I feel like it's not. Hear me out: the texture is way more firm than what you get in a tub and it will usually have a shell that further changes the texture.
I feel like it's not. Hear me out: the texture is way more firm than what you get in a tub and it will usually have a shell that further changes the texture.
I see what you're saying. But I think the bars you're describing are basically ice cream in a different form. Like I wouldn't call "drumsticks" their own category even, that's just an ice cream cone. Shape doesn't change the product so much for me. Others get more complicated, though, like ice cream sandwiches and mochi ice cream; they're still primarily ice cream at least. Soft-serve feels quite different to me, but then that opens up a whole can of worms about different levels of milk fats getting different names.
I guess what I'm saying is I'm not sure there's much else to do except to accept 'ice cream' as a pretty broad umbrella term. Perhaps we need a new term to denote tub style ice cream specifically?