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cmv: Ice cream or popsicles in a cup are far more practical than on a stick or cone

So, I love ice cream and frozen treats, and living in currently 100-degree weather makes them even better. However, I absolutely hate when someone gives me a popsicle or ice cream and it's on a stick. This is the worst way to serve frozen treats due to their impractical nature.

Here are some of the points why:

* Rushed/messy eating - when you are eating something frozen on a stick it will be exposed directly to the sun/environment and start melting. This causes you to quickly lick it up and have both messy hands and mouths. This also makes you less likely to savor it as you can when it's in a cup. In a cup, you can easily scoop it up and eat it at your own pace without worrying that it will melt nearly as fast. Only one part of it is exposed directly and so won't get as warm. Toppings are easy to heat and mix around as well.
* The Stick Problem - When eating a frozen treat on a stick, you won't run into the sticking problem right away but when you're near the end, you have to figure out how to get the last precious bites. Are you going to eat it from the side? Well, the other side falls off. Are you going to get it from the top? Good luck having a stick in the back of your throat making you gag. How about the bottom? Well to turn it the other way you have to get your hands dirty on the stick. You just don't have this problem with a cup.
* Walking around - Well you might say that you can walk around with a cone or a stick. Well for the reasons mentioned before, it is still very hard. You cant walk around easily since you have to eat it fast, and accidentally getting it on your shirt is too easy to do. Also, you have to hold it upright at all times. With the cup, you can hold it by your side, rest the spoon inside and set it down when you need to (especially when it has a cap on it too)

The only thing that I can understand is wanting the flavor/texture of a cone but at most ice cream shops you can request a cone on top and dip it instead. Pictures might be a reason as well, but unless you're at some very famous shop, does it make sense to put yourself through the trouble to look cute? Also, you might say accessibility ie their arent always the same flavors in cup and stick form but in my experience there almost always are the basic flavors specifically at ice cream shops or Costco.  I'm willing to change my view if you can show me that it is easier to eat things on a stick/cone or there are solutions that I can easily do while not being at home or needing many supplies.

Change My View!

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Edit - taking a quick break for schoolwork be back in an hour

Edit 2:  So I'm seeing really good arguments and although my view isn't completely changed (I still feel the general cons outweigh the pros) I can concede that there are good points

1. The waste involved - not only for the environment since most materials involved arent eco-friendly but just carrying a cup around, in general, is annoying if there arent any trash bins around
2. homemade popsicles- while specific, the process of making homemade items is much easier using popsicle sticks rather than cups. There's a big difference in eating something you made yourself and something a company tested do that it's easily consumable

Other points I'm seeing:

1. the chocolate lined cones and while i would say it can be used to be less messy, it alters the taste and usually costs more as well so i can only see it working if you don't mind the flavors mixing or if you have specifically chocolate ice cream
2. How fast is my ice cream/ popsicle dripping that its such a problem? While I believe that my points stand in perfect weather (ie 73 F) its become more annoying to me now that its summer and it was 105 F just yesterday. I've lived in both environments for extended periods of time so I believe my points still stand

I will probably be answering more later but for now Thanks to everyone in this Summer cmv!
gpt
You can eat a popsicle on a stick with one hand. Much better for those on-the-go businessmen that can't spare the time to sit down at a desk and use both hands for just one task. You can eat a popsicle and write a memo, or push an elevator button, or drive a car.