Apr 22
Earlier this week, we gave you a brief glimpse into the wildly inventive mind of Charlie Francis—the man behind everyone’s favorite erection-inducing ice cream
Apr 10
Japan is the king of weird vending machines. The country has over 5.6 million of them. They sell booze, eggs, crabs and even cars and undies. If you can think it up, they have a vending machine for it. Now a vending machine selling ice cream by Seventeen Ice will make you dance for your ice cream.
The company has developed a vending machine that dispenses ice cream only when the user dances. You might as well get some exercise since you are eating junk.
It is similar to the Dance Dance Revolution arcade game. The user will have to dance to any of the 17 choreographed videos stored on the machine to get their treat. The machine will be on display for just one day on April 26th at Marui City Shibuya in Tokyo. If all snack machines were like this, we would all be thin.
[via Japan Trends and New Launches]
Mar 26
Despite the warm wood and cheery red accents, Smitten Ice Cream can feel a bit like a mad scientist’s shop. There’s the industrial-sized tank of liquid nitrogen that greets you inside the entrance of its new flagship location in Oakland. And there’s the billowing clouds of nitrogen when the stainless steel ice cream machines churn out personalized scoops to order.
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Mar 05
Back during the no-carb diet craze of the early 2000s, I joked that I wanted to try a diet consisting of nothing but carbs and lipids. I would call it the Fatkins Diet. Guess what? I just did exactly that. I ate ice cream, and only ice cream, for four days straight. Yes, it’s the world’s first Ice Cream Cleanse, and no, I didn’t just make it up.
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Feb 20
Last week, at a former bodega in Alphabet City, food designer Emilie Baltz and smart object designer Carla Diana conducted the second performance of their "Lickestra"—a "musical licking performance" involving conductive ice cream cones, four volunteers, and a pre-recorded soundtrack of peculiar tones and baselines created by musician Arone Dyer of Buke&Gase.
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Feb 14
Kirsten Schimoler is a food scientist and Flavor Guru at Ben & Jerry’s. In this interview, originally published on True To Me Too, David James Logie gets the scoop on everything from GMOs and donut ice cream to so-called flavor graveyards.
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Nov 04
Of all the unique varieties that Ben & Jerry’s has concocted over the years, nothing can come close to the wonderful absurdity that is this glowing ice cream created by Charlie Francis. Using a synthesized version of the luminescent proteins that cause jellyfish to glow when they’re agitated, this gleaming frozen treat actually gets brighter as you lick it.
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Oct 15
Gamers have a convenient new food available for when they need a break from GTA V. It involves Taco Bell, but doesn’t have any diced tomatoes or shredded lettuce on it. How would you like some ice cream tacos or nachos from your friends at Taco Bell? Of course you would. Then it’s back to blowing stuff up.
These Taco Bell treats are available right now at Walmart. They have chocolate tacos with chocolate sauce and sprinkles and cinnamon nachos with caramel sauce and toffee. Unlike Choco Tacos, these aren’t ready made. It’s a DIY kit for $3 and the ice cream and whipped cream is not included.
Still, it’s a pretty cool way to get yourself some grub when you hit the pause button.
[FoodBeast via That’s Nerdalicious]
Sep 27
Ice cream trucks are awesome. Any van or truck that comes into your neighborhood and delivers treats is okay with me. You know what is even better? An ice cream truck that can crawl over other cars to get to you.
When this beast comes to your neighborhood, you and your kids will need a ladder just to grab your ice cream and pay the guy. This huge truck is was used in a Škoda car commercial and they claim that it is the world’s biggest ice cream van. It was built to mark the launch of the souped-up new Octavia vRS.
This 5.5-ton vehicle comes with five-foot-tall monster truck wheels and four mega speakers. If you are in the UK you can actually see it in person since it will be touring the UK to hand out free ice cream treats to kids. Too bad we don’t have one delivering Good Humor bars in the U.S.
[via Car Buzz]
Aug 29
Most of us are happy to eat ice cream straight out of the container; even scooping it into a cone seems like too much of a hassle. But a restaurant in Spain called El Celler de Can Roca has come up with a novel way to serve the frozen treat—they bake it. Or, more specifically, they use a machine called the Oxymoron Maker II to entomb a scoop of ice cream inside a freshly baked brioche.
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