I tripped over an ice-cream ealier.
By katerina
@thea09 (18305)
Greece
November 20, 2009 5:53am CST
Quite a few of them actually, before a couple of coffees and a slice or two of pizza. Probably you've noticed that we rarely have a chance to answer these fascinating and interesting discussions about favourite ice cream flavours and pizza toppings anymore as they tend to get deleted as repetitive.
But I know how you can still make them without being deleted. My research has shown it just takes a little originality in the title and the chances are your discussion will remain and most likely gain you 100's of responses as there really aren't that many left. Another good tip is to actually respond to the very first response to fool people into thinking you may actually be interested in making it into a discussion. So let's get original.
I'll start with do you prefer tea or coffee (likely to be deleted). Let's try 'if you were sitting on a hill looking at the view would you choose coffee or tea to drink'.
Let's see if we can muster up some original pizza, coffee and ice cream discussions.
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12 responses
@zed_k4 (17589)
• Singapore
20 Nov 09
Wakakakka. That's clever, actually. In fact, I have some questions springing. I have always wondered how an ice-cream is made. I know that you can use fresh yogurts and stuff but what about those complicated menus like chocolate chip ice-cream, strawberry fudge and whatnot? Yummy! 
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@thea09 (18305)
• Greece
20 Nov 09
Hi zed, yes indeed, your ice cream will remain undeleted currently if you post about eating it in the winter but new ones are required. Ice cream is generally made from eggs and cream but I prefer mine made from Greek yogurt. Nothing complicated at all but you may find it easier to start off with a granita, or sorbet, which only requires a plastic tub and a spoon.
I'll look foward to your scintillatind ice cream discussion later zed.
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@rosepedal64 (4188)
• United States
20 Nov 09
Hi thea
I like the way that you think. It is true that you can ask the same with different wording. I always look for the catchy phrases on a discussion. It makes them more interesting and yep it will get many responses. I do enjoy reading your discussions. Have a nice day and keep up the good work. Keep Smiling.
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@thea09 (18305)
• Greece
20 Nov 09
Hi rosepedal, all settled I hope in your new home and getting high on cleaning all that extra space? Yes my research revealed that the new in subject is would you eat ice cream in the winter, I hope you appreciate the research I did was dismally boring.
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@rosepedal64 (4188)
• United States
20 Nov 09
Yes thea I am enjoying my new place. Things are looking good here. I think I may have lost some weight since been here from the extra cleaning room..LOL.. Now Im ready to get started on putting up the tree and decorations for christmas. Have a nice day and keep smiling.
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@xfahctor (14113)
• Lancaster, New Hampshire
20 Nov 09
If I was going to complain to congress, I would do so over an extra cheese pizza, mocha ice cream and coffee (with a splash of whiskey in it). Because there is nothing tastier to eat while complaining to congress on wednesday, november 25th......so yummy.
@xfahctor (14113)
• Lancaster, New Hampshire
20 Nov 09
Hi xfahctor, so what's the date of the one I was going to join in then, the day I don't complain to congress?
As you have failed the challenge set here I must challenge you now to enter politics and open an original and fascinating and interesting discussion on WHO HID THE BIRTH CERTIFICATE. If you feel that really is a litte too jaded now you could come up with an origianal one about bowing to the Emperor of China. Remember please, re word your title so there's no chance of being deleted through repitition.
WHO HID THE GOAT?
WEll, this is the same day actually. I declared it in response to the congressmans resolution to make it a complaint free day. I used my powers as temporary dictator of New Hampshire to do so.
And what do you mean I failed the challenge? It thought I worked all 3 in to the response in a pretty clever (if shameless) fashion. Either way, I was thinkng more along the lines of "Palin in 2012, what do the Mayans think?"
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@thea09 (18305)
• Greece
20 Nov 09
Hi xfahctor, so what's the date of the one I was going to join in then, the day I don't complain to congress?
As you have failed the challenge set here I must challenge you now to enter politics and open an original and fascinating and interesting discussion on WHO HID THE BIRTH CERTIFICATE. If you feel that really is a litte too jaded now you could come up with an origianal one about bowing to the Emperor of China. Remember please, re word your title so there's no chance of being deleted through repitition.
WHO HID THE GOAT?
WHO HID THE GOAT?
All I did was slip on an ice cream and valuable research time was wasted in this discussion. If you don't believe me look at all the ice cream discussions I responded to earlier which had survived the axe.
@cynthiann (18612)
• Jamaica
20 Nov 09
I would choose tea. Now I will explain why even thought it is not very interesting.Yawn Yawn!
You see they do not grow teas where i live but I did have coffee on our farm. S before I would have a cup of coffee whilst looking out over the hills at the farm I first would have to:
Pick it when the berries or beans ripe. Very tedious
Dry it some sort of way and then it would go into a thingy called a pestle and mortar. You had to bang the coffee in the thingy with either the pestle or mortar - cannot remember which is which - and then sieve it a little or bang it again before brewing.
And all of the above before drinking it.
So therefore - it is far less tdious for me to drink tea.
Okay. Go back to sleep
So therefore - it is far less tdious for me to drink tea.
Okay. Go back to sleep
@cynthiann (18612)
• Jamaica
20 Nov 09
Yes, we grew coffee, just enough for household use for the year. I was young and foolish as it was extrememly hard work. I also did chocolate or drnks too and all sorts of things that I no longer have any desire to do. Living off the land was extremely hard way of life.
Just in case you are remotely interested (which you are not but I will tell you anyway
) I like coconut and coffee ice cream and like real mushrooms on my pizza. Huge fat juicy mushrooms - none of that tinned stuff
Just in case you are remotely interested (which you are not but I will tell you anyway) I like coconut and coffee ice cream and like real mushrooms on my pizza. Huge fat juicy mushrooms - none of that tinned stuff@thea09 (18305)
• Greece
20 Nov 09
Of course I'm interested in huge fat juicy mushrooms. Amazingly we have no mushrooms here and have only had over priced button ones for years, usually slimey by the time they hit the shops. But they've just brought in those huge portobello ones which are wonderful. The one and only time I've had garlic mushrooms in a taverna (not a Greek dish) I could have cried as the tinned mushrooms arrived.
Silly question but can you actually smell the coffee beans before you harvest them? I'd just be lying around inhaling them if you can.
@thea09 (18305)
• Greece
20 Nov 09
Hi cynthiann, so you decided to come up with an original response to such a boring topic rather than an original title. I can see it wouldn't suit you to put up an originally worded title (guaranteed to bring you 100's of responses as all the rest will have been deleted) as you are so nice you'd feel obliged to answer every one and find yourself asleep with boredom.
I once took the challenge on a pizza one, slightly more original than its toppings, but boxed myself in horrendously by receiving 35 identical answers.
Wow though, you really grow coffee.
Wow though, you really grow coffee.
@linamachina (521)
• United States
20 Nov 09
Hi Thea, How about,"If there was a yellow caution tape (the ones that are used at crime scenes) in front of your favorite pizza parlor, would you still go in to get your pizza? There is no other police activity going on. You can still see the pizza maker inside and you just ordered your favorite pizza, with your favorite toppings, what are they and is it worth going in and possibly disturbing a crime scene?" or "Your political affiliations are being chosen by which drink you choose, do you choose coffee or tea? No background is given, after your choice you will be notified, use the differences in coffee or tea to decide." and finally, "You wake up in an unknown location without any clothing, and the only thing you see are tubs of ice cream, you look out the window and your car is in running distance but people are milling about, would you use ice cream to cover the necessary parts to be covered to run to your car or would you eat the ice cream and use the tubs?"
@linamachina (521)
• United States
20 Nov 09
Thea, I'm the hoverfly...I feel like I would be pointing a target on my poor dancing avatar. Not to mention how people will think that I feel that coffee and tea have certain political characteristics which I can't think of any, anyway but it would be amusing to see, perhaps I should post it in the safe p.e. interest. It is meant to be satirical. Please feel free to use the idea in the political interest. I read it but have not had any inclination to join in the fray.
@linamachina (521)
• United States
21 Nov 09
Goodness gracious Holly,...I truly do not know what happen, (smacks myself in the head) of course, the Boston Tea Party...I am ..um..shamefully embarrassed, I was too caught up in the drinking tea or coffee, not thinking. What a blunder! Thank you!
@linamachina (521)
• United States
21 Nov 09
Holly, you are too kind to provide me with an excuse, but its true the brain freeze from my ice cream and from Sandra's ice cream discussion truly did have me ice creamed out along with a brain freeze!
@scarlet_woman (23463)
• United States
21 Nov 09
i probably would be drinking coffee on the hill..because i'm always drinking coffee anyway.you'd think i'd be wired for sound,but it barely affects me.
..isn't much in the way of hills around here,though..
..isn't much in the way of hills around here,though..
@pergammano (7682)
• Canada
20 Nov 09
Hey, thea...my power has been on for more than 3 hours. So tired of running out and starting that generator!
O.K. how many of you have made Ice Cream..the old fashioned way? Fresh eggs, fresh cream, churn....two buckets, one filled with ice & salt, smaller one inside, and churn, churn...churn? Yummy....as you tumble in the wild berries that you have just picked. How many of you...in desperation have looked for alternatives to Coffee...and roasted dandelion roots? Or made your own Pizza dough, from scratch and added a mixture of cheeses/herbs between two crusts before adding your favourite toppings!
Oh...and top of the hill, I might do some "otherwise" imbibing, so when I fell off the landscape, rolled down the hill....the abrupt stop, might NOT hurt so much! Something we loved to do as kids, roll down a sidehill, right into a creek at the bottom, and laugh so hard....we had to crawl back up the hill! Have a great one..and HUGZ!
@thea09 (18305)
• Greece
20 Nov 09
Hi Shirley, I must confess to having never made ice cream in a bucket, but have made it in the ice cream maker. I've never in my life made pizza dough but regularly do creative things with wild herbs. Nothing would make me so desperate as to roast dandelion roots when a cup of mint tea only requires some fresh mint leaves putting in a pan of water.
Well that was more interesting than the ones I've been researching and unsuprisingly I didn't run into you there answering a single one about your favourite ice cream topping. Have a good day with TJ when he arrives. Hugs.
@Hatley (163772)
• Garden Grove, California
21 Nov 09
hi thea do I prefer coffee or tea,well seeing that its darned
cold tonight inhere and my roomie is snoring, a hot cup of most anything, preferably hot chocolate though would be great. my legs feel cold. when it was so hot earlier I swore I would not complain when it got cooler but here I am complaining.oh well that only means I am human. Well as long as you did not do a gainer over the ice cream that probably had melted into a gooey mess all is well. How about a discussion asking if anyone ever threw their icecream at you and why, and did you duck why and if you did not why? that still sounds too repetitive though.
How about how many of you like to dump your ice cream on top of
your pizza ? that at least might make a few people go yuck or erp.we were playing scrabble today and found out the word erp is an actual word meaning to vomit.oh my head is swirling with thoughts of coffee,tea and ice cream mixed with pizza.yuck. now I am hungry.go figure.
@thea09 (18305)
• Greece
21 Nov 09
Hi Hatley, you sounded in a crabby mood when you answered there, but I love the discovery of your new word. Excuse me I need to 'erp' - wonder if it translates into Greek.
I sympathise with all of your complaints, there is nothing worse than cold feet, once the feet are cold the whole body suffers. The weather has been lovely today but not hot enough to complain about the heat, but the evening is bitterly cold, I planned to go out but couldn't be bothered looking for enough socks to keep my feet warm out there.
Anyway you came up with some good discssion titles which wouldn't be deleted, so please rise to the challenge now and use one of them, a number have already been started by our friends here. I think the dumping ice cream on top of the pizza would generate many responses for you Hatley and would be quite fun. But the confusion as to where to place it, in pizza or ice cream.
@dawnald (85137)
• Shingle Springs, California
21 Nov 09
If I went to the lake today, where would I post my pictures? Here: http://rddcn.multiply.com/photos/album/239 We had ice cream afterward. I had chocolate fudge and Dearra had rocky road. Cary was a rebel and had a cookie.
Got any coffee? :-)
@Sandra1952 (6047)
• Spain
21 Nov 09
Hello, Thea, well, I wouldn't be sitting on the hill, as I have lupus, which affects my lungs and makes climbing a no-no. But assuming I had been driven up there, I wouldn't have tea or coffee. I don't drink coffee. I love tea, but if I'm outdoors it has to be cava - demi secco and preferably rose, although I won't turn any cava down as long as it's well chilled.
@thea09 (18305)
• Greece
21 Nov 09
Hello Sandra and excellent, a suprise rise to the challenge on your part with an interesting ice cream discussion. Holly is going to do a coffee one and Lina did an ice cream one. Really good to see everyone playing.
Where on earth did you get the idea I could possibly be interested in what beverage you choose to drink up a hill?
