FREDONIA, N.Y. (AP) – An ice cream maker is inviting April fools to line up for a taste of his newest flavor: suffering succotash. Scott Aldrich mixed corn and lima beans with vanilla ice cream and threw in pimentos for color. The concoction continues his 20-year tradition of making a bizarre flavor in honor of April Fools’ Day. “I don’t know how we came up with it, we just picked it,” he said. Past flavors have incorporated, among other things, sauerkraut, bacon and eggs, creamed corn, pork and beans and beef gravy.
Grossening. But better than the puke-flavored candy someone was posting about a few weeks ago.
Eeeeeeew.
That’s it. Just eeeeeew.
RTF, what the heck is going on in your ice cream shops?
Mmmm… beef gravy ice cream…
mmmmmmmmmmmmmm, Aldrich’s. Yummy ice cream. Made from Aldrich’s own milk milked on premises.
good times. Well, actually they werent. But good ice cream!
I’d just like to say that any thread with a Marx Brothers line in the title is one I must post to.
I think RTF contracted out the ice cream production to Sylvania. And they probably sent in Agents Chicolini and Pinky.
Eyyy, I wonder if e’s gott-a da tutti-fruitti?
I heard this guy on the radio this morning. He said the most popular (tasting) so far has been the Clinton-inspired flavor:
PeachMint.
Hey! I didn’t make it up!
I just hollered down at Chicolini, “How’d you like to be a public nuisance?” and this is what he came up with!
Likewise.
Also… I live not too far from a gelatto establishment that sells (amongst others) wasabi and garlic flavors. I don’t think they are too popular.
Yup, it’s real. My father lives there.
I’m rather surprised by David Kessler’s description of Fredonia’s Marxian amnesia.
According to Groucho, Chico, Harpo, and sometimes Zeppo, Joe Adamson’s delightful Marx bio, the town’s mayor wrote Paramount after Duck Soup opened, saying: “The name of Fredonia has been without a blot since 1817, I feel it is my duty as Mayor to question your intentions in using the name of our city in your picture.”
Groucho fired back with “Your Excellency: Our advice is that you change the name of your town. It is hurting our picture. Anyway, what makes you think you’re Mayor of Fredonia? Do you wear a black moustache, play a harp, speak with an Italian accent, or chase girls like Harpo? We are certain you do not. Therefore, we must be Mayor of Fredonia, not you. The old gray Mayor ain’t what he used to be.”
Succotash? Sounds like Aldrich is running out of ideas. Hell, I’ve made corn ice cream and red bean is a common ice cream flavor in Japan. Now, taco ice cream - that was an unusual flavor.
A long time ago I read that one of the Baskin-Robbins franchises made up a batch of ketchup ice cream for one of the managers who apparently put ketchup on everything.
Nobody would eat it. Not even the ketchup-loving manager.
According to Paul Harvey today, the flavor is actually kind of popular. And, also according to Paul, the full name of the flavor is “Sufferin’ Succotash”. With all the FoodTV I watch, I can sort of see how it would work…
I don’t eat ice cream. Don’t like it. But personally, I think taco ice cream sounds like it just might be really good. If it tastes like a taco salad with those beans and some vinaigrette.
And ice cream, of course.
I once considered putting together a shrimp cocktail ice cream. I was figuring on a tomato based ice cream with chunks of shrimp and flakes of wasabi horseradish mixed in. But I used to make ice cream at work and my philistine cow orkers had no sense of adventure. The above mentioned corn flavor got mixed reviews, but it was the unfortunate jalapeno episode that got my license to experiment revoked.