When The Ice Cream Gets Whiskers

When you look into a box of old ice cream, that's been in the freezer too long -- say the quart size cartouche-shaped box of Neopolitan -- strawberry, chocolate and vanilla -- to find those white grandpa-ish ice whiskers sprouting, you must feel free to ditch the the whole box, when it gives you a wave of existential angst, as well it might. Just let it go. You just have to let some things go.