I see an Ice Cream Cone and I Want to Paint it Black...

Paint it Black: The Rolling Stones

Reminds me of a long-forgotten private-eye show called Vega$. Main character Dan Tanna (Robert Urich) had a friend/client who owned some of the casinos, Philip Roth (Tony Curtis). Occasionally, Roth would mention various innovations he was trying.

Roth: Here, try this. [hands Tanna a cone filled with black ice cream]

Tanna: What flavor is this?

Roth: Black.

That’s large amounts, such as the amount you would need to be therapeutic for toxic ingestions. As someone who works with liquid activated charcoal, I can attest it wouldn’t take much to turn ice cream black. I can’t imagine it would cause side effects other than making your stool super dark to black.

I haven’t tried it but did you see it on the Scandinavian cooking/food show?

Ice cream flavored with yummy, yummy charcoal? Pass.

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Actually, that does look pretty cool.

Someone clearly had a vision.

“You know what the world needs? And would be a business I could invest money and sweat into making happen because the world will be a better place because of it? Ironic black ice cream in a shop called Little Damage.”

It looks very cool. I still don’t get it.

Yabbut, what if someone is eating ice cream in therapeutic doses (5-6 [Del]pints[/del] gallons)? That might have enough charcoal to absorb medications, mightn’t it?