To celebrate the National Ice Cream Month, ice cream purveyor Baskin-Robbins commissioned smell and taste expert (apparently, there is such a guy) Dr. Alan Hirsch to conduct a study on the relationship between ice cream flavors and personality.

"We uncovered quite a few surprising findings when investigating what a person’s favorite ice cream flavor says about their personality," said Dr. Hirsch. "For instance, we found that people who prefer Rainbow Sherbet are more pessimistic than you would think, in spite of the flavor’s bright taste profile, and that those who prefer Rocky Road are actually very good listeners.”

The results:

• If your favorite flavor is Vanilla, you’re more likely to be impulsive, easily suggestible and an idealist.
• If your favorite flavor is Chocolate, you’re more likely to be dramatic, lively, charming, flirtatious, seductive and gullible.
• If your favorite flavor is, Very Berry Strawberry, you’re more likely to be a tolerant, devoted and an introvert.
• If your favorite flavor is Mint Chocolate Chip, you’re more likely to be argumentative, frugal and cautious.
• If your favorite flavor is Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough, you’re more likely to be ambitious, competitive and a visionary.
• If your favorite flavor is Pralines ‘n Cream, you’re more likely to be loving, supportive and prefer to avoid the spotlight.
• If your favorite flavor is Jamoca (i.e. coffee), you’re more likely to be scrupulous, conscientious and a moral perfectionist.
• If your favorite flavor is Chocolate Chip, you’re more likely to be generous, competent and a go getter.
• If your favorite flavor is Rainbow Sherbet, you’re more likely to be analytic, decisive and a pessimistic.
• If your favorite flavor is Rocky Road, you’re more likely to be aggressive, engaging and a good listener.

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We don't know what it is about the sugary slice of heaven known as donuts that inspire generosity in humans, but inspire it did. A drive-thru customer at Heav'nly Donuts in Amesbury, Massachusetts, started a "pay it forward" chain that lasted 55 people in a row:

“After that it was like, oh we’re three cars deep, four cars deep, and after about the 15th car I started letting the customers know, ‘Hey, we’re 17 cars in, you can either keep it going or you can take your coffee and go. Either way it’s your choice,’” the clerk said.

According to the clerk, 55 customers rolled through the drive-thru back-to-back, each one paying for the next order.

The chain only broke when they ran out of customers: Link

For those of you who don't know, we here at Neatorama are huge churro fans, especially when those cinnamon sugary treats can be incorporated in with our other favorite foods -like, say, ice cream and caramel. Learn to make your own at Food Family Finds.

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How do you kill time in the Soekarno-Hatta International Aiport in Jakarta, Indonesia?  I suggest browsing the overpriced handi-crafts, mulling over the $75 USD civet coffee, and than sitting down to a cold and refreshing Dark Mocha Frappuccino with White Chocolate Pudding from Starbucks. 

Mmm...chunky. 

Peanut butter and jelly...pshhh, that's so cliche. If you really want a satisfying snack, try a peanut butter sandwich 2.0 that will provide you with 9 different flavor combinations in only one delicious sandwich.

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Just the thought of brownies with a cheesecake swirled into the mix makes me drool. Redditor qwertymodo said, "Every single time I've made cheesecake swirl brownies, I've wanted to do this. I finally did." I'm glad, too! This is a work of art. So to speak. Link

What do you get the K9 couple who has everything for their wedding day? How about the world's largest dog-friendly cake? Best of all, since it's dog-friendly, they can actually enjoy it on their big day. Something tells me it will take these two corgis a while to eat the whole thing.

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Do you like dark chocolate, white chocolate, cherry filling or something else in your truffles? If you don't care as long as they look good then you won't want to miss the animal truffles from Moonstruck Cafe in Portland. Just don't let their cuteness stop you from biting off their heads.

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Bruce Lee, painted with milk (Be milk, my friend?)

Forget pen and paper - French artist Vivi Mac speed paints using food and wicked wit to create some of the most iconic images of famous historical figures, celebrities, and fictional characters. Take a look:

Jack Sparrow, painted with rum

Timbaland, painted with thyme (Thymbaland?)

Soccer player Thierry Henry, painted with rice

Perfect with some fava beans and a nice chianti. Wait. Wrong serial killer, but close enough.

The talented Annabel de Vetten of Conjurer's Kitchen created this gruesomely awesome "skin suit" cake, inspired by the serial killer Buffalo Bill from Silence of the Lambs. It's made from vanilla cake, dark chocolate ganache, black cherry filling and pure horror.

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Twinkies have returned to American grocery stores! But once you've eaten a few crates to take the edge off, you should try to get creative. Beth Klosterboer has a great food craft that you can make using Tootsie Rolls and chocolate frosting. You can find her instructions at the link.

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Chocolate-covered strawberries are one heck of a rich, sweet treat, but if they just aren't cakey enough for you, perhaps these chocolate-covered strawberry brownies by Chocolate Moosey will offer a happy medium between them and tasty, fudgey brownies.

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Food blogger Emily Bites seems to be a gal after our hearts. After all, she not only found a way to make risotto with beer, cheese and bacon, but it's even relatively low in calories (only 280 a serving). You can learn her secret over at the link and if you make some, save some for me and John. 

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The particularly American form of cooking we call the barbecue has a long history -in fact, it was well established long before Europeans arrived. Since the early explorers passed the technique around to colonists, different styles sprang up, now loosely categorized as Carolina, Texas, Memphis, and Kansas City. The differences can be traced to what was available and what flavors one's ancestors liked. For example, Southerners often insist that real barbecue is made of pork. It's tradition.

Unlike cows, which required large amounts of feed and enclosed spaces, pigs could be set loose in forests to eat when food supplies were running low. The pigs, left to fend for themselves in the wild, were much leaner upon slaughter, leading Southerns to use the slow-and-low nature of barbecue to tenderize the meat. And use it they did. During the pre-Civil War years, Southerners ate an average of five pounds of pork for every one pound of cattle. Their dependence on this cheap food supply eventually became a point of patriotism, and Southerners took greater care raising their pigs, refusing to export their meat to the northern states. By this time, however, the relationship between the barbecue and pork had been deeply forged.

But Texas is a different story. And barbecue sauce reflects the traditions that immigrants brought from the Old World. Read how these factors came together at Smithsonian's Food and Think blog. Link

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It's hard to make a geeky wedding cake that still has the lovely aesthetic of a classic white wedding cake, but Over The Top Cakes managed to do so in quite an elegant way with this Star Wars cake. 

Link Via When Geeks Wed