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Wednesday, September 29, 2004

Panic Attack

phishfood

Last night on the way home from the coffeeshop, I stopped at the Mobil station three blocks from my house to get my semi-weekly pint of ice cream. After checking to make sure the store wasn't being robbed (hey, it's happened before), I went to the back freezer, went up on my tiptoes and peeked onto the top shelf.

A shudder went over my spine. I saw lots of yellow (which means Chubby Hubby) and lots of blue and green (which means Vanilla), but no purple! NO PHISH FOOD? Who is responsible for this? Did another Phish Food addict go on a mad binge and clean out the shelf of the marshmallow-ey, caramel-ey, phishey goodness?

Someone beat me to it! I opened the door to make sure the frosty glass door wasn't deceiving me. I reached in and threw pints around. I checked behind the row of Chubby Hubby. I guess I could live with banana if I had to. I moved around Cherry Garcia. (Disgusting.) Nothing there... Then I moved the two rows of vanilla, taking each one out one by one.

Finally, finally, finally. In the very back behind every other carton of Ben & Jerry's was one solitary, forgotten pint of Phish Food, its carton half frosted over. I grabbed it and ran, its coldness hurting my fingers. It was the best pint of Phish Food I've ever had.

P.S. Phish Food is a registered trademark of Ben & Jerry's. Ben & Jerry's does not endorse or support helloaaron.com. If it ever made an offer, though, helloaaron.com may possibly consider it.

Posted by Aaron on September 29, 2004 6:59 PM

Comments:

dude I had the same problem today. The Schwann's man came and every kind of ice cream i wanted to order he didn't have. It was horrible.

skoutz
September 30, 2004 1:06 AM

My favorite is the 'everything but the...' from Ben and Jerry's... However, if it's Haggendaas then the fav is Peanut butter Fudge chunk. I think I single-handedly took PBFC from 'featured flavor' to one they carry regularly. WOOT!

P.S.: I've learned the importance of keeping 2 pints in the freezer in the instance where I am craving and every grocery store within 10 miles is out. :-)

Smitty
September 30, 2004 9:56 AM

Aaron, Phish Food is yummy. One Sweet Whirled is too. Oh, and Cherry Garcia. A new favorite is Dublin Mudslide. And don't slight the frozen yogurt. Oatmeal Cookie is another goodie. Dang, they're all good.

But really, do you need a PINT of ice cream? Save half for later. Most of the time I'll forget about it and then have a nice surprise when the next urge hits.

Dunner
September 30, 2004 1:05 PM

I don't eat the whole thing in one sitting (usually).

You can direct your fight against obesity elsewhere. I've got a few more years yet.

Aaron
September 30, 2004 1:24 PM