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Everyone loves to see the ice cream truck coming down the street! And in their heyday they were designed to be pleasant -even if they are only pleasant memories. Dark Roasted Blend has a collection of spiffy ice cream trucks (and ice cream bicycles) for your perusal. Link
(Image credit: Mr. Whippy)
I don’t know about you guys, but I cracked up when I learned that Ben & Jerry’s was going to be releasing a Schweddy Balls flavor. But apparently some people aren’t amused.
The folks at One Million Moms, which is affiliated with the right-wing Christian group American Family Association, have decided they’re not going to stand for double entendre-laced desserts. “The vulgar new flavor has turned something as innocent as ice cream into something repulsive.”
In the past, Ben & Jerry’s has released controversial ice creams, like a special edition of Chubby Hubby called Hubby Hubby last year which celebrated gay marriage. It seems that offending customers has become an annual tradition for Ben & Jerry’s.
Maybe it’s just me, but it seems like no one told One Million Moms that Ben & Jerry’s knows people offended by gay marriage and testicle jokes aren’t their target customer base in the first place.
Link Via Flavorwire
Last year I shared some of the weirdest ice cream flavors in the world with you guys, but Food & Wine has a great collection of other strange ice cream treats ranging from this ice cream molded like sushi to cicada ice cream to ice cream pizza. While some of them look delicious, but the great majority are just plain weird.
If you’re looking for a fun way to cool down while letting yourself feel like a kid again, these Lucky Charms ice cream sandwiches look delicious, even if they are a bit of a sugar-overload.
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Breakfast Safari created this delightful fake Ben & Jerry’s ice cream flavor and man, do I wish it was real. They already have ice cube trays featuring Han, all you’d have to do would be use them to mass produce the chocolate candies.
Nothing like a cold blueberry Darth Vader pop or a strawberries and cream Marilyn Monroe-sicle to quench your thirst on a hot summer day, is there? Created by a Russian company called Stoyn, these treats also come in Mario (tequila sunrise), a graffiti can (bubble gum), Donald Duck (banana chocolate), Mickey Mouse (mango) and poet Vladimir Mayakovsky (cranberry vodka).
Link via Laughing Squid
The art collective Stoyn made molded ice cream treats of pop culture figures, including Marilyn Monroe and Donald Duck. It’s unclear whether Mario, who is available in tequila sunrise flavor, is actually alcoholic. Link (Google Translate) -via Fubiz (Google Translate)
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Ice Cream Cone Fan – $7.95
Are you looking for a fun way to beat the summer heat? You need the Ice Cream Cone Fan from the NeatoShop. With this little fan you will finally get to claim the title of Coolest Person in the Neighborhood!
Be sure to check out the NeatoShop for more fabulous Personal Care items!
Comments Off This made me giggle. Video comedian Alki Stevens is trying to make cone-ing the hot (cool?) new trend for the summer. Here’s what you do: go to a fast-food drive-through. Order a cone. When you drive up to the window to receive your tasty treat, grab it by the ice cream, not the cone. I just love the expressions of the bewildered fast food workers and love imagining them turning around and saying, “You would not believe what this guy just did…”
Sorry folks, Sparky’s Homemade Ice Cream in Missouri will not be making any more cicada ice cream for the time being after receiving advice from the public health department. This will disappoint the many customers who made this unique flavor a runaway hit. It was so popular that it sold out Wednesday, June 1 before it was to make its grand debut on Thursday.
Employees collected the cicadas in their backyards and removed most of the dead bugs’ wings. They then boiled the bountiful bugs and covered them in brown sugar and milk chocolate. The base ice cream is brown sugar and butter flavour.
Does this sound like a tasty treat to you?
Colin Bleasdale, an ice cream maker in Lancashire, UK, hopes to be entered in the Guinness Book of World Records for an ice cream concoction that he is making for the upcoming British royal wedding:
Mr Bleasdale, who teaches art at Larches House in Preston, said: “The ice cream will resemble a wedding posy that will be covered in fake jewels made from jelly or melted toffee.
“Fifteen cones will be used to create the bouquet and each one will be covered with real gold leaves. I may also include a champagne sorbet and black truffles.”
Mr. Bleasdale hopes to top his creation with a large sapphire. Question: if one wanted to make the world’s most expensive ice cream, couldn’t one just get a generic brand then charge a really high price for it? Anyway, I post this story with some hesitation, keeping in mind Tamara Keel’s admonition about Americans and royalty:
If George Washington knew you were Tweeting about the British royal wedding, he’d snatch the iPhone from your hand and kick your ass.
Link via Born Rich | Image: Born Rich
Imagine an ice cream truck rolling into your neighborhood playing that tune -wouldn’t you run to it as fast as you can? Admiral Snackbar, indeed! This is an advertisement for Star Wars Popsicles, one of many April Fool’s Day items from Think Geek. Link
Of course you would! After all, it makes for good cheese. So you’re in luck: there’s a shop in London that sells ice cream made from milk donated by local mothers.
The dessert, called Baby Gaga, is churned with donations from 15 women who responded to an advertisement on an online mothers’ forum.
One of the women, Victoria Hiley, 35, said if adults realised how tasty breast milk was more new mothers would be encouraged to breastfeed.
Each serving of Baby Gaga at Icecreamists costs £14.
Mrs Hiley’s donation was expressed on site and pasteurised before being churned with Madagascan vanilla pods and lemon zest.
Icecreamists founder Matt O’Connor placed an advert appealing for breast milk donations and believes his new recipe will be a success.[...]
“If it’s good enough for our children, it’s good enough for the rest of us,” he said.
Video at the link.
Here’s something your friends will all remember -propping their tired feet up on an ice cream cookie at your home! This ottoman made of wood, canvas, velvet, and foam is available now from Jellio. Link
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Make a cone out of a piece of bread, line it with peanut butter, and top with a scoop of your favorite homemade jelly-flavored ice cream! Grathio Labs has the complete instructions. Once you get the cone made, the rest is simple. Link -via Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories
A new business in Britain sells ice cream to dogs from a truck. The K99 Van travels around, plays the Scooby Doo theme, and selling ice cream that is safe for dogs to consume:
Head chef behind the K99′s recipes Ceric Nale said: ‘When it came to designing the recipes for the K99s, we wanted to make sure we had the most exciting flavour and texture combinations.
‘After a lot of research, a gammon and chicken ice cream and a mixed dog biscuit ice cream were the clear winners, and we hope they’ll be flavours dogs simply can’t refuse.’
Link via Geekosystem | Photo (unrelated) via Flickr user Roadsidepictures used under Creative Commons license
July is National Ice Cream Month and it is indeed a great month to enjoy a cool scoop of your favorite flavors. If you’re looking to expand your tasting horizons to some of the stranger flavors in the ice cream rainbow, you’ve come to the right place. We’ve collected the weirdest and wackiest ice cream flavors from around the world for your enjoyment.
You’ll notice some of the flavors seen on other lists, like lychee, red bean and sesame, are not included here, as they are everyday dessert flavors in their country, and therefore, not all that strange as an ice cream flavoring. Instead, this article focuses on those flavors that make even the most native-son of a given region ask “what the heck were you thinking?”
It could be debated whether or not this North American frozen treat is technically an ice cream, being as how it’s made without any cream or even vegan-friendly cream substitutes, but its nickname, “Eskimo Ice Cream” and its shocking ingredients certainly qualify it to be on this list. So what’s in agutuk? Snow, berries, seal oil and reindeer fat. If cute animals make delicious food, then this has got to be the best ice cream around.
Image via Andrea Pokrzywinski [Flickr]
As for more traditional ice creams with non-traditional flavors, this savory crab ice cream is described as more of a frozen crab bisque than what you would normally think of as ice cream.
The lobster ice cream seems a lot more along the lines of a traditional American dessert product, as it has a sugary butter base with chunks of sweet lobster blended in. A Massachusetts dessert parlor started making the treat just to prove that they actually do concoct their own flavors. Surprisingly, the flavor took off and is now one of the most popular items served.
For an equally luxurious treat, consider the caviar ice cream by Philippe Faur. If that’s not your style, he also makes mustard, Roquefort, black truffles, pepper and foie gras flavor as well. Unlike the lobster ice creams, these aren’t meant for dessert though, they are actually intended as a side dish or appetizer to tantalize the senses and prepare you for accompanying flavors to come.
Apparently luxurious savory ice creams aren’t actually a modern trend, but an old time classic that has been long forgotten about. Lorraine Eaton discovered and posted a recipe for oyster ice cream that dates back to 1824 and was supposedly a popular treat amongst the upper classes in the time of the Revolutionary War. The dish itself is essentially just an oyster stew with the oysters strained out. Reviews from Eaton’s recreation of the dish seem fairly mixed and one tester nearly vomited after tasting it, but it would certainly be a brave appetizer for those who want to feel a gourmet connection with the founding fathers.
If you’re looking for a customizable fish-based ice cream, better head to Cold Stone Creamery in Florida’s Fernandina Beach during the local shrimp fest to try their shrimp ice cream with your choice of mix-ins. Apparently, the light flavor of shrimp makes this base a perfect compliment to tropical fruits like pineapple and coconut.
The Japanese are known for being very open to new flavors. In fact, ice cream itself is even a fairly recent addition to the national palate, which is why they are so open to experimenting with flavor combinations most Americans could never even imagine. Some fun flavors you might be afraid to try include octopus, squid ink and eel. Supposedly the octopus flavor isn’t too bad and it doesn’t have any chunks in it unless you buy it garnished with tentacles. Squid ink has a rather mild flavor, so the pitch black sweet also gets fairly high ratings, even from non-natives.
On the other hand, eel seems to be limited to those with more “acquired tastes” for the fish and is said to taste incredibly fishy, or as one reviewer put it, “imagine a section of the ocean where about eight thousand very large sea creatures have died and started to decompose.” I’m all for exotic tastes, but this is one I think I’d have to pass on.
Images via wilhelmja [Flickr], Katherine Donaldson [Flickr] and Associated Content
Dondurma — Turkish ice cream — is apparently made differently from ice cream in the United States, and has stickier consistency. Jordan Breindel of Urlesque informs us that in Turkey, streetside vendors of the substance often engage in a performance art as they serve portions to customers. More videos at the link.
Lee at Serious Eats spotted three different vendors in Thailand who sold ice cream sundaes served in hot dog buns.
The dessert was delicious: the bananas were chewy, the pineapple sweet and tart, the coconut ice cream rich, cold, and creamy, and the peanuts added the perfect amount of crunch and toasted flavor and the drop of milk brought all of the flavors together.
The bun? It got soggy pretty quickly (as I suspected) and if I ate it any slower, we would have had a real mess on our hands.
But it was a nice take on a portable sundae, minus the paper or plastic cup to throw out at the end! I kept thinking that it would have been interesting with a toasted bun.
If you toast that bread long enough, pretty soon you’ll invent the ice cream cone. Link -via J-Walk Blog
Sure you can insure your house, car, precious artwork … but how about taste buds? Turns out that you CAN insure parts of your anatomy, especially when those parts generate income. For example:
John Harrison
No wonder he’s smiling. John Harrison is, and has been for many years, the official ice cream taster at Dreyer’s Ice Cream and on a daily basis approves or rejects ice cream according to its many different varieties of flavour, colour and texture. It’s a difficult job but someone’s got to do it, and that someone just happens to be John, a man who uses a gold spoon (there’s no aftertaste) to judge ice cream in order to pay the bills. Unsurprisingly, his taste buds are insured for £700,000.
More about the strange world of taste insurance: Link | John Harrison’s website at Dreyer’s – Thanks Dave!
Love iced cream cones but hate the iced cream? Then you’ll love these Cupcake cones on Instructables with plenty of instructions (naturally) to make your own sweettreats at home.
Delicious, clever, and surprising, these cupcakes impersonating ice cream cones are sure to delight!
Now that’s a quote that I can’t begin to dispute.
Alfonso De Marco was seven years old when he emigrated from Italy with his family. They settled in Eastbourne, East Sussex, England where they lived in an apartment above the ice cream shop his father ran. That was in 1909, and the family had occupied the building for many years already. De Marco still lives in the same apartment 100 years later. De Marco ran the ice cream shop himself until he retired in 1973. Although he could go live with any of his three daughters, he prefers to stay in his home, even at 107 years old.
‘My daughters grew up here, and my father lived here, so I cannot imagine living anywhere else, or anywhere better.’
DeMarco’s daughter Pierina said,
‘He can still get up and down the stairs on his own, and he still laughs and jokes about.
‘His sisters lived to ripe old ages as well, so he must have good genes – either that or all the ice cream he has eaten has done the trick.’
I’ll go with that last idea! Link -via J-Walk Blog
I wrote a post on pregnancy cravings on mental_floss today – I’m not preggo, but one of my good friends is – and a commenter said that one of his friends runs a cupcake blog and recently announced her pregnancy via the blog. How? With a recipe and taste test of pickle and ice cream cupcakes, of course! I don’t know if they are any good (she says they’re not bad), but they’re adorable, and I think the concept of the announcement is pretty cute.
Have to take a breathalyzer test? Whatever you do, don’t eat ice cream beforehand. Here’s what one Australian man found out the hard way: Bubble O’ Bill ice cream treat will cause the test to come up positive for alcohol!
Prosecutors inquired why the machine had registered a "fail," which prevents the car from starting, despite the man’s claims that he had not been drinking.
The man claimed the alcohol reading was the result of eating a Bubble O’ Bill ice cream treat and Magistrate Rod Crisp ordered a test to be performed to back up the claim. Police recorded the man’s blood alcohol content as 0.00 and performed the test a second time after he took a few bites of Bubble O’ Bill, yielding a 0.018 reading.
Link – Thanks Denita!
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1. The Milk Diet Even the most die-hard enemy of osteoporosis would probably find it difficult to drink three quarts of milk a day. Not Benito Mussolini. A large portion of his diet consisted solely of moo juice, which he drank to try to quell his stomachaches. He hid this habit from his cohort Adolf Hitler, though, because he thought the habit was "unfascist." |
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2. More Milk Diet OK, maybe there are more milk lovers out there than I thought. British wrestler Sir Athol Oakley maintained his physique by drinking 11 pints of milk every single day for three years. That’s 12,012 pints of milk. When asked how he had arrived at that particular amount, he said it was because a wrestler he admired, Georg Hackenschmidt, gave an interview once in which he had professed to drinking exactly that amount. Hackenschmidt met Oakley and informed him that the 11 pints had been a typo – he actually drank just one pint of milk a day. |
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3. The PBJ Diet In this case, "starving artist" almost applies. When Ernest Hemingway was writing his works of literary genius, he certainly wasn’t dining on filet mignon and caviar. Nope, most of his books were written on a diet of peanut butter sandwiches. |
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4. A Diet of Weeds I’d take a diet of PBJ any day over a diet of weeds. Automobile magnate Henry Ford took to eating weed sandwiches on a regular basis after hearing that George Washington Carver – a dietician as well as a scientist – did the same. One story goes that an employee was given the chance to go on an outing with Ford – a prestigious award. When they got back, the employee was asked if he’d like to try it again. "Not if I have to eat another one of those grass sandwiches," he replied. |
| 5. Eating One’s Book As a writer, I have to say this one gives me pause. In 1644, a Danish author wrote a book that addressed how unfortunate the Danes has been since Sweden defeated them in the Thirty Years’ War. The Swedes were not impressed. They captured him and held him prisoner for several years until they finally gave him a choice: eat your book or we decapitate you. He ate the book. |
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6. A Diet of Oranges
Although dictator Idi Amin bestowed upon himself the title of " His Excellency, President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor Idi Amin Dada, VC, DSO, MC, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Sea, and Conqueror of the British Empire [CBE] jaffain Africa in General and Uganda in Particular", in exile he earned the nickname "Dr. Jaffa". Apparently he ate Jaffa oranges like there was no tomorrow, believing that they would act like Viagra for him. He ate fruit pretty much exclusively during this time period – a pretty amazing change for someone who is said to have been a cannibal. |
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7. Goldfish swallowing Anyway, this fad was goldfish sweeping the nation in the 1930s. Not everyone thought it was such a cool thing to do – many towns made it illegal and a Massachusetts Senator tried to pass a bill protecting the fish from "cruel and wanton consumption." Colleges threatened to expel students for such unbecoming behavior. The fad passed (more or less) but not until after the record was established at 300+ goldfish swallowed by one man in one sitting. |
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8. Another bad idea? Glass-eating. This one has its roots on college campuses too. Tim Rossovich, a linebacker for the Philadelphia Eagles, liked to prove how tough he was by enjoying a nice bite of beer mug or a light snack of a light bulb (pun intended. Sorry). In 1973, a student at Harvard wasn’t terribly impressed by Rossovich’s stunt, and set out to prove that swallowing glass really wasn’t that difficult. After he ate a light bulb, lots of kids around the Cambridge campus started chomping on good old incandescents. School officials put a stop to it as soon as they found out. |
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9. Always Wear Underwear If you’re eating right now, put it down. OK. Now you can read this. In 1994, Renato Arganza, a fisherman, found himself stranded at sea when his boat tipped just off of the Philippines. He clung to a buoy for more than four days. When he was finally found, he told his rescuers that he survived by eating his underwear. I’m sure there’s a joke in there somewhere about nutrition and skid marks, but I’m just going to leave that one to your imaginations. |
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10. Baskin Robbins Ice Cream Diet One story even goes like this: he harbored a serious addiction to Baskin Robbins’ banana nut flavor. He found out it was being discontinued and panicked, immediately ordering 350 gallons (some stories say 1,000 gallons) of that particular flavor. Less than a week after it arrived, he announced that he was sick of banana nut and only wanted vanilla from that point on. I can’t find any confirmation for this story, though, so take it with a grain of salt. I, for one, think I could probably manage to survive on nothing but mint chocolate chip for the next 70-80 years. |
| Inspired by the book 5 People Who Died During Sex and 100 Other Terribly Tasteless Lists. | |
