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know the difference between a town, village, hamlet, burrow. I don't know. I have no idea. Just all different names for the same things and another another thing to take your taxes. Yeah, that's true. That's what it comes down to, just a collection of people in a specific location that are taxable. Yeah. So here's what I'm gonna need you to do, because so on my chairs, all the way race, get out of here. That's all the way up, all the way race. Can you
lower your all? I can't. Oh you got the architect chair. This is a drafting chair. I yeah, drafting. So it's just one of those things. I can't raise it, and I don't understand why. Well, no, I do understand why I can't lower, but higher, that's all. But you, so that's as high as yours goes? Are you saying that I need to get a I just feel very I'm already taller than you. I had a phone book here so I could sit up here, a little a little kid cardboard box over there in the hobbit. No,
it's cool. Then it's fine. It's fine on here. It doesn't look weird. Yeah, no, it looks fine. So I should as long as I'm within shot? Am I in the shot? I'm I'm falling away. I gotta get I think here. Just just go this way, this way, a little bit further, a little perfect perfect. Where did I go? Oh man, I'll be over here? Eat n ice cream? People? Who is that what you're doing over there? Little ice cream cream? You know? Offee? I'm really just drinking coffee this time. I
act like you just spoiled something. But anyone listening to this has seen the title, which will inevitably say ice cream, Yeah, ice cream ruin the object of the conversation. Titles ruin the object. Yeah, I heard in my head. I heard ice cream ruin the object. No no, no, no titles titles like I know I process that incorrectly, does not compute. You need to drinking a little bit of sim Definitely, I'm a little thrown off. I've shifted my schedule to now work out entirely too early.
Yeah five am? So no, yeah, so the one from six start time is five means awake time is four am. It's sound acceptable four am, just to give myself time to be awake enough to actually work out. It's it's smart that you do that. I just I have to applaud your effort because I could not raise myself out of bed at four o'clock in the morning. I just don't know if smart is the right word. It doesn't feel smart at the time. No, no, I know what you mean.
Doesn't feel it. It's smart and that you need to have time to wake up. But yeah, you're not obviously smart at four am. It's probably what I'm saying, is I know what you mean? No, But I'm just saying, let me explain it to you, very slowly. Explain to me like I'm five. I don't even explain it to my five year old because she's still she's still sleeping. If she has sound asleep, she should be as everybody should be. Yeah, so now it helps helps our
morning schedule. I think, um at least gives me an extra hour to help if needed or whatnot. So anyway, yeah, as you mentioned earlier, ice cream, Yeah, is it that season. It's the topic of conversation. It is the ice cream season. No, I don't I don't know that I ever draw a line on ice cream. I think it'll be more of a seasonal thing back in back in the day, you know. I know that a lot of people have a different idea as to when it
back in the day was. But probably when before I was, when like my parents, my grandparents, I mean probably it was then a more seasonal treat, right because he didn't get it all year long. Well, back then people baked more, I feel like, and so they would make a fitting hot pie or something in the winter that would be a more fitting winter thing. But now we're going to the grocery store anyway to buy I mean not there are people who bake. Yeah, but you can just go buy
this or that. Yeah that's some ice cream. Yeah, Well, your house is heated, it's not like you're cold house. That's true. I can't be any colder, Like everything's temperature control. Yeah, I'm drinking hot coffee on like a ninety degree day. Yeah, and sometimes you know, putting a sweater on and right her office is here, which we shouldn't really complain about because we'll never keep from in the muggy time of year. But
yeah, it's just funny how that is. But yeah, like I said, you know, our our forefathers would would have a very different understanding for fathers and mothers. Say, would you say four fathers? Like I'm automatically up, like Benjamin Franco, I'm like, I don't know if he was eating the ice cream, and probably not. I don't even think they had
the ice box back then, That's what I mean. Like, Yeah, there's there's times where maybe or maybe you had a small ice box when my grandparents were around, and so you didn't have room for such frivol rivals. You can't have multiple half gallons in your fridge with an assortment with all different flavors and whatever for whatever mood you're in that that particular evening. We are
spoiled people. I don't think I grew up with with um. Well, I mean, I obviously grew up with ice cream, But what I mean is I don't think we grew up with ice cream as being a regular occurrence. It was a very special thing. I know that. Like my wife, for instance, she grew up in her household and they had ice cream all the time. It was like every every evening you had dessert, and ice cream was there as as as an option. I didn't. I didn't
even have I don't think I even had dessert on a regular basis. Maybe a couple of times a week, but it wasn't like every single night you're like, okay, I'm having the my nightly ice cream utine. No, we definitely didn't have a regular dessert. And I think having ice cream in the house was also I think that, yeah, that was a rare, special thing. It wasn't always in the freezer. Yeah it wasn't for me.
Yeah, yeah, I don't. I don't believe it was. But the real tree with ice cream was always going to eat it at place, that's true, like going somewhere out like getting it, even if it was Stuarts, and that's what we would have our half gallons in. But to go to Stuarts and get a Sunday when I could like actually play the toppings on it, like that was a thing and that was good. That was
really cool. I still like that. Yeah, we just went for we went for ice cream last night, but we didn't really go for ice cream. We ended up going to I was telling you about this yesterday place UM called Franks, and they had they had a thing called a gelatti, which UM mimics, well doesn't mimic. I don't know. I don't know where it was formulated, so I don't know the history of it. But I do know that in college, yeah, based on the name, and it's
made with Italian ice and ice cream, so yes, it's Italian. But I don't know exactly out or when or who started it. But um, in college, there's a place called Rita's down in Pennsylvania. It's all over the place. Uh, and that's Italian water ice and they would have it. I think they called it gelato, but that is definitely a different thing
than ice cream. It's its own thing. Maybe they called it gelatti, I don't know, Um, but you get their ice mixed with the and have like layers of ice cream on top end on the bottom with the Italian ice in between. So you have like, that's that's what I am just soft serve. I'm trying to understand because it's it's completely out of my I no, no understanding of I mean gelato obviously, which is very much like ice cream but creamier. It's a little bit different, but Gelatti being different.
It's you said that there doesn't have gelattoes at least here it has ice cream, a layer of ice cream the bottom, yeah, I'm saying, and then it has Italian ice in the middle. But it's a very soft soft It's not like what we think of when you go to the grocery store and you get No, I'm talking about the real attack, because when you go out and get it, you can actually just reasonably put it in a spoon and eat it. Yes, So you have that as the middle layer.
Yes, and then you have a second level of ice cream. And now are those are either the sandwich concept? Are both sides of that of the the italianis the same? Yeah? It maybe people change it up so you can have chocolate on the bottom and the like vanilla. On topic, I don't know. I am not nearly enough of a connoisseur to answer that.
All I know is I used to get this thing for four years, yeah, and I liked it. And then I moved back up here, which is a desolate wasteland just things that I like, Like, it's absent of things I want, um slowly getting them. The Chick fil A's up here now, which now, at this point, I've had it so many times traveling to Pennsylvania that I don't actually care. Yeah, but it needs ritos and it needs wah WA's wah. That's what this forsaken place needs.
Because this is just a side track here for you local folks. Cumberland Farms and Stewarts and any other gas station just doesn't have good food, not the same way that a wallah was. And I can't I don't have any. I don't have any. I can't weigh in on that with a wallah. But I mean, I grew up with seven elevens and they didn't have them up here either. You got roller stuff just like Cumberland Farms, right,
And it was very much like that, like Humberland Farms. So the only thing I had differently was it had a cool slur had slurpiece slurpies are good, which they don't really have here, although they now had the farms kind of now they they have the frozen one now, Yeah, I grew always have it. This is I mean, I know this weird, just sidetracked from the start, but I grew up on slush puppies. Oh slush yeah, yeah they had that, and that's honest favorite slush puppy. My problem
is you finished the flavor way before you finished the ice. Yeah. And on a slushy or slurpee, yeah, you finish it all at the same time. Yeah, it's they all kind of soft enough together they get up the straw. But with the slush puppy. I never grew up getting brain freeze. Oh with a slurpie though, that don't hit me fast. Yeah, anyway, I feel like I've taken us far off. No, no, anyway, So ice cream, ice creams, So these are all refreshing
things you're talking about for the most part. It's true that time of year, thank you. Yeah, saved me there. Um. So what we're gonna do is we're gonna go about this the same way that we did cookies, which was a nice topic of conversation amongst people yep. Uh, there's a little different than what we did with pies. I think pies we collected other people's thoughts and then just gave our favorites. But we're going back to the way going to a website that has a list. I use today dot
Com. Today's Popular ye Show on the NBC network has a list of thirty two. We're obviously not going through all of them because brevity is not our strong suit. But we will scroll through, we will talk about it, and we'll really hunker down in the top ten. Yeah, but we'll look. We'll just breeze through. We'll toss it on the screen for you to see. Here, I'll go to it right now. We'll give our impressions as necessary. Yeah, I may just say oneting necessary. We'll give our
impressions as as we feel. If you are here listening, you have deemed our impressions necessary for your life, for your entertainment entertainment value. We thank you for the ten dollars we've made over three years. Anyway, so ice cream, which means we need to go to an ad real quick. You can. Today's episodes brought to you by Tortex Dune Lops flagship guitar pick tortex, strumming your guitar with tortex. All right, um, all right.
So this is thirty one by by Heather Martin, So hold her accountable August seventeen, twenty twenty two, about a year ago. Okay, okay, so let me read this kind So here we go at number thirty one, we have a bubble gum slash just going to keep going exists. I Uh, there was a time when I probably would have appreciated that I'm shocked at number thirties needs but that everybody had that in their house growing up, because
you're trying to please everybody are and it pleased nobody exactly. Well, I was like the strawberry when a lot of people didn't so see what they go back up there though look at the image they are like where of the bowl
next to it? Where it actually has it. You always get that situation happening where you get a little bit of everything, or maybe if you want just the middle layer there or the other two layers, you end up with a little bit of chocolate on it, which chocolate overtakes any other flavor. So I used to hate getting chocolate on it if I didn't want chocolate right, So anyway, you know, I like your Politan, but I like Neopolitan on astronaut ice cream. Oh you know it was a little dry.
Yeah, I had it bricks once when I was like a kid, because we were we grew up. I grew up in or Lando, so would go to the Kennedy Space Center and that was our big things, like this is what astronauts eat, and we're like, oh, you cant astronaut ice cream? Like I don't think they actually eat that. I don't know. I would need to find out. I never had that. Pretty cool. Birthday cake is sad that it's this low, but I understand. I particularly
like birthday cake. What's up with the birthday cake everything? Now? It's too much birthday cake? Yeah, I agree, it's over. I'm overwhelmed by the buy it and I'm not a big fan of it. It belongs just in birthday time, like birthday cake ice creams. But I don't think it needs to be this low on the list. Cherry can sit where it is rum raising and I feel like you have to be a certain age to appreciate you. I won't say what that age is, but all you all
are thinking the same people who I'm not gonna say that. I was gonna say the same people who have butterscotch candy sitting around. But I also like butterscotch, so I don't have the cookie though at twenty six is absolutely outrage. Yeah, it doesn't make any sense. That should be high. That's got to be at least if it's not top ten, it's top fifteen. I don't think I had that until I was an adult. Key Lime should be thirty one because it's much that like a key lime pie. I've never
had key lime ice cream. Yeah, either, And you know it all doesn't It just blurs a distinction between some of the other flavors that have green, like just just you know what keep green alone? Sherbet. Yes, I slurred that on purpose because I didn't want to permit to sherbet or sherbert. Yeah, cinnamon is a flavor. Cinnamon. I've never heard of a ice cream. The fact that birthday cake is sitting below cinnamon and key lime and cherry, oh no, maybe it's after cherry. I forgot it's a
lemon ice cream. And maybe I don't know what should be a sherbet That shouldn't be an ice cream. Yeah, Macha Green tea ice cream. Can't comment on that one. Who've ever had it before? It's pretentious, that's all it is. Yeah, and you only get a little bit. Apparently a little a little goes a long way. I mean, I guess if you're super into tease. Uh, we have a tea shop right next to our house. I bet you they've done stuff with Mata ice cream. They
are not pretentious. So I don't want to actually own that statement anymore because they ask people on the planet, So I they are not pretentious. But strawberry strawberry at twenty should be higher. It's a state. But Neo Politan was that thirty of thirty one. So peanut butter cup isn't a twenty now, well, I think it should be. I don't like peanut butter cup. I mean, I don't dislike it, but it's not one I would go for. I wouldn't reach for that as an option, but it definitely
believed. I would say, at least it belongs on top twenty though it's it's in the top twenty. Is this this is a chocolate ice cream with peanut butter in it? I'm assuming yeah, because like there are a slew of different peanut butter based ice creams, like you have the Moose Tracks ice cream, which I think is better than a chocolate ice cream with peanut butter. Added, I'd rather have the vanilla based the chocolate and the cups with
the with the peanut butter. Yeah, I think that's I agree with that. Almost said pepperoni peach ice cream? Peach ice cream? What do you doing at number nine? That's strange? Huh okay, I mean I like peach. I'm actually I would try that if I saw that anywhere, but I don't. I don't see that as a typical offering today. Dot com is lego places. They're out of their minds um okay. The best version
has chunks of right peaches with faint pink tinge with the stone inside. Used to be the stone, right, that's what they call a pitt called the stone, but they all called it stone fruits. I found that out. I did not know that. I think Katie called them a stone fruit. Oh yeah, learn We learned things here too. What is chocolate Sunday Swirl? That's an ice cream. That's a vanilla ice cream with chocolate syruh. Pianet that's all it is. This is flavors. It's soft serve, which
is its own thing. Yeah, um, which is not a long list. It's vanilla, chocolate or twist. It's a Sunday. That's Sunday. I didn't know this was ice cream of an ice cream is on its own. I'm just gonna keep going. That's ciz are So I'm sorry. A chocolate Sunday swirl. That a flavor. That's that a flavor. That's a meal, that's you've had multiple ingredients in order to to you have to take Yeah, you take Sunday is a thing you do with the ice cream.
It's not a flavor, right, it's not a flavor of its own. Oh my, can't starts and get get a half gallon of this Sunday. This one goes out to the Today Show. This goes out to what's your name? Um, yeah, I'm committing to this fully by scrolling up a very zoomed in screen here, Um, excuse me, Heather Martin, what you just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I've ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything
that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul. I mean it's a category error. Heaven, Yeah, you mixed categories. I can't accept it. It's like saying, yeah, if you want to put oh, chocolate milkshake, right, is it? Like, it's not what's the flavor in the milkshake? Yeah, that's it? Yeah, what flavor is bringing all different ways to different Yeah.
Oh coconut coconut. Now, I will say coconuts a good ice cream. I've never had a coconut by itself. I think the only coconut ice cream might have had is uh, Stuarts again, local local spot around here, not the Stuarts that makes the roopier that is I think a national thing, you know Stuarts. Yeah, but they sell the glass bottle, they sell them all over the place. But they have like actual yeah, it's separates. I just when I first grew up here, I thought they were
the same. But this is Stewart's shops. It's its own thing. They have a mounds of coconut flavor with like I know, this isn't your thing, your anti dark chocolate, but it's dark chocolate with the coconut ice cream. Oh, I don't mind that. It's super creamy, suit just absolutely delicious. It sounds does it have any nuts in the it? No mounds? Oh mounds, okay, as gonna say so, it's not mounds. It's not almond Joy. Of that say, it sounds like close close almond
Joy chocolate and coconut. Oh no, no, and the superior condemation. I didn't get the whole mounds thing until you've said it, and then I was like, oh, yeah, it sounds like it would be always better before you have them, if you had some nuts in that, and and you're kind of chocolate nuts offering. The worst topping for a Sunday is the nuts. Nobody wants nuts on that Sunday. I like nuts in Sunday. I like better, like it better than spreaking your nuts. Anyway, coconut
coconut is good. Um, Rocky Road. You don't get that because you ever seen that movie? Have you? No? I just pet by what just happened? What I can't It's right? You have still have nut seen that movie with with with chunk and with um oh the goon goond I admit that, and the movies haven't seen Goody Did other people know that Rocky Road? Anyway? If there's an ice cream flavor that I've heard of, but I think I've only had once or twice in my life, I don't like
marshmallow Rocky Road. I don't like marshmallows in my ice cream. Oh you know what, I just don't like this. I don't like the way that it's it's it's it's just doesn't it seems so strange, strange to be there. Do you like the marshmallow topping that you dump on a sundawn? I don't like marshmallow with ice cream at all. It just doesn't seem like it jibes. I just feel like the liquidy topping divorces itself from actual marshmallow, and I kind of like it. It makes like a just a sweet essence
that doesn't offer that much flavor. However, when it comes to ice cream, I a family debate that we've had down in Pennsylvania because there's a lot of great ice cream shops down there. Um, it's a particular one by Katie's where Katie grew up, called Lap Valley. Farms has I mean, any ice cream that I love from around here, I've Lap Valley blows it out of the water like or it's forget about it. Lap Valley very good
has that like amishy touched to it? And they are they they have more more than one location, like it's all throughout Pa or no. Well, I don't know if they they had one that was like literally like you just go to their farm and get ice cream. I mean, it was established, it was nice, there was animals there. It's kind of fun. So they have a new spot. I'm not sure if that replaced the existing ones, but it's really good. They have another place that's grown on me
called Fox Creamery that's also very good down there. But one of the flavors that Katie's family, or at least Katie really likes, is marshmallow chocolate marshmallow ice cream chocolate marshmallow. So it's just chocolate ice cream, yeah, with marshmallow inside. Now what's now, what's got Rocky Road? I know it's got obviously it's got chocolate and marshmallow, but it's got other things in it too, It isn't it? Does it have chocolate bits in it? I
thought it might have had gummy bits. I don't know what's in it. I don't know what I thought it had. Well, I thought it had just what you described, but also like chunks of chocolate in it. Maybe, But anybody, that's what makes it rocky. This says, let's face it, the frigid marshmallows are weird, okay, but you still ranked it at fifteen or at sixteen. So they're not that weird apparently. But that's but so very similar to this, and so that's something that Yeah, it's
almost like marshmallow is swirled throughout it. To me, it just seems like it doesn't divorce itself enough from just chocolate, which is not a flavor. I'm choosing on my own. Yeah, me either, almost ever, Yeah, and chocolate marshmallow. Again, marshmallows don't. They don't get me out of bed. No, I don't like marshmallows in general. I've only recently decided I'll just start toasting, I mean, eating them. Other than that,
I used to just like not care about the marshmallow. The's more like I like the idea of it. Yeah, if you grab it from the store, I put it in the carl. Yeah, it's cool because you're kind of fashioning it, you're making it yourself. It's a hands on dessert treat. But I just never really liked and I think that's probably why. Is it just the marshmallow is just not a It doesn't something satisfying about a
marshmallow to me. It's it's just chewy sugar. Yeah, I mean that's why any time you can't even just so it's just airy, Oh banana nut banana nutt are these muffins or these ice creams? I've never heard of that either. I can't to put it at fifteen, would think that it's a staple treat. Yeah, no, don't bother with plain banana and a real banana purea ice cream. Wallnuts are the perfect textual compliment. Okay, well I could I could see that. I could see that worked. All right.
I'm really excited about this one, though. Do you this belongs even higher up? It just believes this belongs in the top ten in your mind, in my mind, in your mind, it's it's like the it's like the forgotten ice cream flavor. Do you think that image is even It's a terrible representation. It looks like somewhat tru just like exactly, or they had it on their cone and it started melting and they just dropped the whole combe just ground and there it is like, oh, let's get a picture of
all that. It looks like there's chocolate and then too, that's weird. Yeah, it's not a good I don't photo. I don't dislike pistachio, but I also also don't actively ever choose it. One thing it's not good for though, I have to say. And as much as I love I love it is you know, you go to place and you can get you can get anything in a milkshake, right, chocolate milkshake, vanilla milkshake,
you know, anything like I'll try a pistachio milkshakes. I love pestachio so much, it doesn't really work as a milkshake because when they grind it all up and everything and all those little bits of the pistachio nut get in there. It's but don't don't you get a combo a big pistachio treat at the bottom. No, actually, well, at least the ones I've had, it's it's all throughout it and it becomes like grainy when you're trying to suck it through the straw. It's like it's not not worth it. But as
an ice cream, you know. And I've also tried the soft serve variety. No, oh, it's not soft serve, wouldn't even have the pistachio, and no, it's just simply what they consider the flavoring. This so Heather Martin disapproves of the ones with a lot of unnatural green coloring added, but the flavor itself is sublime. It is. The best varieties have a mix of big pieces are the cameras right in front of the screen, chopped
bits and fine pistachio dust running through. So I've had both where with the green and some of it where it's just simply pretty much white ice cream. It's white with it. And I like the green only because it used to call to I mean, that used to be the identifying factor before everything became mint and mint took over the green label, like you think pistachio owned it
before mint did. In my mind, I did, because growing up I don't even remember seeing mint chocolate chip or mint anything ice cream, and so whenever I saw green, it was always associated in my mind with pistachio. And then all of a sudden, the mint ones came out out and they started taking on the green, and then it became for me in my mind. Yeah, I have to believe mint ice cream came first. They're in green. I don't know. I don't know your childhood, like before you
were a kid, maybe like pre nineteen eighty three. Yeah, do you think so? Do you think mint ice cream for that? I do, but I have nothing to base it on except it seems timeless. Seems timeless anyway. Uh, Dolce de lache. There is no better accompaniment to an apple pie than a scoop of dulce delache. Do you have that with an apple pie? I don't know what that is? That does? Think some creme fresh on my taco rather than having sour cream? Awesome creme? Um,
maybe it's good my apple pie? I never had it. Yeah, I've never had it, but apparently it's number thirteen. I just like to have vanilla with my apple pie. What do you think of this? Oh? Butter pecan, I'm sorry for another with apple pie? Is yes? Amazing? Sorry, yes, yeah, I didn't want to butter pecan. Butter pecan is good. I like that. That was good. That was a big one. Growing up in our house, my mom really loved butter pecanons. She would get the eades. Remember eats, Oh yeah, that
was the one thing that you ever would get in any other branch. You would always get this in from m eads. Why is it eats and eddies? That's a good question. I don't know. I thought it was Eddie's growing up, and then and then I found out that it was D's. And I've always called it eats, but then upon further examination, it looked like it could easily be eddies. Is there two D's or one? I don't know. I think it's just still Is it there anymore? Does it
exact that much anymore? Actually, you mentioned tell you the last time I saw it that I recall. I think you're right. I haven't either, now that you mentioned it. Butter pecans underrated? Yeah, I think it's a it's a it's good flavor. I don't go out of my way to get it, but when I do have it, I'm always shocked by how much I enjoy it, mostly because I'm not a nut person, as I've made clear, but a pical pcon Peacan. It's just it's good. You slap a pecan in a dessert. I'm there for it. Think, what
do you think between that and maybe this will be on there? Maybe it won't be there. But there's the butter pecan, and then there's also I've I've seen like the maple walnut or a maple oh maple, which is a very similar profile, like flavor profile. I think the subtlety of the buttery ice cream is actually I love maple better than a maple walnut. Yeah, you love that, like this more than a people walnut? Yeah? I think I do too. Um, you're right, it's number eleven. This
is a shocker that it's not in the top ten, top ten. It's just just out of top ten, but it definitely belongs up there. I mean, this is this is what this is telling me. Someone is ranking chocolate ice cream above vanilla ice at which does not should not happen, utterly ridiculous. Well, we have ually we agree with this. Find those one. Yeah you found something. Yeah, when we have ice cream in the freezer here at church, if there's vanilla and chocolate item, chocolate is always
going to be left behind. Yeah, vanilla will be consumed. Vanilla is a better It's just a better ice You know what, you wouldn't think that. It seems like it seems as though to me, at least in my family, chocolate would win the day. It seems like I'm surrounded by a bunch of chocolate lovers over vanilla lovers. I'm thinking, what's going on? Well, I think the problem is chocolate ice cream. I don't think captures chocolate properly. I would agree with that. It's a very different it's its
own, it's its own flavor. Really, it's a separate flavor than chocolate, like a chocolate bar would be correct. Yeah, it's It always leaves me thirsty, which is strange. If I eat chocolate ice cream, I'm like, now I eat a beverage about I like a fudge cicle? Yeah, but I do. I don't want a bowl of chocolate ice cream unless, like, if that's all that's there, I'm like, sure, well it sometimes. Actually I would go as far as say, if it's all
that's there, I just want to have ice cream. Well that's better self control than I have. Wow, well, not so much stuff control, just that I just I wouldn't. I don't want to use the word to detest because I don't detest it, but it's I think of it that low on my ranking that I just not even worth the time of day. It's not even worth. Yeah, you know, a little bit of that chocolate ice cream by itself is a waste of time. Chocolate milkshake, though,
that changes it, It changes it it. I think it adds an extra creamy element that brings the chocolate back to being tasty. Yeah, it's almost like it's concentrated. And then, like you said, when you add the milk to the to the milkshake, it brings it back to, like you said, where it should be. Yeah, like what chocolate should taste. Like, do you get milkshakes from from McDonald's anymore like a regular flavored one? Like growing up, I felt like getting a milkshake for McDonald's was more
of a thing. I don't need more chocolate, But when I did, we always get always got vanilla. Yeah, but like, no, I don't now I'll grab maybe a Shamrock shake. We tried that Grimace birthday shake, which I'm still not sure what that was, although if you it's it's it's a little bit deceiving because when we did the initial uh Are recording it was our first taste one, it's true, but they're positive. But the more we we we you know, you know, imbibed it, the more
the worse it got. It just it was terrible. It went from like we thought it had a flavor to that it's like, this is no flavor. It's just sweet. It makes you grimace. Yes, it was bad, it was anyway, but yeah, you know, it used to be more of a thing to get a shake at. Yeah, and McDonald's, and now it's I don't even think they had as even as an idea, an option. You couldn't go wrong with whatever one you got. Yeah, No, it's true. They actually had collectible I remember getting um cups from
McDonald's football player ones for the milk shake cups. We had a Berry Sanders and a Drew bledsow at home, and I know we got shakes in them. They used to do a lot more that kind of thing. Yeah, yeah, now everything is everything's changed, all right. Number ten, Strawberry cheesecake. That's the top, not an ice cream flavor. That is clearly an image of vanilla ice cream, which strawberries and cheesecake crumbles on it. Yeah, that's just a Sunday, I disregard it. Maybe it's a top
ten combination, but you're out of your minds. Cookies and cream is properly placed in the top ten. I agree. I agree with that one. Yeah, I like that. I remember when that when my first interest the cookies and cream, and I was like, and then I realized it's just pretty much Oreos almost yeah, you know in it, And I'm thinking, yeah, that's brilliant. It's a good combination, and it's always good, whether it be in a mcflurry, whether it's a blizzard, which is also
a mcflurry. Well, I'm mcflurry's a blizzard. I mean, I'm pretty sure McDonald stole it from TQ. Yeah, but cookies and cream ice cream almost is never a fair. That seems everybody likes cook and cream if you don't have chocolate and vanilla for some reason, I mean, cookies and cream will satisfy it almost anybody. It's a good Hershey bar, and I don't ye much of Hershey is good of the Hershey Bar family. I love races, which I also acknowledge is Hershey. Anyway, cookies and cream. I
don't have much to say other than good job. Heaving on that one number eight. Just go ahead, you can. I give you permission. Just swap this in vanilla. Yeah, vanilla belongs in the top ten. Yea, chocolate belongs in the outside looking in. Want to be there, but I leave people wanting more every single time the window, like, oh, I wish I was there. Look how unappetizing that looks. That is chol This is the perfect image of chocolate ice cream. A little bit of the
freezer burn, not quite a brown, rich color. I'm faintly chocolate e. I stink I'm terrible. I don't know what voice I'm using right now. It's the chocolate voice. But she says, I love Oh, good for her. I love chocolate ice cream, but I also think it's overrated. But I put it in the top ten Heather Martin. Maybe she's putting other people's opinion over her own. She's trying to isn't this her list? I didn't read the opening paragraph. It's just this is what yeah read words.
She thinks that most people, oh, coffee, coffee ice cream, coffee ice cream. Um, I don't like that. Coffee ice looks horrendous. Looks like this image that looks like stuff is covered in gravy. That's a Thanksgiving sight. Oh my goodness, Heather, listen, Oh, I don't know where, like yourself a favor, scour the internet for good looking photos before you make the list. What do you know? But coffee ice cream is delicious. Um, you add chocolate chips to that coffee ice cream,
it's good. Maybe a chocolate swirl cream, a coffee fudge is a Stewart's flavor. Very good. I approve of coffee being in the top ten. Yes, I don't know if seven where it belongs. Maybe that's that in mind too much of an agreement. Good good good chocolate chip. I don't know chocolate chip ice cream belongs to chocolate side. I think chip used. I think, I think what what displaced the chocolate chip from where it should where it is? Or is the cookies and cream? It blows it
out of the water. It kicks this thing back to below fifteen exactly. I think the concept of taking vanilla and putting chocolate in it, and somehow let's just instead of using chocolate chip, let's use chocolate cookie. Let's let's try to see how that works. And it won without a doubt. It's like it's like the chocolate chip. It's like chocolate chip two point zero. Would you rather sit there with a bag of Nestly Tollhouse chips or a bag
of oreos? Yeah? Oreos oreos all day? Yeah, absolutely right, So let's mix that with ice cream. Yep. So the fact that chocolate chip is higher on this list than cookies and cream is troubling. Yeah. I don't think it belongs in the top fifteen. No, so wow, I agree, this is compelling compelling stuff. Me and you arguing like this black black raspberry. Huh. I've had black cherry ice cream, black cherry, I've had black red. I hadn't seen it. I think I've had
it before. Yeah, you know, I've had like the what's it called torta tortoiseshell or not tortoiseshell, but something that like torto isn't at trtec. I've had raspberry fudge tort frozen yogurt, That's what I'm thinking. Stuarts. That's amazing, But that's more of a vanilla based frozen yogurt with chocolate and raspberry. Yeah, but if they have it with they have it with ice cream as well. But you're right, it's it's more of a vanilla bass.
This is no vanilla. It's completely obliterated by them. I'm not gonna lie though, I feel like for some reason this is appetizing to me. Oh it is it can't I agree that looks refreshing. It shouldn't be a good picture by any means. I don't know if I don't know if it's top ten, No, No, you're right. I think I think it's good. I think it's certainly if should be placed high on the list, but not. I think maybe eleven. Again, vanilla is outside the top
ten, then black raspberries got to be outside. Yeah, that's true. If you're gonna keep vanilla out. I don't know what gets in. Yeah, but yeah, I don't think so. Moose tracks. What's in Moose tracks? Remind me? Like, so, this is a vanilla ice cream bass with like dark chocolate chunks throughout Reese's or a little Minnie peanut butter cup and then also peanut butter too much going on? For me? It's not too much. It's so good. Yeah for me, For me, it
was so good. I've had it before it. Yeah, it's yeah, that's not the same one that has I'm just reading it real quick. Uh okay, No, just doesn't have any Graham cracker, and I like to kind of have the Graham cracker. It's similar to that, but it has a Graham cracker and intwo, I don't like that. Yeah, no, it says No has no Graham cracker. It's if you get a good one, it's really balanced. It's it's the vanilla is the dominant ice cream and
then you just get these little pops of flavors. I'm not a big fan of having any any uh, peanut butter in my ice cream at all. Like I mean, I don't hate it, like I said, but I mean it just something that I would reach for. And Brianna does. She loves that, you know, but I just don't. Moose Tracks is so good. It's very good. But I think it belongs in the top ten. You clearly think it doesn't, which is fine. It's fine. Um, I don't know what this is. Toasted almond but chalk with almonds pretty
much out of the top ten. Lose me at chocolate and almonds. Ye gone, all right, just scroll through. It's not even right. It's even in a candy bar. You don't need the almonds or the chocolate. You know what I mean, just go with the mounds. No almond joy is needed. Number two ship sitting at number two the mint chip. Maybe the topic of conversation is mint chip does is there and most people's list as
a top really top item because it seems like everybody likes it. I just I don't see the draw as a as a kid growing up, I feel like if we were able to go get our individual flavors, because we would never get a half gallon of mint chocolate chip. My mother doesn't like mint. Yeah, that's how I am too. I definitely forgot that one time for my brother's birthday when he asked for an ice cream cake of mint and that's all I had available, So that I went to the store and gets
something else. I'm like, oh shoots, so sorry, But that's just the flavor of my childhood is mint chocolate chip. Yeah. And I loved getting it in a milk ship because at the end of the milkshake there was just a collection of chocolate chips at the bottom and it was good. But what I think displaces the mint chocolate chip, just like with the chocolate chip ice cream, is the mint ice cream with cookies in it. OK, so they have one up here called a mint cookie crumble. It's got to
exist in other places. Yeah, mint cookie crumble, it's I mean, it's the same concept. Like I want an oreo over a chocolate chip. Yeah, so you get into oreo. I just don't want to eat a tube of you know, of toothpaste. That's not want to take. That's so much better than that. Don't be closed minded, chriss, that's it. I mean my own son, Nathan four years olds, like he eats the ice cream is like he talks about how it takes like his toothpaste.
I'm like, yeah, that's that's that probably sums it up, like I don't want to be eating toothpaste with chocolate funks and it's it's so good. Um, it's just it's good. All it leaves me wishing for it? Right now? Is I look at that it's pistachio because it's the same color. Yeah, back to the pistachio. Yeah, well, I mean, you know, in that same cone and the waffle waffle cone is great with the pistachio. I don't know if I like I like the waffle cone because
you're always going to get more ice cream because it's huge. Yes, but I think I like the flavor of a sugar cone, the small point one, you know. I think it all depends on the on the ice cream. I mean, I really do think that some some ice cream is better compliment one over the other. That's true. And I think pistachios happens to be. I think butter pecan in one of the in that that would be better than a sugar that would be good, would be for it, that
would be very good. I got mint chocolate chip. You remember that Tollgate ice cream plays. Yes, they had Oreo cones like a chocolate cone that was like an Oreo texture. Yeah. So a mint chocolate chip in that was very good. Yea. So it does make it does make a difference. So the girl Scouts selling cookies thin mint, do you ever go for it? No, Samoa smolla is good. I've changed. I don't like the thin mint because I think it needs a cream element that's not there.
I used to love the thin mint though. Yeah, a mint is a near and dear flavored I mean, I like Andy's, those little Andy's candies they used to give. That's what this is. I know. But it's this is Andy's an ice cream form. You keep telling me that doesn't taste like toothpaste, But this tastes like toothpaste, does it? It's just different, just overwhelming. Oh, it's so good. It's so good. I think it's properly placed. Because Andy's at number at Why don't everything that's been
listed now I'm not even sure what number one. I can't wait to see what number one it's got to be on her list. It's going to be Sunday concoction. That's not even a real flavor, tooty fruity ice cream. It's got to be right. Only all that makes me think of is beamboozled, where you either get tooty fruity or stinky socks. You didn't look ahead of times. You don't know what this is though, this is all we're
doing. The What all I did ahead of time was just I went through to kind of, yeah, see what flavors were on it, but I didn't remember where they were ranked, So I don't know what's number one. Turtle, turtle, carmel, pecan, pecan, pecan. I mean, I that's a terrible I tend to think that it was probably down because of what we already went through. We already went through everything that should be on the list. Turtle, turtle, carmel, pecan, pecan. I can't
see that word without making it seem wrong every time I say it. You can't say it right, no about how you say it. You don't fit into anybody's every time I say it pecan pecan. This ice cream combines some of the other best flavors into a winning combination. When it's made with top notch vanilla, equal amounts of chocolate and carmel swirls, and the pecans Pecans
pecans toasted chest right, it's the pinnacle of creamy tree achievement. Nothing against almonds and peanut butter featured so prom on the elsewhere in the top ten, Pecans Pecans in particular echo and amplify the buttery notes. At oily text texture. I've never saw oily texture of real milk. That's what I want,
some oily texture in my milk. Oh oh, can we finish this ridiculously stupid sentenced oily texture of real milk like a dairy choir and dairy chore choir choir and then Grand Canyon does she know where the Grand Canyon is how often is the Grand Canyon in Arizona? Where is the Grand in Canada? Somewhere I've never bed, but it's in this No, No, it's in like Arizona, that area of the country. Yeah, you're not committed either, like idiots here, obviously I know a lot about No, we know geogradically,
I don't know. But where the Grand Canyon exists? And it doesn't haven't Icy Grand unless she's just talking about an icy canyon. But don't put Grand Grand. The Grand Canyon is one place. Yeah, and it's not icy, and yeah, it does not belong there. Oh, that's too bad if you're picking bubblegum, though, let's just say you can have mine. I wouldn't eat another. That's that's yeah. That was a very last one that was on the bottom of the list. It was on the bottom.
Yeah. Um, I have no doubt that this might be a tasty thing that seems like it should be in a latte at Starbucks. Here, here's what this is, right, butter pecans the flavor. Yeah, you've morphed it into something else. So the list should become well, that becomes a base like vanilla debates of things butter beacom becomes a base and then you just add caramel. So like, where does the list end on flavor combinations? If we can just take the flavor and keep upping it, and I
know that's what we've done with cookies and cream. We've taken vanilla, we've added cookie, but it's become its own staple flavors. If I say to someone, of course you want some turtle, yeah, you go tiles. I don't need that turtle cream chocolate turtles making sense? Like, what are you talking about chocolate? I'm talking about the number one ice cream flavor on Heather Martin's list. Nobody's number one in anybody's book except together. No way,
no, no, it doesn't belong there. What you've just said, it's one of the most insanely idiotic things I've ever heard of. And Nope, I can't. I don't have to. I can't listen to the whole thing every time. But so I there's some things on this list I'd like, there's some things on this list that I don't like. Yeah, um, I just think number one was was a travesty. Yeah is that too
strong? It all camp out? What you know? It was going to happen though, which is it was inevitable as we were going through a list like number one's not going to be I would anything I would have been. We would be excited about fine, not that it's my number one, but I would have been fine with the cookies and cream at number one too, even though it's not my favorite. I can understand how most people would think
that way. Mass appeal, Yes, exactly, mass appeal. Now, all right, so we've kind of had this conversation on and off leading up to this. Yeah, but it's so the rest of your life though. So you have one ice cream that you can eat, what do you choose? I feel like it's a no brainer. I know what you're gonna say. Chocolate. Yeah, yeah, No, no, I think I think my my. I think I've changed you stay pistache. No no, no, no, I'm not. Actually I would. I thought that I would.
But you know what, if I had to only pick one, I think this list I was talking about, this list has made my has changed my mind. Oh, I think I have to be cool cookies and cream, cookies and cream. I would go with that. I could say, you know what, it's not it wouldn't not my favorite. But it's if that's all that existed, I would be pretty perfectly fine with that. I see. I just feel like it's vanilla because then I can create all these
Oh yeah, yeah, we we talked about that offline too. That's true, right, that's true. I don't think there's a restriction. There's a restriction on you can go to the grocery freezer and you can pick one flavor. I'm grabbing vanilla, but that means I also have to go over to the baking aisle and maybe get some mint extra. Yeah, that's true. You can. You can make anything you want from them. I could make
it from Yes, that's true. It's gonna take extra work, but so flavor of I didn't know if that was still on table as an option. It's a cop out, for sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure. I guess if I if I had to go where you can't modify it, right, yeah, if you couldn't modify, Like, there's a part of me that's like ment chocolate chips are great, but I can't add peanut. You're plunging the world into a single everybody in the worst we're in the world. But then as vanilla, yeah, I agree, yeah,
I agree. Well, my my my thought. My answer was like, obviously, if I had, if I had to make a concession besides pistachio, because that would be my favorite of all time, I would only need that if I had to make a concession, because I knew that other people would have have to also be plunged into a single flavor for all of existence. I would say. That's that's where I came up with my my answer.
If with with cookies and cookies and cream, cookies and cream, if I if I had to sentence the world, yeah, I think there is good. At least it hits chocolate and vanilla together. Because in this scenario, if you go to put an oreo in your vanilla ice cream, the Gestapo comes and takes you away. What kind of where are we living in? Right? Is this that I create the hugger gate? Uh? Yeah, so okay, So but yeah, I think we will both agree. You know what, cookies and creams are good? Yeah, it's gotta be
good, gotta be good. I think that's that's got the most mass appeal. I think so because all the other flavors are just too committal. Yeah, like you can't shoot, you can't you can't play. It takes every these days. You can't pick peanut butter for the world because there's a decent amount of people that are gonna die. Why would do this? Why don't you read the ice cream to eat a cookie? Instead? You get any other kind of cookie you want. Listen, it's just ice cream or restricted.
There's tons of other desserts. Why did you have to eat that one? There's sherbet, there's sure sherbet, there's surebet. I'm just gonna say, Sherbert, that's what I took itself. It sounds funny, thought Herbert, even though there's no R in it. Suber no second art. Oh we're dumb. I don't know what is going on, said, I just can, and that's why he gets some ice cream. I just fake killed some peanut butter. I scream about this podcast. What is going on?
Hey? I could never written this. No, they couldn't have. That's why AI. You know what, I'm not worried about it? Yeah, okay, yeah, um oh boy, pizza, pizza, hug spot, pepper, pepper, Oh my gosh. Oh, if if I took over, we would we would all be ruined. That's what the AI tells us. So let me just one last question. You know, we got to wrap this up of the vanilla's scoop, let's scoop this out. What vanilla would you choose? Oh, it's a good question because let's lets let's let's
talk about the different ones. There's Philly Philli vanilla, there's vanilla Bean, Vanilla Bean, French vanilla, and then there's just a regular vanilla. Yeah that be considered. Well, I've I've seen one of the I forget what company makes that. They call it like homestyle vanilla, Okay, like like yeah, homestyle or traditional Yeah vanilla maybe? So French vanilla is that kind of yellowed yes vanilla? Yep. I think coffee creamers have ruined that for
me forever. So I wouldn't go French van Yeah, I would think I would Land vanilla Bean vanilla Bean's very good, or Phillyilla's life vanilla Bean. I think they're very similar. First, you know, I think Vanilla Bean and Philly vanilla are extreme vanillas. Like they're very potent flavor. I like that, yeah, very punchy, like it's in your face vanilla. It's not just like, oh, not subtle like the traditional would be not creamy.
It's more vanilla than creamy. Yeah see, and that's that's where I get hung up, because there's a creamy aspect of ice cream that's just amazing. There's a brand out there, Tillamook. Oh yeah, I've seen it. It's very creamy ice cream. Okay, it's so good, I think. I don't want to overhype it. It is it theirs i've had that was they had a non green, a different one. It was a different flat, it was a different brand, but it was so creamy that when
he went to scoop it, there wasn't any resistance. It was almost like it was almost the point where it was essentially it felt that I thought though it was it was somewhat melted, but it wasn't. It was just that's the creamy quality of really, and I don't know what flavor or what the brandet was. Now that's good. It was too bad. It was too much. Yeah, so creamy. You know. I think vanilla bean is
I think like a good compliment to like an apple pie. It's a good vanilla by itself, but I gotta go with like straight traditional vanilla two is good, Yeah, especially as a soft serve, which we didn't even get in this alway, didn't talk about so officerve, yeah, which I don't think it's worth the time of day at all. Ever. Soft serve ice cream now, oh man, I just I used to love getting that because you can just take a big bite of it and it would just like disappear.
I mean, it's good if it's if it's there. I mean I remember going to remember going as a kid to you know, like and all you Eat all you can eat buffet. That's soft serve. That's the od on the soft swer because you can have as much of it as you want it. But it's the worst quality of the vanilla is off. Yeah, it's it's bad. It's well, you know what I mean. That's the twist with that. When I was a kid, the vanilla and the chocolate
both stink at like the all you can Eat buffet. The only time now I get soft serve, we're on the topic, The only time I get a nap soft serve is if it's not by itself, if I if I can have like, um, a dip on it, Like um a dip is good, but that that hardened out exterior, that's like a cherry flavor or whatever the flavor it does, or choc never chocolate, but usually like something like zy like strawberry or something like that, or cherry. Then I
will get it. It's a good texture combo. Yes, I like that. Maybe it makes up for the fact that it's when lately when I've been getting vanilla at places that have it, I'll get it dipped in fruity pebbles. Oh, I've I've never had that. That sounds delicious though tasty, that sounds really good. It's that they have that. Yeah, and never even thought. If you go up Latham, this place is called Control Tower.
Okay, they they do that there. A friend of mine was there and I saw it, and I'm like, where did you get that? I think control Tower? Are you like most people do, like me, Like when you go when you're going for ice cream, you typically go for
what you know, not not a lot of people like look around. I mean you you kind of look around, but for the most part, you're you're you have in your mind, like maybe I have three or four, maybe even five different ideas in my mind about what I'm gonna get and what I'm in the mood for. Like you, you have a choice in your mind already pre predisposed to certain things, and you just get dose, you
know what I mean. Similar to like Chinese food, you know what I mean, Like you go with a certain in mind what you have, but then when you see somebody else who's eating Chinese food or getting ice cream, I think it's something that you would just it blows your mind because like I didn't even think of that as an option. Then it opens you up to something else. That's how I think. I just I go with five different ideas in my mind, and that's it. I have go to things at
like fast food or take out like Chinese and being the same thing. Yeah, but I'm more apt to be adventurous At an ice cream place, I don't always get a vanilla soft served with fruity pebbles. I've been testing these like Control to hour. I tried their slushy mixed with ice cream. Yeah, was a letdown. But I sometimes I'll get the big Sundays that are
just outrageous but they're so good. But you know what, something about ice cream, and this is something as we end a little bit, but I think about ice cream in general, is that I think you can be more adventurous with ice cream of more than any other food, because you're really at the end of the day, are you're not going to be disappointed to the point where it's like, well that was terrible, Like I just ruined my
my choices. Like you always get something that you know you're gonna you're probably gonna like it because it's ice cream, right, Yeah, I mean even if I had to eat chocolate right at the end day, you're like, I still have ice cream. That was good? Yeah, you know what
I mean. That's that's the thing about about ice cream is that you might it might have be your favorite, your preference, but at the end of even if you got something that you said you you would never get again, you're ever never like well that you never walk away saying oh or throwing it away. Partially, I can't do that. I don't even like when my walk away said that was good, that was That wasn't great, but it
was good. It was satisfied. Because ice cream, a chocolate ice cream flavor worth mentioning is Queen of Hearts, Oh at Jericho, yeah, get at some other places. Yeah, I think it's a Parry's flavor that Parry's hard ice Yeah, I think they do. Parry's are hurt. I don't know. I don't remember. It's a good question. I don't know. But it's very good. It's very rich chocolate ice cream with chipper creamy but with like raspberry like almost like raspberry cups, like chocolate raspberry cups inside of
it. It's it's super chocolate, but it's the right rich chocolate flavor that I just love. And I get that in a milkshake. I love it. And that also has the treat at the bottom of getting all the chocolate raspberry pieces. Yeah, I just like having a gift at the bottom. When I was a kid, for you, when I was a kid, I used to drop an oreo into the milk. I like the same thing. So then at the end I would get that sopping wet and do the same thing. So that's how we are on that note. All right,
cool, we should probably end this thing. Yeah, that was fun. That was fun. I definitely want ice cream and I got a Hank Grint for it. It's good. Now you're going on vacation, yes, you get some ice cream down there? Definitely gotta get something. Is there a boardwalk Myrtle Beach? Beach. I don't know. I remember I think there might be something down there, ice cream on a boardwalk. Is it's just ice cream near a beach? Yeah, it is always different. Maybe it's
just better. Is it the ice cream better or just because it's it's mixed with the surrounding anything, it's just better than being home. Yet, chocolate ice cream by the beach the best thing. So anyway, we are thankful that you tuned in. We we want to know what your ice cream thoughts are. I'm sure you will have some. Oh, everybody's got you've got to have an opinion. Let us know where you stand. What do you think? What do you think about what we said? So anyway, Chris,
see you later, See you later. Good talking, Good talk next time on the lunch Break podcast