It is 106 degrees here at 3:30 this afternoon. So, I decided that what we need is a cold subject.
How do you eat your ice cream? Do you eat right from the carton or do you do the correct thing and scoop it into a dish? In my doddering old age I have discovered the pleasures of eating directly from the carton. Always, I have thought of the other person and kept my personal spoon out of the carton, but no longer. First, there might not be anyone else eating my ice cream and if there is, they won't know if I dipped or spooned.
How do you enjoy yours?
I like mine in a bowl with some fresh fruit. Right now it's strawberries, bananas, blueberries and peaches. It also keeps me from eating too much ice cream. My all time favorite is Turkey Hill Dutch Chocolate followed by their peach and then everything else.
let it melt to warm stage, then add cold peaches.
Right out of the carton while everyone else is asleep. Now that everyone is gone I usually put in a dish and eat it at the computer.
Love Schwan's Peach Yogurt right out of the carton. If the dogs don't like it they can buy their own. Not that I share my PEach Yogurt.
Magnum double caramel ice cream bars...Sinful!!!!!!!! lol
I never met an ice cream that I didn't like; no matter what the weather. But when it is hot outside a glass full of ice and Hetch Hetchy water from the Sierra's. Better than a fine Scotch, a crisp Chardonnay, Jack Daniels, or a 32 oz. glass of Coca-Cola in a Coke glass.
David
I like my ice cream in my tummy, and often. ;D
Lisa
Blue Bunny No Sugar Added Turtle Sundae is my fave right now...
I like mine in a bowl after dipping it out of the can. Nothing like homemade ice cream!
I don't like Ice Cream of any kind... I can't stand the taste of anything with even a teaspoon of sugar or sweet taste in it.. Plus it makes me deathly sick.. ( so thats a plus when you have this kind of "whatever my sister and I have"...) I make it.. but I don't want to eat it. :)
Saves more for everyone else..
so if there is Ice Cream..or cake ..or pie..
somebody better speak up for my share fast.. LOL
I never run out of ice cream. I buy it iin 1/2 gallon (or what they call half gallon) and figure that is four bowls.
once upon a time, I could eat a pint all by myself and usually called that a meal.
My favorite is Brown Bread, altho the only place I can find it anymore is in Topeka at a Frozen Yoghurt store.........this is grape nuts in vanilla ice cream. Use to love Peter Pan's version.
Tin Roof Sundae is my choice of flavors just lately.
Vanilla with peanut butter sauce on it is what I eat when I can't get Tin Roof. and I do make my own sundaes. banana's and cashews and what ever I want.
Don't have to share and most time when I have it I am at computer or watching tv.
Oh, when I was recovering from Radiation and Chem-o therapy, Ice Cream helped me by tempting me to eat and at one time I needed extra calories (lost 84 pounds and my appitite, nothing tasted right, fried taste buds and no spit) and you can add so much to ice cream to increase calories. Sorry about writing an essay, but I LOVE ICE CREAM!
I have always craved a good fudge bar when I don't feel well. My best friend had a box of them at the nurses station for me because the only that sounded good to me when I could eat after the surgery was a fudge bar.
Schwann root beer float bars. They remind me of the floats that you used to get at Batson"s back in the 60's. Squirt and I would get a root beer float there and sit in the front window and consume them while reading comic books. AAAAAAAHHHHHHH the GOOD OLD DAYS. If I remember at one time Teresa worked there!!
Judy, I never heard of "brown bread".That's a neat name. We have a creamery near us that makes lots of flavors from their own Jersey cows in the field next door. (Woodside Farms)They come up with wonderful odd combos too including one called "motor oil". They have a grand selection all the time and then make the special odd ones from time to time. ( bacon!)
We used to make freezers full of our own every summer, but now with no family left here it's not worth the work. All your favorites folks are making me want ice cream right now.
I never worked at Batsons...
I worked in Winn's cafe as a waitress and as a nurses aid in the Nursing home..
When my husband was taking radiation I would make him milkshakes using ice cream and Ensure or Boost. Gave him extra calories and changed the flavor of the Ensure and Boost.
I helped look after Agnes Barnaby when she was still at home and one of her afternoon treats.........was a scoop of ice cream and a half a can of Ensure.
I had to mix it up and then she drank/ate it. While doing this, I thought that was so gross and a good way to ruin ice cream. but after my cancer therapy, understood that totally.
My taste buds were fried and nothing tasted right anyway, so except not liking flavored Boost (was my choice, Ensure was still too sweet)I did drink about a case a week for about 3 or 4 months and then only a six pack a week.
I was lucky, the American Cancer Society gave me the Boost and all I had was make a trip to Topeka to pick it up. I had to go to KU med a lot and the trip was paid for my ACS until the alloted money ran out. PTL for the American Cancer Society.
Oh back to Brown Bread, I like adding Grape NUts to yoghurt, too. got to have crunch and it is good. try it. to your taste. not mine
Sorry Teresa. I know John hired lots of kids over the years, Imust have had brainfreeze from the ice cream.
It worked, didn't it? When we all started talking about something cold, the heat went away.
It hasn't gone away here. I am still having to let the huge dog in during the afternoon, takes up half the dining room when he spreads out. Mama cat and kittens are inside for the rest of the summer I guess.
The leaves are falling like they do in late Sept. and Oct. We are seeing a lot of dead trees, going to be really bad if we get a direct hit from a hurricane this year.
Our trees are shedding leaves early too. It looks like rain and then it goes north of us. Not quite as hot but hot enough.
Ms Bear still needs us. Let's all send our cold thoughts to Texas.
Do you remember the old ice cream cones that were actually cone shaped with the pointy bottom that you couldn't set down? Remember how the ice cream used to melt and run down into the bottom of the cone and eventually soak through the cone and leak out? Remember how you could then suck on the bottom of the cone and get all the melted ice cream? Do those still exist?
Thank you Wilma. I am so ready for even a few cool days. Tired of shoveling dirt every day after I put the big dog back outside.
I think the cones you are talking about are the sugar cones, the cake cones are flat on the bottom. I like them both but think the kids liked the pointed ones best because they were messier. Amazing how they only got ice cream all over them if they were dressed up, play clothes never. My youngest is 41 and I still remember this.
Quote from: Wilma on August 09, 2011, 02:16:16 PM
Ms Bear still needs us. Let's all send our cold thoughts to Texas.
Do you remember the old ice cream cones that were actually cone shaped with the pointy bottom that you couldn't set down? Remember how the ice cream used to melt and run down into the bottom of the cone and eventually soak through the cone and leak out? Remember how you could then suck on the bottom of the cone and get all the melted ice cream? Do those still exist?
Wilma, Braums still has the pointed sugar cones.
If you get with Cork AAA, you can get Schwan's Sundae Cones (I think that was their name, anyway)...Pointy sugar cones, with chocolate in the tip to forestall leaks, with ice cream in it that is topped with nuts and a center of fabulous caramel...Totally decadent and YUMMY, YUMMY, YUMMY!!! ;D
Family Market sells pointed sugar-flavored waffle cones. Jim uses them all the time.
I eat my ice cream in a dish - I'm too slow an eater to use a cone! :D
And old-fashioned vanilla is my favorite.
Sugar cones are still easy to find.I loved to bite the bottom off and suck out the then soft ice cream also. Now I just get a cup .
Quote from: doobie on August 08, 2011, 07:19:10 AM
Schwann root beer float bars. They remind me of the floats that you used to get at Batson"s back in the 60's. Squirt and I would get a root beer float there and sit in the front window and consume them while reading comic books. AAAAAAAHHHHHHH the GOOD OLD DAYS. If I remember at one time Teresa worked there!!
I used to work there when I was married to Woody.
Quote from: Catwoman on August 09, 2011, 04:38:23 PM
If you get with Cork AAA, you can get Schwan's Sundae Cones (I think that was their name, anyway)...Pointy sugar cones, with chocolate in the tip to forestall leaks, with ice cream in it that is topped with nuts and a center of fabulous caramel...Totally decadent and YUMMY, YUMMY, YUMMY!!! ;D
Those were originally called drumsticks. They were my moms fave!
Lisa
It seems that Ms. Bear still needs our help. Let's give it another shove.
Do you remember the ice man, you know, the man that delivered chunks of ice to the ice box in the kitchen before everybody had electric refrigerators? I do because I used to ride around the route with our ice man. He had an old Chevy panel truck. That was a truck with doors in the rear that opened like French doors. Each door had a little window. The only other windows were the ones up front. The interior was open from the windshield to the rear doors. Except he had put in a partition just behind the seats. This partition was in two pieces, lower and upper. The upper part had a window and was removable. The purpose of the partition was partly to help keep the cab portion warmer in the winter and partly to keep the ice away from the back of the seat. There was a shelf about half way up the side that extended from one side of the truck to the other side of the truck. This was to keep the mail sacks off the damp floor. You see he was also the Star Route carrier in the area.
He would start his day at 6:00 in the morning when he picked up the mail at the depot. His first stop was in the town where the ice plant was, so after dropping off the mail for that town he would stop at the ice plant and load up six or seven 300 pound blocks of ice. They just fit crosswise in the back of the truck. He covered the ice with a tarp, then a handsewn blanket of burlap made from gunny sacks, then another tarp. After dropping the last of the morning mail, he would start the ice route for the day. He had at least two routes and delivered at least twice a week. The customer could have 100 pounds, 75 pounds, 50 pounds or 25 pounds. To make a 100 pound chunk, Daddy had to cut the 300 pound chunk into 3 equal pieces. To do this he had a scribe tool that was made to measure exactly 1/3 of the way into the side of the chunk. Starting at the top and using the end for a guide, he would score the side of the chunk on both sides, then using the ice pick he would gently chip into the score until the ice cracked. Voila, one 100 pound chunk. For 50 pounds, he would use the tool and score across the middle of the 100 chunk. For the 25 chunk, he used the pick and his judgement. To carry the ice, he had two ice bags. How to describe them. Maybe like a sling shot, but sturdier. Made of tough canvas with rivets, etc., leather handles for comfort. I can still see them. The larger one was for carrying 50 lb. chunks. Daddy didn't try to carry 100 lb. chunks, that was too heavy even for today's man. The smaller one was for the occasional 25 lb. chunk which was all some of the older people needed or could afford.
My job was to keep the book for him. He had a notebook with the customers listed in the order that he came to them. He always wrote down how much ice they got, how much they paid him in one column and another column for if they didn't have the money that day. I learned to spell and pronounce a lot of difficult names that way. My other job was to keep the ice splinters cleaned up which was easy to do on a hot day and I didn't have to share with anyone as his customers were rural. You couldn't ask for a cooler job on a hot day as riding with Daddy as he delivered ice to his customers.
Great post, Wilma, and most interesting.
I remember the ice man and the little brown ice box at my grandparents. They got their first refrigerator when I was probably 4 or 5. It was quite an event, it was a Norge. I also remember getting the butter in the plastic bag and getting to squeeze it so the yellow color be dispersed through out it. Grandma told me that the little round area of coloring was the butter's belly button. ha ha
Wilma and Roma, those are wonderful memories.
Wilma, how many towns did he deliver the mail to?
It is 4 pm here and the computer says it is 99 degrees but I think it is hotter than that. Have a good breeze today that helps if you have to get out and work up a sweat. Will have to water roses and azaleas tonight. Thankyou for thinking about me here.
Roma Jean,
I think that was oleomargarine that was being purchased and colored yellow. However, I do recall we called it butter, also.
Margarine was white. Producers could not add yellow coloring to the margarine product to resemble butter because it was against the law. So they included separate vials of yellow coloring with the product. It was not against the law for the consumer to color the product.
Why was it against the law for manufacturers to color margarine? Because if the margarine was left in its white state, it was hoped the consumer would likely not want it and would purchase butter instead. Laws protected the butter lobby and the dairy industry.
There were some states in which yellow margarine could be purchased but there was a premium, a tax, placed on the production of that product.
By the time, I began working in a grocery store in the mid 50's, the manufacturing coloring restriction had been lifted in Missouri.
Wisconsin was supposedly the last state to lift the coloring restriction in 1967.
That's it exactly. It was my job to knead the orange dot in the corner into the rest of the oleo bag once it was soft enough to work up. For years Wisconsin wouldn't allow oleo to be sold at all, then gradually under strict conditions.
If we bought commercial butter it was always Land O' Lakes. We usually got local farm butter. I do remember my great grandmother Clark's ice box in Horton. By then she was a widow and lived in a nice second floor apartment that shared a bathroom.The ice man would carry the twenty five pound block up the steps and put it in for her. I think I remember her putting a colored card in her front window when she wanted ice. Later grandpa Boyd bought her her first refrigerator. She was very proud of it. No more melting water and real ice cubes.
Ms Bear, he delivered mail to three small towns in the morning and picked up their outgoing mail in the evening and brought it back to the depot to be picked up by the train.
Waldo, I still call it butter. In my lifetime, I have bought very little butter. My growing up years we churned and I continued to do so as long as I had access to cream. Mother tried the white oleo and we tried coloring it, but it wasn't the same as butter. I still like to have some butter in the house just in case I want to do a little cooking with it.
Ms. Bear, I have thought about you all day and wondered if maybe it were a little cooler down there. It has been so nice here. Light rain all morning and I think we had a high of around 85.
I had been so relaxed today. I had planned to be lazy to honor the National Lazy day.......but since my homemaker was due this morning at 8:30 I took shower curtain down and this requires me to hold my arms straight up and unclip the white plastic thingys and after I got them all undone, I dropped the curtain in a bathtub full of bleachy soapy water to get shower scum and soap stuff off it.........and then Bless her heart, she hung it back up.
It isnt a see-through lightweight one and I like it so keep doing this when I can get someone to hang it back up for me. Maybe 3 times a year.
Then I ironed for almost 2 hours till it was all done. Went to store first walking in the rain. Left pooches at home, was not ready to give bath's today.
I remember mom buying the oleo/butter with the yellow thingy in it and she would let me knead it and it was sort of fun for this 7 year old...........and until after dad got out of service, we did have an ice box and we did have an ice man...but my memory there is just of the ice pick working and me being allowed to eat the slivers. I still call my refrigerator an IceBox and will till the day I die.
I, too, remember the ice box. Although I think ours was green. An icepick was probably the most important tool in the kitchen. We were always picking the ice for cold drinks. After my oldest brother was in the service for a while, he was able to buy a refrigerator for mom. I was playing next door when he brought it home and my other brother yelled at me to come home. No knowing what was going on, I chose to stay where I was at. He came over and busted me one in the chops, chipping my front tooth. I had that chipped tooth until I got married and my wife had dental insurance and insisted I fix it. I used to be able to whistle really loud until that day.
You might remember also, the meat grinder anchored to the counter. We used to buy meat in chunks and grind it ourselves for hamburgers. I don't know if they sold ground meat in those days. Also, a gas stove with no pilot lights. Ours caught on fire once and burned most of the kitchen down. Insurance paid for the repairs. Also, a deep fat fryer was always ready for use containing pure old lard. Had to change it out once every few days when it started getting stale. But, those french fries were delicious. It was my job to peel the potatoes and cut them into strips for the fries.
But, drinking something cold made me remember buying 8 oz. Cokes and a bag of peanuts and pouring the peanuts in the Coke. Yummy!!!!
Larryj
Ms Bear, how is your weather today? Is it any cooler? I haven't been able to tell from the maps they have shown us. I feel guilty enjoying this cool and the rain that we have had, thinking that you might still be in the oven.
But! But! But! Wilma! Just remember that it will be down in the super freezy stuff before too terribly long, and Ms Bear will be bemoaning the fact that she cannot keep her super beautiful multi- famous tea and cake roses cut fast enough so that they won't smother her as she promenades to her top-down cadillac on February 33. [ I been readin' sarge and jarheads'postings]. We just had yet another squall through here, hooray!,I hope my rain guage runneth over!
It was 100 again today with the feel like 107. I was home by 2 pm and stayed in until I went walking at 8. We had a good breeze while we were walking so it wasn't to bad. I am ready for some cooler weather but would really just like to have some rain. So many trees are dead that if we do have a hurricane this year we will lose a lot of trees.
Yes Six, when you are getting the fluffy stuff it will be in the 70's here. Maybe I can get the yard in shape this winter. Hopefully we will get enough rain that they lift the burn ban so I can get some of the bushes trimmed so it doesn't look like a jungle. Have three piles ready to burn now and lots of trimming to do.
What a pleasant way to wake up this morning. I don't care if summer comes back, in fact I really hope it does, just not quite as hot..............and except I had to get up to close windows last night, I had unplugged things before I went to be.
This morning my gauge has 2" in it and we had an inch yesterday...........and that isn't the rain that blew side-wise.
How nice is this? Grass has grown almost 5 inches over night and it is so green.
Won't have to water today and maybe the plants will get a second wind and start showing off.
Oh, God is good. Hallelujah!