New Slack-Fill Class Action Gets To The Pint

Up-and-coming ice cream company Halo Top accused of skimping on the goods

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In July 2017, Halo Top became the best-selling ice cream brand in the United States.

Its ascent was as dizzying as a cold-stimulus headache. The brand, according to Inc. magazine, grew its revenues an incredible 21,000 percent between 2013 and 2016, leaving Ben & Jerry's and Haagen-Dazs in the rear-view.

What accounts for the growth?

The company is one of those all-American success stories that makes everyone jealous: A couple of broke founders roll the dice, create an upstart food brand in their kitchen and get plenty of credit for using the healthiest ingredients they can find.

The draw of the product, though, is an ice cream that can be consumed not in guilty fits and starts, but by whole pints at a sitting. According to the company, the calorie count of a pint of Halo Top is less than a third of the pints of its two major competitors. The actual count features