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Submitted by Aniki-Moderator on Tue, 07/21/2020 - 2:42pm

It's only Tuesday and has already been a loooooong week. My favorite ice cream place isn't open this season (farking 'rona!), so I'm opening up Aniki's Virtual Bar & Ice Cream Stand.

Name your poison!

  • Hot fudge sundae
  • Brandy Alexander
  • Root beer float (we only serve A&W here!)
  • Corpse Reviver 2
  • Banana split
  • Mackinaw Island Fudge (Mint or Amaretto Cherry)
  • <insert your choice>

Today's Special: Hot Pretzel with Extra Salt and Mustard

I promise all concoctions are 100% calorie- and guilt-free!

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Submitted by lieutenant_dad on Tue, 07/21/2020 - 2:53pm

Dammit Aniki, I'm trying so hard to NOT be fat, and you offer up a list of things that I'd happily devour!!!

...I'll take the banana split with extra banana...

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Submitted by SeeYouNever on Tue, 07/21/2020 - 2:57pm

I still have 10 lbs from my last pregnancy and I think I'm going blimp out this time. I could go for a hot fudge sundae with malt powder, a "dusty road." With whipped cream of course. 

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Submitted by Aniki-Moderator on Tue, 07/21/2020 - 3:08pm

Well, blow me town, I never considered M&Ms on a banana split! I wonder if they still make the coffee ones... 

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Submitted by ITB2012 on Tue, 07/21/2020 - 3:04pm

Brandy Old Fashioned Sour using grapefruit juice

White wine pickeled herring with rosemary olive oil crackers

Garlic stuffed olives

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Submitted by Aniki-Moderator on Tue, 07/21/2020 - 4:37pm

DPW, do you want a Russian Rootbeer Float (made with vodka and Kahlua)? Or... ??? Vodka, rum...

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Submitted by Cover1W on Tue, 07/21/2020 - 6:43pm

I had a bowl of chocolate mocha chip ice cream the other day.  PMS.  Otherwise I abhor chocolate ice cream.

Now - Homemade peach ice cream - dear god I will eat the entire gallon. Good peach ice cream is hard to find.

OR I can go to our local ice cream shop, where they source all their ingredients locally and make astonishing things like strawberry-vinegar and island-mint (incredible), and rhubarb-crumble and non-dairy like the best coconut ice cream on the planet paired with the grean tea ice cream is always wonderful.

I'm a purist though, don't really go for toppings or even cones much. Give me the ice cream.

Dang it, now I want one of their giant ice cream sandwiches.

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Submitted by Aniki-Moderator on Wed, 07/22/2020 - 6:12pm

THE best homemade ice cream I've ever had was my Mom's recipe for peach. Sadly, she never wrote down and Alzheimer's stole that memory. I've never been able to duplicate that recipe. Sigh...

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Submitted by Kona_California on Tue, 07/21/2020 - 6:49pm

Oooooo what's a corpse reviver??

I love gelato and recently got Talenti gelato that has all the ridiculous ingrediants layered beautifully for you to see. It makes digging to the bottom so satisfying.

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Submitted by Exjuliemccoy on Tue, 07/21/2020 - 6:59pm

Chocolate chocolate chip ice cream, brandy, and the occasional raspberry sorbet keep me on an even keel. Oh, and these wonderful adult popsicles DH found at Costco. Eight percent alcohol in an otter pop, baby.

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Submitted by strugglingSM on Tue, 07/21/2020 - 11:37pm

Definitely a root beer float! 
 

I grew up in New England where it seems like there's an ice cream stand on every corner...we don't have that out here and I miss it in the summer.

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Submitted by Aniki-Moderator on Wed, 07/22/2020 - 12:09pm

Years ago, I traveled to New England with my parents. We stopped at a dairy farm that had an ice cream shop. A single serve was the size of a softball!!!

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Submitted by Exjuliemccoy on Wed, 07/22/2020 - 12:28pm

DH and I intentionally travel to a feed store in the next county, just because there's a quaint, old school burger frosty near it. If you're old enough to remember life before fast food chains, you know what I'm talking about - a frosty cone, either vanilla, chocolate, or half n half (my fav). Dipped if you prefer. Mmm, can you taste the nostalgia?

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Submitted by Aniki-Moderator on Wed, 07/22/2020 - 1:20pm

Exjulie, I am drooling over those tastes of nostalgia! A&W back in the 70s. Sigh...