So I looked through my old Victorian cookbooks, and they actually have some alternatives that Selkie could eat (if you remove the sugar). It’s probably a cross between these two recipes.
From Mrs. Hill’s New Cookbook, 1867:
Swiss Cream: One pint of sweet cream, half a pound of loaf sugar the yolks of eight eggs. Beat together, and simmer for a few minutes. Put one ounce of gelatin in a quart of water and boil down to a pint. Pour the two mixtures together. Let it come to a boil; set it aside.
From Fanny Farmer’s Boston Cooking School Cookbook, 1896:
Vanilla Ice Cream II – 2 c scalded milk, 1 T flour, 1 c sugar, 1 egg, 1/8 t salt, 1 qt. thin cream, 2 tablespoons vanilla. mix flour, sugar, and salt, add egg slightly beaten, and milk gradually; cook over hot water twenty minutes stirring constantly at first; should custard have curdled appearance, it will disappear in freezing. When cook add cream and flavoring; strain and freeze.
I’m guessing it’s closer to the 2nd, but using gelatin instead of flour and minus the sugar and vanilla.
And I found another cooked custard recipe that uses consommé…. Selkie would LOVE that as ice cream….
OMG, it just hit me what Selkie would just Love, I mean really just LOVE, the best flavor Ever; all the fat of butter, and all the creamy goodness of whip cream, just add BACON! With crumbled Bacon on top, instead of nasty pecans.
Me either. My stomach gets unsettled between the cold, the sweetness, and the dense cream. I feel gross after eating ice cream. But yea jasmine and green tea maybe. I tend to like fruit and herb over caramel or chocolate.
considering there are ice cream like products made out of soy, coconut, hemp and other non dairy oils its conceivable that one could make an ice cream alternative out of straight fish oil… just don’t tell selkie 😉
That would be vegetable oil, probably bad for Selkie. Real cream ought to be OK for her, but what would you substitute for the sugar? Ice cream really does need both fat and sugar to thicken – but 99% of commercial ice cream uses algae extracts as thickeners so they can cut the cream with skimmed milk, and that would definitely poison her.
Agreed. I had it while in Osaka… a lot. I don’t generally care for ice cream… When I was a kid, I thought Ice cream was milk left on the porch in winter with sugar sprinkled on top. It wasn’t until we moved to California where winter didn’t happen in the same way it did in Maine that I learned ice cream was an entirely different thing altogether.
There’s a story – probably not real – about Senator Crockett being served ice cream at a White House dinner. He told his neighbor, “The cream is delicious, but Colonel Jackson will be horrified when he finds out it has frozen.”
Don’t recall if I’ve tried the green tea ice cream, but Trader Joe’s has these mochi-covered ice cream balls, and I love ’em to death. They’re a mouthful or three of ice cream surrounded by mildly-flavored rice paste. They’re not quite as finger-friendly as you’d imagine was the intent, but they’re still finger food and delicious.
Not that most of the people who I’ve convinced to try them have shared my opinion, but eh well.
I remember an episode of Iron Chef in which the secret ingredient was octopus. For the dessert course, one chef intended to make octopus ink ice cream. Perhaps Selkie would like that.
Alternatively, I’ve also heard of bacon ice cream.
YES – Iron Chef!! This made me think of a “lobster” episode where someone made lobster ice cream, complete with the little antennae as a garnish. I recall the judges said it was surprisingly good. Emphasis on the surprise I expect. Yum???
The first time we made homemade icecream, it came out waaaaay too hard. Not sure what went wrong, but we had to chop off a serving with a cleaver, and eat it with forks and steak knives. Still tasted yummy, though!
It was pretty intersting to see missing lines before commenting, and full lines after! You care enough to continuously update while still engaged in the art process. I think that’s pretty neat to see.
Dave, the grandma’s gesture in the second panel is really weird to me. I’m not sure I can put it into words, but I’d definitely expect a more open-arms sort of gesture, spread “we mean no harm” even, not a reaching toward her over her head, arms uneven. I can’t even make out what that hand is meant to convey.
Maybe it’ll make more sense once it’s colored, but right now it feels like a mistake.
By the by, have you taken the time to read up on Scott McCloud’s books (Understanding Comics and Making Comics)? I really think they’d give you some good ideas for improving your art and, in this case, possibly your gestures/postures a bit. Regardless of this specific instance, they are quite informative on the various choices involved in designing comics, and how to better convey what you want to convey.
Selkie can have ice cream? I mean, most carnivores can’t taste sweet. Cats, for instance, cannot taste sweet. So ice cream shouldn’t be a desired thing for her really I’d think…..although…..there is an alternative. There’s akutaq. You could probably make a treat for her based on that, without the fruits and stuff. It’s not normally sweetened as well, it’s basically just fat (and fruit). Another issue remember is that carnivores aren’t usually lactose tolerant. Most /humans/ aren’t tolerant, those of us who are are the mutants. Typically an animal loses its tolerance at about Selkie’s age, so….
My cats love ice cream. They may not be able to taste the sugar, but they can certainly taste the cream.
Since I never stopped giving them milk, they never became lactose intolerant.
They thank me for that.
Dogs love sweet foods. I was watching How It’s Made and they were doing pet food. They make dog food sweet because dogs have well, a sweet tooth. Besides, the Sarnothi might be like us and have our taste buds.
Though an example. In my home you have to watch the sugar cookies because my dog will steal them from your hand. He lies on the couch all cuddled up with his eyes closed, opening them a crack and the second you stop paying attention he’ll leap up and take a little, hoping the cookie breaks.
My sister’s dogs always tried to do that if I had any sort of food. After a few good nose swats they stopped trying. Told my sister she seriously needed to train her dogs better and not fred or allow them human food since it’s pretty bad for them.
I’m just glad he doesn’t bite people. Well aside from the occasional wounds when wrestling I get. Even stealing cookies he never bites the person. He’s just a silly Welsh corgie Boston terrier.
Dogs are actually omnivores like us. Well, mostly. They’re about halfway between carnivore and omnivore. They are basically trash feeders, they eat anything. So it makes sense for them to have taste buds that can sense things often not found in animals, but found in plants, such as sugars. Carnivores, on the other hand, like cats, and probably sarnothi too, don’t develop taste buds for anything but meats/animal products. So things like sugars (sweet) don’t really exist for them. Bitter is enhanced because meats generally don’t have alkaloids in them, and alkaloids are generally toxic (that’s /why/ they’re bitter) and found in plants. So they develop that sense so they can avoid things with plants in them.
I recall reading somewhere (it may have been in a farmer’s almanac, but I can’t recall exactly) that some ice cream manufacturers added beef tallow (basically super-refined beef fat) to ice cream sometime around the middle of WWII so that the real cream could be sent to the soldiers at the front. The article didn’t say how it might have changed the taste.
When I stayed in London, I had some Walls’ brand ice cream. Walls also makes sausage; they made their ice cream with pig fat. A heavy, oily mouthfeel.
Some places were careful to advertise that they had dairy ice cream — i.e., made with milk.
Commenting without reading the comments First has taught me, “comment is irrelevant,” half the comments are ‘bacon’. Meh, … read first, then comment. Sheesh.
Still a key thing here: Amanda needs “proof” that others are on her side, and to her that means grand gestures.
This gives a bit of perspective to her outburst before, that part of it was her acting out to challenge this new family and see if they’ll turn on her. So far they’re not taking any crap from her and flat-out saying it will take time and work to show they’re with her. (Garnet’s quote on love seemed apt.) It’s not so great for Amanda in the moment, but it’s a good start.
And jasmine tea ice cream does sound awesome. I would so eat that.
There are some pretty affordable ice cream makers out there. To make tea ice cream, do the following:
– Make a standard sweet cream plain ice cream liquid.
– Put it in a pitcher with a lid.
– Take a bundle of tea bags of your chosen tea (can be those hand-filled ones for custom tea) and hang the strings over the side of the pitcher.
– Close the pitcher lid so it pins the bags hanging in the mix. Refrigerate overnight to steep.
– Remove the bags the next day and make your ice cream!
What? Dibs on the non-yucky ice cream? She’s acting like a kid. If anything, she’s acting like a pretty mature kid, who only griped for one sentence when she got insulted, and hasn’t been interrupting the serious discussions. I know high-schoolers who are more attention-demanding than that.
Me and my friends call dibs all the time. It’s something people just do. Besides, Selkie probably isn’t going to eat ALL of her dibbed ice cream. So she isn’t harming anything.
Given how radically her definition of ‘non-gross’ varies from the usual human one, I’m pretty sure she’s not going to have any competition for that ‘organic sugar-free unflavoured’ ice cream.
For the record I’ve had both Jasmine Tea and Chai Tea ice cream from a place called Prince Pucklers. Both were… adequate. I loved the flavor of the Chai one, but the bits of tea leaves and seeds were not appealing. It was as if my ice cream had fallen in the dirt and had little bits of rocks and leaves in them. Jasmine one had hardly any taste at all and suffered the same texture problems as the Chai one. I didn’t get those flavors again.
Now the matcha powder flavored ice cream was divine. Great flavor and no gross texture.
Sugar comes from plants. Sugar Cane and Sugar Beet. Neither is digestable for her. The only other sugar source that I can think of off the top of my head is tree SAP. Then we get to the artificial brands with side effects.
I’m probably missing a few, but sugar comes from plants regardless and with her being an obligate carnivore, sugar is off the table.
To clarify, Selkie’s avoidance of sugar is not strictly due to her carnivore diet. The small amounts of plant matter present in things like ice cream and sauces, especially mixed as they are with non-plant material, won’t trigger her stomach troubles.
However, she also dislikes the TASTE of many plant-based things. To use the sauces example, Selkie would use maybe a small dab of steak sauce spread thinly across the steak, but not large swabs of it and she’d pretty much never dip chicken tenders into a sauce.
Partially because of the carnivorism and partially because of personal preferences, Selkie prefers savory and salty flavors and dislikes sweet tastes. She prefers the heavy buttery taste of the unaltered cold cream. Plus or minus some fish oil.
Someday, I dearly hope you read Ann Leckie’s Ancillary Justice trilogy. Because in the third one, there is a character who has an unholy love of fish sauce. (Among other things.) And you might get a kick out of her. (Plus Selkie would probably like the Thousand Eggs song.)
The sugar in ice cream isn’t small amounts. In a traditional ice cream, it’s over 20% of the mix – you need sugar to modify how the cream freezes, or you’ll probably never get it both solid and soft. In common commercial ice creams that reduce the (expensive) cream and thicken the mix with algae extract (that would be bad for Selkie), they probably try to compensate for the reduced cream taste with MORE sugar. (Most “Lite” foods are terrible for diabetics.)
But I don’t know why sugar would be a big problem for Selkie. It is present in meat, although not so much of it. It circulates in the bloodstream and crosses into muscles and nerves to carry energy.
I may have suggested this before, but the local zoo freezes blood into a “bloodsicle” as a treat for the lions, tigers, and other big cats … still don’t know where Todd would get all that blood, though.
If Amanda found out Selkie was eating frozen blood she’d really start being called a monster by a lot of kids at school. Heck, even her best friends might look at her a little funny.
Doesn’t have to be pure blood, or even mostly blood. Personally I think a puree would work better, and have a texture more like frozen yogurt/natural fruit popsicles. Just throw some fish in a blender and bam! Nice healthy summer treats for carnivores 🙂
That just got me thinking about the dangers of Selkie overheating…. we already know how easy it is for her to get dangerously cool, but I keep tropical fish and know that temperatures that are too high can be almost as bad for them. Fishcicles could very well make an appearance come summer…
I’m reminded of a cartoon that was on Nick Jr when my son was little, called Oswald the Octopus… Oswald was voiced by ol’ boy from the Wonder years, and there was this penguin character voiced by Squiggy who often ate fish popsicles.
A fish/blood puree popsicle would simply look like strawberry or raspberry puree….
If it’s anything like the one I had, not very good. It mostly tasted like nothing, with faint hints of flowery tea and lots of tea leaves and seeds riddled throughout the ice cream.
The ice cream itself wasn’t horrible, just very faint. It was the seeds and leaves that made the texture terrible. The seeds had no flavor and we’re hard little rocks and the leaves were just plain bitter.
So the organic sugar-free unflavored would be for Selkie? Wondering if it has sweeteners in it. Many “sugar-free” things do. Very curious what Jasmine tea ice cream would taste like. Green tea rocks!
“Organic, sugar-free, unflavored”. That’s “put the half-pint carton of heavy whipping cream in the freezer until it solidifies”, right? 😀
Gotta whip it into a good froth first, though. 😀
So I looked through my old Victorian cookbooks, and they actually have some alternatives that Selkie could eat (if you remove the sugar). It’s probably a cross between these two recipes.
From Mrs. Hill’s New Cookbook, 1867:
Swiss Cream: One pint of sweet cream, half a pound of loaf sugar the yolks of eight eggs. Beat together, and simmer for a few minutes. Put one ounce of gelatin in a quart of water and boil down to a pint. Pour the two mixtures together. Let it come to a boil; set it aside.
From Fanny Farmer’s Boston Cooking School Cookbook, 1896:
Vanilla Ice Cream II – 2 c scalded milk, 1 T flour, 1 c sugar, 1 egg, 1/8 t salt, 1 qt. thin cream, 2 tablespoons vanilla. mix flour, sugar, and salt, add egg slightly beaten, and milk gradually; cook over hot water twenty minutes stirring constantly at first; should custard have curdled appearance, it will disappear in freezing. When cook add cream and flavoring; strain and freeze.
I’m guessing it’s closer to the 2nd, but using gelatin instead of flour and minus the sugar and vanilla.
And I found another cooked custard recipe that uses consommé…. Selkie would LOVE that as ice cream….
OMG, it just hit me what Selkie would just Love, I mean really just LOVE, the best flavor Ever; all the fat of butter, and all the creamy goodness of whip cream, just add BACON! With crumbled Bacon on top, instead of nasty pecans.
I was going to say “Isn’t that just frozen half-and-half”, but I suppose if you really want to be technical, the texture would be slightly better.
So the non gross one is the gross one? XD
They all sound pretty gross to me… the jasmine tea one MIGHT be okay.
But then, I don’t really like ice cream.
I’ve never had jasmine tea flavored ones, but it instantly sounds delicious to my ears! I call dibs on that!
……but I don’t even eat ice cream anymore. :/
Me either. My stomach gets unsettled between the cold, the sweetness, and the dense cream. I feel gross after eating ice cream. But yea jasmine and green tea maybe. I tend to like fruit and herb over caramel or chocolate.
considering there are ice cream like products made out of soy, coconut, hemp and other non dairy oils its conceivable that one could make an ice cream alternative out of straight fish oil… just don’t tell selkie 😉
Since all Cool-Whip (and other “non dairy toppings”) are just whipped oil that’s been sugared, that would be another alternative.
That would be vegetable oil, probably bad for Selkie. Real cream ought to be OK for her, but what would you substitute for the sugar? Ice cream really does need both fat and sugar to thicken – but 99% of commercial ice cream uses algae extracts as thickeners so they can cut the cream with skimmed milk, and that would definitely poison her.
Animal oil to replace vegetable oil, and gelatin as a ‘thickener’.
Green tea ice cream exists, at least.
I know this because I saw it for sale at Epcot this weekend.
Green tea ice cream not only exists, it is delicious.
Agreed. I had it while in Osaka… a lot. I don’t generally care for ice cream… When I was a kid, I thought Ice cream was milk left on the porch in winter with sugar sprinkled on top. It wasn’t until we moved to California where winter didn’t happen in the same way it did in Maine that I learned ice cream was an entirely different thing altogether.
There’s a story – probably not real – about Senator Crockett being served ice cream at a White House dinner. He told his neighbor, “The cream is delicious, but Colonel Jackson will be horrified when he finds out it has frozen.”
Agreed as well! One of the best flavor in my opinion (more precisely, matcha flavor)
Don’t recall if I’ve tried the green tea ice cream, but Trader Joe’s has these mochi-covered ice cream balls, and I love ’em to death. They’re a mouthful or three of ice cream surrounded by mildly-flavored rice paste. They’re not quite as finger-friendly as you’d imagine was the intent, but they’re still finger food and delicious.
Not that most of the people who I’ve convinced to try them have shared my opinion, but eh well.
There’s bacon icecream, but usually it still has sugar in it.
I remember an episode of Iron Chef in which the secret ingredient was octopus. For the dessert course, one chef intended to make octopus ink ice cream. Perhaps Selkie would like that.
Alternatively, I’ve also heard of bacon ice cream.
YES – Iron Chef!! This made me think of a “lobster” episode where someone made lobster ice cream, complete with the little antennae as a garnish. I recall the judges said it was surprisingly good. Emphasis on the surprise I expect. Yum???
The first time we made homemade icecream, it came out waaaaay too hard. Not sure what went wrong, but we had to chop off a serving with a cleaver, and eat it with forks and steak knives. Still tasted yummy, though!
It wasn’t churned enough. Not enough air bubbles and it’s pretty much just frozen milk.
It was pretty intersting to see missing lines before commenting, and full lines after! You care enough to continuously update while still engaged in the art process. I think that’s pretty neat to see.
I love seeing the art in progress.
Dave, the grandma’s gesture in the second panel is really weird to me. I’m not sure I can put it into words, but I’d definitely expect a more open-arms sort of gesture, spread “we mean no harm” even, not a reaching toward her over her head, arms uneven. I can’t even make out what that hand is meant to convey.
Maybe it’ll make more sense once it’s colored, but right now it feels like a mistake.
By the by, have you taken the time to read up on Scott McCloud’s books (Understanding Comics and Making Comics)? I really think they’d give you some good ideas for improving your art and, in this case, possibly your gestures/postures a bit. Regardless of this specific instance, they are quite informative on the various choices involved in designing comics, and how to better convey what you want to convey.
Selkie can have ice cream? I mean, most carnivores can’t taste sweet. Cats, for instance, cannot taste sweet. So ice cream shouldn’t be a desired thing for her really I’d think…..although…..there is an alternative. There’s akutaq. You could probably make a treat for her based on that, without the fruits and stuff. It’s not normally sweetened as well, it’s basically just fat (and fruit). Another issue remember is that carnivores aren’t usually lactose tolerant. Most /humans/ aren’t tolerant, those of us who are are the mutants. Typically an animal loses its tolerance at about Selkie’s age, so….
My cats love ice cream. They may not be able to taste the sugar, but they can certainly taste the cream.
Since I never stopped giving them milk, they never became lactose intolerant.
They thank me for that.
Dogs love sweet foods. I was watching How It’s Made and they were doing pet food. They make dog food sweet because dogs have well, a sweet tooth. Besides, the Sarnothi might be like us and have our taste buds.
Though an example. In my home you have to watch the sugar cookies because my dog will steal them from your hand. He lies on the couch all cuddled up with his eyes closed, opening them a crack and the second you stop paying attention he’ll leap up and take a little, hoping the cookie breaks.
My sister’s dogs always tried to do that if I had any sort of food. After a few good nose swats they stopped trying. Told my sister she seriously needed to train her dogs better and not fred or allow them human food since it’s pretty bad for them.
I have that problem with my dogs. Too much hand fed human treats. They have no shame, now.
I’m just glad he doesn’t bite people. Well aside from the occasional wounds when wrestling I get. Even stealing cookies he never bites the person. He’s just a silly Welsh corgie Boston terrier.
Dogs are actually omnivores like us. Well, mostly. They’re about halfway between carnivore and omnivore. They are basically trash feeders, they eat anything. So it makes sense for them to have taste buds that can sense things often not found in animals, but found in plants, such as sugars. Carnivores, on the other hand, like cats, and probably sarnothi too, don’t develop taste buds for anything but meats/animal products. So things like sugars (sweet) don’t really exist for them. Bitter is enhanced because meats generally don’t have alkaloids in them, and alkaloids are generally toxic (that’s /why/ they’re bitter) and found in plants. So they develop that sense so they can avoid things with plants in them.
I recall reading somewhere (it may have been in a farmer’s almanac, but I can’t recall exactly) that some ice cream manufacturers added beef tallow (basically super-refined beef fat) to ice cream sometime around the middle of WWII so that the real cream could be sent to the soldiers at the front. The article didn’t say how it might have changed the taste.
When I stayed in London, I had some Walls’ brand ice cream. Walls also makes sausage; they made their ice cream with pig fat. A heavy, oily mouthfeel.
Some places were careful to advertise that they had dairy ice cream — i.e., made with milk.
oh my god Amanda on the last panel is THE cute
(also Selkie, but AMANDA’S FACE)
Commenting without reading the comments First has taught me, “comment is irrelevant,” half the comments are ‘bacon’. Meh, … read first, then comment. Sheesh.
Bacon!
…what?
In which Selkie gains flying power. xD
Still a key thing here: Amanda needs “proof” that others are on her side, and to her that means grand gestures.
This gives a bit of perspective to her outburst before, that part of it was her acting out to challenge this new family and see if they’ll turn on her. So far they’re not taking any crap from her and flat-out saying it will take time and work to show they’re with her. (Garnet’s quote on love seemed apt.) It’s not so great for Amanda in the moment, but it’s a good start.
And jasmine tea ice cream does sound awesome. I would so eat that.
There are some pretty affordable ice cream makers out there. To make tea ice cream, do the following:
– Make a standard sweet cream plain ice cream liquid.
– Put it in a pitcher with a lid.
– Take a bundle of tea bags of your chosen tea (can be those hand-filled ones for custom tea) and hang the strings over the side of the pitcher.
– Close the pitcher lid so it pins the bags hanging in the mix. Refrigerate overnight to steep.
– Remove the bags the next day and make your ice cream!
Seriously, Selkie is acting like a bitch. Not helping at all.
What? Dibs on the non-yucky ice cream? She’s acting like a kid. If anything, she’s acting like a pretty mature kid, who only griped for one sentence when she got insulted, and hasn’t been interrupting the serious discussions. I know high-schoolers who are more attention-demanding than that.
And some college Frosh, ditto.
Me and my friends call dibs all the time. It’s something people just do. Besides, Selkie probably isn’t going to eat ALL of her dibbed ice cream. So she isn’t harming anything.
Given how radically her definition of ‘non-gross’ varies from the usual human one, I’m pretty sure she’s not going to have any competition for that ‘organic sugar-free unflavoured’ ice cream.
Yeah, you could argue the previous page a bit, but this here doesn’t seem bitchy in the slightest.
I’m totally down for some jasmine tea ice cream… The green tea stuff is good, and since jasmine is one of my favorite teas…
maybe they could add bacon to the last one for Selkie?
For the record I’ve had both Jasmine Tea and Chai Tea ice cream from a place called Prince Pucklers. Both were… adequate. I loved the flavor of the Chai one, but the bits of tea leaves and seeds were not appealing. It was as if my ice cream had fallen in the dirt and had little bits of rocks and leaves in them. Jasmine one had hardly any taste at all and suffered the same texture problems as the Chai one. I didn’t get those flavors again.
Now the matcha powder flavored ice cream was divine. Great flavor and no gross texture.
Ugh yeah the idea of the dried leaves floating in the ice cream is a turn off
Said ice cream store eventually switched to Chai Tea powder and it was delicious. Sadly they don’t sell jasmine Tea powder so ehhhhhh.
Wait…Selkie can’t have sugar?
Sugar comes from plants. Sugar Cane and Sugar Beet. Neither is digestable for her. The only other sugar source that I can think of off the top of my head is tree SAP. Then we get to the artificial brands with side effects.
I’m probably missing a few, but sugar comes from plants regardless and with her being an obligate carnivore, sugar is off the table.
Just saying, even the small amounts found in ice cream?
She must be the stricktest carnivore in existence.
To clarify, Selkie’s avoidance of sugar is not strictly due to her carnivore diet. The small amounts of plant matter present in things like ice cream and sauces, especially mixed as they are with non-plant material, won’t trigger her stomach troubles.
However, she also dislikes the TASTE of many plant-based things. To use the sauces example, Selkie would use maybe a small dab of steak sauce spread thinly across the steak, but not large swabs of it and she’d pretty much never dip chicken tenders into a sauce.
Partially because of the carnivorism and partially because of personal preferences, Selkie prefers savory and salty flavors and dislikes sweet tastes. She prefers the heavy buttery taste of the unaltered cold cream. Plus or minus some fish oil.
Fish oil… *beth cracks up*
Someday, I dearly hope you read Ann Leckie’s Ancillary Justice trilogy. Because in the third one, there is a character who has an unholy love of fish sauce. (Among other things.) And you might get a kick out of her. (Plus Selkie would probably like the Thousand Eggs song.)
I would love to see Amanda’s face when Selkie pours fish oil over her ice cream.
The sugar in ice cream isn’t small amounts. In a traditional ice cream, it’s over 20% of the mix – you need sugar to modify how the cream freezes, or you’ll probably never get it both solid and soft. In common commercial ice creams that reduce the (expensive) cream and thicken the mix with algae extract (that would be bad for Selkie), they probably try to compensate for the reduced cream taste with MORE sugar. (Most “Lite” foods are terrible for diabetics.)
But I don’t know why sugar would be a big problem for Selkie. It is present in meat, although not so much of it. It circulates in the bloodstream and crosses into muscles and nerves to carry energy.
You’d basically need an entirely different frozen dessert if you wanted sugar free, right? I’m thinking something like a granita.
Actually, I think I would try a dashi granita.
I may have suggested this before, but the local zoo freezes blood into a “bloodsicle” as a treat for the lions, tigers, and other big cats … still don’t know where Todd would get all that blood, though.
I work at a bird rescue and we feed the Birds of Prey micicles (frozen mice). Maybe Todd can give Selkie frozen fish? Or frozen fish eyes? 😉
Frozen Caviar instead of sprinkles!
If Amanda found out Selkie was eating frozen blood she’d really start being called a monster by a lot of kids at school. Heck, even her best friends might look at her a little funny.
True, but… (just guessing here) if someone told them she eats blood sometimes because she’s part vampire, they’d be all “Wow! Cool!”
Doesn’t have to be pure blood, or even mostly blood. Personally I think a puree would work better, and have a texture more like frozen yogurt/natural fruit popsicles. Just throw some fish in a blender and bam! Nice healthy summer treats for carnivores 🙂
That just got me thinking about the dangers of Selkie overheating…. we already know how easy it is for her to get dangerously cool, but I keep tropical fish and know that temperatures that are too high can be almost as bad for them. Fishcicles could very well make an appearance come summer…
There’s a commercial for that – I think it’s John Bellushi or Chevy Chase selling the “Bass-o-Matic” …
What Geneseepaws said: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BQFv83QJ2Y
(@ Geneseepaws: It’s Dan Aykroyd.)
I’m reminded of a cartoon that was on Nick Jr when my son was little, called Oswald the Octopus… Oswald was voiced by ol’ boy from the Wonder years, and there was this penguin character voiced by Squiggy who often ate fish popsicles.
A fish/blood puree popsicle would simply look like strawberry or raspberry puree….
Huh. I wonder what the tea one taste like.
If it’s anything like the one I had, not very good. It mostly tasted like nothing, with faint hints of flowery tea and lots of tea leaves and seeds riddled throughout the ice cream.
Sounds good to me.
The ice cream itself wasn’t horrible, just very faint. It was the seeds and leaves that made the texture terrible. The seeds had no flavor and we’re hard little rocks and the leaves were just plain bitter.
Yeck. Okay that would probably be gross.
If I had known we would be having this discussion, I would have ordered the green tea ice cream at Epcot the other day.
The places I’ve been to, ‘green tea ice cream’ is made from matcha powder rather than jasmine tea, so it wouldn’t have been the same thing anyway.
So the organic sugar-free unflavored would be for Selkie? Wondering if it has sweeteners in it. Many “sugar-free” things do. Very curious what Jasmine tea ice cream would taste like. Green tea rocks!