Pignut Cream

The other night Candace was in a bit of rough mood over some school stuff, so my cousin who is staying with us offered to buy dessert to cheer her up. He's a very cool guy that way. So we decided on an Oreo cake (very good) and Nestle brand Parlour Soft Serve, a new product that promised that we would get ice cream just like the fast food chains make and this was appealing to us at the time. We had a lovely supper of roast chicken and wedges with ranch dressing and moved on to dessert. The cake was wonderful but there was something dreadfully wrong with the ice cream.

I have a pretty sensitive palette, for some reason I get made fun of for it, but I really like being able to taste every nuance of my food. I see it as a gift and it works well with Candace's gifts. Candace and I have become foodies over the last few years, I am more the taster as is evidenced by my svelt shape, she is more the cooking guru and could make anything taste magical. It works well together because if we are at a restaurant I can pull out the ingredients and she can replicate the recipe at home. It doesn't always work but it is pretty cool when it does. Now if we could just figure out how to use these gifts to fight crime… but I digress.

So I sit down with my cake and ice cream… the cake is awesome… the ice cream not so much. I thought that possibly my mouth was playing tricks on me it was such an out of place flavor. It wasn't just a bad chemical taste or anything which made it all the more odd. On the first bite, as it went down my throat I got a very strong taste of…. Bacon… in my ice cream. I love Bacon, I love ice cream, turns out I find bacony ice cream repulsive. After my first bite I looked at the other two to see if they had picked up on it, maybe I was just being stupid. They said nothing so after a few bites I asked them if they tasted bacon because it was really strong for me, like not taste anything else strong. They affirmed that they couldn't taste it so I resigned my mouth must be off tonight or something, and then Alex made this disgusted noise and said, "Oh man, that's brutal, I just tasted it too." And a few bites later Candace also got a taste of it. So there it is, three people who felt that this new parlour ice cream tasted like bacon.

As for the title of this post we were trying to come up with a name for this flavor we had discovered and felt that simply "bacon" didn't really cover it. It was creamy, and had a piggy flavor to it, but maybe if we added nut to it people would find it more attractive and thus PIGNUT CREAM was born!