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I love crunch.

When I go to like Dairy Queen to get a blizzard,

I...

What's your order?

I mean, it's varied over the years. Sure. But right now it's vanilla chocolate swirl ice cream. Okay. With extra, extra, extra, extra heath bar. Whoa. I basically want like 50. Okay. I would get that without the chocolate ice cream. I would just want like the vanilla and the heat. Sometimes. Sometimes yes. But like when I was growing up, I mean, I remember the Dairy Queen Blizzard when it was invented. It was a seminal moment in my development as an eater. And I would go like vanilla ice cream, extra extra M&Ms. That was just my go to. That's a lot of crunch. Because when they freeze, they really get hard. And back then they were the full sizesize M&Ms, none of these mini bullshund.

We could handle it.

This is the Sporkful. It's not for foodies, it's for eaters.

I'm Dan Pashman.

Each week on our show we obsess about food to learn more about people.

Now, you know that I got a lot of ideas and

opinions about food, right? And one of my favorite foods in the world about which I have many

ideas and opinions is ice cream and ice cream sandwiches. For years, I've looked on with jealousy

as other people have been asked by ice cream companies

and stores to collaborate on unique flavors.

I even kept a Google Doc of ice cream and ice cream sandwich concepts just waiting for

my phone to ring.

And for years, all I heard was crickets.

And not the kind of crickets you put on ice cream, which I did try but did not put into my Google Doc. Then, a couple months ago, I heard from the folks at Heaps Ice Cream in Park Slope, Brooklyn. They had done a couple of collabs with local restaurants not really out-of-the-box ice cream sandwiches. Like they worked with the Taiwanese-American restaurant WinSod on one that paired heaps mango sticky rice ice cream

with a toasted soy sesame cookie.

Now they were reaching out to me to partner on a new ice cream sandwich.

It was time to call my Google Doc into action.

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