When handling ice cream, you will find that the most prominent shape is made from a good scooper, which smooths to ice cream into a perfect ball, and it is not only presentable, but this is also a more delicate texture, and it is easier to eat this way.
However, the most popular and beloved way to eat ice cream in America is in an ice cream cone. It is still scooped, but it tends to appear as if there is a bigger ball of ice cream in a cone. The cones are edible, and they were made for eating at places like carnivals, where you have to stand up and walk around without any way to sit down and eat your ice cream with a spoon. Cones allow for more comfortable, more convenient portability.