I need more meat in my flavored desert

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/29/AR2005072902133.html

Barbecued Alaska

At the Beach, Ice Cream Flavors That May Be Hard to Swallow

By Don Oldenburg

Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, July 30, 2005; Page C01

REHOBOTH BEACH, Del. -- Forget that "I scream, you scream" nonsense. A block from Rehoboth Beach's grainy sands and churning waves, where beachgoers are baking on a Tuesday afternoon in a 95-degree swelter, Udder Delight Ice Cream House is busy scooping ice cream flavors so outlandish it makes some of its chill-seekers scream, all right.

"Uh, it tastes a little too much like barbecue," says bikini-topped Franny Linus, 25, staring at a creamy beige concoction on a plastic spoon. She grimaces the way people do when sizing up something really weird.

The cooler at Udder Delight in Rehoboth Beach contains some of owner Chip Hearn's unusual ice cream flavors, including bacon and barbecue. (Photos By Ricky Carioti -- The Washington Post)

On a day trip from Bear, Del., Linus and her friend Leigh Ann McDonough, 24, flip-flopped into the otherwise old-fashioned ice cream parlor thinking icy-cold mango smoothies. But Udder Delight owner Chip Hearn steered them to an impromptu taste test of his newest creations -- one of which may be the world's first barbecue-flavored ice cream. The other test flavors: a chunky bacon ice cream and a pale-red Cackalacky Spice Sauce ice cream.

Linus licks the bacon ice cream. "Not bad," she says. But she's not big on the frozen bits of bacon. McDonough thinks it tastes a little like butter pecan and kind of likes it.

Studying their reactions are Hearn and his barbecuing and brainstorming partner, H. Page Skelton.

Wearing a denim "Cackalacky" logo apron and a white 10-gallon cowboy hat, Skelton is the president of the Cackalacky Classic Condiment Co. in Chapel Hill, N.C. He drove up this week for the unveiling of this oddball ice cream made with his award-winning sauce, typically poured over North Carolina pork barbecue. Skelton and Hearn, 52, like to travel the nation's competitive barbecue circuit together.

"Bacon and butterfat, what could be better? The stuff should come with CPR instructions," jokes Skelton, 37, watching the young women sample the next sample -- spicy-hot ice cream with a vinegar aftertaste.

"Interesting," concludes McDonough, "but I wouldn't buy a whole thing of it."

They order smoothies.

"You can do almost anything with ice cream -- that's the beauty of it," says Hearn, whose XXXL size shows how beautiful he finds ice cream. He has been in the business 35 years, but it's only in the past three that making dairy out of the ordinary for this store and his boardwalk shop up the street has become his passion.

Within a couple of blocks, Hearn says, he's got a dozen competitors, including Ben, Jerry, Baskin and Robbins. Udder Delight is at the corner of Rehoboth Avenue and Triple Bypass, across from Hooters; inside, the decor is traditional Holstein. The sign in the window boasts of how Hearn's peanut-butter-and-jelly ice cream won the World Series of Ice Cream two years ago.

There's a life-size replica cow head mounted on the wall, to represent the specially bred Jersey cows that supply the extra butterfat-rich milk for Hearn's creations. Its head sways back and forth. When manager Tricia Collins speaks into her lapel microphone, the cow's mouth moves and speaks. "We welcome people and scare little kids sometimes -- not on purpose," says Collins. "If you moo at people as they leave, they are offended sometimes."

Nerds Rule

This is spectacular.

Nerds

This Has To Be The Nerdiest Thing I've Ever Seen In My Life

I thought those cheap little Fantasy Football trophies were the cheesiest thing ever, but no....they've been topped. Via Majorly English and SbB comes this insane tidbit.

EA Sports and Madden 2008 are offering "Championship Rings"....

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., - July 16, 2007 – Electronic Arts Inc and Jostens. Inc. today announced that the highly anticipated Madden NFL 08 for next generation consoles will give players the opportunity to extend the Madden NFL 08 experience to the real world by giving them the ability to purchase their own custom-designed “Ring of a Champion”. Based on the player’s Madden Gamer Level, the Ring of a Champion showcases the progress of a Madden NFL 08 gamer, and each ring can be customized to recognize the player advancements through the game. These rings are a direct representation of a player’s achievements and game skills. Madden NFL 08 will be available for purchase beginning August 14.

Oh my good lord. Someone call the Apocolypse Department at SI. I think Brooks from SbB said it best when he emailed me the story...."There should be a law against anyone over 9 yo wearing them." Amen.

Oh, this? It’s just my Madden 2008 Championship-style ring (Majorly English)
EA Sports Offers Madden 08 Rings to Game Players
Madden really wants you to Ring in ‘08 (Joy Stick)

8 Comments:

larry burns said...

oh my god.

i beleive that if you ever see anyone wearing one and you kill them you are only guilty of ridding the gene pool of uneeded losers.

Absolut Methodist

I have to share this picture with the world.
Charles Gray's Mom and Marsha from my church.
Their look of sheer excitement while sucking a bottle of vodka dry at a church function is truly priceless.
I have yet to decide if this picture will make Charles proud of his family bloodline, or slip farther into depression and lactose intollerance.

Addis Ababa

http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/07/11/ethiopia.fossil.reut/index.html

Newly discovered hominid fossils include jaws, partial skeleton

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (Reuters) -- Ethiopian scientists said on Tuesday they have discovered hominid fossil fragments dating from between 3.5 million and 3.8 million years ago in what could fill a crucial gap in the understanding of human evolution.

Ethiopian archaeologist Yohannes Haile Selassie said the find included several complete jaws and one partial skeleton and were unearthed in the Afar desert at Woranso-Mille, near where the famous fossil skeleton known as Lucy was found in 1974.

"This is a major finding that could fill a gap in human evolution," he told a news conference in Addis Ababa.

"The fossil hominids from the Woranso-Mille area sample a time period that is poorly known in human evolutionary study."

Researchers say the area, about 140 miles northeast of Addis, boasts the most continuous record of human evolution.

Last year, an international team of scientists unveiled the discovery of 4.1 million-year-old fossils in the region.

Lucy, the most famous find, lived between 3.3 million and 3.6 million years ago. But Yohannes said Afar had yielded early hominid fossil remains spanning the last 6 million years.

"This has placed Ethiopia in the forefront of paleoanthropology," he told reporters.

"Ethiopia is known to the world as the cradle of humankind."

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