Can We Save the Honey Bees and Eat Seriously Delicious Ice Cream?
Posted by Ed Levine, February 27, 2008 at 8:30 AM Wandering through one of my local gourmet stores on my way to see my mother-in-law, Hilda, I spotted a pint of a Häagen-Dazs flavor I had been hearing about but had never seen. Vanilla Honey Bee is a new Häagen-Dazs flavor that comes complete with a cause (saving the honeybees from Colony Collapse Disorder) and a story (pollinating bees are responsible for way more than honey, as in (by some estimates) 33 percent of what we eat). I quickly came up with a plan to serve three causes with one little pint of ice cream: Taste the new flavor, help save honeybees, and bring my mother-in-law a treat. I bought a pint of the Vanilla Honey Bee and a pint of Blue Moon Pear Ginger Sorbet, figuring I would make a mighty tasty creamsicle for her—she has developed a serious sweet tooth as she has gotten older. It turned out to be an incredibly felicitous combination. The most surprising aspect of the creamsicle turned out to be the Vanilla Honey Bee ic
