ice cream / ice creams

Vincent TeoCan I say,

(a) He sells Icecreams at the roadside stall.

(b)The ice-creams / ice-cream seller sells ice creams at the stall.

Shall I know, "ice-cream / ice cream " is countable or uncountable?

Ice cream = the general term for semi-frozen sweets.
Ice creams = refers to different types of ice cream.

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Feebs11Ice cream = the general term for semi-frozen sweets.
Ice creams = refers to different types of ice cream.

It will always be "ice cream seller". An ice cream seller can sell ice creams.

Hi Feebs11,

I wonder if you could say 'different types of ice creams'.

Thank you in advance.

Best wishes,

Can you correct my sentences?

You can say "different kinds of ice creams.

Please be a bit more patient - I have other things to do that sit at the computer all day!

Hi,

You can also say 'My wife and I ordered two ice-creams', meaning two individual portions of ice-cream, one for each of us.

Clive

how about my sentences?

Feebs11You can say "different kinds of ice creams.

Please be a bit more patient - I have other things to do that sit at the computer all day!

Thanks for answering my question, Feebs11.

I now know that you could say 'different kinds of ice creams' but could you say 'different types of ice creams' ? I am thinking that 'type' and 'ki

Yes, you can, PBF.

Thanks again Feebs11.

Could you tell me what is the possible difference between 'different types of ice-creams' and 'different types of ice-cream' ?

Thank you again for your help .

Best wishes,

PBF

A large tub of ice cream = ice cream

Two small individual ice reams = ice creams.

You can say: "He sells ice cream" (meaning that he sells the ingredient "ice cream") or he sells ice creams (meaning that he sells individual ice creams).

A Supermarket would say: 50% off the price of ice cream. They usually sell ice cream in large containers. But a retailer might say