It is also true that as both granite and ice cream increase in temperature to near their respective melting points, they get softer . Both ice cream and granite become crystalline when they become solid. Different kinds of crystals in each, but crystals nonetheless. For ice cream the basic ingredients are milk, cream, and sugar . In both ice cream and granite, if you don't have some of the basic ingredients, it's not the real thing.
Granite is to gabbro as ice cream is to frozen tofu.
However, unlike with ice cream, all granites are going to fit in one of those chemical categories. For both granite and ice cream, appearances can be deceiving. Vanilla may not look a lot like triple fudge swirl, cherry chunk, or mocha almond, but they have a lot of the same ingredients and were made in much the same way. Well, this granite may not look much like this granite but they have a lot of the same ingredients and were made in much the same way. Like in ice cream, a lot of the fun in granite comes from the things that get folded and mixed in or dumped on top, and the ways that it gets served up.