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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: Why do popsicles freeze in such a "soft" way that it's really easy to bite through them, but ice itself freezes so darn hard?
gpt
It's actually a deliberate feature from the manufacturing process. They basically take the popsicle solution and mix it while freezing until it forms a thick slush, mold the slush into whatever form they want, and then send it to the hard freezer. This prevents large ice crystals from forming and makes the popsicle nice and soft while frozen.

If you have ever left your freezer open (or had your freezer stop working) you may notice that popsicles, after they melt and re-freeze, freeze hard just like regular ice.