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Late one night, after finishing your article on ice cream, I forgot calories, triglycerides and cholesterol. I had to have ice cream, preferably mocha-nut or rum-raisin marshmallow-nut. What had my sensible, nutrition-conscious wife stored in the freezer? Frozen, uncoated, vanilla yogurt bars...
...people huddle under the blue-and-white awnings of Steve's. Another 50 sodden citizens wait inside. They are lining up to buy ice cream-carob, perhaps, or banana coffee, since a temporary shortage of fine cinnamon has made the obvious first choice of chocolate-cinnamon-raisin unavailable-at a cost of $1.60 for a large scoop with one mix-in, or $2 for a large scoop with three mix-ins. A mix-in, for those who have not yet followed aerobic eating into its postmodern era, may be butterscotch chips and walnuts, pulverized Reese's peanut butter...
...labeled French), but it contains a great deal more of these ingredients. A gallon of asylum-grade supermarket chocolate ripple weighs about 4½ lbs., and a gallon of Ben & Jerry's ineffable Heath bar or knee-weakening black raspberry weighs 6½ lbs. Haagen-Dazs rum raisin, flavored with fresh-plucked umlauts, weighs about 8 lbs. Not much...
...everyone swoons over Haagen-Dazs' Rum Raisin or rushes out to get Baskin-Robbins' flavor of the month (last month's offering: Condorman Crunch). Some gourmets prefer to make their own, some prefer what they find in the supermarket. TIME asked several notable ice-cream addicts to reflect on their favorite flavors. The answers...
They probably hate the beach because of the sand, sleep in pajamas, never eat spareribs and kiss with their mouths closed. What deprivation. Give me rum raisin, give me butterscotch excess...