On 4/26/2015 12:28 PM, Brooklyn1 wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Apr 2015 00:26:28 -0700, "Julie Bove"
> > wrote:
>
>>
>> "Sqwertz" > wrote in message
>> ...
>>> On Sat, 25 Apr 2015 22:49:01 -0700 (PDT),
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Saturday, April 25, 2015 at 4:55:05 PM UTC-7, Mark Thorson wrote:
>>>>> The Radio Shack of restaurants is circling
>>>>> the drain.
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/201...g-hojos-closes
>>>>
>>>> I could use a scoop of mint chip ice cream right now.
>>>
>>> I remember Peppermint Chip ice cream. Little 5mm candy-cane turds in
>>> a vanilla base. I used to pick them out and eat them last.
>>
>> I picked them out and ate them. I didn't like the ice cream.
>
> Doesn't get any dumber, coulda simply bought peppermint hard candies.
>
Exactly! Just another Julie tale. If you don't like ice cream, don't
order ice cream. I sincerely doubt her parents forced her to order
peppermint ice cream just so she could pick out the candy.

You can buy soft peppermint sticks, too. Light as air. A good word for
them would be "puffy". I caught part of a documentary about the candy
on PBS a couple of weeks ago. I forget the brand name of the peppermint
candies but it's an exremely involved and intense process to make them
that way to sell on a commercial level.

Jill