In the two-and-a-half years that the Ice Cream Journal has been around, we’ve received almost 20,000 comments from our readers. That’s a lot of comments. You may wonder if it’s even possible for us to read all of those comments, but we do. In fact, many of us in the Turkey Hill offices read the comments and take great delight in hearing from so many fellow ice cream fans. We giggle at some of the funnier ones and pass around some of the most inspirational ones.
We’ll probably comb through those 20,000 comments at some point soon and compile our all time 10 favorite comments. That won’t be easy at all! Speaking of comments, here’s one that was left on our recent entry about seagulls who steal ice cream cones. It has to be one of the funniest comments ever left on the Ice Cream Journal!
MEGHAN S. WRITES:
I must admit, my first reaction was to laugh. Laugh at the man’s horrified expression at the audacity of the birds…but then I had to stifle my giggles and think how I would feel if that happened to me. Truth be told, I did have a similar experience. And this is a little graphic, and a little gross but please don’t judge because it is just a tribute to how much I love my ice cream.
To set the scene, I am sitting on a picnic table bench in the hot August sun at my family’s usual vacation place at the beach. My Dad just treated us all to ice cream for an after lunch treat and I was first in line and first to sit because my family knows my love for ice cream. As I am just about to take my first bite, a white and brown swirled liquid drops from the sky and land in my ice cream bowl. Yes, it was bird poop. I was horrified!! And you may be horrified by this…I scooped the bird poop out of my ice cream, and a small layer underneath and threw it away, then got a new spoon and ate the rest of the ice cream! I wasn’t going to let my ice cream go to waste!!
Now THAT’S a love of ice cream! We’re not sure how many people would have made such a difficult decision, but we applaud Meghan’s quick thinking. (A poll around the office reveals only a few who would have done the same thing.) Thank you for your very entertaining comment, Meghan. And thank you to everyone who leaves comments here on the Ice Cream Journal!
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meghan…i would have absolutely done the same thing! kudos to you
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New Turkey Hill flavor?????
sure love the Turkey Hill flavors, wish more stores in the Detroit area carried them–and Kroger had more flavors of all items you make !!!!! Thanks from a grateful gal who uses your product with Ensure to make my daily nutritional sorce
Bird poop is becoming a serious problem. Still, it’s always better to laugh than to cry. That was a great story, worthy of Chicken Soup for the Soul books. (I’ve been published in a few of those myself).
I’m a loyal Turkey Hill ice cream fan, but I confess I probably would have thrown away my ice cream cone in disgust if it happened to me.
Jacqueline Seewald
just released! THE DROWNING POOL–REQUEST IT AT YOUR LOCAL LIBRARY!
yuk
Honesty.
Very nice.
That is a Great love of ice cream.
I have to “try hard to remember” how much I so much loved ice cream in my youth, especially mostly “chocolate” ice cream, and try to eat more today, at my present age of 44. I want to, but, really haven’t started good on it. Want to eat ice cream (chocolate) a lot in my life now and future life!
Need to get to it! 
Even if just a little ice cream at a time. Thanks for having this journal notice come to our e-mail in box to remind us to eat our ice cream. I’m pretty SURE that ice cream, especially Turkey Hill’s, is just like eating apples, a little ice cream a day, helps keep the doctor away? Gives you so much joy! and goodness, and nice cold sensations in your mouth! Thank you!
I often leave a cup of Turkey Hill ice cream out for the back yard animals to share. However, I don’t think any of them has ever tried to pay for it in that manner.
What kind of bird dropped his poop on your ice cream? Seagull?
The best stories are those of our true life experiences. Thanks for sharing!
Not me — it’s so disgusting, just thinking about it. Thankfully, that has never happened to me, because it may have taken away my love for ice cream. There have been a few foods that I have taken from the fridge that were spoiled, and to this day I can’t eat that particular food. I envision all kinds of awful bacteria. I think I had better play it safe and eat ice cream out of the range of birds. =)
I don’t know if I would go as far as eat the ice cream after that! However, I would try to look at the situation with the glass half-full so to speak. Isn’t it supposed to be good luck if a bird takes a poop on you?!
Hmmm. I’m not sure what I would do. Depends on the flavor (and the brand- anything other than Turkey Hill, I’d dump). Pretty big risk of disease from birds.
Meghan really loves ice cream. What a story!
SPRING IS FINALLY HERE, OUR LOVELY BIRDS ARE RETURNING TO THE NORTH AND TURKEY HILL IS ALWAYS IN MY HOME TO CELEBRATE THE NEW SEASON.
Spring is here, yeah! After that summer and we have an excuse to eat more ice cream because of the hot weather. (We eat in the cold weather too because we can’t help it!)
I will now eat my ice cream under an umbella.
Whomever wrote that story is a person after my own heart. I would have done just that. I believe there is a 5- second rule for bird poop in ice cream, so as long as he/she acted quickly, all is well.
I thought and thought about this one and I am of two minds. If the ice cream was soft serve I probably would have scooped and gone on eating since it would be easy to isolate and dig out the offending addition. But, if the ice cream was frozen hard it would have gone in the trash and I would have needed a fresh bowl.
I would have done the same thing scooped it off and ate it but first would have kissed it up to god. I don’t know if any one remembers that when something fell one the floor you would kiss it up to good and it would make it okay to eat.
I, too, would have done the same thing then had Dad buy me another to make up for what I lost.
What happened to me is, while sitting around a picnic table eating ‘Turkey Hill ice cream, my son wanted a dish also. When I went into the camper to get him a dish, a squirrel jumped on the table, knocked my dish to the ground then continued to eat the ice cream. He tried to take the dish away, but it was a little too clumsy for him to do it. Consequently, both Mom and Son had more ice cream and guarded our dishes.
MEGHAN is a true ice cream lover!
My Mother was a nurse and had ingrained in us health/animal droppings rules. So as much as I would be very upset the icecream whould have had to go into the trash. And there was no 5 second rule in our home, unless the floor had just been washed to operating room standards!
Thanks for sharing with us the entertaining story.
As much as I love Turkey Hill ice cream, if a bird did this on my ice cream he would have gotten the rest of it and I would have bought another for me, this time with a covering LOL. Linda
I worked at the Beach for years. A few years ago while standing on the centre steps leading down to the beach I heard the following “Thief! Stop that thief!” I swung around because the voice was young but very determined, my co-worker had his radio out & was calling to report the theft, I told him to stop, and to look up. I HUGE seagull had a scoop of each ice cream in each claw (hard scoop) and seemed to be laughing and trying to swoop down and get the third scoop and cookie cone. She was screaming “You can’t have this! And Gimme back the 2 scoops you stole! Daddy canna aford to gimme more money! You’re nuttin but a big ole theft! GIMME MY ICE CREAM!” Cell phones were out, other gulls were following overhead, park police & senior park managers were there. All I could do…..was laugh my butt off. Finally the gull conceeded 1 scoop. The little girl ran put up the cone caught the scoop (cookies & cream) and the gull flew off with the vanilla. She promptly licked it said “What? 2 scoops are better than one!” I laughed for days!
I love ice cream, but don’t think I could go to that extreme.
There is a b’day coming up & I did not know TH made ice cream cakes. I’m all over it. I’ll get back w/results.
I have been known to eat things off of the floor, but just the fact that bird poop had come near my ice cream would be enough to make me throw it away and head indoors for an extra large bowl of ice cream.
That is a true ice cream lover! A person after my own heart. We can let many things go to waste–but NOT ice cream!
Hi Turkey Hill Fans, I am sorry I have no bird story to tell. I will say this, if a bird try to steal my turkey hill..I don’t think that will happen to me. He will have to fight me for my ice cream.
i would rather have bought a new ice cream
I’ve had a seagull poop on me at the beach, and thinking of that in my ice cream….I think I’d plead for a new dish of ice cream!
Nope.
I would have scooped off the poop and some of the cream beneath it and eaten the uncontaminated part ———
and I AM a nurse. Eating what was close to poop but not touching should not hurt you.
I hate it that ice cream cartons are shrinking so! Put it back into real 1/2 gallons and gallons, charge the same price/ounce and you will save money on buying cartons. No true ice cream lover would buy less ice cream!
looking forward to voting again–wish more flavors were at our local Kroger, or more stores had the products—-love it !!!!!! thanks
UGH!!! I would have thrown it away and bought another one………..
Brave woman!!!
UGG! I would have bought a new one!
Well………as long as it wasn’t in contact with the rest of the ice cream.
It’s enough to give you nightmares. I cringe at bird poop on my car. On my ice cream – it would be hard to get over the shock!
This might have been something any kid would have done. You like something and nothing is going to make you throw it away. If it can be saved, even part of it, you’ll do it. Kids are just funny that way.
Ahh, even the birds know a good thing when they see it. Once they poop on it is theirs and I get myself another scoop!!!
I actually thought about that scenario when you posted the seagull story. I LOVE ice cream and I’m very cost conscious but still I’m not sure if I would still eat the ice cream. Hopefully I’ll never have to find out.
Yuk,I Can’t even emagine. I had an unpleasant experience in my last vacation to NYC. There must have been a bird up on the tracks of the subway and poop dripped on my head. It very unpleasant.I was not a happy camper
Well, it looks as if MOST of you would have done what Meghan did. That’s good to hear (we think). Tianna’s story is equally funny and inspiring, and Sarah’s soft serve vs. hard serve dilemma is very interesting as well!
Thomas wrote, “new Turkey Hill flavor” ????? I suggest it be called “Turkey Trots”.
Nope, I don’t think I could have done what Meghan did, though I do applaud her courage.
I don’t know. I just don’t know what I would do.
Well, I guess she is a true ice cream lover. YUK!! Not sure I would do that…and as far as the voting goes, I still think it is going to be Vanilla bean in the end. Have a good day all!!
I can appreciate Meghan’s bird story, having been at the shore with the seagulls. And the ice cream lover that I am, I would have done the exact same thing. Absolutely!!
Moose Tracks makes me want to go to Maine to find the ice cream mountain.
I thought my eyes were playing a trick when I saw my name in the blog, but when the reality set in, I must confess I felt like a celebrity. I know it is only a blog, and my last name isn’t even there, no picture for anyone to recognize me, but I still feel pretty darn special. This blog has been a constant entertainment for me and I feel it is a great honor…even if everyone laughs at me. I immediately got on my email and sent the link to my parents, siblings, aunts, uncles, and cousins who all vacation with me and would recognize the story, and then of course to all my friends too (cause i had to do a little bragging!). So now Turkey Hill will have at least an additional 50 readers of the blog. I also selfishly asked them to vote for my favorite flavors…oops!
Since everyone got a kick out of my last story, I do have many more involving ice cream since it has been such a huge part of my growing up. Some are great, some are funny, and some I still feel a bit guilty about. This one is one of those….my parents had the rule that we could not have dessert without finishing dinner, or even get up from the table. Well brussel sprouts didn’t agree with my that night so I refused to eat them but had to sit at the table while my siblings opened the new carton of ice cream my Mom had got earlier that day. I faked feeling ill and was sent to bed so I wouldn’t have to suffer through watching them eat it at my expense. But the craving was to hard to resist, so when everyone went ot bed, I took the carton out of the freezer with the intent to just have a few scoops, but it turned into finishing the carton in the bathroom with the door locked. I couldn’t throw the carton away in the kitchen trash because my Mom would see it in the morning, so I threw it away in my brother’s trash to frame him and get away with it. Sure enough he was in trouble when my mom discovered where the missing ice cream went with the evidence in his bedroom trash can he got in trouble because we are only allowed one bowl with dessert. I never confessed but I guess if my Mom is reading this now, I’m in for an angry phone call. Oh, and Patrick, if you are reading this now, I’m sorry too. How about I take you out for ice cream to make up for it?
Bird Droppings? Wow, that sounds like a new flavor! Chocolate ice cream with soft vanilla spots with streaks in them. Maybe a few smashed blueberries here and there.
Favorite Turkey Hill Moment – My first time! (Not what you are thinking) My first Turkey Hill experience was back in 1989 when I moved to PA and bought my first container of Tin Roof Sundae. It was and still is my all-time favorite ice cream.
When I pulled the lid off, the ice cream was still somewhat soft and some stuck to the lid. The chocolate was still runny. When I plunged my spoon into one of the chocolate spots, it nearly went to the bottom.
Years later, my kids love Turkey Hill as much as I do. If I could only get them to pick Tin Roof Sundae!
We’re glad to help propel you into celebrityhood, Meghan! And we also love your stories!
Goes to show you that birds like ice cream also when the bird attacks give them them ice cream but don’t look up with an open mouth sea gulls will go after anything they are always hungry.
The story that allegedy took place in Camden is the fake. In Camden the guy would not have likely sustained surviveable injuries, and if by chance he did it would not be newsworthy.