Doggedly searching for the crux of the biscuit.
You will not inspire the southern vote this way, Mitt.
Mitt Romney, appearing upbeat after his Michigan primary win last night, told reporters today he was confident he could secure the GOP nomination by focusing on states where he holds a strategic advantage over his rivals. [...]
But Romney added that he did not view the mixed GOP primary results as a sign of weakness among the Republican field: "It's an embarrassment of riches, to a certain degree....Voters are looking at a strong set of candidates and it's like they're looking at rocky road and pistachio and pralines and cream." (Romney, for the record, did not identify which ice cream best embodied his candidacy.)
Pralines and cream? Pralines and cream? In South Carolina?!?
{shaking head}No, no, no, no, no.{/shaking head}
It's called butter-pecan, for Christ's sake. Say: "Budd'r Pee-Can."
Froz, I don't know about South Carolina, but those are two different ice creams up North. Butter pecan is pecans in a yellow ice cream; pralines and cream is candies pecans in a white ice cream.
True, true. Although the yellow in B-P is usually food coloring. natural B-P will be very similar base to P & C. But in my years of scooping for a living while in college "Pralines & Cream" elicited more blank stares from southerners while transplants seemingly uniformly were familiar with it. I would explain it as "Butter pecan with the nuts candied. That did the trick.
To point out even more error in this post, Pralines are apparently a southern invention, traditionally tied to New Orleans. What do I know? So that settles it. Mitt Romney is going to win the presidency. Sorry; my bad.
Posted by: froz gobo at January 17, 2008 09:12 AMLet's just mix them all up and call it treasure island ice cream. And can we have them all share the nomination?
That way they can run on a platform including these brilliant proposals- sending 12 million people out of the country; a cop in front of every mosque and adding 100k to the military.
Posted by: asl at January 17, 2008 09:52 AMIf memory serves, in CA the butter-pecan-with-candied-pecans ice cream is called "Praline Pecan". I've never heard "Pralines and Cream" before but I think if I did hear it I would have assumed the speaker was talking about Praline Pecan.
Posted by: Clownęsthesiologist at January 17, 2008 10:35 AM(And I don't think I ever see that flavor around here -- just Butter Pecan.)
Posted by: Clownęsthesiologist at January 17, 2008 10:36 AMThe Ken/Zardoz banner is a thing of beauty. It makes me weep.
Posted by: Doctor Slack at January 17, 2008 03:07 PMIn Froz's former incarnation as an ice cream scooper, he freaked out a little kid who asked him that by telling him it had little boys in it.
Posted by: apostropher at January 17, 2008 04:30 PMAnd of course marionberry contains crack cocaine.
Posted by: M/tch M/lls at January 17, 2008 04:36 PMIn Texas, the pronunciation is "pray-leen" and they are the standard desert with a Tex-Mex dinner. I always assumed they were Mexican in origin.
Posted by: caradoc at January 17, 2008 06:24 PMIf Mitt were a flavor it would be, as the old joke goes, pralines and dick.
Posted by: mikefromtexas at January 17, 2008 10:32 PMRE: the Romney pic
I love the fact that the blackboard behind him ALMOST says "American Steamer." Like Cleveland...only far more expansive?
Posted by: Mr. Sticky at January 18, 2008 12:17 AMI don't know about pralines, but Arabs introduced sugar cane to Europe about a thousand years ago. This, of course, was because they wanted to rot our teeth and impose their isliberamofascism.
Posted by: froz gobo at January 18, 2008 08:40 AM17: I think it was one of his campaign pledges. 40 acres and a steamer. Why should Cleveland be the only ones with a steamer? Why not the whole country?
Posted by: Cangrejero at January 18, 2008 08:44 AMThey say that Romney's hair is even more genuine than Reagan's.
Golly. I think I have to vote for that fine head of hair.
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Posted by: Jon at January 26, 2008 08:39 PM