The Big Muddy Ice Cream Blog

The blog is not dead! Just my computer. My poor, old computer, that I bought in 2012, was felled by a drop of water several weeks ago, and I have finally acquired a new one. In Big Muddy Ice Cream Blog style, I will begin my first post back with a complaint. I do not like the Museum of Ice Cream (MOIC). It's not a museum. It's a building full of Instagram backdrops aka an 'experience-first brand' as they themselves claim. I'm not against the content of the MOIC, but for fuck's sake don't call yourself a museum. Museums are for learning and wonder and awe. They have a dot org website extension. I'm skeptical of the quality of a product produced by an 'experience-first' company, but I grabbed two flavors of the new Museum of Ice Cream pints available at Target. Not gonna lie, the containers are super cute, and that was 90% of the reason I bought them. Piñata is Vanilla ice cream with iced animal cookies, frosted cupcake bits, fizzy cotton...

 Red Button Sprinkled Animal Cookie Ice Cream.  Guest post by Dan Handschy Presented with a bag of Mother's Circus Animal cookies and a box of Girl Scout Samoas, I would open the bag of Circus Animal Cookies first.  Then, twenty minutes later, after consuming the whole bag, I might open the Samoas, or perhaps just collapse in a fat-induced coma.  The things are like crack to me.  That is why I never buy them.  My children know this about me. When Madeline, daughter number one, traveled to Provo Utah for a math conference, she did what she always does in a new place -- searched around for the local ice cream varieties.  I got a very excited Facebook message from her:  She had discovered Red Button Sprinkled Animal Cookie Ice Cream !  I replied that I would disown her if she had some and didn't send me some somehow.  Well a FedEx box arrived this morning with a styrofoam cooler packed with foam peanuts, dry ice, and two qua...