Not an Ice Cream Cone

[Celyn]

Sausage, potato, and peas cone with picture.

new ‘mash Cone’ consisting of sausage, mash potato, gravy and peas in an ice cream cone has been invented.

Food company Aunt Bessie’s claims it is breathing new life into the fortunes of the ice cream van by replacing the 99 Flake with an all-weather alternative.

It’s sort of odd. I suspect people would find themselves unable to eat it because the mental association with ice cream will make it just “not right”, even if they logically know what it is. Oh, and it will probably taste revolting anyway. I have this prejudiced notion that deep frozen then microwaved mashed potato is just not going to work.

Oh and NO food company should be calling itself “Aunt Bessie’s”. I suppose those people never met my horrendous Aunt Bessie. :eek:
And there’s no raspberry sauce!

[Silver_Tyger]

:eek: Precisely what sort of mental disorder do you need to think that that would be a successful idea?

[lavenderviolet]

Eh. I could see it working if the cone were made of some kind of bread instead of the normal sugar cone.

[Celyn]

Oh heck, I hope it wasn’t a normal sweetish wafer cone. :eek: Apparently the cone bit of this great invention turned out to be a bit sub-standard anyway. Here’s a further comment from that site:

… Furthermore, it was not our intention to convey any level of distaste or contempt for the new product, and we regret if any elements of the article - such as the picture caption ‘Horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, Horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible’ - suggested otherwise.

…

Unfortunately, the makers have had to backtrack on the actual cone element of the product, as the cones were disintegrating. However, they said they’d give serious consideration to our suggestion that they should make the cones out of Yorkshire pudding…

More on sausage and potato cone

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Apparently the manufacturer was a bit upset at the suggestion that it might be at all “horrible”, so brought the newspaper some free samples.

[Meyer6]

I can’t believe they’re “replacing the 99 Flake”! Blasphemy! I must have eaten hundreds of those things as a kid (99s, not sausage cones) - they can’t get rid of them!

[Amblydoper]

Ya know, if you ditch the cone, and batter and deep fry that thing, it would be delicious!

[Zabali_Clawbane]

The sausage, potatoes, peas and gravey all look good… Now, take them out of that cone so I can eat 'em!

[SomeUserName]

Ewww that looks nasty.

I mean I love mashed potatoes with gravy and they are great with peas mixed in but that is revolting.

That sort of reminds me of our employee Christmas lunch last year. They had a potato bar set up that served different type of mashed taters but they served them in a plastic martini glasses.

It was very strange eating mashed potatoes and gravy out of a martini glass.

[Peter_Morris]

Will they never learn?

http://www.americanheritage.com/articles/magazine/ah/1986/6/1986_6_74_print.shtml
The health faddism that swept over America in the 1920s made itself felt in the candy industry, with the name of this bar as one of the less appetizing results. The Vegetable Sandwich, its makers claimed, would aid in digestion and, moreover, “will not constipate.” A rival in wholesomeness made by a Kansas City firm had a more appealing name—The Perfect Bar—but there its advantage ended: “In response to the increasing demand for more scientific foods,” The Perfect Bar’s wrapper read, “we have combined in this confection dehydrated vegetables rich in vitamins—and bran.”

[Tapioca_Dextrin]

Tutti veggi ice mash. Yum.

[bbs2k]

Does this mean that Baskin Robbins now has thirty-two flavors?

[Celyn]

@CoG888

Ya know, if you ditch the cone, and batter and deep fry that thing, it would be delicious!

Now that might be unhealthy enough to catch on, or to get a certain cult following. Copyright (patent?) that one at once!

[Count_Blucher]

[Joan Crawford]“You want dessert? But you didn’t finish your dinner. Wait right here, I’ll get you your dessert…”[/Joan Crawford]

[Kat]

Damn, I so want one of those, only not in a cone.