15 November 2023

Sticking with possible ice cream flavors, I was thinking about peanut butter ice cream. I’ve never seen peanut butter as the base flavor, it’s usually paired with chocolate, a good combination. Hazelnut and chocolate is another good combination. With Thanksgiving being around the corner it’s nice to talk about food. Getting into the holidays provides a pleasing rhythm throughout the years. Thanksgiving is about food, being thankful and giving, it’s also a time we remember a hand looks like a turkey. Looking back on my bountiful harvest this year I got to eat my first home grown peach and it was delicious. There were many berries, blueberries, blackberries, raspberries. All of those fruits are good candidates for ice cream. Fruit is sweet, but not compared to sugar. Being overshadowed by sugar, the fruit ends up playing the sour role and the whole dish is elevated. Savory foods are more interesting to imagine as ice cream. Philly cheesesteak ice cream doesn’t sound so bad when I imagine the pieces of meat, cheese and onion floating in an italian sourdough cream. All of this contorting of strange combinations is something I imagine is on an IQ test. Given an object, in this case ice cream flavors, how many different uses can be thought up? I’m good at finding patterns so my way to come up with more answers involves changing the given object each time I give an answer. The challenge then becomes staying within the rules because the whole exercise is getting turned on it’s head and who can judge what is done in good faith or to satisfy a prerequisite? I hate tests, but tests are necessary for classification. Classification streamlines efficiency, capitalism is built on letting the people who are good at a thing do the thing they’re good at. A person can’t be classified as good at thing without being tested on that thing. All assessments have flaws and criteria needs to be updated through time.