flavor of the month

back in the day when i used to put away more ice cream than i do now, i remember frequently ingesting pints of jeremy's microbatch. this genius dude made ice cream flavors like sticky cinnamon bun, apple pie, tiramisu (the best!) and cream stout back when the most exciting offering was phish food from ben and jerry's. nowadays i think you can find reincarnations or variations of these flavors, but in like 1999, that stuff was a rare treasure. and it was way better than any of today's impostors, which are too sweet and have never managed to find the right balance of flavored ice cream and chunks of mixed-in bits. jeremy just had it all; i found his pints in supermarkets from upstate NY through western mass and boston. i can't be the only one who drowned the tears of misguided collegiate relationships at the bottom of those pints.

my point? they just don't make ice cream like they used to; which may be why i find myself consuming, at max, about 5 pints a year. sure, i dig the green tea ice cream, and really do have a soft spot in my heart for toscanini's burnt caramel. but what i really wish is that jeremy would resurrect his microbatches, and include an oolong-tea fortune cookie flavor. with bits of fortune cookie in it. then i just might be more satisfied with the options in the churned frozen dessert department.