Whew! I ate more ice cream last night than I have in a long, long time (and I loved every bite). For those of you who missed it, last night was the first ever Turkey Hill Ice Cream Journal Ice Cream Social. Lots of people people gathered here on the blog at 8pm and sampled various ice creams together while chatting via comments. It was a great time. Thanks to everyone who showed up! We’ll definitely be having another ice cream party in the future.
And now on to the too-good-to-be-true subject of today’s blog entry. Two artists/researchers have theoretically discovered a way to make ice cream-flavored snow fall from the clouds. Sounds far fetched, doesn’t it? That’s because It is (for now… sorry), but in 10 or 20 years, it could make spending a day in the park a lot tastier!
The plan, called “The Cloud Project,” involves using sophisticated machinery (which still needs to be invented) to spray liquid nitrogen and ice cream-flavoring into the clouds, which causes the moisture in the clouds to condense, freeze and blanket the earth below in a yummy layer of ice cream snow. Making it work for real is still the biggest obstacle, but the artists have retrofitted an ice cream truck with an attachment which uses the same idea to spray out miniature ice cream snow storms. They also use the truck to distribute ice cream made with liquid nitrogen to curious bystanders.
Just think, one day the weather forecast could be cloudy with a chance of chocolate chip cookie dough. Shoveling the sidewalks just got a whole lot more fun!
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we have icecream ,just about every evening, we love all of your flavors, we love the NYY ice cream, keep thinking up new flavors!
i might want to become a weather forecaster after all!
Ok where is the truck, I have to try this.
This sounds like something out of “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs”. My girls loved that book when they were little and now it is being made into a movie! They are adults now but are still planning to go see the movie.
Hmmm… I think raining ice cream would be a little bizarre.
I do wish you sold the NY Yankees flavors in Lancaster county!!
Ice cream, falling like manna from the heavens? Sign me up!
If you travel South a little, they sell the NY Yankees flavor in the DC area!
The only problem would be people fighting of what flavor should fall from the sky!!
yum…ice cream flavored snow!!
Well, we’ve made snow cones from it or put maple syrup on snow, would be much easier if it fell from the sky already flavored!!
Winter would be so much better if it snowed ice cream!
Ice Cream in the sky, a dream come true.
The world be such a better place. All the fighting would stop and everyone would just be happy, joyful, and free! I could just sit outside all day with my head to the sky and my mouth open wide! YUM, YUM, YUM!!
Very cool idea, except I’m not sure how I feel about liquid nitrogen raining down from the sky…
I think that someone has been reading Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs by Judi Barrett …
I wish an ice cream truck like that would come through our neighborhood.
just tried Double Dunker, I knew the wife would love it then, I tried it somewhat relunctenly but I to was struk by by it or was it my wife hitting me and teling me not to eat her icecream! I am about to try southern lemon pie, can’t wait.
Attleboro, Mass.
if this truck can make ice cream fall from the clouds, then it must be free. I’ll be waiting for them to drive past my house with a bowl and spoon in my hands.
I hope it works one day and the truck gets stuck at my house!!!
Every childs dream will finally come to life just like in bedtime stories.
now why don’t we have an ice cream truck like this where we live?? my kids would flip!
That’s funny…I immediately thought of Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs too! lol
You’ll find me on Cloud #9 eating Vanilla.
WOW sure beats eating yellow snow!!!
I’m a “sunny” kind of person, but if ice cream would rain from the sky, I could be persuaded to change my perspective!!
yum
Thanks for sharing, I love Turkey Hill ice cream!
Hope I live long enough for the clouds.
Send the truck by anytime!!!
lol best titled post ever?
I think the researchers have read Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs one too many times!
Sounds tasty !
I missed having an entry to read yesterday so I had double servings of what I normally would of ice cream for the day to make up for it., I hope you all did the same
Does anyone know any good recipes that involve gram crackers and ice cream. I have a tone left over from a s’more cookout that I had last night and I don’t want them all to go to waste!
Now that sounds awesome! I wouldn’t wanna come in from outside at all. And talk about a tastey snowman! Mmmmboy!
Now if they can make it rain ice cream in a dish with a spoon—-I’ll help pay for it.
It is on sale this week, time to stock up on the great flavors.
Cute story. I’m off to eat my nightly mug of Turkey Hill.
I was sorry to miss the party last night. Maybe next time.
What a heavenly idea! I’m not sure about shoveling sugary surprises; but I would love to have the Creamy Cloud Cart visit my neighborhood or cater a party!
Ice cream falling from the sky. Who would have thought the idea would even seem more than just a crazy idea, not something that could be in the near future.
COOL TRUCK! SORRY I MISSED THE PARTY BUT HAD A WATER PROBLEM AND SPENT THE EVENING CLEANING HOUSE. HOWEVER I DID HAVE MY ICE CREAM JUST BEFORE COLLAPSING. SOUTHERN LEMON PIE YUMM!!
Somebody must be really dreaming – ice cream falling from the sky – that would be cool.
Wow, that sounds pretty crazy… I really find this hard to believe, but if it’s true… MY DAY HAS BEEN MADE! I want peanut butter brownie ice cream to come out of the sky, make it happen Turkey Hill! Hehe.
yummy….i wouldn’t mind shoveling that at all
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Certainly a dream come true.
I would never complain about the weather forcast again !! YUM !
And I claim to write science fiction!
This may be the plot of my next short story. What a literally cool idea!
Jacqueline Seewald
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Hi everyone,
Let the weather be the weather and let continue to make ice cream here on the ground. not in the air. It sound nice but can you see one day it would be raining like ice cream and cookies out side…..what would happen to our garden and grass. sorry. I love turkey hill ice cream too much to see that happen. I could not get on last night for the party.
Hi Turkey Hills, let the weather be the weather. don’t mess with mother nature,
how would like garden and grass look..I love turkey hill ice cream too much. to see if they mess with mother nature.
I could not get in last night for the party
catching snowflakes with a bowl, not just the tip of your tongue LOL
It’s 7:17 a.m. here and I sure should go for some Turkey Hill.
It’s like the books “Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs” and “Pickles to Pittsburgh” have become a reality in a real sweet way–a dream come true!
I love your ice cream!
This is to Cathy from Lancaster. Keep on looking for the Yankees ice cream. I did and found it here in Pottsville. Its great!!!I never thought I’d find it all the way up here. Good Luck.
Snowing ice cream is so much better then raining cats and dogs, although I love these animals, but ice cream is a better idea. Linda
sounds good to me
That would be interesting! I wouldn’t hate snow so much if it were ice cream.
My kids would never come in from playing in the snow!
What a fun idea. As long as you don’t make it snow lemon flavors – we were always told to stay away from yellow snow!
Would indulging in the precipitation be exempt from any proposed “fat tax”?
Wouldn’t that result in a sticky mess when it rained?
Never a cloudy day with Turkey Hill. Why wait. Just indulge.
Wouldn’t that result in a sticky mess when it rained or snowed?
Never a cloudy day with Turkey Hill. Why wait. Just indulge.
GO FOR IT!
Yuck! No thank you. I would rather get my ice cream from the store where I know it is being carefully inspected for any contaminants. There is a reason we don’t eat or drink stuff that falls from the sky- it is called pollution and acid rain. I will still to my tried and true Turkey Hill!
Since I couldn’t get what I wanted for the ice cream party, I made sure I asked at customer service for it for next time. And as for the ice cream clouds…bring it on ….
sounds interesting….we will have to wait and see if it actually happens.
That sounds fascinating, would have to see it to believe it. Hope they experiment over my hometown !!!
Cleaning up ice cream off the sidewalks and driveways would not be easier. Think of the work it takes to clean up after the children spill it on the floor! Thanks but I would rather continue to buy my TH ice cream from the store. It would be fun to read about a day it rained ice cream in a story book, but in reality.
At first thought is sounded great, but then I thought of all the cleanup required because it would leave a sticky residue everywhere.
Someone has a vivid imagination and I think it is very funny, but I will always prefer my TH in a bowl or sugar cone no matter what they come up with!
All you have to be is a child again. When it snowed we just stuck our tongues out to catch a snowflake. OK it was one flavor–water but it was fun. Children still do it.
Yummy, Ice cream from the sky–how wonderful that would be!
I guess instead of a snow shovel, you will have to use a very large ice cream scoop.
I hope that this magic machine can make TH Moose Tracks ice cream.
My FAVORITE is still Eagles Touchdown! I don’t think you can better that..BUT..,maybe I should try the PB brownie, huh?
Sounds too far-fetched for me. I am used to getting my Turkey Hill ice cream from a container. If it’s not broken don’t fix it.
Instead of raining cats & dogs, it will be raining nuts & chips etc!! It doesn’t get better than this!
The Phillie Graham Slam is the blizzard I would welcome!
Ice cream and snow, two of my favorite things…it will be a happy day if it could “snow” ice cream!
Just give me ice cream in a cone or a dish, thanks. I don’t think I’d want it snowing down on me.
What a great idea!!
i know what i’m gonna be doin on the next cloudy day,,standing outside with my tongue hanging out waiting for my free samples of this ice cream! oowww!
Interesting looking ice cream truck, where can we find it? As far as shoveling sidewalks goes, my husband and son don’t like it much. Of course they may change there minds if there was strawberry snow or chocolate chip snow to shovel. I’d help if there was mint chocolate chip or anything with peanut butter cups in it.
Could you imagine if such a contraption was ever created? I’d be about three times my size!
Neat!
How does Cloudy Rainbow Sound???
Like everything in life,sounds too good to be true.Oh well.I’ll keep dreaming.
What would that do to the profit margin?
Sounds like a childs dream ,how old am I?
Great idea! They could call it Mello Yellow.
I agree with the NO sayers. Give it to me in a bowl where I can eat what I want when I want it. Go Moose Tracks
Ice Cream Snow…..I’ve got my spoon ready!
This sounds like one forWarner Bros. and then you could have some little rodents tunneling through it.This could be a real nice cartoon.
Would be an intresting weather report from Lee Goldberg at Eyewitness News!!! None of the snowbirds would ever need to go to Florida!!! GO TH!!!PS-Great party last night, keep up the good work-looking forward to the next one!!!
I’m in CA, so i guess i will have to settle for ice cream flavoured acid rain…
It won’t be hard to get the kids out to shovel snow now!
all those little kids catching snowflakes on their tongues had the right idea!
sounds yummy; can’t wait!
Wonderful idea. Can’t wait
My family would never come inside!!
that would be cool. Instead of making snow angels we could make icecream angels lol
Wow that would be so cool!
that is really interesting—people do make “snow ice cream” –clean snow/condensed milk !!!!! wish I had ideas like that –thanks
Guess I won’t move south for the winters!
The only turkeys are those that do not eat ice cream from the Hill.
Ice cream from the sky – sounds yummy!
Wow, did I just die and went to heaven
I could not imagine the smell when spring comes
Just like Mary and MD I am reminded of Cloudy with a chance of Meatballs. It sounds messy to me.
in these day any thing is possible
Thanks for the tour.
Love, that Turkey Hill Lemon & all flavors really