Ice Cream!

[Senor Ding Dong]

It's almost summertime, meaning that the majority of the board members will eat ice cream. What do you do for ice cream? DO you get stuff from the ice cream man? Do you get stuff from a cone shop? Do you just go to the storer & eat the ice cream out of the cart(or put it in a blowl first?)

[Posthumous]

[spoiler][color=white]I don't even use a spoon...I don't like spoon's...sporks are better.I love chocolate and cookie dough...IMO they're teh best flavors.[/color][/spoiler]

[bra]

Whenever I eat ice cream I get it either from the store OR from the ice cream store. I prefer it to be as an ice cream cone but sometimes I eat it right out of the box. I quite frankly like chocolate or strawberry. :D Mmmmm... Ice cream...! :D

[Semjaza]

I eat it all year round... No ice cream man though. I'm not giving that guy $1 for one stupid popcicle or whatever.

I mostly just eat dreamcicles and strawberry icecream. I like to get daiquiri ice if I'm ever at Baskin Robins.

[Ninjaman]

I got a carton of cookies and cream waiting to be eaten by me in my freezer right now. I usually get ice cream from the store or the Braum's ice cream store near my house. Mmmm, I really want to eat that ice cream right now, but I must fight the temptation until after lunch! Aww, heck with it. *gets his carton and ice cream from the freezer and a spoon and eats it*

[Guest Matt]

[color=red][b]Vanilla or Coffee ice cream + maple syrup = better than anything else in the world. Well, maybe cheesecake is better, but this topis is about ice cream.[/b][/color]

[Defcon5]

DOWN WITH THE ICE CREAM MAN! I love ice cream and I eat it all year round, but the ice cream man is a total rip off. I thank my parents for not letting me get ice cream from him as a child. I would then be helping supply him with funds for his evil, evil underhanded plot to rob little kids of their parents money.

[Transtic Nerve]

A topic about Ice Cream... seems almost as bad as that socks topic.... But sure, why not.

Buy from Store. If it's full I put in a bowl, since everyone else eats it to and it's just rude to eat out of the carton, plus it melts and thats not pretty. If it's almost empty, I'll eat the rest from the carton.

[quote][b]Vanilla or Coffee ice cream + maple syrup = better than anything else in the world. Well, maybe cheesecake is better, but this topis is about ice cream[/b][/quote]

Coffee ice cream? Ok, Coffee, which is hot, has no place in Ice Cream which is cold... thus it should never have been done. Plus coffe just nasty anyway. Then maple syrup... yuk...

Oh and as funny as your sig is, I don't think it's so much appropiate here. You may want to ask James though or Charles... see what they say.

[Semjaza]

Coffee doesn't need to be hot. I've had it in many different cold drinks heh.

I forgot the best thing ever. If any of you are ever in Chicago, go the the Thompson Center downtown. There is a food court down there with this great ice cream shop.

They have this thing called a Mocha Java Blast. I'm not sure all of what's in it... but it's mocha, java, ice cream, milk and crushed ice all blended together. It comes out kind of thick and somwhat crunchy lol. It's topped with whipped cream and cinnamon.

It's freaking amazing. I could live off of it.

The only desert type thing that compares is a really good piece of cheesecake, which is better than any other dessert on the planet by default anyway. That's undisputable fact.

[amibasuki]

[FONT=arial]ah, ice cream. my most FAVORITE dessert in the world! my favorite flavors would have to be moose tracks, reese cups, cookie dough, and just plain vanilla ^_^. Dairy Queen has good ice cream, but the prices are jacked. we go there anyway, since a new food place in our town is almost a big a deal as Christmas.

and if this isn't a coincidence, but my mom had the worst cravings for vanilla ice cream with bananas when she was pregnant with me. guess the craving was passed on to me ^_^.[/FONT]

[Sara]

[size=1]Heh, TN. Coffee ice cream is good.

I've never had maple syrup on ice cream, but maple ice cream is yummy.

I really love vanilla with homemade raspberry sauce. It's delicious.

Tony...next time I'm in Chicago, I'm going to have to find that place. ^_~[/size]

[Spikey]

I eat Ice Cream in a bowl out of a box from the store, all year 'round. But if I watch I long movie, I take the whole box in the room with me. Sometimes, I don't do dishes, and no bowls are clean.

I don't live in town for the ice cream man...

[Ultima Legacy]

Hmmm... Well, I usually go to Baskin Robbins where I live but, it closed down two weeks ago. Sometimes I get it from the store, and rarely from the ice cream man. But I am going to camp in Maine for the summer so I probably won't have much. ;_;

[Sara]

[size=1][Where in Maine?]

I make all sorts of interesting concoctions when I am bored. You can put almost anything in the blender with ice creeam and call it a shake.[/size]

[Manic Webb]

3 words.

Ice cream soda.

I love eating rootbeer floats, and just about any other type of float (or ice cream soda) I can conjure up. Just hand me some vanilla ice cream and any random soft drink (except for lemon-lime) and I'll eat/drink it! It's the only way I'll have my vanilla ice cream.

The ice cream man is evil. Back in my day, I remember when ice cream only costed $0.50, not this ridiculous $2.00 price tag they've been putting on snow-cones! Ice cream truck prices have sky-rocketed by at least a dollar since my childhood, and I'm still a teenager. What's wrong with this picture?

[Corey]

Well I'll have to keep up with this one seeing as I wasn't here for the socks thread.

I really really like mint chocolate chip ice cream. It's the best on hot summer days.

The only second to mint chocolate chip ice cream, would easily have to be a good piece of cheesecake. Seems like Semjaza and I both are cheesecake fantics.

[XeEmO]

Mint chocolate chip all the way! Especially when it's a milk shake...actually I could go for a mint chocolate chip milk shake right now.

[Rhys Mayiessen]

[color=skyblue]Lol this is a weird topic! I usually eat ice cream all year round basically because my favorite ice cream doesn't come out until Christmas....CandyCane ice cream! Lol it tastes really good^^;;[/color]

[SS5 Gogeta]

I always eat ice cream during the summer, not in the winter though. My favorite is mint chocolate chip and sometimes cookie dough. I usually get my ice cream from the store and sometimes I like to eat ice cream sandwiches from time to time.

[Corey]

Cookie dough has a really bizzare consistency that makes me think of spoiled milk...

[Juu]

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Semjaza Azazel [/i]
[B]No ice cream man though. [/B][/QUOTE]

[color=ff00cc] [size=1]*shudders* I don't trust them anymore. :shifty:
The last ice cream man I went to gave me a popcicle with a fly stuck right on it.

I don't eat too much ice cream, but when I do, I always get Green Tea ice cream. Alot of the other flavors are a litty bit too sweet, so I really can't get past six licks. >>;[/color] [/size]

[KittyLynn]

[FONT=century gothic][SIZE=1][COLOR=dodgerblue]Ice Cream! Something interesting for once. Just kidding. But I absolutely looove ice cream! ^^

I would die without it. My favourite's are Strawberry and all Sherberts. ^^ I don't really go for teh chocolatey stuff.[/COLOR] [/SIZE] [/FONT]

[Fall]

If I seen an ice-cream man truck.. thingy.. come 'round here, I'd shave my dog and walk backwards. I haven't seen an ice-cream truck for ages.. like 6 years. I used to always get ice-creams for the ice-cream truck.. Damnit, I'm suffering ice-cream withdrawal symptoms here.

I haven't eaten ice-cream for about a month either. Hmm. I'll go and get some now.

[SS5 Gogeta]

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Juuthena [/i]
[B][color=ff00cc] [size=1]*shudders* I don't trust them anymore. :shifty:
The last ice cream man I went to gave me a popcicle with a fly stuck right on it.

I don't eat too much ice cream, but when I do, I always get Green Tea ice cream. Alot of the other flavors are a litty bit too sweet, so I really can't get past six licks. >>;[/color] [/size] [/B][/QUOTE]

Hey I like green tea ice cream too! Sometimes can be bitter but good flavor none the less.

[Shy]

[size=1]This is something I wrote for my school paper about Ice Cream.

Ice Cream: More Than You Need To Know

The foul temptress that is ice cream takes no prisoners. Over the centuries great civilizations have been torn apart by the greed and evil that surrounds the frozen delicacy. There is more history involved with the cool dish than many realize. Did you know that German spies during World War II were paid in Vanilla Fudge? Or that four holy wars have been fought over the area known as ?Chunky Monkey Peak?? Well there is a good reason you don?t know that because none of it is true! In fact, most of the stories surrounding ice cream are rumors and myth that have compiled over the centuries, in this article the truth will be uncovered and the accurate origins of the popular dessert will be revealed.

The first recorded instance of ice cream was by the famous explorer Marco Polo. Supposedly the Chinese had been eating a form if ice cream made of goat milk, flour and snow since the Tang Dynasty (618-907 A.D.) Polo took the recipe for the dish to his homeland of Italy. Italian chef Catherine de?Medici somehow learned the secret of this cool treat, and took it with her when she left for France. While in France, Catherine married one of the most prominent chefs in the world, Dimarco, who showed the flavored frost to King Charles I of France. The King became an ice cream fanatic, and he gave Dimarco a lifetime pension in exchange that he would not tell the secret recipe to anyone else. This secret arrangement lasted for years, until King Charles was beheaded by his angry subjects in 1649. Unknown by the King, the secret of Ice Cream had already been leaked across Europe, where the ingredients were eventually changed to the popular delicacy we know and gorge on today.

But this story may not be entirely true, or even remotely true. Several noted ice cream historians (yes, there really are ice cream historians) believe that ice cream was not discovered by one sole person, but rather it was made by several different people from all over the world. Obviously, some locations on Earth are warmer than others, but ice cream was able to stay cool in places as remote and hot as the Sahara Desert. Before the invention of the refrigerator people would keep their food and drinks chilly with a mixture of ice and salt. In extremely hot and arid regions people kept things cold by keeping the food and drinks buried underground, which some still do today. The ice was extremely expensive, and in the past only the very rich and powerful could afford to buy it.

Over time the recipes to make ice cream have evolved, and so have ways to make the treats. Roman Emperor Nero Caesar forced his slaves to climb to the top of local mountains, so that he could have ice cream to put his favorite fruit toppings on. Fruit has historically been the most popular topping on ice cream, but over the past two centuries chocolate and candy have become the treat that people scream to have put on their ice cream. The ice cream cone was created in 1896, and the waffle cone was invented at the St. Louis World?s Fair in 1904.

There is a lot of cold hard cash in the ice cream business, and every year more and more companies try their hand at selling ice cream. Since Irv Robbins opened his first store in 1945 with a meager 24 flavors, much lower than the standard 31 there are today. Robbins? first ice cream store was not known as ?Baskin-Robbins? that name came later when he combined his business with his rival?s (his brother-in-law Burt Baskin) ice cream company to create the world?s first Baskin-Robbins. Today Baskin-Robbins is the largest chain of ice cream stores in the country, with countless locations nationwide. Childhood friends Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield opened an ice cream store out of a renovated gas station in 1978. With their innovative flavors such as ?Chunky Monkey? and ?Cherry Garcia? they became one of the most popular ice cream stores, and now sell ?Ben and Jerry? brand treats in grocery stores and supermarkets around the country.

Ice Cream is one of the most popular desserts ever created. In the US, it is the king of frozen treats, every year Americans eat approximately 4.5 billion quarts of the stuff a year. On average 5 million people in the US eat ice cream during the course of a day, these figures do not include frozen yogurt or other imposters who are trying to take a piece of the big ice cream cake.

The truth is that no matter who invented it or where it came from, ice cream will always be everyone?s favorite frozen dessert. And even though it may not be the product of a government conspiracy, it still tastes good.

-Shy[/size]