Best Ice Cream Flavor that I Think I've Ever Had!

[sleepy]

And it's not even available on the shelf, per se.

I went to Ralph's (may be Kroger's in your area). I bought the 1 1/2 quart size of their house brand "Private Selection Denali Caramel Caribou Ice Cream". This is a vanilla ice cream with chocolate-dipped mini-caramel cups, bits of English toffee and a Denali caramel ripple swirl.

I also bought a pint of their "Private Selection Summer Raspberry Sorbet" and then I added a scoop of it to two scoops of the Denali Caramel Caribou.

BANG!

That blend is Sooo Frigging Good that...I Expect to Die From it!
Else, I do not need anything else at the moment... :) :) :) :) :)

 

[Rick2007]

Thanks,,, I will try my local Publix,,
Moose Tracks Ice Cream and
Rasperry Blush Sorbet

Rick

 

[Shockman]

That does sound good.

I make a pineapple ice cream with buttermilk and fresh fruit. Sometimes other fruit, but the pineapple and buttermilk is nice.

Buttermilk ice cream is not for everyone, but I loved it first taste.


edit,
This post prompted me to Google it for the first time. I learned it from my Mom. It's more popular than I knew.

I also just love vanilla ice cream with finely (Turkish) ground espresso.

Ice cream is one of the things I can not get a handle on. It's such a mood driven endeavor. I will tell you that I can do without Cold Stone Ice Cream, either the process or the brand. I hate the gluey texture from it. I like Ice Milk very much. It use to be half the market share it seems, or it was just the area I grew up in. It was cheap relatively, but I liked the lightness of it. Light, though it did often have a fine crystalline texture.

Peppermint is also a top flavor for me.

 

[sleepy]

Moose tracks...not if it has peanut butter.
Else, who am I to say?

 

[sleepy]

I did get a slight sour stomach from it, but I also skipped a meal, so you might want to eat food with that.

I wan't too fond of ice milk, usually because the local brands used artificial flavors, vanillin, etc, and they watered-down the milk.

What grabbed me was Penguin Frozen Yogurt in the 80's. Couldn't get enough of that or the Arco AM/PM gas station frozen yogurt.
There also used to be "Brockmeyer's Carob Ice Cream and Milk" products in the 70's. These were made with, would you believe it?, Whole Sweet Milk and Whole Sugar (Turbinado Sugar) and They Were Great Products! Later, there was Dino's Cappuccino in 1 cup single-serve milk cartons, brewed sweet-style by putting the sugar in the milk which was then used to brew the coffee instead of water.


These days I miss a good fudge ripple, a good checkerboard vanilla/orange 50/50 ice cream, "Cable Car Crunch" which was vanilla with crispies and caramel with chocolate bits.

I also miss a real Sweet Orange Juice Bar and the real Welch's grape juice and grape-aid (grape juice with lemonade) bars, not the current bitter Minute Maid Push-Ups. Heck, I even miss the old 7-Up Popsicle which used the syrup for the soft drink.

And the Popsicle brand, they've been making them PC by using peel extracts for grape instead of the original "kool-aid/orange crush-type) flavors. Not good to me. There's something about a traditional sweet orangeaid popsicle that goes with Saturday Mornings and maybe Beach Boys/Good Vibrations, Stones/Back Street Girl, and Simon and Garfunkle/Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme, probably because I was the kid eating orangeaid Popsicles on Saturday Mornings in '66/'67, playing those songs.
Had to be there, y'know.

 

[Shockman]

I was there. Didn't care for carob products though, and missed out on the 7Up pops. And sub. Paper Lace for the Beach Boys song.

 

[Isaac Sauvage]

my favorite ice cream of all time was a brand made from goats' milk instead of cattle milk. the flavor was slightly better and the texture was all kinds of interesting. there were these little bits of 'freezer-burn' nodules that took the eating experience to a whole new level, even though they weren't really caused by freezer burn.

simple vanilla and chocolate from those guys was amazing, and especially good made in to milk shakes. i used to find that stuff at the food co-op i belonged to in west philly. possibly the whole foods / fresh fields / trader joes chains would have goats milk products like that...

anyway, sucks for me since i gave up eating any unnecessary saturated fat, which rules out milk products such as ice cream and cheese. as a pizza eater in particular, it's been pretty torturous. but i'm thinking about replacing the cheese with some nutritional yeast and/or hummus, which might work just enough to suspend reality for a few slices.

on the positive side, one ripe avocado a day is absolutely heavenly for my tastebuds, 'fat receptors', and cholesterol level, so i really can't complain. for an ice cream substitute, i guess i could just eat it cold.

 

[sleepy]

But don't drop saturated fats completely. The U.S. Army once stated that an adult male needs 5 grams of it per day. I'm not sure if that figure has been updated. And definitely get your essential oils. That's why they are essential. They are essential. Corn oil is good.

But for pizza, have you tried "Tapioca Cheeses"? I haven't tried them, but word is that they are reasonable.

http://www.daiyafoods.com/

I did try Tofu years ago. I won't be trying that again, not without some clever changes.
I haven't been able to digest soy very well and I definitely do better on cattle dairy. Strangely enough, I was very much a vegetarian in the '70s but that good old family of mine, they forced me back to meat with their hazings.

I clearly remember traveling with family to visit relatives on the farm in Pennsylvania and Auntie Alice chiding me for not eating their ham.
Meat became obligatory when the hazing kicked in, and then after my ulcers in '85, I couldn't even eat Morningstar Farms Grillers. Between the soy and the phosphate additives I was wrecked and found that I needed meat fats to get through it.

Strangely enough, my Grandpa went out to kill the groundhogs one day
and brought one back to the house, later seen on the dinner table, baked whole and dressed and sitting there on the serving plate as a whole pig might be baked and served, and he was slicing it and helping himself to it. I didn't go anywhere near it!

Looking back on him, I think the groundhog was a prop stunt.
He looked like "Lord Larry". Yeah, that guy.
Can't prove it though.

 

[Isaac Sauvage]

okay, arne, in case you can provide any insight or recommendations:

i get saturated fat regularly from the tahini in babar ganooj, eggs, and from meatballs... my guilty ingredient in subway sandwiches that i have about 2x a week. also from a little extra-dark chocolate every couple days.

my regular supplements are:
6000mg fish oil
2000iu of vit.D
two small tablets of B-complex
1200mg red yeast rice
1000mg of nicotinic acid (niacin)

other than the previously mentioned items, most of my diet is now raw fruits and veggies, heavy on onions, garlic, extra virgin olive oil and avocados for cholesterol-altering purposes. my diet is basically the meditteranean diet with some slight enhancements.

i am terrified of saturated fat and trans fat, given the high genetic cholesterol on my mom's side (which i also have). my mom and her mother both died of strokes, essentially. my maternal aunt reported that her carotids were over 50% full of fatty plaque by her 60's.

so i am way ahead of my mom's side in terms of diet, but way behind them in being guilty of drinking. none of them drank much, but as i've had these physical issues the last 5-10 years or so i've become quite the regular drinker.

sorry to hear about the whistle pig. i would have been pretty upset if that had happened to me, although i do understand that farm life and rural life are whole different worlds. when i first moved here i conducted a big campaign with my landlord to let me keep a guinea pig, but i just couldn't lower enough resistance to make it happen.

coincidentally, i was planning on naming him lord larry if they had let me keep him. not. :D

 

[sleepy]

I would look into Vitamin B5 (calcium D-Pantothenate) and Biotin.
The B5 metabolizes fatty acids, is responsible for antihistimine formation (pain relief and healing), insures the formation of normal smooth muscles instead of wasted cystic masses which occur on a deficiency, and seems to regulate inorganic phosphates, while I'm not sure, but I'm guessing the Biotin plays a role in converting B5 to the acid. I'm guessing that because Biotin is absorbed only through the small intestine which is also the site where B5 is converted to pantothenic acid.The acid form is what we use.

And the fact that my dear family hinted in the direction of B5 and Biotin in '85, back when I crashed on the heart attack due to a perforated ulcer. I took the vitamins and became remarkably much better, though I would avoid crazy mega-doses and stick to near-normal dietary levels Taken With Food to be safe. In short, I was definitely deficient in B5, suffering from excess histamines (inflammatory hormones responsible for pain and swelling).
I've had reactions to other vitamins, though not from those two.

It's so hard to type correctly with a cat in heat on my keyboard.

 

[Isaac Sauvage]

okay, thanks. i'm getting oodles of pantothenic acid via the avocados and more than likely sufficient biotin from the variety of foods i eat.

but, interesting. you'd think more doctors might prescribe such supplements in the wake of various physical traumas, but i've never heard or read about such.

 

[sleepy]

I find that very strange too, that nutritional sources of antihistamines are not being acknowledged, but they can work though I say that guardedly, depending on the nature of the injury, illness, mishap, etc.

I remember a specific doctor that I saw during an ulcer flareup and I asked him about B5 and he blew it off, instead turning to prescription Cimetadine and Tylenol. That was a boner since my liver was affected.
Cimetadine decreases stomach acid. It also decreases bile acid in the liver causing muscle weakness, and Tylenol on a low bile acid liver is a definite No.

The ulcer condition itself was already decreasing bile acid production due to the burns.

My experience is that B5 and Biotin help restore mucous linings and cilia. In science class, did they ever have you scrape the mucous lining from your inner cheek? After the ulcer started, I noticed that my linings were gone. No mucous linings also cause dry eyes and cause blurry vision because the linings retain the moisture.

 

[sleepy]

Here is a page from the Linus Pauling Institute:

http://lpi.oregonstate.edu/infocenter/vitamins/pa/

I wonder why there is no mention of mucous membranes or cilia?
Maybe my experiences differ due to other factors, but I would think the absence of mucous membranes and cilia indicate an imbalance or a pantothenic and/or Biotin deficiency.
There sure seems to be a lot of people suffering from dry eyes that, should the B5 be the remedy, that would indicate that the current RDV of these vitamins may be insufficient or, in the case of an imbalance, need to be temporarily higher to overtake the imbalance, possibly to overtake excess phosphates or phosphide levels.
Phosphides in milk tend to block absorption of certain vitamins, as well as absorption of certain antibiotics, by blocking along the digestive tract at the linings.

The Pauling page points out that the co-enzyme A is essential in food energy release at the cells. If my memory serves me, energy release is basically between carbohydrates and phosphorus hormones.
If correct, then pantothenic acid + carbon monoxide > co-enzyme A controls the phosphorus to prevent errors in metabolism, things like misaligned cell formation caused by a lack of the co-enzyme, resulting in cystic masses, rough scar tissue and such.

And I believe I was once taught that mucous membranes are formed from carbohydrates. I do know that teeth contain carbohydrates.
And carbohydrates in the blood alongside salts maintain hydration.
As for plants, wood is a carbohydrate (cellulose).

 

[sleepy]

Geez, how did I forget this? Just last month (June) researchers announced that sleep deprivation is a major factor in strokes, greater than when other factors such as smoking are taken into account.

http://www.ktvn.com/story/18761253/sleep-deprivation-and-strokes

Earlier this year, they determined that sleep apnea is a cause of silent strokes.

But those in the know knew that in the 80's. My hazing was all about sleep deprivation in my home caused by the surrounding players, and remember Billy Squire's "The Stroke"? They kept having their friends at the radio station aim that song at me, and these are folks in show biz who are definitely connected with the health care industries and local hospitals such as Cedars-Sinai.

And I have had heat strokes after sleeping and snoring with my mouth open for too long, and what I do is snort warm water up my nose to quickly re-hydrate the sinuses and brain stem. It works, but you have to be sure not to put organisms, bacteria up your nose when you do it.
And I've never heard this from trusted sources either. They would have you drink cool water and wait for the internal system to reach the brain. Too slow and may not get to where it needs to go like it will straight up the nose and to the back of the sinus around the brain stem.

And you'll know that it works because it immediately feels like a wake-up bang to the back and top of the head when the warm water hits the dry spots.

I've tried using nasal saline solutions, except the preservatives literally stunk and were objectionable. The sprays didn't work or deliver enough hydration, not like a warm blast from the hot water faucet.
Avoid hot water. Only use warm.

 

[Isaac Sauvage]

as usual, you are way ahead of me, arne...

let's just say my decision to go off of mood meds and try to replace them with exercise the last year or so has not worked out well, to say the least. i'm simply not as sharp as i was for a long while there, and things are consistently flying over my head, and... and something. i'm just not real sharp these days.

 

[Rick2007]

Moose tracks...not if it has peanut butter.
Else, who am I to say?

I did not get Moose Tracks Today. My wife wanted Peach ice cream
so guess what flavor we purchased,,,,, But I did get my Blush Sherbet.
I will mix both and squirt some Hershey's choc on top. Yum,,,I hope.

 

[sleepy]

Peach with blush sherbet sounds good to me too!

 

[sleepy]

Yeah Ike, after the hazing started in the privacy of my family home, and then a couple of years later, I got tired of laying around on sleep deprivations and so I started doing sit-ups. I got up to over 1000 sit-ups per session before it really started to hurt...

I think I broke something there...

 

[sleepy]

I posted this at vpforums.org in response to faralos and I still like this answer myself. I use it myself religiously in fact, so I'll post it here too. :)

I like meditating on good times, not good times with others which may have been compromises.

Memories of travel and wanderlust, moments in the desert where I was alone with my better half and where I did not feel taxed, just grooving with the day and the sun and the rustling winds while playing with the elements found in a back yard.

Memories of the beach serve me well and then I allow my mind to drift. The sounds of the breakers and the seagulls.
Right there, just let go of your thoughts and drift with the sounds.

Have you ever taken a nap at the park while on the grounds or while sitting in the parking lot in your car and just listen to the other cars driving past and the sounds of other people as they walk past and then just let go and drift with the sounds as you fall asleep?

 

[faralos]

being an ice cream lover my entire life I only recently tried a sorbet
and wow what a difference! the flavors really pop in sorbets not like
ice cream where the flavor comes in second to sugar and cream
I am now a bona fide convert!

as for Ike Savage and meds try Tai Chi Chuan
or read "full catastrophe living"
or read "mindfulness"
these books were recommended to me by my shrink and they seem to be helping
much better than the meds anyhow

 

[sleepy]

I haven't used them myself, but I think given the stories that I've heard...

...Meds Suck.
Love Stinks.

 

[Rick2007]

Memories of the beach serve me well and then I allow my mind to drift. The sounds of the breakers and the seagulls.
Right there, just let go of your thoughts and drift with the sounds.


That is one of the best reasons to go to the beach.
Or to look for shells or sharks teeth,,,lots of shark teeth here.
Just protect yourself from the sun,,,,SPF Please.

One note,,,,,,,The Birds on our Gulf are NEVER called SEA Gulls.
Just Gulls,,,,,,Not sure why. Also we have the "Gulf Beaches"
WE are not "THE SHORE" ,,,Nor are We "The Ocean".
(ST. Petersburg Florida)

Rick:)

 

[Isaac Sauvage]

I like meditating on good times, not good times with others which may have been compromises.

Memories of travel and wanderlust, moments in the desert where I was alone with my better half and where I did not feel taxed, just grooving with the day and the sun and the rustling winds while playing with the elements found in a back yard.

Memories of the beach serve me well and then I allow my mind to drift. The sounds of the breakers and the seagulls.
Right there, just let go of your thoughts and drift with the sounds....

very nice. those are quite similar to my peak memories. feeling at one with nature is a frequent theme. but the trip out west, through the great american SW, with a GF, camping and road-tripping... probably the best set of memories i have. usually when i want to relax i think about girls, nature, animals...

as for Ike Savage and meds try Tai Chi Chuan
or read "full catastrophe living"
or read "mindfulness"
these books were recommended to me by my shrink and they seem to be helping
much better than the meds anyhow

i vastly prefer yoga to tai chi. still trying to find a local studio... hasn't been easy.

those books sound good. i'm closer to a buddhist than anything else, and meditate when i can, but doing it more often would be good.

 

[sleepy]

It was 91 degrees today when I took a trip to the store, and just inside the door they had set up an impulse buy of 1 lb. boxes of fresh, ripe Strawberries for 98 cents each. I had to get 'em and, thinking about ice cream or thinking of something, I bought two.

And the next thing I knew, I was washing them off real good and eating them raw while remembering many years ago as a child in Pennsylvania eating them raw and straight from the plants on my grandparent's hill, fighting off the birds to do so.

When you have to compete with the birds to get the strawberries, then that is a pretty good sign that the strawberries are worth it.

But man, in the heat the strawberries are great. Very quenching and they cleanse the palate, and these strawberries are actually naturally lightly sweet. Good for relieving dry coughs and scratchy throats.

Saw an article somewhere, at Lance Armstrong's livestrong site(?) that recommended using strawberries to brush your teeth because they reportedly remove stains from tooth enamel. Wonder why they don't use them in toothpastes?

For that matter, I've often wondered why toothpastes aren't made with Vitamin C and Magnesium? Magnesium is the chief mineral in tooth enamel while adding Vitamin C to magnesium oxide (say Philips Milk of Magnesia) creates a sticky enamel by default.