I don't mean to hijack the thread here, but Travis, I see you're from Green Bay and the quote about ice cream leads me to believe you might work for Good Humor seeing as how they're HQ'd there.
I sell some of that product for a living and couldn't agree more with your quote.
So I don't entirely hijack the thread, I will ask the question:
Do the filter minders work enough to bother replacing them? Mine didn't move an inch in the 6 years it was on.