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1. Sheila Ryan on August 6th, 2009 at 11:25 am

   You could base some cutting-edge cuisine on that substance.

2. Daryl Scroggins on August 6th, 2009 at 12:07 pm

   Everything interesting happens at the edges–and that goes for root beer floats too. The icy part you mention reminds me of something in a different dessert: crème brule. I love to crack that thin bit of glazed sugar on top of the cold and creamy base. I have noted this before in some other post, but what the hell, I like to think of it.

3. Dylan on August 6th, 2009 at 12:27 pm

   Try this on for size:

   Scoop yourself a generous bowl of your favorite ice cream.
   Pour about a half cup of milk over the scoops.
   Wait about a minute.
   Dig in.

   Not a root beer float, but the texture of the frozen milk coating adds some serious awesomeness. Something about the crunchy and soupy mix just gets me. And it ends like a fucking milkshake! I’ll never go back.

4. Amanda Mae Meyncke on August 6th, 2009 at 12:30 pm

   This is how I eat ice cream all the time. I have to have milk all over it, I can’t eat regular, glad to see someone else understands the madness.

5. Deron Bauman on August 6th, 2009 at 12:32 pm

   Thanks for bringing that up. There is a definite correlation between my frothy root beer ice cream lust and those chunks of milkshake milky goodness.

6. Andrew Simone on August 6th, 2009 at 12:34 pm

   I think I might know what brings all the girls to Deron’s yard.

7. Deron Bauman on August 6th, 2009 at 12:35 pm

   my milkshake *is* better than yours.

8. Andrew Simone on August 6th, 2009 at 12:35 pm

   which is why I drink it.

9. Deron Bauman on August 6th, 2009 at 12:36 pm

   I see what you did there.

10. Sheila Ryan on August 6th, 2009 at 12:38 pm

    Ooh, Phil. I think people might get off on an ice cream series.

11. Andrew Simone on August 6th, 2009 at 12:40 pm

    check and mate, Deron.

12. Amy Mabli on August 6th, 2009 at 4:26 pm

    Dylan, Amanda – could you be my ice cream soul mates? I eat my ice cream like this all the time and it is quite yummy.

13. Rick Neece on August 6th, 2009 at 4:50 pm

    I’m not a big sweets eater. Though once in a while, when the spirit moves, I’ll have a minor binge. Sometimes, standing in the kitchen, I’ll eat vanilla, that has been in the freezer long enough to develop that weird, spiky hoar-frost that develops on ice-cream when it has been in the freezer long enough, with a few frozen Girl-Scout Shortbreads, with the TV on CNN, just before going to bed. Most recently I discovered a half-closed bag of miniature m&m’s to have with the crusty ice-cream. Good eatin’.

14. Rick Neece on August 6th, 2009 at 4:52 pm

    Oh, and. As a kid I loved a scoop of vanilla on my Cheerios and sweet-milk. Breakfast or bedtime snack.

    Might explain why I’m a little bigger than I ought to be.

15. Dylan on August 6th, 2009 at 6:12 pm

    Perhaps, Amy, perhaps. I’ve taken a lot of flack for my ice cream soup tendencies, so I have reason to believe we’re a few (but proud?) minority, all things considered.

    (semi)Solidarity!

16. Dave Vogt on August 6th, 2009 at 8:01 pm

    I don’t really care for rootbeer floats, but I’ll take orange any day.

17. Cindy Scroggins on August 6th, 2009 at 8:04 pm

    “but I’ll take orange any day.”

    Is that code? I can’t trust any of you anymore.

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