Ice Cream's Enigma: Blue Moon

YES! Whats not to like? Its bright blue, cold, creamy, and its ice cream! Greater yet, it is an enigma!

The understanding of ice cream flavors stop at Blue Moon. If you can find it, you should try it. Its been my favorite for years, but after moving westward, it has been nearly impossible to find. Blue Moon ice cream is usually only found in the northern states of the Midwest: Wisconsin, Illinois, Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan. Its my goal to visit Sherman's ice cream parlor when I'm in Michigan. There are a few brands that profess to make the stuff, but Sherman's is my fav. I think its the bluest. (In case bluest wasn't a word, then it is now*;)

>note<

An interesting fact to note is that there is currently no patent for Blue Moon ice cream. (to my knowledge)

Most dairies that make this dynamic flavor refuse to reveal their secret ingredient. Blue Moon's origin is still an enigma. There are leads that suggest the possibility for the time of invention and the name of the inventor, but they are all mere possibilities.

>the Flavor?<

This flavor has the ability to confound even the most sensitive taste buds. How can the Blue Moon flavor even be described? The closest I have ever come to describing its flavor is its similarity to cotton candy. However, cotton candy still doesn't do this engimatic ice cream justice. Many have hypothesised this ice cream to be marshmallow, honeydew, cantaloupe, orange, raspberry, pineapple, Fruit Loops, lemon, cherry,  peach, pistachio, coconut, almond, nutmeg, cloves, ginger, cardamom, buttercream, licorice, bubble gum, Blue Curaçao, Crème de cacao, Amaretto, cotton candy, cola, and combinations of many of these.

It all depends on who's tasting.

Blue moon is truly indescribable.

.Blue moon is truly Ice Cream's greatest Enigma.

>Other Articles<

In 2007, Nara Schoenberg: a reporter for the Chicago Tribune; went on a quest to discover the truth about Blue Moon ice cream. Few solid conclusions were made but I suggest it for further reading. The link I found is below.

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2007-08-31/features/0708300659_1_blue-moon-ice-cream-chocolate-and-strawberry

wanted: experienced Con Man

There is a large demand in the US of A for good con men/women. For the unemployed, getting a job is not as easy as it should be. Employers either require a four-year college degree or experience for a position where neither is needed. Just today I saw an advertisement for a scrap metal burner. A scrap metal burner cuts up metal with a gas or oxy-acetylene torch. They were looking for someone with 3 years experience. Their second stipulation was sounded silly: "No shop fabricators or casual torch users please." To start off with, it takes 15 minutes to teach someone everything there is to know about cutting scrap metal with a torch. Give that newbie an hour or two and you couldn't tell their work from a pro's work. There's really nothing special about cutting scrap metal. Their second requirement is just absurd. "No shop fabricators or casual torch users please." That's a bad joke. They have to have some good reason for this! The only thing I can think of is that they are looking for speed. Give a hard worker a break! In a day they will get the feel for how fast they need to go and by then they will be up to par.
Experience is required where it shouldn't be. Generally speaking: in the blue-collar world, it takes a mere month to turn from a new-hat to an old-hat (assuming they had proper training). Experience doesn't change much between a month and 30 years. It really doesn't. There are still many blue-collar jobs where experience changes some(and it helps, it really does!), but when it comes to getting the job done it doesn't make much of a difference. I've seen young guys fresh out of high school do the same job, with the same quality as a 30 yr exp old-hat. Experience is everything in the white-collar world, but in the blue-collar world, it is drastically overrated.
You can get a great blue collar job if you can pull off a good con. Very little experience is really necessary. What you don't know, go to your local library a grab a couple books on the topic. If you can get the vocabulary and have a little experience, then you are set up perfectly.
Check out job advertisements online. There are thousands of them and most of them are hilarious. You won't BELIEVE what kind of experience they require now.
When I work I believe in two things: Git r done, and Git r done RIGHT.

Book to Film adaptation: why they mess it up.

Many of us are familiar with Hollywood's infamous botchery of many classic and popular books. Many times a book may have an excellent storyline yet Hollywood pillages and rapes the story into something that little resembles the original masterpiece. I have three possible theories for this phenomenon.

1. What makes a book's storyline great differs dramatically from what makes a movie's storyline great.
2. The book's storyline may be too difficult to adapt to film as it is.
3. The screenwriters, directors, and/or producers are fucked up.

I have read books that were expertly written and had excellent plots yet when I try to picture it as a film it just sucks. Some books will work while some will not. Think about it.

the Quest for Originality

So many times I have observe someone trying to create something completely original; something that resembles nothing else in the world, future, past and present. Back during my days in high school, originality was the achievment of the great. They and I wanted to accomplish something significant to make our mark on the world. The path to significance was originality. I saw it less after high school, but instead of disappearing, it went underground. I see the quest for originality all over the place. It eats at the core of western culture. I first noticed this when I started avoiding America's most well known coffee shop because it seemed cliche. In my mind it lost its worth when it lost its originality. This certain well known coffee shop started on an original idea: quality coffee/espresso. Up until then, big brand coffee companies sold the cheapest coffee they could produce. Instant coffee (which you have to be desperate to drink) was invented in 1901 and became popular in the '50s when anything considered "old" was avoided and left behind. Instant coffee became the norm in most households. Espresso was just beginning to make it's way into North America when this well known coffee company started its first shop. They pioneered the Latte Languish. In America it was original. Sadly, they verge on cliche now.

>I copied John Lennon and created Imagine<
As a young song artist I was struggling in my quest for originality. The first few ideas I came up with were almost identical to a couple of favorite songs. The tune was different but the tone was the same, the lyrics were similar, and the style was the same. After my first few attempts I would dink around with a couple of tunes and cords but nothing I came up with ever became a song. I stopped creating. I gave up. I was frustrated with my music. I didn't want to copy anybody nor make music that sounded like a takeoff of another artist's sound. I wanted to make my music. I admired bands such as the Beatles who created music that seemed completely original. The Beatles had an original sound. Not surprising, the music the Beatles grew up listening to was from the '50s. It makes sense. What surprised me was that the Beatles attempted to imitate many sounds they heard from other bands before them. For many years they were a cover band playing the stuff everybody played. They copied. What many of the best artists come to understand is that no matter how hard they try to copy, they will never duplicate. It will always be different. In the attempt to copy they create something new: something good. So I found that if I focused making music that I liked, then I always created great music.

(TANGENT #1) >Indie Culture<
Some Indie bands put out some great stuff, but too many times I hear an Indie band that it so focused on creating an original sound that it ends up sounding strange and boring. The stuff sounds like trash. Its like the baker who specialized in fruity desserts. He decides that sweet dessert is way to cliche and boring so he puts salt in instead in order to create something new. The way our society is going we just might start eating salty desserts if someone said sweet was overrated. On a positve note: I doubt sex will ever turn cliche.

(TANGENT #2) >Cliche Pop Culture<
We know. Everyone knows. Its that damn Rihanna song Whats My Name. (actually this has to do with preference. I don't like this song. Everytime I turn the radio on this song seems to be playing.)
Actually pop culture is by definition cliche. It is common. It is the average. It is what most people will agree upon. Why can't I like something thats unoriginal, common, or cliche? I can. In fact, I should if it brings me pleasure.

>my Final Thoughts<
By focusing on creating something good rather than something new, I have allowed myself to be open to anything. This mindset breeds original and new ideas.