Not wild about Cold Stone, either. It melts too fast and I don't like the consistency.

I have tried the spinach ice cream at Dominion, their most popular vegetable flavor, and it's great. You can't taste the spinach at all, but you get the nutritional value.
I don't like Cold Stone Creamery, either, but that's mostly because of the singing. I find it obnoxious.

Vegetables in ice cream.

ABSO-FREAKIN'-LUTELY NOT.

What the hell good is having the God-given ability to reason if you aren't going to use it?

Vegetables in ice cream.

The idea is so fundamentally distressing to me that now I have to go back to bed, fall asleep, wake up and start my day all over again, skipping this topic altogether the next time I log on. (That's what I do when a day starts out badly. I just start it over.)

Good night.

tomato ice cream? - GACK.

how about Bacon Ice Cream?

BRAIN FREEZE! Stold Cone.

Never been to Cold Stone, but people that do go there have that creepy fetishy zombie deep love of it like people used to have of the creepy 12 ingredient seemingly personal fetishy nearly masturbatory Starbucks order. Maybe both represent some underlying mental disorder. I'm pretty sure these people could be converted to Hinduism if it involved a magical show and a pony. Ha, didn't see that one coming did you?

Hey Ed, leave me out of this, I'm still resting from the Lasagne Awareness Day parade.

mmmm Bacon ice cream.... yes, Rob. the traditional serving is with peaches and chocolate sauce

A friend told me she had lavender ice cream in Provence. It tasted like perfume--not a quality I want in my ice cream, thank you very much.

False Snickers!!!!! Snickers can't type. He can only count. Get your own pony. Besides I haven't seen him for a while.

I I may suggest the ultimate: Bacon Bourbon Ice Cream. Mmmmm ... smoky.

I like the consistency. My favorite way to eat store bought ice cream is when it's been sitting melting a litte in the trunk on the way home from the store. It's my "reward" for finishing putting everything else away. I never say never (well, since the early sushi buzz - "I'll never eat raw fish, ewwww"); but can't see myself likeing veggies in ice cream. What next? Lox flavor?

Like Bucky, I feel the need to start my day over. The last thing you want to see first thing on a queasy after-holiday morning is a reference to well, I might get sick if I even type it. Gack-o-rama!

I need some bacon now.

p.s. Yay Venus! Tennis goddess. And she designed her own dress. Love has triumphed. perhaps the morning can be rescued after all.

For me Cold Stone just makes me very happy. Peanut Butter Cup Perfection is just bliss.

I dislike the "base ice creams" at Cold Stone; at one there was only chocolate or vanilla... that's not really a selection to me.

Whereas at Maggie Moos they have more base ice creams for mixing or for enjoying on their own. Plus I just love their ice cream. I think it has a great creamy texture.

I will have to wander up to Dominion just to experience vegetable ice cream. I'll have to get my boyfriend to go as he is an ice cream fanatic. Maybe a new way to eat all your veggies!

So how was the mint chocolate KitKat ice cream combo taste-wise (despite the disconcerting consistency)? I feel inspired by it somehow.

I thought it would be great, but actually good mint chocolate chip is better. EL

Brussels sprouts and Lima beans are GACK 10's in their natural state. Why would any sensible person ruin cream and sugar and other ice cream makings by adding mini-cabbages and green library paste to the mix? Ice cream is meant to be enjoyed and mixed with things like nuts and marshmallow and chocolate sauce.

Here's a simple test: would you put marshmallow sauce on mini cabbages? Chocolate or hot fudge sauce on green library paste? If your answers is properly - GACK NOOOOO, why think an ice cream base would make it any better?

RtSO asked "would you put marshmallow sauce on mini cabbages?"

Many years ago the UMCP dairy students made up some saurkraut-flavored ice cream as a class project, which was then sold at their store on campus. Never had any myself, but the idea still intrigues me.

I don't know how this gack thing got started here, but you should know that it's really popular street slang for crank or meth and some really disgusting sexual stuff. Gack away key bumpers.

Speaking of "other things" -- tomorrow (Sunday 7/6) at 12:00 noon, WYPR-FM will start weekly broadcasts of The Splendid Table, which had been previously available only on WAMU-FM (which still carries it Saturdays at 2:00 p.m.).

Crank, meth, really disgusting sexual stuff, vegetable ice cream...

Close enough for me.

Gaaaaaack.

If I recall correctly, EL was first to use gack on this blog, and, as far as I know, she wasn't referring to crack or meth. I much prefer the Wictionary definition of gack, although, curiously, Wiktionary fails to include, among the examples of the usage of the word, its most noted source -- namely, Bill the Cat.

Nope, not me. One of the commenters, although I don't remember who. I certainly embraced it, though. EL

RtSO - how is it that you know what library paste tastes like? Or was that book talking?

From the Urban Dictionary, definition number 5, complete with usage:

"gack is a word meaning unpleasant repulsive disgusting hideous nauseating can be applied to ppl food drink music and pete doherty!

jesus look at her shes a pig shes gack!!

this lasagne is gack who th hell taught you to cook??!!

pete doherty is gack!"

http://www.urbandictionary.com/

it was me that used it first. i had been using it for years, and brought it to D@L. but since i don't know which of my nom de plumes it was, i can't claim credit outright. it is possible to search on gack and find it?

I thought so, but the search only went back to April, when Dahlink used it, and I know we used it before then. EL

According to Enclyclo, the Online Enclyclopedia, "gack" is American slang for "to vomit."

If one can't trust a site called Enclyclo, what can one trust?

the usage of gack has indeed been correct on this blog (see #5 and others):

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?page=4&term=gack

please check out all 4 pages or so for full meaning

the urban dictionary is an indispensable resource. i use it often in my job, to get exact meanings for words such as "raggely."

EL perhaps you could make use of def #23 someday in a review:

"food that sticks to the roof of your mouth, also the process of food getting stickier the more you chew it

"this food is really gacky" "

Ms. B Girl, many years ago, just after they shifted from horse hide glue, I can remember tasting the white stuff. It was minty flavoured. Its more the paste-like quality of Lima beans I was considering. The library paste tasted better, as I re-call. BTW, your suggestion concerning Book has Book in quite a snit. Book suggested that eating library paste would be like us picking our noses and snacking. I don't think Book will be asking you out, anytime soon.

Getting back to ice cream - particulary homemade ice cream even though EL wrote it is "so far above this discussion we won't even go there"....

When I was a child, we had a big family reunion every summer where many adults sat around hand-cranking their ice cream machines. I would make myself almost deliriously sick tasting each person's concoction, but what I most remember is that homemade ice cream causes a much bigger brain freeze than store bought. Can this be true? Or is it because I ate the homemade type much faster because it gets melty sooner?

Not sure if it's the first, but I expressed a "gack" in reference to chains on Feb 22, 2008.

RtSO,
Your report of Book's comment had me laughing out loud!

Owl,
At last mention, Chino and Snickers were out on a mission of yours...

...why do I remember that?

The GACK Scale goes back before February, as I recall. There is, somewhere in the mists of time a thread wherein the Sandbox assigned numerical values to bad food, sort of like the way we measure earthquakes or tornadoes. It was interesting to see how Brussels sprouts fared. Her Majesty was in support whilst a number of us assigned high digit value Gacks. The formalisation of the scale came after gacks had been in use for some time.

What the Sandbox needs is an archivist. Clearly the Tribune provided search function is inadequate.

Yes, I quite agree with Robert tSO--we need a better way to retrieve who said what and when. I was a fairly late adopter of "gack," as I recall, and only used it after Lady E. authorized its use.

Yes, we could use an archivist or a historian. I think we could also use a parlimentarian for when things get a little out of order.

I haven't been able to find a gack reference in the Sandbox earlier than LJ's February 22, 2008 post on chains. The next one I could find was Dottie's March 14 comment on gas station burgers.

Next usage was in EL's March 14 response to an Owl Meat post on liver, accompanied by her official announcement that it had become her "new favorite disgusted word, thanks to this blog." 31 minutes later, EL used gack to respond to Brother Bim's post on liver. The Sandbox has not been quite the same ever since.

Curiously, however, a November 14, 2007 Rob Kasper column used the parenthetical "(gack!)" to describe brussels sprouts. Was RK the muse of inspiration for the introduction of the term into the Sandbox? Come to think of it, why isn't RK posting to the Sandbox, when so many other Sun denizens (Sam Sessa, jl, etc.) are happily playing with us?

Excellent research. Thank you. I remember now that LJ was the first. Interesting that the search function within the blog software wouldn't go back that far. EL

Excellent suggestions from RoCK. I hereby nominate hmpstd as official archivist, RoCK as parliamentarian, and OMG for court jester. Do I have a second?

Seeing the same clubby inexpressive language evokes a sorority sameness that is both isolating and stupefying.

It's. Like. You know. Blogefaction. Tear down your playhouse and try squeezing out some sparks.

You know who was an insular group with a limited vocabulary? The Smurfs. And they're all dead now.

"Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction."
-- Pablo Picasso

The Smurf Scale goes back before Smurfuary, as I smurf. There is, somewhere in the smurfs of smurf a smurf wherein the Smurfbox assigned smurfy values to smurfy food, sort of like the way we measure smurfquakes or smurfadoes. It was smurfy to see how Brussel Smurfs fared. Her Smurfesty was in support while a number of us Smurfs assigned high smurf value Smurfs. The smurfisation of the scale came after Smurfs had been in use for some smurfiness.

What the Smurfbox needs is an Smurfist. Clearly the Smurfbune provided smurf function is unsmurfy.

I think you've all gone crazy from the heat. There is both a lack of cogency and zaniness. Owl Meat and Voodoo Pork aren't fighting, OMG's meds seem to be working or maybe he's just addicted to Photoshop now, and there is less Robbiness. Maybe we are all out of words and should just sit quietly for a month?

I did see a quote that Reeverend Ed might enjoy:

Blasphemy depends upon belief and is fading with it. If any one doubts this, let him sit down seriously and try to think blasphemous thoughts about Thor. I think his family will find him at the end of the day in a state of some exhaustion.
-- G. K. Chesterton

Using the Urban Dictionary to learn street slang? Creak, is this now an AARP recruiting site? Dat's totally wack!

RtSO - you tell Book methinks the book doth protest too much.

Who put the rattlesnakes in your knickers today Chicklet? Get some sun, you're obvious despite yourself. All you need is therapy, all you need is love is all you need.

Did you know that you all qualify for term life insurance without any medical exam? For just pennies a day you can see that your loved ones are not burdened by your final expenses. You can trust me, Robert Wagner, call me RJ, I was married to Natalie Wood - twice. Can I interest you in a reverse mortgage maybe? How about some diabetes medicine that will come directly to your door? What about a Rascal scooter? I'll drive it over myself. Where am I? Why does my TV have a typewriter attached to the front? Would someone please change the damned channel? Isn't Matlock on now? I'm RJ dammit! Where's the clicker!

WHAT? All the Smurfs are dead? When did that happen?

Geeze, I need to, like, start reading the, you know, real parts of the newspaper.

hmpstd that reads almost like an OED entry. well done!

btw, I hate to admit this but I had a hot dog for breakfast today whie watching tennis it's still a holiday until Monday, right?

EL - it's not quite Breakfast at Wimbledon food, is it? I thought we might see a post on that this weekend.

I couldn't. I get very nervous, and I'm trying not to throw up. EL

Lars Von Trier documented the last days of the Smurfs quite well in the video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99YICM_-UfQ

Smurf up!

Smurfs are immortal, especially Papa Smurf and Smurfette.

Actually, I do believe EL borrowed "gack" from me MANY months ago. Let's face it, there are times when it's the only word that applies.

Here's a gift to y'all: "precocious senility." It's found mostly in middle-aged persons, but I've seen it exhibited in persons in their mid-30's. An example is when you know perfectly well what word you want to use, but you can't drag it out of the deep recesses of your mind. That's precocious senility. Use it with my blessing.

EL -- are you now feeling better, post-match?

I'm sorry anyone had to lose that match, but my boy won. EL

Rock Chicklet, The Revenge of Gargamel is amusing, but it can never hold a candle to the only, the only, the original: Bambi Meets Godzilla.

hmpstd - I agree RK would be a nice compliment to the Sandbox. Here is another snippet from that 11/14/07 column:

"Another year, I found a new pal for pumpkin pie, Basil Hayden's Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey. The vanilla flavors of the bourbon caught the spice notes of the pie and didn't let go."

Talk about homemade and hand-cranked. THAT is poetry, people.

BTW, Rock Chiclet - if you were REALLY punk, there would be no such thing to you as "really disgusting sexual stuff" (supra, 7.5.08, 4:05 p.m.)

and

while you may have had a perfectly valid point with your smurfy posts, being punk doesn't mean being mean. chew on that, chiclet.

How YOU doin'?!

Who said I was punk? I'm just a cranky bee-atch.

Oh I get it now, Bourbon Girl, you want a piece of me? Let's go! I can pencil you in for a week from Tuesday, no make that Wednesday contingent upon a slap fight with my accountant. I recommend pillow fight as dawn.

Smurfs vid was good but nothing beats the Scary Mary Poppins video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T5_0AGdFic

House of 1000 Muppets is equally awesome:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Rt8_lU7FQ8

You go, Bourbon Girl...

Hey, Bourbon Girl, looks like it's your day for news coverage.

I vote for the pillow fight, but at Happy Hour.

Let the girl-fight whiskey slap wars begin! LTMQ

LTMQ=Laughing to myself quietly. Seriously, isn't that more honest? How often do you really LOL and only mental patients are LMFAO and ROTFL.

Not that it has anything to do with food, but after watching the Scary Mary Poppins video, I was reminded of the re-cut preview for Sleepless in Seattle.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frUPnZMxr08

Hmpstd - My Bill the Cat gacks all the time. GACK!!!!!! It's no wonder I never eat breakfast.

EL - How is Pandora doing? Filled up with gacky stuff yet?

Bill the Cat didn't Gack he "Ack"ed and frequently followed that up by coughing up a hairball.

Ack is appropriate too!

Rock Chicklet, sounds like you need a big hug. Using Smurfs for anything but good is ill-advised. They are everywhere. Were you drinking up all the leftover espresso at the closing Starbucks this weekend?

How fascinating!! To get from ice cream on Charles Street to Bill the Cat via Smurfs, Mary Poppins and bourbon in pumpkin pie in only 61 clicks. This blog is way too much like my own brain!

Anyway, back to the ice cream, decades ago there was a shop on Nantucket that sold fish ice cream -- in several flavors, as I recall.

Before anyone gacks, don't think of it as desert ... think of it as a frozen savory mousse to be offered as a first course on a hot day. Serve with crackers and a decent sauvignon blanc.

Now let's bring it home ...

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THE EMPEROR OF ICE-CREAM

Call the roller of big cigars,
The muscular one, and bid him whip
In kitchen cups concupiscent curds.
Let the wenches dawdle in such dress
As they are used to wear, and let the boys
Bring flowers in last month's newspapers.
Let be be finale of seem.
The only emperor is the emperor of ice-cream.

Take from the dresser of deal,
Lacking the three glass knobs, that sheet
On which she embroidered fantails once
And spread it so as to cover her face.
If her horny feet protrude, they come
To show how cold she is, and dumb.
Let the lamp affix its beam.
The only emperor is the emperor of ice-cream.

Bill The Cat has been Gacking for a decade or so.

That was Wallace Stevens, natch.

I am sorry I cannot fight anyone. I have been lulled into a trance by the Owl's posting of Wallace Stevens.

Let be be finale of seem.

Food as life and death. Perfect poem for this blog. I'm stunned into silence.

And maybe more than a little in love with the Owl at this moment. (Ooooh chicklet, better watch out! LTMQ.)