This was posted on the Ice Cream Journal a while ago, but we thought we’d bring it back for a second look.
This container of Turkey Hill French Vanilla Ice Cream was purchased by a customer a while ago, who then sent us this picture. No word on whether this happy half gallon will be sold for thousands on eBay or attract hoards of mystified and adoring fans, but as far as cultural icons go, the smiley face is right up there with the best of them.
NOTE: Some of you asked in comments about this. Yes, this is exactly how the ice cream looked the first time she opened it. No human intervention with spoons or fingers at work here, just good old fashioned random luck!
By the way, how’s everyone’s National Ice Cream Month so far? We’ve been lucky (at least here in Lancaster County) to have some beautiful weather lately, which definitely makes celebrating ice cream a little more fun!
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It’s been terrific weather here in Ohio also. Yesterdays Blueberry Chesecake ice cream looked delicious. I just finished off my container of Southern Lemon Pie, YUMMY!!!
Finallly some sun in PA, that is why the ice cream is smiling!!!
Yes, the weather has been ideal in Lancaster County for the past week or so!!!
Say the words “ice cream” and I ALWAYS smile! It’s my favorite food.
It’s been miserable weather here but the ice cream has been good
I want the story to be that she opened the ice cream and the smiley face is what awaited her.
Perhaps you should consider adding smiley face imprints to some of your ice creams. It may be a markeing gimmick that sells more ice cream.
I’m glad that it’s not too hot here (we don’t need heat to eat ice cream, anyway). For awhile it was so hot here that I was concerned that this summer would be a scorcher. It’s always the right weather for ice cream, though.
The weather is nice, but I like rain.
I agree with Cathy… the weather in Lancaster County has been perfect for ice cream, just as the smiley face seems to suggest.
I agree with Cathy. The weather in Lancaster County has been perfect for ice cream, just as the smiley face suggests!
The weather here in Jersey has been excellent! I can’t keep enough ice cream in the freezer!
thats the way we all feel when you open the top on ice cream
It’s been super hot here. Every day this month has been over 90–PERFECT ice cream weather.
July weather so far has been better than June! I think the story is that the smiley face was there when the container of ice cream was opened, right?
It’s been beautiful here is beautiful Southern Maryland! Perfect for eating big bowls of ice cream on the deck in the evening.
Love the smilie face!
Now thats a face every Mother would love
So cute! I just want to eat his face off!
very cute, but it would not have lasted til someone found the camera in our house LOL
Was sitting here eating ice cream straight out of the box and decided to check your website.
Loving the weather here in Lancaster…and been eating lots of icecream. Love that smiley face…what a neat surprise!
awesome!
I’m all for sun and no more rain in PA – that always makes me smile.
You know what they say about a smiley face in a ice cream tub… that it is worth a thousand words, and sometimes a thousand dollars!
That’s how i look after a bowl of delicious bowl of TH
great weather today in Massapequa Park-had some severe storms yesterday on Long Island, NY-great ice cream weather-:)
Always smile when you eat ice cream
that is too cool
I do that alot to my ice cream, I’m glad I’m not alone!
The weather here in NY is finally beautiful! Its been raining alot during most of June.
How fun! Ice cream always makes me smile!
How Cute!!!!!!!
I don’t think I’ve been eating enough ice cream to properly celebrate. I’ll have to fix that.
We’ve had rain just about every day for the last month, and it doesn’t look like it’s going to stop any time soon.
Here’s hoping for better weather.
Looking at the picture brings me joy.
cool, almost looks too perfect!
now was this face seen mysteriously upon opening the carton, or was it man made? the article doesn’t say, and I am sure curious to find out. Crazier things have happened. I think that opening a fresh carton of ice cream is my favorite part. The top layer of cream, as well as the cream that sticks to the top are the most delectible. I always lick the top cover, and skim the top off the ice cream before scooping myself a bowl. Yum. If I were to open a fresh carton of vanilla bean ice cream right now, I would create a smile like that in my ice cream…with my tongue
yumm
Interesting photo! I am enjoying these posts every day to celebrate National Ice Cream Month.
Haha…2nd scoop…i get it because this photo is reappearing. I knew I had seen it somewhere before. Its funny how I have a photographic memory for every picture of ice cream I have seen. Can note the quality, color, shape, texture, add ins, container, and other aspects of the photo and have them permanently imprinted in my brain. Yet when I am studying for my anatomy tests I have no where near the memory for those details. I guess that just goes to show where my mind is…ice cream is just way more interesting and important than learning the 206 bones in the body and all the nerve and blood pathways!
I love this…just the exact reason a girl should eat ice cream everyday!
What fun it must have been to open that carton!
A smile in every carton of Turkey Hill Ice Cream! (A picture is worth 1000 words)
That picture got me smiling too!
Turkey Hill always makes me smile and so does this picture. Thanks for sharing!
Smile. I love Turkey Hill Ice cream!!!
Turkey Hill Ice Cream, always puts a big smile on my face.
What a cute idea! I think I’ll do this on my next container of Turkey Hill Vanilla Bean, my fave flavor by the way
MJ’s favorite song SMILE. how cool, how neat would it be to open every Turkey Hill ice cream and see a smiley face.
If I were a carton of Turkey Hill ice cream, I would smile too!
gorgeous weather to enjoy ice cream, but we really enjoy it anytime!
it was perfect camping weather over the 4th, too!!!
Cute picture! Of course, it can’t help but smile…..it’s Turkey Hill!
I will have to look closely now when I open my Turkey Hill’s , thank-you very cute…
That’s a smile for the day!
Looks very inviting, smiley faces and ice cream go together!
This would be a great title for my next novel: THE FACE IN THE ICE CREAM. Pretty cool stuff, if you’ll forgive the pun!
Jacqueline Seewald
THE DROWNING POOL, Five Star/Gale
turkey hill ice cream puts a smile on my face too!
I love diane’s comment as you said that’s MJ’s favorite song, that made me smile:)TH is the best!
Smiles and Turkey Hill; what could be better?
Awww…how cute!
No offense, but the thought that someone put their fingers in the ice cream to draw a smiley-face, then sealed it up, creeps me out.
I can see where someone took the round icecream scoop to make the eyes in the icecream. Adding a smiley imprint perhaps on the turkey hill icecream sandwich wafers or on the cakes would be a great idea like you find imprinted on some crackers!!! This smiley face would remind EVERYONE to smile when you eat the best icecream Turkey Hill. What better season than summer to eat icecream to cool you off but I like it year round.
that says it allllll turkey hill ice cream yea
Turkey hill always makes me smile too!
That looks like me when I eat Turkey Hill ice cream
Not my 1/2 gal since we are not plain vanilla fans. If it was the Duetto Raspberry Venice which I polished off late last nite (or early this morning) it could have been mine.
Very fun!! Thanks for asking about the weather! It finally stopped raining on Long Island and we have had some beautiful days to eat ice cream also!!
Eating Turkey Hill ice cream puts a smile on my face especially with the rainy weather we have been having her in Massachusetts.
Weather is beautiful here in Lebanon, Pa. The smile on the vanilla TH is what happens whenever I dish out ice cream to my family. Smiles everywhere, then yum, yum. Linda
We Turkey Hill bloggers are the genuine smiley faces, especially with spoons of luscious Turkey Hill on our tongues.
That’s a great picture. It’s the first email I opened this morning and it made me smile too. Nice way to start my day. Love that ice cream!!
It’s as if the ice cream already knows how good your gonna feel after a big scoop of creamy, dreamy, smooth, French Vanilla…uh..I gotta go check on my own half gallon.
No, no…she actually did take the lid off for the first time and this is what she saw. It was a complete random natural occurrence!
After I thoroughly wash my hands, I let my index fingers do the designing, but my wife scolds me for unsanitary behavior.
Has not been “ice cream weather” this summer so far in the Northeast, but that doesn’t deter us from eating Turkey Hill!!
Who cares whether someone put the smiley face on the ice cream or it was an act of God! Where’s the scoop!?!? Gimmme some ice cream!! Quick before it melts!!!!!!
That’s great! I would love to get a random smiley face in my ice cream before I dug in!
That was really cute. Made me smile! Not having a hot summer here in PA. Wish we were!
Some random natural occurrence wouldn’t you say? eBay no way, I’m sure all she did was open it, marvel at this occurrence, take a picture of it and then she ate it plain or with toppings. What are the odds of this happening again? Carefully check your TH in the future, who knows what picture may naturally occur.
Hi Turkey Hill Fans, ice cream face look cute, but did anyone at turkey hill had something to do with the drawing of the face….Long did it take for some one to eat it???
I think you could make millions selling that on ebay, haha. Well at least that picture made me smile!
I,m speachless!!EAT IT.
My long lost happy face! I thought I’d never see you again! I should have known that it would take Turkey Hill to give me back that smile!
Hey… Where’s the July 9 posting?
The smiley face certainly made ME smile, too! The weather in Lehigh County has been beautiful, but eating TH ice cream when it’s raining keeps me smiling
I’m smiling just thinking about eating Turkey Hill ice cream!!
cute, but I would still eat it.
How can you NOT smile when you think of ice cream. It’s such a relaxing, good feeling. It takes the stress right out of you, from the first spoonful. I smile when I leave work at night just thinking of Moose Tracks, its the GREATEST!! Thank you Turkey Hill for your wonderful ice cream and the wonderful people who make it!
that’s how I feel when I eat it
The yummy snack – that smiles back!!
My National Ice Cream Month is going pretty well. The weather is beautiful and I have been having tons of fun with family friends and eating ice cream and berries, one of my favorite summer treats.
I think all the containers have a smile in them, you just need to look in the mirror when you eat it.
All you need is syrup for the eyebrows, nuts for the eyes, a chetty for the nose & you would have a great sundae!!!
This one is making me smile already. It is cute as well as the remarks
Gee, that’s how I look whenever I open Turkey Hill!
The smart marketing guys at Turkey Hill should be imprinting images in the ice cream like a moose for moose traks. Change the images every few months to keep it fresh and interesting. I’m looking for a job .They should hire me to head up this project.
What can bring more cheer than ice cream? Ice cream that’s smiling at you!
SORRY, BUT I WOULD LOVE TO BELIEVE THAT THIS IS HOW SHE OPENED IT. IT IS MUCH TOO EASY TO FABRICATE THIS. I WAS ORIGINALLY EXPECTING IT TO BE SOME SORT OF FLAVORED ICE-CREAM THAT HAD THE SMILEY IN A SWIRL OR SOMETHING. ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE, THIS TO ME IS IMPROBABLE.
No wonder there was a smily face when the Turkey Hill Ice Crream was opened…
This should be in every turkey hill that we purchase…Smily Faces!!!!!!
MAPLE WALNUT..MAPLW WALNUT..MAPLE WALNUT
THAAT`S MY FAVORITE……OH–LA-LA..C`EST SI BON!!!!!
I wonder if someone pushed in the lid ahead of time to make this face when it was opened. Anyway, it was a pleasant surprise for the customer.
Happy ice cream makes me happy!!!!
Of course there was a smiley face on the top of the carton of Turkey Hill ice cream but was there a frown at the bottom of the empty carton?
My big sister,Karen,is a smiley face fan.She’d get a big kick out of this picture.Maybe you can sell a smiley face ice cream.I think it would be a big hit!
thats a face id like to mEAT
a1r bubbles extrodinaire
air bubbles extrodinaire
It’s the way I look when I open the carton. Smiles galore.
We love all flavors! One problem, two freezers are not enough to hold them all.
It’a hard to believe, but stranger things have happened, like not having a FULL carton of TH ice cream (husband got to it first)
That was a mirrored picture of her face as she opened up that ice cream, she just didn’t realize it.
Extremely cute!
Ice Cream month has been great! We stocked up on Turkey Hill during a sale at the supermarket and everyone’s happy, just like the carton in the picture.
I THINK SOMEONE JUST PUT THEIR FINGER IN THERE
Great Smiley Face!
Hahaha…so cute!
That looks exactly like me when I open a carton of Turkey Hill!
Hey! Who put my picture on the Web????
Hee hee hee!
That reminds me of the look on my grandson’s face when he sees that we have his favorite Turkey Hill ice cream in the freezer when he comes to visit.
That smiley face put an immediate smile on my face. Love it!
Ice cream always brings a smile to MY face!
love eating my favorite turkey hill ice cream while i’m watching my favorite baseball team the PHILLIES!!!!!
We had a party for my daughter and son-in-law while they were home. Turkey Hill was enjoyed by all.
I would love to get a smiley face like that.
I loved the mysterious smiley face!
looks more like pumpkin face
Every year I try to get the Turkey Hill cow to come to my twins’ July birthday. It hasn’t happened yet but at least there are some really cute ice cream pictures to look at. Maybe next year.
The weather here in MD is also gorgeous and perfect for ice cream out on our deck! Eating and watching the kids play on the swings!
Ice cream always makes ME smile–now I’ll have to check to see if it’s smiling back at me:)
Good Weather + Ice Cream = BIG SMILEY FACE
I am not sure I would have noticed the smiley face freshly opened ice cream spoon in hand what more could i say
That looks like me when I’m eating Turkey Hill ice cream!
BOY you should consider youself blessed Shirley…I’ve been watching for the southern lemon piesince we got a sneak peak last year..it hasn’t showed up in my area stores yet !!! there are several of us watching different stores in this area..no southern lemon pie..it came to us acouple months after it was the highlighted flavor , so I haven’t given up hoe yet !!!
I’m waiting for Southern Lemon Pie to make it here again !
A Smiley face with blueberries and with cream would be d e l i c i o u s !!
That’s just a mirror image of anyone opening a carton of Turkey Hill!!
A smile in the ice cream…that’s pretty cool!
June wasn’t a great weather month (rain and more rain), but it seemed that as soon as July hit it’s been superb! Could it be that it’s National Ice Cream Month?!
what A great picture, we should all have a TH carton like that. it is strangewhat shows up like that. i have a cake pan that i can see Jesus in and i won’t let anyone have it.
How about some peaches on that?
I see a smiley face every time I open a turkey hill ice cream and then I eat it.
clever!
God, I just love ice cream, especially in July when it is hot and the ice cream starts to melt in the bowl.
If I go look in a mirror when I am eating Turkey Hill(and I am sure this is true of all TH fans) then the result is priceless as is our smiles.
I smile and Scream!
You Smile and Scream!
We all smile and Scream for Ice Cream!
Thoroughly enjoyed the bit of trivia about the Fred Waring Pennsylvanians and “I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream for Ice Cream.” This has been my theme song for years!!!
Just came home with double dunker and can’t wait to dig into it!!
Not so bad when a container of ice cream and get you so excited!!!
Ice Cream is always Cool.