Izzy's Pumpkin and Irish Moxie
Several weekends ago Minneapolis got a taste of Indian summer. It was a warm, delightful 80 degrees all weekend, perhaps the last weekend of the year where it is possible to walk to the ice cream shop and laze in the grass as you lick the desultory drips of ice cream that run slowly down your cone. To celebrate, I invited a bunch of math people to go to Izzy’s and we had a fairly good turn out, about 15 people. I saw that they had pumpkin, a seasonal flavor, so I immediately knew I had to get that. Also, they had an intriguing people’s choice flavor award winner, Irish Moxie. You can never go wrong with an Izzy’s people’s choice winner. Normally at Izzy’s I get a single scoop, and was planning to get a single scoop of one of the aforementioned flavors with the other as an Izzy scoop, but I could not, for the life of me, decide which flavor I wanted more of. The only solution was to get a double scoop with an Izzy scoop of cinnamon. If there ...