8/16/2k2
tell me you remember those meadow gold commercials. ("two scoops! vaneella!")
5. dave's lychee sorbet. (i would just write "times 5" but i guess i could think a little harder.)
4. bubbies cookies n' cream. not terribly original but a definite desert-island winner. most oreo ice creams aren't very well-mixed, but bubbies CNC has the cream and cookie perfectly blended, with the occasional (and forgivable) chunk of cookie as an added bonus.
3. prailines and cream in a tie with strawberry cheesecake by bubbies. (i know, aren't i such a cheat.) prailines and cream ... mm, sugar and cruch ... why don't they make pecan prailines and cream, instead of forcing you to choose between pecan prailine and prailines and cream? that reminds me of a pecan pie someone once made me. mmm, pecan pie ... but wait, what was i going to say about strawberry cheesecake ice cream? oh yeah, my second-favorite thing at bubbies ... it's little pieces of cheesecake stuffed into ice cream, and if you've been extra-good you can have all of that in a nice crunchy sugar cone. that's hard to beat. why are my flavor descriptions getting longer and longer?
2. bowling alley vanilla. i swear to god, the best vanilla ice cream i ever had was from an unmarked tub at a bowling alley i can't remember. my dad used to bring me with him on his bowling nights at ... where was it, kam bowl? i also used to tag along on his tennis nights. hmm, wonder why i didn't grow up more athletic ... maybe it's because on bowling nights i'd get a vanilla ice cream cone and on tennis nights my dad's partner would give me granny goose taro chips. but back to the ice cream -- it's the kind of vanilla ice cream that's creamy and yellowish, but not eggy like french vanilla or gritty like dreyer's vanilla bean ice cream (yep, i've tried 'em all, in my search for the holy grail of ice creams, bowling alley vanilla.) the closest taste is meadow gold or other cheaper brands that come in boxes that look like they were printed in the '70s.
1. this isn't a flavor (i'm so bad at following directions) but i had to mention it because it's such a fun thing i used to eat all the time ... you know those pre-packaged ice cream cone things, not real Drumsticks but the cheaper, smaller cousin, Nutty Buddy? for the better part of seventh grade, i had two friends: the only other girl who transferred from my elementary school to MGS, and the MGS snack bar. coming from a public school where your recess snack options are juice and whatever you brought from home, to a school with a fully-stocked snack bar, i and my equally tubby and bewildered friend went, well, nutty. this was a typical lunch for us: funyuns, iced tea (and not the herbal, healthy kind, but the sugary, foamy hawaiian sun kind), and a Nutty Buddy. there were also fudgesicles, creamsicles, popsicles, doritos, sourdough chips, gardetto's, ice cream sandwiches, nutrition, what's that? the Nutty Buddy had a little frozen fudge topping with nuts sprinkled on top, and vanilla ice cream, and this little bit of chocolate in the tip of the cone -- the chewy cone, i might add. buddy indeed. it was great. i can't believe i used to eat that crap every day. (i'm not kidding. every day.) it was a comfort food, i guess. though come to think of it, the funyuns were pretty comforting, too. well, the ice-cream-buffet mania melted somewhere in 8th grade, i think, and the tubbiness evened out somewhere in high school, but i still would not pass up a Nutty Buddy today, especially if i could get one for 55 cents like in seventh grade. oh god, i sound like my dad.