Ice Cream Crazy! Live Longer? Hot Chicken Flavor? Blue Moon?

Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Radio

Milk Street Radio

Food, Arts

4.4 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

For this special bonus episode, we share a story from the Points North podcast about blue moon ice cream—it's a wacky, surprisingly delicious and very blue ice cream flavor beloved in the Midwest. But no one knows what the flavor actually is, and ice cream makers are notoriously secretive about it. We hear about Morgan Springer's quest to find out more. Plus, we share a few of our all-time favorite ice cream stories: Journalist David Johns investigates whether ice cream could actually be good for you; we talk with Saturated Ice Cream founder Lokelani Alabanza, who invents new flavors from peanuts and Coke to Nashville hot chicken; and we make charred pineapple and honey ice cream.

Get the recipe for Charred Pineapple with Spiced Honey and Coconut Ice Cream here.

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0:00.0	Hey, Milk Street listeners. As fall approaches, I've asked Stella Parks to help me answer your baking questions.
0:06.5	So from spice cakes to Halloween candies and much more, we're opening the phone lines to tackle your autumn baking projects.
0:13.9	Please email us at questions at milkstreetradio.com.
0:17.3	One more time, send questions to milkstreetradio.com and we'll be in touch.
0:27.2	This is a special episode of Mox Street Radio from PRX and I'm your host, Christopher
0:32.4	Kimball. Today, it's all about ice cream. We share a few of our all-time favorite pieces about ice cream,
0:39.7	like the cook who's on a mission to turn Nashville hot chicken into ice cream. So I talked to a really
0:46.2	close friend of mine. He said, why don't you use chicken skin? And I went, it's brilliant.
0:52.5	We also try to find out, could ice cream actually be good for you?
0:56.3	And we make charred pineapple and honey ice cream.
0:59.7	High heat and pineapple make for a beautiful thing.
1:02.8	But first, we're thrilled to share a recent piece from Interlock and Public Radio's Points North podcast,
1:09.3	all about the mystery of blue moon ice cream.
1:12.0	Here's Points North host, Dan Wansura, with that story.
1:16.9	Okay, you're recording?
1:18.3	I'm recording.
1:19.6	Great.
1:20.8	This is Morgan Springer.
1:22.2	You might know her as the editor of our podcast, but I know her as the person who is trying
1:26.9	to solve a mystery.
1:28.8	So I've called you here today because I want to tell you a little story.
1:32.1	Yeah, go for it.
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