What ever happened to ''ice milk''...is it still out there?

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All of this hot weather and waiting on my central air to be repaired has me dreaming of cold things to eat. I sure don't want to cook and make my house even hotter. If you know me, you know what a sacrifice that really is, as I dearly love to cook. I'm no soda drinker, usually only make an exception to that if I've been sick and drink some Sprite or 7-UP. My son brought over diet root beer the other day for me. Not sure why, he just thought it sounded good. I put it in the refrigerator, and last night decided to try some. One thing leads to another, then I of course wanted vanilla ice cream to make a root beer float. But I really didn't want that...I thought of the old standard ''diet''ice cream we used to buy sometimes, that I simply did not like, called ice milk. It came in cartons just like ice cream. Then I realized I never see it in the stores, and can't remember when I did see it, but it's been years now. So, then of course I had to look it up. I discovered that Dairy Queen ice cream is not really ice cream, which I had never considered. I know McDonald's isn't, but I don't hardly ever go to a fast food place, never for food and usually only for coffee on a trip. Son wanted to go get vanilla ice cream, but he did settle for frozen vanilla yogurt instead. He said it wouldn't make a good root beer float, but it did. Not as sweet but it had been so many years since I even tasted one, it was a good little treat to try to cool down last night. He polished off the rest of the frozen yogurt, so I don't have to worry about indulging in more, there's a bit of the diet root beer left but he will finish that, I'm sure. Ah, food memories. Come to think of it, as kids we diid that with grape Fanta, or strawberry Fanta, too. Soda and ice cream--no wonder we had all of that energy!