Five-year-old Milo Williams dropped his cup of Superman the other day at Ray's Ice Cream and it landed upright, just like the Man of Steel himself. No spills, no red-blue-and-yellow mess, no tears.

Maybe Superman really is unstoppable. But invulnerable?

Not at Ray's, the first name in ice cream in Royal Oak for 67 years. There, and likely elsewhere in the dairy industry, change is coming.

Not huge change, said Jason Eddleston, who bought the business in 2022 with his wife, Lindsey. Tweaks, really. They'll probably be imperceptible to Milo and the other kids who've made Superman the favorite flavor of customers who are still losing their first set of teeth.

Powers even stronger than Superman's, though, are at play in the ice cream business.

Customers have been asking about artificial f

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