Today’s best thing comes in two sweet parts, as both links are ice-cream related.
Ice cream is my favorite food in the entire universe, so I love the idea that with this handy gadget, the ice cream ball, I could theoretically make as much as I wanted without polluting (aside from the environmental costs of transporting the ingredients to make ice cream).
The ingenious Ice Cream Ball is the fun and easy way to make yummy homemade ice cream. Why? Because the ice cream is formed by rolling the ball around. Simply bung your ice cream ingredients in one end, cram ice and rock salt in the other and then play with the ball. [the British say "bung." Heh.]
After about 20 minutes you’ll have a pint of delicious homemade ice cream. No van required!
The one thing they keep warning you is that you can’t kick the ball around, so I’m guessing people were doing that a lot. I think that’s understandable, though; kicking it like a soccer ball seems to me a mighty tempting option for this kind of gadget, though that’s probably not the most sanitary way to go, come to think of it.
But if sanitation isn’t the issue, they might consider taking the product one step further and making the ball slightly bigger, leaving enough room for a hamster to do the tiring work of moving the ball around to freeze up the ice cream inside the (super-isolated-from-the-germies) cylinder.
The other ice-cream-related reading is this account of one geek’s attempt to combine two post-alcohol-binge antidotes, Pepto-Bismol and ice cream.
His approach was somewhat cautious: he first emails Proctor and Gamble to ask them what they thought as far as the feasibility of this. They, of course, reply that P-B should only be ingested as a medicine to cure upset stomach, or as the blogger understands it, “No information.”
The end result is surprisingly not that disgusting-looking, and may possibly even be somewhat effective:
The taste? Actually, it’s quite nice. The vanilla and sugar temper the metallic bitterness of the medicine, giving the end result a flavour not too dissimilar to black cherry. And as a hangover cure? Initial studies are encouraging, with no negative side-effects experienced as yet. A mild mid-week drinking session provided the first test, and while my cross-breed concoction certainly didn’t eliminate the suffering altogether, the benefits did not go unnoticed.
Since he’s been in contact with P&G, who knows, maybe we’ll see this one day in the freezer, next to Chunky Monkey. I don’t really like Pepto-Bismol, so I would probably stick to Mr. Garcia’s cherry-flavored concoction anyway, but I nevertheless enjoyed reading about this strange attempt at hangover alchemy.
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haha.. when I see the hamster, I think of Bubble Boy and Bubble Hamster! aw!!