Fake ice

I dreamt that there was a very large cooler full of ice, and I kept reaching in, taking some ice, and chewing it.

After a while I noticed that the ice was kind of strange. It seemed gummy and kept getting stuck in my teeth. I read the fine print on the side of the cooler and found that it referred not to ice but to “compound.” What had I been eating? I had already eaten quite a lot of it. Water is technically a compound, right?

After waking, I had the thought that the cooler should have had a warning label: “NOTICE: NOT ICE.”