream.

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