Food Excursion No. 1
09/30/09 11:16 PM
Since that time I’ve widened the scope of the kinds of news items I’ve written about, but I still haven’t really touched on anything personal. Part of my reluctance to do so is based on the fact that I’m not sure the events in my day-to-day life are worth discussing, but I’ve decided to give it a try and open myself up a bit to see what people think of the idea.
I wanted to begin with something that everyone could relate to and I can’t think of many things more universal than food.
Thus I have decided to dip my toe timorously into personal territory by starting off with the first in what will hopefully be an ongoing series of “Food Excursions”. This certainly isn’t intended to be a journal of everything I eat, but rather an intermittent series of notable stops where some exceptional edible was consumed.
What qualifies as exceptional, you ask?
Well for starters, how about something that motivated me to drive this very night for an hour and a half into Milwaukee just to sample it.
The creation of which I speak comes from Kopp’s, a Wisconsin wonderland of burgers and desserts.
On tonight’s excursion I sought out their fabled “Pancake & Maple Syrup” frozen custard that appears but once a year.
The taste of the delicious bowl pictured above was like having breakfast alamode. It had that lovely texture combination you get from eating birthday cake and ice cream together and the maple flavor went exceptionally well with the vanilla custard.
But I couldn’t stop there, oh no.
Building on the breakfast theme I decided to take things up a notch by ordering a side of bacon.
Which I then crumbled up and added to the custard.
The result of this Frankenstein creation was nothing short of spectacular. It combined salty, savory, creamy, smoky and sweet in a single wonderful mouthful.
Do not fear this concoction my friends, embrace it.
Jim Gaffigan was right. Everything tastes better with bacon!
-Quoth the Raven
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