Doggedly searching for the crux of the biscuit.
Luckily, GoodieBagTV caught me up on it. And unsurprisingly, it has North Carolina origins.
Udder Delight owner Chip Hearn steered them to an impromptu taste test of his newest creations -- one of which may be the world's first barbecue-flavored ice cream. The other test flavors: a chunky bacon ice cream and a pale-red Cackalacky Spice Sauce ice cream. Linus licks the bacon ice cream. "Not bad," she says. But she's not big on the frozen bits of bacon. McDonough thinks it tastes a little like butter pecan and kind of likes it.
Studying their reactions are Hearn and his barbecuing and brainstorming partner, H. Page Skelton. Wearing a denim "Cackalacky" logo apron and a white 10-gallon cowboy hat, Skelton is the president of the Cackalacky Classic Condiment Co. in Chapel Hill, N.C. He drove up this week for the unveiling of this oddball ice cream made with his award-winning sauce, typically poured over North Carolina pork barbecue. Skelton and Hearn, 52, like to travel the nation's competitive barbecue circuit together.
"Bacon and butterfat, what could be better? The stuff should come with CPR instructions," jokes Skelton, 37, watching the young women sample the next sample -- spicy-hot ice cream with a vinegar aftertaste.
Bacon ice cream! Bacon ice cream! Bacon ice cream! Bacon ice cream!
TrackBackHearn often consults with the experts at the Penn State Agriculture Department's ice cream school.
God bless higher education.
Posted by: Ramar at August 8, 2005 07:11 PMTruly, friends, we live in a blessed age. Bacon ice cream, indeed.
Posted by: fiend at August 8, 2005 09:25 PMEvery time is time for a porkeque. But I don't have to convince either of you guys of that. North Cackalacky, bitches!
Posted by: apostropher at August 8, 2005 09:37 PMBack when we were hungry college kids, my roommates and I decided to enter Borden milk's ice cream flavor of the month contest. We used a recipe for strawberry ice cream and for the strawberries we substituted chopped jalipeno peppers. We said it was a traditional Mexican flavor ...
Sure enough, it was selected as the flavor of the month and the recipie appeared in their monthly newsletter. We got 10 gallons of (real) ice cream for our efforts. But for some reason, the jalipeno flavor never made it into the stores.
Posted by: Charles Watkins at August 9, 2005 01:17 AM All of those have to be better than most of these Japanese ice creams.
larry
http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/photospecials/graph/020701ice/
http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/photospecials/graph/040701ice/index.html
I've thought for a long time that there should be a line of meat-at-the-bottom yogurt flavors (chili, barbeque, curry, beef stew, etc.) to complement the fruit-at-the-bottom ones. Bacon ice cream goes beyond even that, though.
Posted by: andrew at October 7, 2005 11:38 AMI was sleeping last night (as usual) and i had a dream! I was on a web-sight and well the web-sight was this one! When I woke up I typed in the name, just to see if it was a real web-sight! And it was!!
ok thats all i wanted to say!
Posted by: paige at October 8, 2005 09:48 PM