{"id":486609,"date":"2009-03-06T22:53:04","date_gmt":"2009-03-06T22:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/ice-cream-and-expectations"},"modified":"2009-03-06T22:53:04","modified_gmt":"2009-03-06T22:53:04","slug":"ice-cream-and-expectations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/ice-cream-and-expectations\/","title":{"rendered":"Ice Cream and Expectations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love ice cream. Yesterday I was experimenting with creating my own ice cream flavor online. I found a &#8220;Flavor Generator&#8221; on Ben &amp; Jerry&#8217;s. I had fun picking some sweet ingredients and swirls etc. (Raspberry, Blueberry Cake Batter anyone?) But when I got to the end&#8230; that was it. The end. There was no way to send my creation, save my creation, or actually order the ice cream. Maybe I was a little optimistic but I thought I could actually order my flavor.<\/p>\n<p><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'><a href=\"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/ben_jerry_s_flavor_generator-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Ben_jerry_s_flavor_generator-2\" height=\"388\" src=\"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/ben_jerry_s_flavor_generator-2.jpg?w=300\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Turns out you can order custom flavors from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecreamery.com\/\">http:\/\/www.ecreamery.com\/<\/a> The process is pretty easy. It is actually the same 4 steps as Ben &amp; Jerry&#8217;s. It is very expensive however. My 2 flavor, 2 mix in creation would have cost about $110 for a gallon. At the end you can save your flavor, buy it, or send it to a friend.<\/p>\n<p><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'><a href=\"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/gourmet_frozen_ice_cream_desse.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Gourmet_frozen_ice_cream_desse\" height=\"391\" src=\"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/gourmet_frozen_ice_cream_desse.jpg?w=300\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>I guess I expected more from Ben &amp; Jerry&#8217;s. I can imagine sharing my creation on facebook, contests picking the best flavor and selling it for a limited time. Or at least the option of emailing your mom your flavor or something. <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>But that is the funny thing. A couple years ago, a static Flavor Generator would have been cool. But the web has progressed to a point where if something isn&#8217;t sharable, mixable and mash-able, we get disappointed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love ice cream. Yesterday I was experimenting with creating my own ice cream flavor online. I found a &#8220;Flavor Generator&#8221; on Ben &amp; Jerry&#8217;s. I had fun picking some sweet ingredients and swirls etc. (Raspberry, Blueberry Cake Batter anyone?) But wh&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486609"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/joshdance.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}