I'll take Moose Tracks! (vanilla ice cream, peanut butter cups and fudge!)

I just read that the Mardi Gras parade in New Orleans has been canceled due to high winds. 😟

I have heard it said - by my ex - that under German law there is nothing you can do on Rosie Monday that can serve as grounds for divorce. (She lived in Heidelberg and is one who I suspect - or rather I know - has great practical expertise in such things.)

Is there (or was there) and foundation to that?

@Karl Auerbach Well, it evolves around adultery. Until 1976, adultery was even an official divorce reason. Apparently, in the past, in Bavaria or in the Rhineland, some courts have rejected i if this happened during carnival....

More regarding adultery and carnival from a kind of law perspective:
lto.de/recht/hintergruende/h/f…

Fasching ohne Ehering: Sexuelle Freiheiten im Karneval?

Bei den alten Römern mussten Frauen nahe Verwandte mit einem Bützchen auf die Wange begrüßen. So kontrollierte man, ob die Dame Alkohol getrunken hatte.

^{Legal Tribune Online}

Ice cream has to be pretty high quality before I get into it. I'm more of a gelati person. That being said a good vanilla with more vanilla bean than sugar is highly prized. Mint choc chip and peanut butter choc chip...yum. I remember loving spumoni as a kid, but we have no spumoni in Australia. With gelati you can give me almost any fruit flavour and I am exceedingly happy!

Andrew and I just found a bar in Healesville that serves alcohol...and gelati! It was so funny the other day when we turned up at Happy Hour. All the tables were reserved, so we sat at the bar sharing a bowl of raspberry and coconut gelati while all the people sitting next to us were enjoying a beer!

Ice cream is good. That is all.

I'm getting more and more reports that SMS service in the US is malfunctioning (sent but non-delivered SMS messages, errors trying to send SMS messages, etc.) which is lovely (that was sarcasm, it's not lovely, it sucks because this isn't some spam farm, it's mission critical stuff.)

Back to work after 4 day weekend. Surprisingly, I was able to dig out of all the emails and whatnot so not too painful.

When I was young, Baskin-Robbins had 33 flavors of ice cream, and my favorite was Pink Bubblegum, which had pieces of gum in it; I'd get it in a cup, and save those aside for last.

Nowadays? Just about anything without nuts or other sharp edges.

@That Harp Guy - We used to make up new - bad - flavors for Basket Robbers Ice Cream. We had things like Pickle Chip and Mayonnaise Ripple.

I miss the old Baskin Robbin's photos they had on their walls - they were of the area near Mammoth Lakes, California, where I spent a lot of time (and still visit fairly frequently.)

My favorite at B-R was a coffee (they called it "jamoca") malt with extra coffee syrup and extra malt - about 800 grams of sugar, 900 grams of fat, and a ghastly amount of caffeine.

We used to make up new - bad - flavors for Basket Robbers Ice Cream. We had things like Pickle Chip

You could market that one to people who are pregnant. :)

The only time I ever had Beignets was at Cafe du Monde, in the French Quarter of New Orleans. They were enjoyable. If I ever visit again I'm sure to have one there.

The best pastry I can remember eating is the "Butterhorn" at some now perhaps nonexistent diner in Yachats, OR. Or possibly Waldport. A bit south of Newport on the coast. It's been 45 years or so, can't really remember. These were not the crescent rolls sometimes called butterhorns, but a cinnamon roll with, you guessed it, a substantial amount of melted butter involved. Think of potatoes and gravy, except instead of the potatoes a cinnamon roll, and instead of the gravy, melted butter.