It's a hot time in the old Thursday tonight. #542

[Karen]

You scream, I scream, we all scream for Ice Cream! I have some strawberries slices and sugared in the fridge - over some vanilla ice cream ... they'd be yum!

[pomtzu]

I like ice cream, but I just can't do dairy in this super hot weather - makes me want to barf for some reason. I could live on slurpies and water ice and sno cones tho. I'm sitting here with a nice tall ice cold lemonade. Anyone care to join me??

The heat is supposed to break here by around Sunday. I sure hope so. It's so miserable that I don't even want to take Myndi outside to go potty - even under the shade of a big tree and out of the direct sunlight. In this heat, it isn't good for her at her age to be outside at all - even in the shade.

Try to stay cool everyone - and turn on those a.c.'s if you have one. It's not doing you any good to have it if you're not going to use it because it costs too much to run!!!

[Karen]

I'll join you in that tall lemonade! Ooh - I haven't had limeade in a long time - I should pick some up later!

Pom, are you maybe lactose intolerant? My eldest niece has to take lactaid if she wants to indulge in ice cream ... a little milk in her coffee is fine, but ice cream pushes her over the edge!

[pomtzu]

I'll join you in that tall lemonade! Ooh - I haven't had limeade in a long time - I should pick some up later!

Pom, are you maybe lactose intolerant? My eldest niece has to take lactaid if she wants to indulge in ice cream ... a little milk in her coffee is fine, but ice cream pushes her over the edge!

Yes - lactose intolerant to some degree. The richer products do a number on me year round, tho I can eat the cheaper brands of ice cream and they don't bother me as much - just not enough cream in them. But in the very hot weather like we're having now, it all bothers me - be it be the cheap stuff or the top of the line super rich stuff! I take the lactaid enzyme tablets if I really want to indulge.

[Karen]

Richard, at the start of this thread, I immediately thought of an event from Sunday.

Some background: Liv, the little girl in the picture, is from Oregon, where ice cream parlors like we have here are few and far between. Her mom is my dear friend, and they are on a trip across the country and back. The restaurant is Cabot's, a Newton, MA place that has been around for 40+ years, and is a family owned and run place. When I first moved to Newton after Paul and I got married, Aunt Bertha, then in her early eighties, took me for lunch there one day, and said, sotto voce, "You can order some food, but don't get much, we're really here for the ice cream."

Liv, having never been to a place that has a whole huge menu "just for ice cream" decided the banana split sounded yummy. She had no idea the size of the creation that would be placed in front of her!



When she had eaten all she could, she was stricken at the thought that she couldn't finish it all, and didn't want to waste it - so the good people at Cabot's took the rest, and blended into a "shake" in a big styrofoam cup with lid and straw for her to take with her. It was, quoting Caley, "Divine!"

[Queen of Poop]

I'll try one of those DOTD please. Warm here, but not overly hot. No storms or rain tonight. Karen, that banana split is just amazing!

[smokey the elder]

In Troy, New York there's an ice cream place called the Cream Machine. They have a monstrosity called the "RPI Colossus" which was typically shared by 4 or more people. (Don't know if Cream Machine still exists; they made their own ice cream in house and had many human-sized offerings.)