I missed what may have been one of the most amazing sights at the ice-cream factory. I am not sure when it happened, but some of the sanitation veterans were talking today about it.
When making ice-cream, there is usually more than one machine involved. There is one machine which pumps the actual ice-cream and additional machines for the revel (flavored sauce) and/or fruit and/or chocolate chunks and/or brownie pieces and/or whatever. All of the ingredients are then combined in one machine and then pumped into cartons.
That explained, one day, strawberry ice-cream was being made. This required a couple of different machines, one of which (called a fruit feeder) pumped the strawberries into the actual ice-cream. For whatever reason, someone opened the top of the fruit feeder while it was running, and--BOOM!
I don't think there was an actual BOOM noise, but the machine did shoot strawberries everywhere. There was a series of pipes and conveyor belts over this production line, and the strawberries just coated everything and then dripped down onto all of the machinery below, kind of like it was snowing strawberries . . . or raining chunky period blood. Either way, if I had been there, I would have run underneath the dripping strawberry goodness with my mouth wide open to catch as much of it as I could. That would have been enjoyable. What would have not been enjoyable would have been the cleaning up the mess--which the sanitation crew did . . . for several hours afterward.
Daily Ice-Cream Intake :
1/4 Gallon - Tin Roof Ice-Cream, 1 Toffee Ice-Cream Bar, 1 Caramel Ice-Cream Cone, 1 Cookie Ice-Cream Sandwich
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