I Scream For Ice Cream

It's ice cream news day! Ben and Jerry's is apologizing for introducing a new flavor called "Black and Tan". Now for those of you who think a black and tan is a harmless name for a mixture of Guinness and beer, you are about to gain a factoid. The name Black and Tan originated as a nickname for a para-military police auxiliary recruited by the British during Ireland's war for independence. They were noted for their brutality and many people in Ireland still hate them and what they stood for.

Ben and Jerry's was likely thinking of the drink, not the militia. No word if the ice cream in question is stout/beer flavored. (Side note; a guy I once knew actually made a beer float - he dropped a scoop of ice cream into a beer. He said is was absolutely horrible. I didn't even try it - it looked bad enough!)

And ice cream flavoring happens to be our next subject. A Portuguese shop will begin selling up to 60 flavors of ice cream when it opens. In all sorts of interesting flavors. Like grilled sardine, cod, shrimp and tuna. The owner is the son of a man who holds a place in the Guinness book of World Records for inventing the most flavors of ice cream. (See, these stories are too tied together!) The original store in Venezuela serves over 700 flavors including trout and the ever popular garlic.

I wonder if they have Guinness flavor?

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