Ice cream, Mandrake? Children's ice cream?

Kara at TAC thinks there's a war on it. She quotes Leon Kass:

Worst of all from this point of view are those more uncivilized forms of eating, like licking an ice cream cone—a catlike activity that has been made acceptable in informal America but that still offends those who know eating in public is offensive. … Eating on the street … displays [a] lack of self-control: It beckons enslavement to the belly. … Lacking utensils for cutting and lifting to mouth, he will often be seen using his teeth for tearing off chewable portions, just like any animal. … This doglike feeding, if one must engage in it, ought to be kept from public view, where, even if we feel no shame, others are compelled to witness our shameful behavior.

She tries to use this quote to put him in bed with Al Qaeda ("...other farcical stipulations include an edict not to buy or sell ice-cream, because it did not exist in the time of the Prophet..."), but I think he's right on the money. Ice cream should be eaten with a spoon.

That being said, I wonder what Kass thinks of salted watermelon.