an ice cream I'd never seen before

[cos]

Friday afternoon, silentmachine's roommates took me to Minnehaha Park to see the falls, and we also stumbled onto World Refugee Day. We wandered into Sea Salt and got ice cream, but it wasn't until after I got mine that we noticed this...



We asked and the guy behind the counter said it really was made with squid ink, and tastes somewhat like black cherry.

Comments

[wendolen.livejournal.com]

You didn't get a sample??

[cos]

Sadly, no. I didn't think of it until we'd wandered away, and social gravity kept me from running back. See, I already had my ice cream... I'll just have to try it next time.

[coraline]

why on earth would it taste like black cherry???

i mean, i've had squid ink in a bunch of contexts, and it has a very nice flavor, but i can't imagine it being anything like black cherry unless Done WRong.

[cos]

I don't know why it would. It's possible the guy working there was just wrong. It may be that squid ink as an ice cream flavor, when what you're tasting is more cream and sugar than squid ink, is rather different than in other contexts. It may be the combination of unfamiliar yet still sweet flavor, plus the smell and appearance, "fooling" one into perceiving it as black-cherry-like. ("fooling" in quotations because smell and appearance do really affect how we perceive tastes)

[harm-city-heart.livejournal.com]

Officially something I NEED to try.

[ommango.livejournal.com]

Sepia ice cream ...how weird!

This came through 2 posts up on my flist and it made me think of you so I am putting it here FYI, Cos. Enjoy MPLS.

Phoenix Award

http://kidslit.menashalibrary.org/2008/06/phoenix-award.html

The Phoenix Award has to be one of the most inventive children's book awards out there. It is an award for the author of a book published originally in English that did not win a major award at the time of its original publication twenty years earlier. So this year is the 1989/2009 award.



And the winner is Francesca Lia Block, author of Weetzie Bat. Golly, I remember reading Weetzie Bat when it first came out. The amazing freedom of Block's vision and language. Her ability to take the mundane and make it mystical. It was the most eye-opening book I had ever read.

One honor book was also selected: Sylvia Cassedy, for her book Lucie Babbidge’s House.

[undulations.livejournal.com]

Not quite as startling, but I've had delicious delicious squid ink linguine. Black pasta...mmmmm.

[belepherdria.livejournal.com]

how does one go about harvesting squid ink?

[cos]

I could search and find out how it's really done, but I think I'd much rather hear your imaginative theory of how it's done.