Maggie Moo's

So let me tell you about Maggie Moo's. On my screen now she is blinking her eyes. I'm not sure if you can see it. Don't let it distract you. It's completely distracting me.

Tamika once said (a long time ago) that Cold Stone Creamery had the double beast bomb ice cream flavor called Birthday Remix or something like that. She probably doesn't know it but she goaded me into going to get some; you know, try it out when no one was looking....it was just ok for me. Not the best but ok. It has actual crumbles of cake in it if I recall and maybe the cake in mine was a bit stale or maybe it was so frozen, it just tasted stale but regardless, it didn't rock my world. Flash forward to last night. OH MY. You have GOT to find the closest Maggie Moo's and try this flavor I'm about to tell you about. Kelly, you and I will go there after lunch and eat this flavor. It's called Better Batter. Now, they can put all kinds of stuff in there, sprinkles, white chocolate bits, nuts, strawberries, lemon peel (well maybe not that but you get the idea) etc etc. I chose nothing. The guy behind the counter was like, "uh, that's all?" Yep, that's all. Just the better batter icecream in a waffle bowl. I'm sure that was one million and seven calories just like it was sans the other stuff....

Can I TELL you? When you are making a cake at home, do you ever taste the batter? Well, of course you do. We all do. Don't even lie, you know you do. If you don't, I mean, if you really truly don't, then you are a freak. Sorry, not to be mean but I cannot be the only human being who licks the bowl with a spoon or my finger God forbid. Ok ok ok so the ice cream has just that in it. The batter. It isn't baked, no crumbles, just the flavor of a normal cake batter. Maybe that doesn't sound yummy to you but it tastes so good. I LOVE Vanilla Bean. Any brand, any flavor, if it's vanilla bean, I'm there. This was better than any vanilla bean I've ever had bar none.

Sorry Tamm, in my book, Maggie Moo's wins out. Now I've not tasted all zillion of each of their flavors so I can't really do an official comparison but based soley on my cake flavor experiences, hands down, it's the double M. See that's part of the problem in these places, you get too overwhelmed. Too many flavors. I feel inadequate somehow standing there getting ready to order. What to chose? What to put on it? And the line behind me? They're probably thinking, 'come on chose already' (well maybe not but probably). And when the guy says, "uh that's all?" that makes you feel like you just ordered something wrong, OMG I did it all wrong how SHOULD I have done it?

The boys got the cotton candy flavor and their tongues and lips turned blue. And we saw who my honey thinks was Aaron Neville and that is a whole nother story, no doubt. We just had a great night. A nice dinner at home, went to walk around the water fountains, had ice cream, saw images of Aaron Neville, what more could you ask for? All of us enjoying the sweet summer night.

The best.