RIP Irvine Robbins (of Baskin-Robbins fame)

And yes his son John wrote Diet for a New America in partial reaction to the family business.

Haha I read that book about a million times growing up, mainly because it was around (my mom got it bcz it was on clearance for approx $2 and thought it might have good recipes). It has a recipe called

OCEAN'S BOMBS OF LOVE BREAD

which needs some clarification. Does he have units of Love Bread called "Bombs"? Or are the breads belonging to ocean affectionately known as "Bombs of Love"?

I really liked that book as a twelve-year-old. The cows! The vegetables!

I haven't ever been a veg tho FWIW.

It was just an exciting book about how farms worked that also happened to feed into my innate morbidity (slaughterhouse processes, world hunger, etc), and ended in recipes no one ever prepared. ('wtf how does a person not use EGGS?')

oh man my favorite ice cream. we had a Baskin-Robbins just down the street here, it was so great 'cause I hardly ever had any (if at all) during 10 years in Iowa - the one here was in this dying mall, all the businesses around it closing down one after another, and B-R held on almost the longest

now it's an Indian restaurant & a rent-to-own waiting to be moved out so they can expand the mall

bring back the baskin robbins you fascists

SO BACK TO THE ICE CREAM:

It is fucking delicious, hello. Those little wooden sample spoons are hilarious bcz it's like 'oh no doctorb tongue depressor I will gag' and 'oh yes delicious grams of ice cream,' fun little burst of cognitive dissonance before sampling.

definitely a serious ice cream early memory, along with friendly's, gum ice cream at some place, at some other place in massachusetts. how the fuck do you spell the name of that state? i used ot live there and everything.

very much a time+place thing for me, just like Hot Dog On A Stick. Neither are really the same anymore. I remember having Hans Homemade ice cream in Santa Ana.. then later in the day, having the same flavor at B-R. unh. That was the last.

The thing i liked best about Baskin Robbins was the smell when you walked into it. It smelled like "ice cream" like no other ice cream place did, even if I could get much better ice cream at those other places.

peanut butter and chocolate is my favorite of the 31 flavors by a huge margin. only purity pb+chocolate comes close. everyone else fucks it up in one way or another.

pb&c is one of those too good to be true flavours for me... idea is so perfect but it's always a letdown

BR pb&c is perfect in every way. best flavor ever.

John, you wise man -- that too is my favorite flavor of all time. It is heaven.

i have a lot of words in me about pb&c as a concept, and about reese's in particular.

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It smelled like "ice cream" like no other ice cream place did

Exactly.

RIP. formaldehyde, the 32nd flavor.

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