h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Alcohol seems such a simple thing to add. I will leave it to you to figure out something that would work.

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I wonder if there's any alcoholic ice cream as liqueuers can be nice dribbled over ice cream, full fat or thin!

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Alcohol and ice cream go quite well together. My local pub "stole" a recipe from a bar in San Pedro, Belize called the Purple Parrot. The eponymous drink (our best guess at least) is simply vanilla ice cream, piña colada mix and a shot of Bailey's. The Bailey's takes any of the coconut bitterness right out. Absolutely delicious. Drizzle chocolate syrup down the sides of a hurricane glass and add a cherry for the full tropical pleasure.

Obviously, there's rum in there as well.

Sounds pretty good to me!

Drambuie, Cointreau, and Creme de Menthe are nice over vanilla ice cream. I suppose if you wanted to be perversly over the top, greedy and ultimately very drunk; you could have an American style float. One large glass, a half bottle of a favourite liqueuer and a single scoop of ice cream to top it off would certainly be an event?

Take a few scoops of vanilla ice
cover them with a layer of crushed frozen flavoured with sugar and 'eau de vie'
cover this with a layer of whipped cream
and sprinkle with crushed nuts, almonds and

Serve with a happy little cup of



ps: Eau de vie is a clear, colorless fruit brandy that is produced by means of fermentation and double distillation

That sounds fantastic and will no doubt not break my severe daily calorie intake limit of 15000!
If I can't find Eau de vie, I'll substitute cherry or peach brandy.

Those sound like acceptable alternatives

Those drinks sound fabulous!

*AHEM* We currently have three beer milk shakes on the menu All made with ice cream and all quite delicious

Doc in John Steinbeck's Cannery Row/Sweet Thursday was known to partake of beer milkshakes.

One of my favourite books, and where I got the idea Good film too.

>severe daily calorie intake limit of 15000!

I need me a diet like that!

It was also an interesting (if unsuccessful) Broadway musical, penned by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein. They called the show "Pipe Dream." They hired a Wagnerian soprano named Helen Traubel from the Metropolitan Opera to play the part of the Madam of the brothel. Her vibrato was about ten feet wide. When Rudolf Bing (who ran the Met in those days) complained that Ms. Traubel waslosing her dignity by doing Broadway shows, she replied, "I carry my dignity with me."

Cannery Row and Sweet Thursday were two books I first read in the mid 60s when I was a 14/15 year old teenager totally impressed by The Beach Boys/California lifestyle as being in some ways the natural end to WW2 and yet having to deal with the (very potentially Mutually Assured Destruction [MAD] possibilty)of the cold war. And yes it fortunately worked, eg Russia and America didn't totally destroy Earth. So, to read a novel or two about this fabled piece of west coast America which was before the Beach Boys and global military posturing caught my imagination.
The way he(Steinbeck) described situations, people, atmosphere, geography and a mix of any or all of the aforementioned totally ticked all the right boxes in my brain.
Anyway, just wanted to get that off my chest and tell any interested h2g2 folk who haven't read those two books to give them a try.

I've only read two or three of Steinbeck's books, but I liked them.

Which ones have you read Paul?
I've only read Cannery Row/Sweet Thursday (enough anyway), The Pearl, and Travels with Charlie. An amazing insight into a particular time in America.
I'm not a big reader, but his work made a massive impression on my brain all those years ago which has never diminished. A gem of an auther.

Hm, let's see now, it's been a long time since, but Of Mice and Men,
Cannery Row, The Pearl, East of Eden, and The Winter of Our Discontent - the latter being the first I ever bought

I probably should read them all again. Plus some Hemingway

Oh my. We've gotten very literary in here!