Denny’s has a new item out, started just today.
I kid you not, it’s a Bacon Sundae. Vanilla ice cream covered in bits of bacon and actual maple syrup.
Let me see if I can find a photo of it on the net.
Here you go. You can click the photo for a larger size.
I ordered it and the waitress said it just started today and that I actually had the first one ordered in the state (at 6:45 AM; no idea how they knew that statistic, I guess they keep track of how many sell in a computer?).
I was with my mom, who pointed it out and said how “disgusting” it looked. This prompted me to want to try it just to say I’ve tried it.
It wasn’t half bad, actually. It wasn’t amazing or delicious…but it wasn’t bad.
I would have cleared it in a second just because I knew I was being watched… TRY IT! TRY IT!! TRY IT!!! or stood up and yelled “This is a DISGRACE, how could you people even put this is on a menu, i’m out of here mom”
To the faithful, bacon and salty french fries have always been the perfect condiment to anything sweet, especially maple syrup. It is only the hipsters of the world that would raise it up to near perfection and then later pass it off as passé. Fads will come and go, but all true believers know that Bacon and fries are King.
I once saw a little ice cream stand that had a sign that said:
PULLED PORK
ICE CREAM
And I thought: the sheer genius of it. Awesome.
Turns out it was both a pulled pork sandwich shop and they also did ice cream. They did not offer pulled pork ice cream. But that didn’t stop us. Putting pulled pork in a sandae didn’t reall work well, it got cold too quickly and just sort of didn’t mix well. But putting ice cream in a pulled pork sandwich worked surprisingly well. Strange, but not bad.
A place near me used to put their ice cream flavor-of-the-day on a sign out front along with their food special of the day. The first time I drove past, it said “Butter Brickle Walleye.” I was alarmed.
