I saw someone make a balsamic ice cream (maybe it was balsamic & strawberries) on tv once, and it sounded really good.

Yup, Betsy.

Betsy HP: Southern specialty. Buy a cube steak. Bread as for fried chicken. Fry as for fried chicken. Cover with gravy as for fried chicken. Feed to dog and go out for some fried chicken.

Rio, Coldstone currently has wasabi ginger ice cream.

I'm set in my ice cream ways. Love coffee ice cream, followed by vanilla, then chocolate.

wasabi ginger ice cream

Mmmm. But Coldstone ice cream in general is a little too sweet for me.

I was scared of it and lori didn't try any last night. maybe when we go tomorrow for ice cream, we'll both try and report back on its sweetness.

Worse even than toe-jam ice cream.

Then you've had that durian ice cream they make in New York?

Also, if you have an ice cream maker, you could make tomato or balsamic and strawberry ice cream if you were so moved.

Y'all are actually making me nostalgic for my first real job, a summer spent in a Baskin-Robbins in Walnut Creek. When I started there, among all the tubs of ice cream was an apparently discontinued flavor called Lemon Mousse. It was amazing, just perfectly brings-tears-to-your-eyes good, and we were halfway through our last tub my first week there, and a week later it got all et up and I never saw it again. It's my mysterious romantical lost love.

Also, I remember that practically every single little kid who came in wanted a taste of Daquiri Ice because it was so intriguing and blue, but as soon as they got their taste they always looked horrified and betrayed, because it's so much a grown-up flavor.

Re Roberts: on Wednesday I heard an NPR interview with one of his closest friends, a left-leaning environmental lawyer who was his roommate from early on at Harvard to several years after graduation. Assuming the guy is reasonably honest and not some creepy plant or shill, the interview was marginally reassuring: He said that in his experience Roberts is passionate about the law, his family, his circle of friends, and not a lot else; he votes Republican but he's not politically involved or activist, his circle of friends ranges across the political spectrum, and all his intellectual engagement and energy go to the act of lawyering (several years ago he even took on a case for his friend when the friend had to bow out due to time conflicts, representing a group of environmentalists, and once he'd committed to it he went for it wholeheartedly and won).

I'm still congenitally deeply suspicious of anyone GWB is enthusiastic about, and I'm all media-scarred and cynical and mistrusting even of NPR, (and I haven't yet read the rudepundit piece, so I'll probably come back from that all pissy and extra bitter), but just right this second I'm feeling marginally less disheartened and queasy about him.

Also, as far as we know, Roberts is not pro-torture.

Also, I remember that practically every single little kid who came in wanted a taste of Daquiri Ice because it was so intriguing and blue, but as soon as they got their taste they always looked horrified and betrayed, because it's so much a grown-up flavor.

Heh. I totally remember that feeling. And every time you went in, it just looked so good, it was like they were taunting you.