I say yes, you say no, OR People are Strange

Glad the expedience with the new Dentist wasn't to bad.

Happy Bastille Day, bartender. Say hello to Bren.

Alexandria

Yummy choice..my favorite is white chocolate frozen yogurt.  There's a "local" ice cream in western MA - Bart's - and it is SO yummy - they have Ginger, delicious, also peppermint, divine, and this thing with a combination of coconut, chocolate, raspberry - with a weird name I can never remember: three geeks and a (something) - anyhow, if anyone is in western MA - try Bart's ice cream.

Speaking of regional things - I didn't know til I lived near Washington DC, that Marshmallow Fluff wasn't sold all over. Yikes, there is something called "marshmallow creme" which bears no resemblance to Marshmallow Fluff, so how do folks in other parts of the country make a FlufferNutter ( peanut butter & marshmallow fluff)?

Also Wise Potato chips - I LOVE the burned ones ( very dark) - hear they're regional too.

My new favorite, while we're drooling over Alexandria's frozen yogurt - is Almond Butter ( organic, sold in Large Container at Costco) - yummy, yummy, and of course "good for us" cuz it's almonds.  of course...

Scrapple oh my haven't had that in years. My Grandmother worked in at a school in Pennsylvania and would bring that stuff to us when she came to visit. My father just loved the stuff.

yorkiemom I can't agree more. I just love the grandkids but oh my sure glad I didn't have my kids as an older mom.

Sunflowers...I used to live in Northampton, MA...with the best gourmet ice cream around.  There was a Herrels and a Ben and Jerry's...  Herrels used to make cream flavored ice cream (no flavor at all) that I loved.   mmmmmm.  remembering the college days...sigh.

kira...I had my babies a little older (my son was born when I was 33 and my daughter was born when I was 37).  It is certainly physically a challenge.  But maybe emotionally a little easier?  I dunno...

I had one daughter at 34 and the second at 40.  I think I handled it better emotionally than I would have in my 20ies but I did get tired.

OK- favorite ice cream, even though I do love Ben and Jerry's, it takes second to Graeter's ice cream in Cincinnati, especially the chocolate chunk - large chunks of dark chocolate instead of iittle chips.  Favorite regional thing from Vermont - maple liquor, followed by maple walnut fudge.  Combine the three and I'm floating away in ecstasy.

(Boy, I really am sweet obsessed for someone who thinks we should tax sugar.) 

I have never been a big ice cream eater (have cold sensitive teeth), but I do remember being obsessed by an ice cream called Strawberries and Cream as a teenager.

Ben & Jerry's Vanilla Heath Bar Crunch. Comparable only to Hagen Daaz's Dulce de Leche.

We used to eat fruit with sour cream when I was a kid.  the only problem with real cream is  it would be a little runny, but I imagine it would be good.

How will we survive without our bartender??? Have a good trip!

Mary 

CLC, a standard Danish summer dessert is fresh berries with heavy cream poured over and sprinkled with sugar. You eat it from a bowl, and at the end the juices from the berries have mixed with the sugar and cream. Unfortunately I am allergic to strawberries and don't like cream, so I never ate it. But most people consider it a treat.

Momine - I had raspberries and cream just last night - it was a staple in my childhood here in Canada, that is, any fresh fruit and heavy cream - no sugar if the fruit was ripe - I too am horribly allergic to fresh strawberries but supposedly the cream (or ice cream) cuts down on the substance that causes me to break out in hives.

I remember well having fruit and cream as well. My mom was Scottish and said it was something she grew up with as a child. No sugar just the cream with the fruit. We had many different kinds of fruit but my favorite was blueberries or cherries.

Sunflowers, welcome to the new and exciting world of global warming! We're now experiencing that old Chinese curse, "May you live in interesting times." Can't say we weren't warned.