Burger King has launched this unusual dessert that involves pork and ice cream. The Bacon Sundae is whippy vania ice cream with fudge, caramel, bacon crumbles and a piece of thick-cut, hardwood smoked bacon to garnish. It started in Nashvie, Tennessee earlier this year and was so popular that the burger brand has taken it nationwide. The salty-sweet dessert has 510 calories, 18 grams of fat and 61 grams of sugar.
Pictured: The Bacon Sundae from Burger King. Burger King / Splash News/Newscom. Find it on Newscom.com: spnphotosthree960208
In the musical Anne of Green Gables there is a song about ice cream that perfectly sums up how wonderful the dessert really is: “Ice cream is anything more delectable/ Than Ice cream /Why even the most respectable eat Ice Cream /It’s wonderful on a summer’s afternoon, In June.” Well if June didn’t rhyme so well the lyricists of the song may have changed the words to July since this month is National Ice Cream Month.
Ice cream is by far my favorite dessert and for many other Americans it is too. But since ice cream has been around for so long, the typical flavors like chocolate, vanilla and strawberry are just not enough for people anymore. With tastes like popcorn, egg nog and bubble gum being created, ice cream is starting to resemble the flavors in a box of Bertie Botts Every Flavor Beans. Thankfully when you go to an ice cream parlor, you can get a sample of what you’d like before you make the plunge and get it, unlike the Harry Potter jelly beans.
As a kid waiting in line at the boardwalk for some ice cream, I remember witnessing a guy purchase a cone of bacon flavored ice cream, while the rest of us in line watched in disgust. Now Burger King (although a little late) has jumped on this bacon bandwagon and created their own salty and sweet dessert. It has me curious as to how popular it will really be.
In honor of National Ice Cream Month, check out these images from Newscom of some interesting ice creams…
Ice cream, Rab Town on Rab Island, Croatia. Henryk T. Kaiser Stock Connection Worldwide/Newscom. Find it on Newscom.com: scphotos166768
Vermont’s Ben & Jerry’s newest ice cream flavor “Schweddy Balls” is seen in this image released to Reuters September 8, 2011. The company known for provocative or progressive themed names said the latest creation is a tribute to a 1998 skit on NBC’s Saturday Night Live starring actor Alec Baldwin. Baldwin plays a baker named Pete Schweddy, who is trying to market his rum balls, popcorn balls and cheese balls as “Schweddy Balls.” The flavor, which mixes vanilla and rum flavored ice cream with fudge covered rum balls and chocolate malt balls, will be available through the end of the year. HO/Reuters/Newscom. Find it on Newscom.com: rtrlfour774620
pictured: photo artists’ disgusting food photos – snake ice cream. These disgusting pictures were created by photo artists after a German TV show featured live cockroach-eating. The candidates in Germany’s version of “I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here!” called “Dschungelcamp” Contestants had to eat Cockroach stew and drink crocodile penis beer. If you think that there is nothing worse than that, take a look at these pictures that photo artists posted on Worth1000.com, a website for digital photo editing in a contest. All the pictures were created with a free design software program called Aviary.com. The picture-tricksters were quite creative when designing their recipes: no matter if it is roasted bees, snails or whole spiders – everyone who has viewed these pictures has lost their appetite. Test the borders of your good taste now. The German TV show Dschungelcamp is filmed in the Australian jungle. Europics/Newscom. Find it on Newscom.com: epphotos004979
A shop assistant holds cups of strange ice cream (ox tongue, octopus and raw horse meat, from left to right) at Ice Cream City in Namco Nanja Town in the Sunshine City, Tokyo, Japan on Tuesday 06 July 2004. At Ice Cream City, there are 380 kinds of ice cream from all over Japan as place specialty. Ice Cream is easy to make mixing with any taste and there are so many strange ice creams such as ox tongue, octopus, raw horsemeat, Japanese style Chinese noodle soup, whale and etc. Most popular ice cream is ox tongue, a shop assistant said. AKIO SUGA/EPA/Newscom. Find it on Newscom.com: epaphotostwo978965
Hailey Springgay, District Supervisor Cold Stone Creamery, at the Tim Hortons KIng St. W, Cold Stone Creamery has been selling premium ice cream at Tim Hortons for three years, so why doesn’t everybody know about it? We take a look at how ice cream is made on the premises. Andrew Francis Wallace/ZUMA Press/Newscom. Find it on Newscom.com: zumawirewestphotossix726544
Mayfield’s latest ice cream flavor, caramel popcorn. MAYFIELD’S DAIRY FARMS/PRN/Newscom. Find it on Newscom.com: prnphotos038934
As a finishing touch, caramel is drizzled over the tops of the ice cream balls by pastry chef Christine Ilarraza at Central Market’s cooking school. Vanilla ice cream was scooped out and rubbed in bacon and pecan, and drizzled with caramel. Paul Moseley/MCT/Newscom. Find it on Newscom.com: krtphotoslive368895
Top off a meal with a serving of garlic ice cream at Garlic Jo’s restaurant in Newport Beach. Paul Rodriguez/ZUMA Press/Newscom. Find it on Newscom.com: zumawirewestphotosfive700270
Ice cream for the vitamn ice cream round-up story. Conny will be behind the counter till labor day at Conny’s ice cream in St Paul. 24 different flavors, from cotton candy to bubble gum. Tom Wallace/ZUMA Press/Newscom. Find it on Newscom.com: zumawireworldphotosfive337742
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