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Le Gamin Truck for Lunchtime Crepes and Sandwiches, Now Scooting Around Manhattan
any more details on the crepes?
Serious Grape: Preserving Your Wine History
I bought a wine journal yesterday that came with the adhesive sheets. I tried one on a bottle, which didn't work. But the journal did suggest an alternate method, which worked: soaking the bottle in room-temperature water. The label peeled right off after about an hour of soaking.
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What Did You Get From the Ice Cream Truck?
ice cream sandwiches! chocolate cookie outside with the little holes, and vanilla ice cream center... i could go for one right now, actually. :)
Le Gamin Truck for Lunchtime Crepes and Sandwiches, Now Scooting Around Manhattan
any more details on the crepes?
Serious Grape: Preserving Your Wine History
I bought a wine journal yesterday that came with the adhesive sheets. I tried one on a bottle, which didn't work. But the journal did suggest an alternate method, which worked: soaking the bottle in room-temperature water. The label peeled right off after about an hour of soaking.
Food-related lies/myths that adults tell kids?
The favorite one in my family was, "[Insert not-so-tasty vegetable] will put hair on your chest." I do have a lot of chest hair, so I guess all the veggie eating has paid off.
Quick - Whadya Have For Lunch Today?
boar's head maple honey ham and jarlsberg light cheese with leftover salad on a round roll. yum!
Grapefruit: Way or No Way?
way! love the fruit, love the juice, even love the sparkling grapefruit beverage they sell at starbucks.
Dunkin' Donuts Will Give Free MetroCards
You mean Metrocards, right, not something to do with the sandwich chain?
Food In Literature - What Has Inspired You?
When I was a kid, I read and loved the Roald Dahl book, Danny: Champion Of The World. In the book, Danny and his dad eat toad-in-the-hole, which is like a big pan of popover dough with sausage baked into it. My mom made it, and it was delicious. I would say it surpassed my expectations.
Thanksgiving beers for the Miller High Life family?
i second the stella recommendation. it's light enough and also has a lot of character.
My Secret Love for Grape Candy
If you dig grape-flavored treats, you should totally check out Grape Fruit Leather. It's not quite as good as Apricot, which is my favorite, but it's pretty damn good.
My Secret Love for Grape Candy
Thank you for this post! It made me smile from ear to ear. I just found Batman themed Airheads at Target yesterday, which included a grape flavored bar. I was thrilled beyond belief and trying to find an excuse to go back so I can buy 10 bags of Airheads just to get the one grape!
What Did You Get From the Ice Cream Truck?
I usually got ChocoTacos when the ice cream truck came around, which wasn't very often in my neighborhood.
What Did You Get From the Ice Cream Truck?
@kristygarr and smokey Right on with the rocket pops!
What Did You Get From the Ice Cream Truck?
Push ups! Those were great!
But oh the sadness to get to the end of the ice cream and realize you were licking clear plastic...
What Did You Get From the Ice Cream Truck?
Oh, those wonderful Rocket Pops (we called them Bomb Pops).
I have always been one for variety, so I had a few favorites:
Strawberry Shortcake Bars
Push-ups
Big Sticks (those big red/orange/yellow swirled popsicles)
Ice Cream Sandwich
Orange 50/50 Bars
Drumsticks
Eskimo Pie
Bomb/Rocket Pops
I also liked the cool retro candies:
Cinnamon Fire Candies (the square ones)
Candy Cigarettes
Those sodapop wax bottles filled with sugary syrup
Candy Necklaces
Double Bubble Gum
These days, I would pass on the drumstick and most of the candy.
But, really, my idea of a grown-up ice cream treat is this:
The Lemon Sorbetto Cocktail
Cheers,
~ Paula
What Did You Get From the Ice Cream Truck?
Good Humor - nutty buddy or ice cream sandwich or orange dreamcicle
What Did You Get From the Ice Cream Truck?
Hey there is an ice cream truck right outside my work right now and they are playing "It's a Small World" over and over and over...I always got bomb pops, the cone shaped one with the bubblegum at the bottom or strawberry shortcake bar.
@HeartofGlass - I remember those! Sundae Cups (I think they were called that) and they came with a little wooden spoon.
What Did You Get From the Ice Cream Truck?
the ice cream truck only came around to my neighborhood once that I can remember. I think I got a choco taco. That sounds like something I would have done. Nowadays I'd probably get a Strawberry Shortcake bar or a vanilla cone.
What Did You Get From the Ice Cream Truck?
Occassionally, Mom would give me a dime to buy something from the Good Humor truck and I would get a Purple Pirate...grape flavored ice pop...I really wanted a Strawberry Shortcake Bar
What Did You Get From the Ice Cream Truck?
Sadly, my favorite ice cream bar can only be found in England - which is a hike from my hometown of MN! I like the chocolate/chocolate Magnum bars they sell at every major tourist spot. To quote RR, YUMMO.
And I agree with my fellow Minnesotans - malt cups at the Twins game = love.
What Did You Get From the Ice Cream Truck?
Honestly I don't remember ever getting anything from an actual ice cream truck. I guess they just never came through my neighborhood? But a few childhood favs are push-ups, ice cream sandwiches, Nutty Buddies, and my absolute favorite - the Mickey Mouse head on a stick.
What Did You Get From the Ice Cream Truck?
Oh man, where do I begin?? I've always been obsessed with ice cream trucks. When I was little, I loved the pushup pops, Bubblegum Bill and rocket pops. In middle school, I advanced the the chocolate flying saucer (ice cream sandwich) with chocolate ice cream and chocolate sprinkles. Now that I'm older and live in the city, where you don't have to go chasing after the truck down the street, I usually get a cone dipped in one of those hard shells (I like all three: chocolate, cherry and butterscotch. It depends on my mood) or a chocolate malt milkshake. Man, it's a nice day and there is a Mr Softee right outside of my office...
What Did You Get From the Ice Cream Truck?
@cycorider--I agree that Chipwiches of all varieties are QUITE undervalued.
Ice cream sandwiches--always a favorite.
As a tiny tyke, I liked the Flintstone push-up pops, and I also recall another kind of push-up pop in a pink and blue polka-dot wax tube.
However, as my palate 'matured' I began to like drumsticks and the like. In the UK I was always a bit weirded out by the 99 Cadbury flake cone, which is a soft-serve cone impaled by a curiously suggestive rod-shaped chocolate bar.
Does anyone remember those vanilla cup sundaes with the hard syrup frozen in the middle in chocolate and strawberry varieties?
What Did You Get From the Ice Cream Truck?
Toasted Almond if it was the Good Humor truck. Sometimes Mr. Softee would be in the neighborhood, too. He didn't have Toasted Almonds, so I would get a soft-serve chocolate with chocolate sprinkles.
What Did You Get From the Ice Cream Truck?
I loved the red/white/blue pops -- everyone seems to be calling them "Rocket Pops"...we knew them as "Bomb Pops" in Boston. I savored the blue part especially. I think I got those because they were one of the bigger things you could get -- even at age 5 I knew the value of getting more bang for your buck...or 75 cents, as the case was.
I still love the sound of that truck coming around the neighborhood, and seeing all the little kids running our of their houses and waiting anxiously at the ends of their driveways. It's what summer is all about.
What Did You Get From the Ice Cream Truck?
choco-tacos! My 70-something grandma introduced me to those bad boys!
What Did You Get From the Ice Cream Truck?
mickey mouse on a stick or flinstone push pops.
What Did You Get From the Ice Cream Truck?
tamarind and chile paleta. growing up in the ghetto ;)
What Did You Get From the Ice Cream Truck?
good humor used to make a watermelon ice that tasted good (back in the 60's) .... a vanilla pop with a plain dark chocolate coating .... though, ice cream sandwiches were good, too.
What Did You Get From the Ice Cream Truck?
I do not know how to call it in English, but I usually got an orange "Guarito" or "guarito de china"... it was those orange-flavored dual pops. Later on I sometimes got ice cream sandwiches, but not too often because I prefered chocolate ice cream to the vanilla...
In Puerto Rico there are two main ice cream cart companies - Payco and Nevada... I can sing both their songs from the carts... if you asked me to.
But when I was in elementary school, there was a Coco/Piña cart pushed by a guy which passed in front of my grandma's house daily... she would ALWAYS get us a cup of coconut ice cream... she even got one for my mom and kept it in teh freezer until she came back from work to pick us up... it's a Puerto Rican thing I guess.
Nowadays the carts have 3 flavors... Coconut, Pineapple and Passion Fruit... YUM!!
What Did You Get From the Ice Cream Truck?
The COMPLETELY undervalued Good Humor Toasted Almond! Oh my gosh, I can't even think about it I miss them so much.
What Did You Get From the Ice Cream Truck?
oooh it's been along time since i was a kid .. and i was happy with anything my Grandpa would get for me (a little ol' country kid visitin' my Grandpa in the big city). But either a "skyblue pink*" popcicle, ice cream sandwich or chocolate cone..
aahh memories.
*don't know why those popcicles where skybluepink .. but even my husband a whole state away called them that.. is it a midwest thing (Ohio and Indiana)? But there are nights when the sky is indeed skyblue pink!
What Did You Get From the Ice Cream Truck?
Rocket Pop all the way!
What Did You Get From the Ice Cream Truck?
Dada da da da dada da da da........(It's A Small World) over and over and OVER until my head explodes! The ice cream truck comes around all year long. Don't indulge any more but when I did it was always the Astro Pops, blueberry, cherry and lemon all on one stick. Wonder if they still have them. True story: DH was talking to a neighbor when the truck came around and he offered the driver $20.00 if she would play something else. She declined and laughed so hard she had to stop for a minute before driving again.
What Did You Get From the Ice Cream Truck?
@mcboomofdoom - I totally heard a rumor in college that those late night ice cream trucks sell more than just ice cream...it shattered my nostalgia a little. But hey I'm glad to hear that the Flintstones are alive and well!
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ice cream sandwiches! chocolate cookie outside with the little holes, and vanilla ice cream center... i could go for one right now, actually. :)