What is the combination of flavors that results in Blue Moon ice cream?
and can you prove it? Details: When I was a kid, way back in the days when we had to walk two miles in the snow uphill both ways to get to school, most ice cream shops carried about 3-4 flavors of ice cream: vanilla, chocolate, strawberry, and maybe butter pecan or mint chocolate chip. If you were lucky enough to get to a large city you might see a Baskin-Robbins; on vacation if you were lucky your parents would stop at Howard Johnson’s, where they had several more flavors–orange sherbet! Rocky Road! Wow! So this little mom-and-pop shop in the middle of nowhere in vineyard country in Michigan was a total surprise. They made their own, probably 25 flavors each day, and one was Blue Moon. It was love at first bite. Every year we went through that town, and every year we stopped and I got Blue Moon; my brother got Superman; my mom got Lemon Cream Pie Ice Cream; and my dad and grandma winged it. But I still don’t know what it was supposed to taste like. It certainly doesn’t taste like “th
