44 By the Way...
Ponte Vedra Recorder ·September 10, 2015
Are you eating
your 22 pounds
of ice cream?
Have you done it? Have you
achieved the number of pounds of ice
cream that millions of Americans eat
every year? According to the TV show
“Sunday Morning,” 22 pounds of ice
cream go slip slidin’ down our gullets
every year. While we can (and do)
eat it year-round,
summer is when
ice creams are
the most delectable, aren’t they?
Ice cream cools
us down like no
glass of iced tea
ever could. Start
slurping some of
the hundreds of
Mims Cushing
flavors out there.
By the Way...
You may
remember climbing into the family station wagon and
sailing off to Howard Johnson’s, which
first opened in 1925, and by the ‘70s,
had grown to 1,000 restaurants nationwide, with ice cream a staple, and
we’re not just talking vanilla, but also
27 other flavors, which seemed like
a huge amount. But today bacon ice
cream is a big hit in some stores. One
shop tried making a smoked salmon
ice cream but that didn’t spawn a lot
of followers.
Ice cream is … um… hot these
days, both on TV and in the news.
(Did you know a cow can produce
9,000 gallons of ice cream in a lifetime?) Despite all the commercials
and features about eating healthier
choices of ice cream, 70% of us still
prefer eating the premium kinds, i.e.,
the “bad” kind, heavy on the cream
and sugar, and on us.
Artisanal ice cream producers have
popped up in many states, one of
them b eing in the state of Maine.
Mount Desert Island Ice Cream, is
named one of the top 25 ice creams
shops in America. The store is, no
surprise, pronounced by the locals as
“Mount Dessert Ice Cream.”
The Sea Salt Caramel is not surprisingly a popular flavor, given how
salted caramel products are soaring.
But there’s loads more, such as Cereal
Milk that tastes like the milk at the
bottom of a bowl of Captain Crunch.
Girl Scouts Gone Wild is a must for
those who love Thin Mints. If you love
figs, try Bay of Figs ice cream. A Rocky
Road blend of fudge and marshmallow cream with Belgian chocolate and
chocolate “pebbles,” and a cake batter
flavor are also on my bucket list. As
an homage to Maine’s blueberry crop,
Mount Desert Ice Cream came up with
Blueberry Sour Cream Crumble, made
with wild blueberries. It was rated by
judges as OMG! the highest rating. The
good news? The company plans to sell
it retail in the future, so you can skip
the drive to Maine.
Ice & Vice in downtown Manhattan
has 11 popular flavors, including buttered popcorn with toasted raisins and
dark chocolate bits. You can buy Three
Little Pigs, a salted caramel base with
bacon fat and chunked bacon pralines.
Can’t decide what to choose? A store
called MilkMade in Manhattan will sell
you five (not-so) mini cones for $12, if
you can’t decide on what flavor. Some
of their ice cream flavors include three
different kinds of s’mores, chocolate
coconut macaroon, PB&J, and a rhubarb compote. What a great idea! Beer
samples are sold in small amounts, so
why not ice cream?
No need to fly away in search of
the perfect ice cream. Think local.
You can even cool off with a frozen
yogurt and your own choice of candy
and cookie toppings at a nearby gas
station — while you top off your car
with gasoline. How convenient is that?
I’d think FroYo counts as one of the 22
lbs you need to eat to be in sync with
your fellow Americans.
I’m thinking that next summer I’m
going to try to consume 22 pounds
(make that gallons) of raspberry iced
tea instead of ice cream. Fat chance.
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THEME: NURSERY RHYMES
ACROSS
1. Covered with water
6. Fox competitor?
9. R&R spots
13. Port in Portugal
14. *Turtle dove’s
sound
15. Gorillalike
16. “Animal House”
party wear
17. ____ of corn
18. Bank in Mexico
19. *He went to
Gloucester
21. *He kissed the girls
and made them cry
23. Witch’s curse
24. Like Piper of
Hamelin
25. School organization
28. Clare Booth ____
30. Bloodsucker
34. “____ is more”
36. Nevada city
38. Respectable and
quiet
40. Military group
41. *Dog’s name-o
43. Like nay-sayers
SUDOKU
44. Jason the Argonaut’s wife
46. “In ____ of”
47. 1/60 of mins
48. Dancer’s beat
50. As opposed to
gross
52. “Be quiet!”
53. Arrogant snob
55. Simon & Garfunkel,
e.g.
57. *One of King Cole’s
three
61. *”If wishes were
____”
64. Empower
65. *What Little Miss
Muffet did to her
curds
67. Kind of wave
69. Hardly worth
mentioning
70. Haul with a hitch
71. Pigeon’s perch
72. Simon does what?
73. Emergency
helpers
74. Clear, as in blackboard
DOWN
1. Quick on the uptake
2. *Sound of Mother
Hubbard’s pet?
3. Mythological ship
4. Narc’s find
5. Youth lodging
option
6. Tree having winged
fruit
7. Feathery neckwear
8. Welsh dog breed
9. Boxing action
10. Golf club maker
11. Ascus, plural
12. *My dame has lost
her what?
15. “Humble ____,” pl.
20. Beyond suburb
22. Unagi
24. Composing or
writing
25. *Little Jack
Horner’s treat
26. Religious doctrine
27. To one side
29. To furnish with a
ceiling
31. J.F.K. or Dulles
postings
32. Short for University
of Miami mascot
33. Unforeseen
obstacle
35. Type of cell
37. Curved molding
39. *It ran away with
the spoon
42. One up
45. Little application
49. Mining product
51. Dr. Seuss’Yertle
54. About to explode
56. Twig of willow tree
57. Come clean, with
“up”
58. Cuzco valley
empire
59. June 6, 1944
60. Data Universal
Numbering System
61. Strikes with an axe
62. Cocoyam
63. Droops
66. *Tucker who sings
for his supper
68. “Go Set a Watchman” author