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Here are some Goodreads lists if people need a jumping off point ^_^Summer Treat Books
Food in Book Titles
Chocolate Covered Fiction
Sweet Reads
Christin wrote: "Here are some Goodreads lists if people need a jumping off point ^_^Summer Treat Books
Food in Book Titles
Chocolate Covered Fiction
Sweet Reads"
Thanks Christin, I completely forgot to post those!
Liz M wrote: "Christin wrote: "Here are some Goodreads lists if people need a jumping off point ^_^Summer Treat Books
Food in Book Titles
Chocolate Covered Fiction
Sweet Reads"
Thanks Christin, I completely f..."
Sure thing! If I find any more I'll try to post those as well (since I realize I forgot to look up coffee, etc) ^_^
How about the word sweet in the title?
Is greengage OK for this one? It is a small green plum. I have never seen greengage flavoured ice cream but it could be possible :) they are more often found in pies etc.The Greengage Summer
Rosemary wrote: "Is greengage OK for this one? It is a small green plum. I have never seen greengage flavoured ice cream but it could be possible :) they are more often found in pies etc.The Greengage Summer"
I'm going to let Christin answer this one.
Jayme(the ghost reader) wrote: "Devil's Food Cake Murder?"That looks like a dessert to me.
I'm going to immediately say ok to Greengage and Devil's Food Cake - I was going for various desserts so if Greengage is a type of pie I'll take it (plus if it's used as pie it's probably used as an ice cream flavor is my thought).For "sweet" I guess it would have to be the context. If it refers to "sweets" (i.e. desserts) then it's good but if it just refers to something sweet I'm a bit more hesitant on it as the idea was more for specific flavors/desserts. I tend to be pretty easy going about these things (which means I'd immediately go "yes!") so I think I should have a moderator weigh in on the usage of "sweet." ^_^
Christin wrote: "I'm going to immediately say ok to Greengage and Devil's Food Cake - I was going for various desserts so if Greengage is a type of pie I'll take it (plus if it's used as pie it's probably used as a..."I was looking at Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan but I am not sure it's even coming out in time in the US, so no worries if it's a no.
Christin wrote: "I'm going to immediately say ok to Greengage and Devil's Food Cake - I was going for various desserts so if Greengage is a type of pie I'll take it (plus if it's used as pie it's probably used as a..."Well I don't know. It's a type of plum, so it is used in pies as a dessert, but not really ice cream. I have never seen it as ice cream. I meant that it would be theoretically possible, but like plum ice cream, it is not a known flavour. Would you say yes or no to plum? It's the same really.
This task is going to be a challenge for the moderator. They make ice cream flavors out of all sorts of things these days. Here is a link to the menu at one ice cream shop in San Francisco that I am hoping to visit soon.
itpdx wrote: "This task is going to be a challenge for the moderator. They make ice cream flavors out of all sorts of things these days. Here is a link to the menu at one ice cream shop in San Francisco that I..."A list would have been sufficient - but they insisted on photos too! The nerve! ;-)
I once had Gorgonzola icecream - it was surprisingly delicious. And Asparagus.Oh, and Tomato and Basil too - that one was more like a salad in a cone.
I'm adventurous, when it comes to icecream.
Ice cream can come in really interesting flavors (one of my personal favorites is Rose for example) so I'm all for being flexible on the actual flavors used for this challenge ^_^
Other books that are not on the above lists but work for this challenge are:Discord's Apple
Shades of Milk and Honey (I've seen Honey flavored ice cream)
At the Sign of the Sugared Plum
The Peach Keeper
The Jelly Bean Crisis
Secrets of the Apple
itpdx wrote: "This task is going to be a challenge for the moderator. They make ice cream flavors out of all sorts of things these days. Here is a link to the menu at one ice cream shop in San Francisco that I..."GRASSHOPPER PIE? Please tell me there are no actual grasshoppers in that :-/
Rosemary wrote: "GRASSHOPPER PIE? Please tell me there are no actual grasshoppers in that :-/ "No, but it's wonderful! Made with lime jello and vanilla ice cream and I think pineapple juice on a graham cracker crust.
That does sound wonderful! I am surprised we have not imported it yet!
Rosemary wrote: "That does sound wonderful! I am surprised we have not imported it yet!"LOL My mother must have made the tee-totallers version (and that would have been so unlike her). I just looked at a recipe and it has creme de menthe in it and other things. I guess more like the grasshopper cocktail in a pie crust!
Karen GHHS wrote: "Is there lollipop ice cream? ;)The Lollipop Shoes"
http://www.foodchannel.com/recipes/re...
Karen GHHS wrote: "Is there lollipop ice cream? ;)The Lollipop Shoes"
Lollipop is a form of dessert so I'll take it ^_~
also, that link looked way too yummy!
Thanks, Christin and Elizabeth! Those ice cream lollipops do look yummy indeed!
Connie, those are pretty cool, but I think we are looking for the flavors not the shapes! :)
itpdx wrote: "This task is going to be a challenge for the moderator. They make ice cream flavors out of all sorts of things these days. Here is a link to the menu at one ice cream shop in San Francisco that I..."To make it easier for the moderators, if it is an especially unusual flavor of ice cream or a foreign dessert, we'll ask participants to provide a corroborating link.
Connie wrote: "The Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovCombo +25 (10.7 (if you're female and non-Russian); 20.1; 20.10; 20.98; 10.9 (if you go for Margarita ice cream)) ..."
I think the dessert word in the title should refer to the dessert, so in this case, Margarita does not earn combo points for 10.9.
Here's some fun facts from the BaskinRobbins websitehttp://www.baskinrobbins.com/content/...
Here are the current 31 flavors
http://www.baskinrobbins.com/content/...
Here is a list of the original 31 flavors
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baskin-R...
I saved the best until last......
Check out the Ice Cream Float Cake!!!! I need one now!
http://www.baskinrobbins.com/content/...
wait for the second picture to load after the strawberry lemonade ice cream cone
Rachelccameron wrote: "That sounds vile! I hate figs haha"Agreed, yuck but hey, whatever works for points! :-)
Well, I never imagined it for a flavor of ice cream, but the picture actually looks enticing and refreshing!
I've had fig gelato which I thought was extremely yummy...but then I like figs! ^_^
Here's a list of Ben & Jerry's flavorshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_...
Quick question: Ben & Jerry's has flavors like
Boston Cream Pie
Dublin Mudslide
Stephen Colbert's AmeriCone Dream™
Would the entire flavor name need to be in the book title to count -- as in "Boston Cream Pie"? or, would one word out of the flavor name suffice "Boston" or "Cream" or "Pie"?
Deedee wrote: "Here's a list of Ben & Jerry's flavorshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_...
Quick question: Ben & Jerry's has flavors like
Boston Cream Pie
Dublin Mudslide
Stephen ..."
No to Boston and Cream (the individual words are not dessert flavors), yes to pie
Louise wrote: "Would Popco work? I'm thinking cake pops and soda pop, but I'm not sure if it's too far out?"No, the word in the title needs to refer to the actual dessert (see message 30 above) and Popco is a toy company.
Thanks for clearing that up, I'm trying to find out if it works for square peg. I still have some lists to go through...
Would you accept Tea as an ice cream flavour?Tea ice cream
And if yes, would you accept The Book of Tea for this task?
Sorry, Connie. Mighty unusual, but yes it qualifies.
Thanks, Elizabeth! I've had it once, and then some Jasmine Tea flavored ice cream and both were delicious. (Apparently, you can put stuff in ice cream I normally wouldn't eat or drink, and I will try it. I draw a line at mushrooms though.)
Green tea ice cream is one of my favorites and actually seems to be pretty common in Japanese restaurants/Asian grocery stores around here. (I would love to go to Japan sometime and see if its true there as well. :) )
Just to make sure: I've found Wine Ice Cream, so would The Wine of Angels work?My other possible choice would have been The Grapes of Wrath (Grape Ice Cream), but I suppose that it wouldn't really work because the book has "grapes" in the plural, so it isn't the actual ice cream flavor, is it?
Isabell wrote: "Just to make sure: I've found Wine Ice Cream, so would The Wine of Angels work?My other possible choice would have been The Grapes of Wrath (Grape Ice Cream), but I suppose that it wouldn't reall..."
Either of those will work.
Thanks. I'm off to start my book for this task, then.
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July is American National Ice Cream month, with the third Sunday of the month being official "Ice Cream Day." Read a book with a flavor of ice cream/dessert listed in the title (Chocolate, Strawberry, Vanilla, Rocky Road, Cake, Pie, etc).