You’re in an ice cream parlour. You want your ice cream served in a vessel. What are you calling said vessel?

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1. It all depends on what type of vessel it is really. Could be a bowl, a little plastic tub, a card cup, never a pot though.

2. Call it a yacht, an ice cream yacht. And the customers are yacht skippers.

3. I will go with the manufacturers and they call it an ice cream cup:

   https://smile.amazon.co.uk/s?k=ice+cream+cups&crid=1A3FBUDB4U03M&sprefix=ice+cream+%2Caps%2C930&ref=nb_sb_ss_ts-doa-p_6_10

4. Tub. Never heard cup before.

5. If I’m eating out of it and it’s small and disposable then it’s a pot. If it’s cleaned and reused for other things then it’s a bowl. If it’s shipped in it and disposable then it’s a tub.

6. Just a cone.

7. Sold ice creams at the beach for a couple summers as a teen – tub and if you called it anything else i judged you.

8. The little paper cup like pots are called cups. See https://www.parkerspackaging.com/product-category/ice-cream-packaging/ for a range of different ice cream receptacles.

9. A vessel

10. Gallon drum hopefully.

11. Tub. I was born and bred down south and never heard it referred to as a cup

12. I agree with you – cup if they scoop, tub if ready made.

13. In a gelateria it would be a dish. Unless its s banana split in which case it would be in a boat. ..No kidding.

14. Tub. Pots have lids.

15. It’s a tub when the ice cream is still frozen, but if you let it melt it becomes a cup.

16. A Carton. Or a Tub.

    A conical vessel, baked, is a Cone.

    Flat pieces of cone material, for ice cream to go between, are Wafers

17. Depends what shape it is. Maybe a bowl?

18. if I’m sat down in an ice cream parlour then it’s definitely a bowl.

19. I call it whatever is on the menu/price list for the shop I’m buying from. Typically cup or tub