Last month we asked you to admit to your habit of eating ice cream straight from the container and a surprising 54 percent of you said that you eat from the container proudly and with no shame. Another 24 percent also admitted to indulging straight from the package, but only when no one is looking. Either way, when you gotta have some ice cream, you gotta have some ice cream, right?
This month’s poll tests your survival instincts and requires a little imagination. We’d like to know which of the items listed on the poll on the right you’d most want with you on a desert island. Or should we say a “dessert island?” The choice is yours!
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Well now, that was surely an easy poll to answer!
I could be stranded on an island forever as long as I have some Turkey Hill ice cream.
That was too simple!!!!!
hope it’s all chocolate-must remember to pack a spoon!
Hope some Jr Mint is included. It is so refreshing!!!
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What an interesting question and the anwers are even more interesting.
Very easy to answer!!
Since I have done a lot of outdoors stuff and a little survival training, it was easy to pick the ice cream. It’s the only food source, you can always read the cartons, you can use the cartons as a musical instrument, the freezer will keep you cool (leave the door open or sit in the shade), eating ice cream will bring back pleasant memories (family, friends, etc.)…I can go on, but as you can see Ice Cream is the best survival tool!!!
Good Morning to all Turkey Hill Fans,
I pick Ice Cream….I want Food…Ice Cream is Food. Turkey Hill Ice Cream. Music…I listen to the ocean to play my music. But Where are you going to ge the best Ice Cream and stay in fit???Turkey Hill ICe Cream
just hope that 100 gallons of ice cream is turkey hill.
I would like to have everything mentioned in the poll because I hate “roughing it” but of course if I could only have 1, it would be Turkey Hill ice cream. With all the different flavors you would get your fruit, nuts, peanut butter and all that calcium. That’s my kind of diet!!
HI,
LOVE THE NEW PEACH PIE ICE CREAM. MY HUSBAND ATE IT IN TWO SITTINGS SO I ONLY GOT A LITTLE BUT LOVED IT. HOW ABOUT A BLUERRY ICE CREAM FLAVOR OR ROOT BEER FLOAT?
This one was tough… I love music, I love to read, I love ice cream, I love looking at pictures of my family… what do I choose????
This is a difficult choice because I would certainly miss my family and obviously you would need to have some type of structure for protection against the outside elements. Music and literature is important too. The only reasonable solution would be to go with the icecream for these reasons: obviously the icecream would provide the essential nutrients needed and is also cool and refreshing,empty cartons can also be used to catch any rainfall for water to drink, empty icecream cartons could be used as building blocks for housing, the empty cartons can also be manipulated into a bed (probably a not-to-comfy bed, however I suppose it would work)and empty cartons can be used for drums as a musical substitute. The only items lacking would be literature and family photos. However this could be resolved in the following manner – the ice cream cartons could serve as a form of literature for reading. Most people have photos of loved ones in their wallets therefore if you were fortunate enough to have your wallet on your person the photo issue would be resolved.
Chocolate Peanut Butter Cup and a SPOON!!!
Do we get to pick the flavors? With 100 gallons of flavors I like it should last a year and by then I hope to be found.
Hmm, a solar powered freezer and 100 gallons of ice cream, now that sounds like great………would like some others to share it with, but that would be my choice if I had to be stranded alone!!!!
Looks like the ice cream is the survival tool of choice so far! We love Kathy P’s thinking. Kathy, you should have your own survival show on TV!
Of course I would want all of those items. With tongue in cheek, I would choose the freezer and ice cream. But, truthfully, when the ice cream was gone (in very short order, I might add)how would I survive? I would but perish on that island only knowing I had more than my share of delicious ice cream. The urge to live is strong so I’d have to have all the other items too for my comfort and survival.
OK, so why don’t we forward this to Survivor (The Turkey Hill Challenge). I’d get every flavor of chocolate, Lite, reg (Choc mix ins, Yogurt etc) since each has different sizes and types of coating, the wooden structures would have a roof with gutters to facillitate the water collection. Also it would help with the woven net made of torn and folded containers. I love reading and music. So Excepts from TH a history would be included with fun facts and every 15 containers would give clues to earlier shipwrecks and aphonogram and records. Since 78′s use hardwood as needles, cocoanuts are a great substitute! I know too much Gilligan’s Island with the crush I had on the professor and all his gadgets and solutions.
Ice cream wins – hands down.
all i had to see was freezer and turkey hill ice cream.
I was trying to be practical and chose the tent. But then I read everyone’s comments. What good is protection when you have no nourishment? You can choose the freezer with the ice cream and still be practical. I would like to change my vote for the ice cream freezer filled (of course) with Turkey Hill.
you sure have made this tough,
but being a library worker, I think it is An industrial strength tent
because I like protection and none of this other stuff would last if I did not have protection, thanks for the fun
From watching a certain television show, to see them maka shelter, bedding and a fire from things on the island. The freezer filled with ice cream would be my choice. The containers would be great to freeze anything food- wise found on the island. When all the ice cream is finished the containers would help make a great boat or raft to go home for more Turkey Hill.I checked,the containers and lids float. How could they not spot a raft that says TURKEY HILL ICE CREAM on it
Turkey hill ice cream wins my vote
Hi Guys and Gals!
This is a no-brainer. The only questions are…….can I pick the flavors (not that there are any I don’t like, but there are favorites), and will there be a spoon or do I have to make one? You said it was a desert island but did not say it was uninhabited. I could use some of the ice cream to barter and get help (naturally, after the ice cream was gone).
Lois
Sometimes,I feel that I’m on a desert Island ! At the time that you ask the question, I notice that many good ice screamers are listed with their answers ? ?
Y me Turkey hill is good when ever and you don’t have to be standed to enjoy it. to me when the kids go to bed i crawl chair and watch a good movie
At least with the freezer full of TH ice cream, I wouldn’t have to worry about “catching” my food! I can guarantee I wouldn’t be any good at that!
It is a tough choice! Guess the icecream is the best choice–after icecream is consumed, then I have a freezer machine to transform to a transmitter. Hey, Dr. Who could do it!
Maybe the empty ice cream containers could be used somehow to make a shelter too.
I would pick the solar powered freezer.
I could always put together some type of lean-to shelter, but I would need the freezer when all the ice cream is gone to store fish and any type of island fruit available for survival.
ICE CREAM/FREEZER!! All the rest could be created/crafted with and from.
I would definately miss my family. The ice cream is refreshing and will keep me cool & full. Fruit from the trees and ice cream, that is a great combination! I can certainly use a vacation, and the ice cream! What a thought. But I really would miss my children.
Maybe I would finelly get Junior Mint ice cream!!!
well, not to leave any thing to past , but if I could find some cream from a cow or goat and a few eggs, and some suguar cane and a sprig of mint , mix a little in empty coffe can and rool till it make ice cream, wow , i I would be in hi heaven
Can I add 100 tablets of Lactaid to my 100 gallons of ice cream lol!!!! =) I love TH =)
For this librarian that was a big decision, but woman can’t live on books alone.
I would need the nourishment, so I pick the icecream, and if I can request a flavor…I want chocolate!!!!!
my coffee and ice cream
If I had the industrial strengh tent(for sun protection)and the library(for entertainment)AND the ice cream, I’d be the happiest person on earth!
I would want a tent, solar freezer, and lots of TH Ice Cream. It wouldn’t matter what flavor, I love them all. Linda
ok, if you’re tired you can sleep anywhere. You gotta eat right?
Amy
I have to add this too. Ice cream gave me food to eat and to keep my health up. Wanted I enpty the carton the ice was in. I would use them for water and make a house using them this way. First I woul mix sand and water together. mix well pour it into the contain, then stack them up in rows of two. Covered the top with empty cartons i flat out that would be my roof.My bed would empty contain fill with plain sand. I would lay on top of it. My table with be the contain that keep my Turkey Hill Ice Cream in.I would relax on the sand and listen to the music of the sea. I would miss my family, but you see Turkey Hill would have some birds fly over to every 2 or 3 days to give me a up date on my family. they would have a TV on their wing. Don’t you Love Turkey Hill Ice Cream.
Yes we do have to eat and fish would be boring after a while.(Ha Ha ) Ice cream is much better and you never get tired of eating ice cream, especially Turkey Hill.
I’ll take the freezer with the ice cream
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I’m going to have to go with the solar freezer and 100 gallons of ice cream. I really hope I don’t run out of ice cream before I’m rescued because that would be a real bummer. Then, on the other hand, if I’m not rescued and I run out of Turkey Hill ice cream, I will have severe withdrawal symptoms and probably die on the island. However, my last memories will be of all the ice cream I ate and will leave this earth a very, very happy camper!
Gimme the ice cream, gotta have something to eat and what’s better than Turkey Hill?
If the island is in the Artic, just a freezer to put in the icywater, Turkey Hill ice cream, duetto or whatever, and a parka to keep warm. Don’t even need a spoon, use stones or whatever handy to scoop it out
I’d say the ice cream with solar freezer, and I would chet and put the fish that I catch also in the freezer. I can build a shelter, foreget the tent, the pictures of family would be great, but the would be with me in my heart. The books forget, as I would be daydreaming on that tropical island, and fantasizing about my rescue, just as I finish my last spoonful of Lemon Duetto.
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The freezer keeps the foods I catch or find fresh, and can sleep on the top of the lid to stay cool in the day time and build the shelter over the top of the freezer and sleep on it at night also, not a big reader and the family photos (won”t miss the family drama for awhile) last of all I have the best tast’en ice cream to keep me going. It looks like I could make for awhile!
I would like a Bible and my Turkey Hill Ice Cream if I was stranded on a deserted island. I would be able to read the Bible for guidence and also enjoy my ice cream. Linda
At least I’d have something to eat.
stranded on an island with solar freezer and ice cream..freezer to help keep me cool and the ice cream to help keep me alive until recued…sound good? .. Pat A
I would want my cat with me more than anything….
Wow! I never saw so many ideas for being stranded on an island. I’d pick the freezer and IC, too, now that I see what all you can do with it. Can’t wait!
I like everyones ideas for using the freezer. Good thinking.
My husband and the ice cream and two spoons.