Complex Blog » Eats http://www.complex.com/blogs Buy. Collect. Obsess. The original buyer's guide for men. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:35:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Style & Design 2009: Our Favorite Old School Ice Creams http://www.complex.com/blogs/2009/08/14/style-design-2009-our-favorite-ice-creams/ http://www.complex.com/blogs/2009/08/14/style-design-2009-our-favorite-ice-creams/#comments Fri, 14 Aug 2009 19:58:03 +0000 intern http://www.complex.com/blogs/?p=54105 style-design-ice-cream
Seems like every year there’s a new magical dessert clamoring for attention—and more often than not, it’s some horrible retro-kitsch thing. To wit: rice pudding; creampuffs; inexplicably tangy frozen yogurt. To which we say: meh.

Dessert doesn’t need to be gussied up, it just needs to be cold and sweet and make you feel like a kid. So take it back to the ice-cream man. No Big Worm, no Master P, just some good humor. In this month’s Style & Design issue of Complex we co-signed old-school ice cream (after having a hot model taste-test them for us), and now we’re getting more specific with our five favorite choices…

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BEST ICE CREAM SANDWICH: MOUNTAIN HOUSE ICE CREAM SANDWICH
Price: $1.80
There have been many competitors, like the “Chaco Taco” and the “Chip-Wich,” but nothing beats the O.G.

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BEST ICE POP: FLA-VOR-ICE
Price: 50 cent at the local corner store; $3.99 a box online
This is the desert you started to buy during that summer you first started to notice that chicks didn’t have cooties any more. The go-to method is allowing the the ice to melt a little bit, then drinking the artificially flavored liquid like it was a quarter-water.

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BEST MULTI-FLAVORED ICE CREAM: POPSICLE PUSH POP ICE CREAM
Price: $2.00
Sherbert is for pussies, but as long as it’s in Push-Pop form, you can get away with it. The Flintstones had its own line of these things that were banging as well.

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BEST DESERT-FLAVORED ICE CREAM: STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE
PRICE: $1.50
Bakereis got tight when strawberry shortcake went from cake to ice cream bar. Haven’t had one of these? It’s like eating awesome.

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BEST ICE: POPSICLE SNOW CONE
Price: $2.00
What else did you expect at #1? Ice cream men and Mr. Softee still have jobs thanks to the amount of (colored) ice they sling.

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They say you can tell a lot about a woman by the way she eats. There are girls that pick nervously at their food (*cough* wack in bed *cough*) and then there’s chicks that really eat. As long as they’re not morbidly obese, we always cut for the latter.

Which is why the new Hardee’s commercial with Top Chef stunner Padma Lakshmi had the whole office on pause yesterday. Damn, that woman can throw it down! The ad reminded us how sexy it is to see a pretty girl eating, so we went through the archives to uncover the best food-porn commercials of all time…

FOOD: Hardee’s Monster Western Bacon Thickburger feat. Padma Lakshmi

FOOD: Korean noodles

FOOD: Carl’s Jr. feat. Paris Hilton (banned from TV!)

FOOD: Doritos feat. Ali Landry

FOOD: Burger King (banned from TV!)

FOOD: Poocharé Dog Food

FOOD: Hardee’s Monster Thickburger (pause)

FOOD: Guinness beer (fanmade)

FOOD: ExtenZe Subway

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Tastes like balls…literally.

We’re far from picky eaters at Complex, so when we read the news that a Serbian chef is releasing The Testicle Cookbook: Cooking With Balls, we weren’t immediately disgusted. After all, we’re big fans of Fear Factor, and the Testicle recipes are for actual cooked food'testicle pizza, battered testicles and barbecued testicles made from the nuts of stallions, ostriches, bulls, pigs and turkeys. According to the chef, balls are rich in testosterone (go figure) and operate as a powerful aphrodisiac.

Who knew'besides our lady friends'that balls could taste so good? Have we been missing out on other crotch-area culinary goodness? We scoured the globe for the top 5 dishes made from private parts…

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DISH: Donkey penis
COUNTRY: China. Quelle surprise.
BENEFIT: Enhances your virility
RISK: Choking when attempting to swallow and say “pause” at the same time

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DISH: Cow placenta
COUNTRY: India
BENEFIT: Protein and iron
RISK: Uhh. It’s placenta.

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DISH: Pig rectum
COUNTRY: Dominican Republic/China
BENEFIT: Can say you’ve eaten pig rectum
RISK: Mistaking fecal matter for spring onions

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DISH: Cow udder
COUNTRY: France/Italy
BENEFIT: Protein
RISK: Getting turned off to titties

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DISH: Chicken nuggets
COUNTRY: U.S.A.
BENEFIT: They taste fucking good!
RISK: The sneaking suspicion that it’s actually fried chicken vagina you’re dipping into that sweet and sour sauce

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