Tesco 8 Milk Choc Ices

What is it?

Choc ice is the British name for a format America invented in the early 1920s and one that never quite went away: a block of vanilla ice cream enclosed in chocolate, eaten from the wrapper without a stick. Losing the stick is the distinction. The chocolate has to cover every face instead of stopping where a stick enters, so a choc ice is proportionally more coating than a bar of the same volume, and it has to be held by its wrapper as it softens. Eight to a box puts it in the everyday end of the freezer, where it has sat for decades.