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'The Message'


Natter 59: Dominate Your Face!  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Ginger - Jul 06, 2008 3:20:09 pm PDT #6702 of 10003
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

Frozen custard is mostly found in the Midwest and is made with more eggs and less cream. I love it. One lone frozen custard franchise made its way here a couple of years ago. Soft-serve is sold by places like Dairy Queen.


Sue - Jul 06, 2008 3:22:47 pm PDT #6703 of 10003
hip deep in pie

Wikipedia knows:

Custard: [link]

Soft Serve: [link] Soft serve was invented by Margaret Thatcher! (Okay, well, she was on the research team.)


megan walker - Jul 06, 2008 3:23:43 pm PDT #6704 of 10003
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

Lamb dish number 2 is on the stove.

I've decided I need more long weekends. All I'm really doing today is reading and cooking. Because I had two whole other days for hiking, laundry, errands, etc.


Sue - Jul 06, 2008 3:23:57 pm PDT #6705 of 10003
hip deep in pie

Now I want to find a place that still serves custard.


Strix - Jul 06, 2008 3:24:28 pm PDT #6706 of 10003
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

I have friends who LURRVE frozen custard. It's good, but I am not wooo-crazy about it. I prefer Dairy Queen, if for nothing else, the nostalgia factor.

Ah, the days when Peanut Buster Parfaits came in a huge plastic tulip-cup. (Although I have found you can have them sub pecans for peanuts for about 50 cents. I like pecans much better than peanuts.)


Sophia Brooks - Jul 06, 2008 3:27:03 pm PDT #6707 of 10003
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

but my Dad called all soft serve custard.

Yes, I am pretty sure my mom and grandparents did, too. But we had a lot of custrad stands, the more I think about it. Abbot's frozen custard (http://www.abbottscustard.com/) is our main ice cream franchise, so I would assume that ice cream is custard, but the stuff at Baskin Robbins is soft serve?

I was the weird child because I did not like cones, and always wanted/want my ice cream in a dish. I especially hated the cones at home because my mom could never get any ice cream inside the cone, so you just had all this...cone... to eat.


megan walker - Jul 06, 2008 3:31:49 pm PDT #6708 of 10003
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

Baskin Robbins is soft serve?

No. If it comes in a tub, it's ice cream. If it's dispensed from a machine, it's soft serve.

Soft serve just doesn't taste like ice cream to me. It's more like a slightly more solid McDonald's milkshake.


ChiKat - Jul 06, 2008 3:33:49 pm PDT #6709 of 10003
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?

Crap. Now I want ice cream.


Sophia Brooks - Jul 06, 2008 3:37:01 pm PDT #6710 of 10003
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

No. If it comes in a tub, it's ice cream. If it's dispensed from a machine, it's soft serve.

Oh- I meant the soft stuff from the machines at Baskin-Robbins that have vanilla, chocolate and twist, not the tubs in front. That could be soft-serve or custard, right? But is probably soft serve.

I want ice cream, too, and I hardlyh ever eat it. The original Abbot's is about a 15 minute walk from my house...


Jesse - Jul 06, 2008 3:38:50 pm PDT #6711 of 10003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Of course Mister Softee just drove down my street! But I did not run out after him.