Making Ice Cream Amazing

It's Friday night and you are needing to make your night better.  The year is 2020 and we are now stuck inside our homes and can only go out to the grocery store for emergencies in most of the United States.  So how do you make a Friday night special if you can’t get out and get your favorite ice cream at a restaurant?  The answer is you partially make it on your own. So there is a process you need to go through to make your own fantastic Friday night ice cream.

The reason I think making your own specialty ice cream is that it's a bit safer then going out to get it from a drive through.  With pandemic hitting its strongest at the moment across the nation, it is wise to stay as safe as you can. So the next time you leave your house for groceries, pick out some of your favourite ice cream tubs.  Don’t be afraid to go plain as well. If only vanilla is on the shelves which in many places is the case, because the availability is low in many states.  What you can do is go down the candy isle and grab your favourite style of candy box and get ready to have a great time. 

Now it is ok when you get back to the car to let the ice cream thaw a little bit. By the time you get home usually ice cream is a little bit soft.  This is perfect because now you are ready to start customizing your own ice cream.  So grab a large bowl when you get home and leave your ice cream out.  If it's starting to get soft around the edges you may just be able to flip the ice cream tub upside down and then let the ice cream go into the bowl.  Once you have it in the bowl get your favourite candy box.  Rather it's filled with nerds, red hots, or your favourite chocolate bar flavour and mix it in.  If the candy is large you may need to pull out your cutting bored and start to chop it into small pieces. 

I prefer getting reese's pieces because they are already small and will mix really well into the ice cream.  So once you have your candy ready, stir it into the ice cream in the bowl.  When you feel like it is well mixed, grab a spoon or thick spatially and mix it right back into the original ice cream tub. Boom, now you have an amazing custom ice cream that can brighten up your weekend!

Pandemic Candy

It is 2020 and I have only left my house 2 times in the last month.  Pandemic has caused my state to completely shut down and quarantine so I am now stuck inside.  I work from home, I sleep at home and I am supposed to have fun at home. I find it rather difficult to do any of these things well, but when it comes to eating, I am on top of things.

So what is the best choice of candy for a quarantine?  That is a very complicated question and I can only answer it as to the best of my knowledge from spending a month at home and only being able to go out to get candy refills twice. 

One might argue that a hard candy is the best choice for staying in.  The benefits of it are that they usually last a long time and provide minutes and sometimes in the case of jawbreakers hours of enjoyment.  Some hard candy boxes are packaged to last a long time.  They are sealed from the elements making me think that they will last a very long time.  The freshness of hard candy seems to be a bonus as well since the labels with the expiration date are usually longer than other candies.  Hence jolly ranchers, nerds, and all kinds of hard candies get an A plus in my book for being a fantastic Pandemic Candy.

But what about licorish.  I know the debate of Red Vine vs  Twizzler will live on forever.  I remember my first licorice candy was a red vice at my older brother's baseball games.  I can still remember the fun of those super long licorice candies.  But how do they last in a pandemic? I find that I eat them all very quickly and even an entire bag only lasts an hour or so.  This being the case and that they are rather expensive when priced with the cost of hard candies I would only rate them a B plus.  This is because they are good, but general hard candy has different flavors mixed in and I get less bored with it versus licorice.

So what about other candy that does not come in candy boxes. Yes I am talking about the candy bars of the world. In all honesty I am not a big fan of the candy bar for pandemics.  They are eaten way too fast, and have the highest calorie count compared to the other candies. The taste is amazing, but the length of lasting and replacement costs is highest with the candy bar. C mines is my rating.  So thanks for checking out my favorite pandemic candies and stay safe.