Irvine Robbins, cofounder of Baskin-Robbins' Ice Cream died today at 90 of natural causes. Baskin Robbins' Rocky Road ice cream (one of the original 31 flavors) has been my favorite for years.
Baskin-Robbins' 31 original flavors
Banana Nut Fudge
Black Walnut
Burgundy Cherry
Butterscotch Ribbon
Cherry Macaroon
Chocolate
Chocolate Almond
Chocolate Chip
Chocolate Fudge
Chocolate Mint
Chocolate Ribbon
Coffee
Coffee Candy
Date Nut
Egg Nog
French Vanilla
Green Mint Stick
Lemon Crisp
Lemon Custard
Lemon Sherbet
Maple Nut
Orange Sherbet
Peach
Peppermint Fudge Ribbon
Peppermint Stick
Pineapple Sherbet
Raspberry Sherbet
Rocky Road
Strawberry
Vanilla
Vanilla Burnt Almond
Source: Baskin-Robbins
There seems to be a lot of debate about whether or not eating dairy is good for you. The trend has been to eat reduced fat dairy foods. However, excerpts from the 3 articles that I have posted below indicate that heredity rather than fat may be the actual villian. Irvine Robbins supposedly ate three to four scoops of ice cream a day and died of natural causes (old age) at 90. His partner, Baskin, died of heart disease over 40 years ago. Were they both swimming in the same genetic pool? It is highly doubtful.
In a 1976 interview in The New York Times, in which he said he ate three or four scoops a day, Mr. Robbins said that Americans had become adventurous in their ice cream choices. “They’re not embarrassed to ask for some of these wild flavors,” he said. “I think we’ve had a little bit to do with making it more acceptable.” New York Times
Family members said Baskin-Robbins is the nation's oldest food franchise. Part of Dunkin' Brands Inc., it has more than 5,800 stores worldwide, according to The Associated Press.
Robbins sold the company to United Fruit Co. in 1967 -- the same year Baskin died of heart disease -- but remained as president until 1978. Seattle Post Intelligencer
With his wife, Irma, whom he married in 1942, he raised three children. As an adult, his son John rejected the family business and wrote "Diet for a New America," a 1987 book critical of the meat and dairy industries.
Los Angeles Times
Irvine Robbins, Ice Cream Entrepreneur and a Maestro of 31 Flavors, Dies at 90 New York Times
Irvine Robbins, 90; co-founder of the Baskin- Robbins ice cream empire Los Angeles Times
Irvine Robbins, 1917-2008: He created a flavor a day for ice cream lovers Seattle Post Intelligencer
I got tagged by stevie, so here I go... The rules:
I was wandering through an antique mall this afternoon and found the most unusual deck of cards that I have ever seen. The back of the cards displayed the phrase 'Enjoy Pork Often!' and, as I began to look through the deck, the face of each card appeared to contain pork recipes courtesy of the National Live Stock and Meat Board. Nothing too unusual, I thought. Then, as I looked further, I noted that mixed with the recipe cards were cards displaying pharmaceutical laced hog feed of various types with the nutritional breakdown. As a result, the cards oddly target both hog farmers and general consumers of pork. Do hog farmers need to be encouraged to eat more pork? Do consumers of pork want to know all of the potential pharmaceuticals in their pork roast? Was this a good advertising campaign or a bad one? Anyone up for a game of Pork Poker? I'll bring the cards.
I recently reviewed several resumes for an opening at work and was amazed at the number of them that arrived with typographical errors, misspelled words and poorly constructed sentences. Job candidates want the hiring manager to notice their resumes, but not in a bad way.
I found the following quote by Chalmers Johnson in an article from the October 2006 issue of Acres USA magazine. I thought that it was a fitting follow-up to yesterday's post. It provides a glimpse into the uncomfortable position in which the recent unrest in Tibet is placing the US this Olympic year.
The degree to which we have become dependent on foreign countries is truly astonishing, and there are numerous economists who tell you it is unwise for the world’s largest debtor — which is us — to go around insulting its bankers. We do that all the time to the Chinese, who invest billions of dollars buying American treasury certificates and things like that in order to retain access to this market, continuing to sell as profitably as they are to firms like Wal-Mart, but we send carrier task forces off their coast, and we’re forever making threatening statements about them. All it would take is for the Minister of Finance of China to decide that they have too much of their reserves in dollars — which isn’t a particularly good currency anyway these days — and they ought to start shifting to the Euro. At that point, the American stock exchange would collapse.
Regardless of your position on our involvement in Iraq or your party affiliation, Pat Buchanan's latest column is a must read. Bush has for too long twisted historical facts to suit his own world view and support his misguided free trade policies, which unfortunately John McCain supports. Bush has for years now attempted to demonize and label those who oppose his global economic policies as Protectionists, Isolationists and Nativists. This past week he blamed their policies for the great depression.
First, America was never isolationist. From its birth, the republic was a great trading nation with ties to the world. True, in 1935, 1936 and 1937, a Democratic Congress passed and FDR signed neutrality acts to keep us out of the Italo-Abyssinian and Spanish civil wars. And FDR did say, “We are not isolationist except insofar as we seek to isolate ourselves completely from war.” But how did staying out of Abyssinia and Spain hurt America?
As for Smoot-Hawley, it was a tariff enacted in June 1930, nine months after the Crash of 1929, which occurred, as Milton Friedman won a Nobel Prize for proving, when the stock market bubble, caused by the Fed’s easy money policy, burst. Smoot-Hawley had nothing to do with a Depression that began in 1929 and lasted through FDR’s first two terms. This is a liberal myth, probably taught to Mr. Bush by New Deal Democrats at the Milton Academy.
Protectionism is the structuring of trade policy to protect the national sovereignty, ensure economic self-reliance and “prosper America first.” It was the policy of the Republican Party from Abraham Lincoln to Calvin Coolidge. America began that era in 1860 with one half of Britain’s production and ended it producing more than all of Europe put together. Is this a record to be ashamed of?
Compare protectionism’s success to Bush’s record.
Since 2001, he has presided over the seven largest trade deficits in history, the loss of 3.5 million manufacturing jobs and the collapse of the dollar, and added but one-fifth of the private sector jobs Bill Clinton created. Gold has gone from $260 an ounce to $1,000, oil from $28 a barrel to $100.
...after the judges and tax cuts, what is there about Bush that is conservative? His foreign policy is Wilsonian. His trade policy is pure FDR. His spending is LBJ all the way. His amnesty for illegals is Teddy Kennedy’s policy.
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stevie said:
Daiquiri ice, baby, daiquiri ice. That is the best BR flavor EVER! The original blue kind, of course. read more
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Rockin' Sake Robot said:
[this is good]Thanks for the comment! I read John Robbins' book, 'Diet for a New America', a few years ago and am... read more
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.tiff said:
[this is good]Rest in peace.(also, great post) read more
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I have never tried it. Looks like I need to make a Baskin Robbins' run. read more
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