SUPERMAN ICE CREAM FLAVOR PROFESSIONAL

SUPERMAN ICE CREAM FLAVOR PROFESSIONAL

Beyond Doig, I teased expertise from a Milwaukee ice-cream salesperson and a professional confectioner to get as close to Blue Moon’s secret as possible. While I couldn’t have expected Doig to expose his company’s secrets for this article, part of me hoped he might. “But I’m not gonna tell you what’s in it.” “I have the formula here in front of me,” James Doig, vice president of Weber Flavors, the company that owns the flavor’s patent, told me over the phone. The Blue Moon ice cream flavoring recipe is proprietary information, and those close to it are tight-lipped. It’s the aftertaste in particular that is, frankly, somewhat infuriating, a flavor layer that seems to say, “you know what this is,” but you don’t-and in fact, very few people do. It’s bright, mildly citrusy, and almost fruity, but not in a cloying way.

Native to the Midwestern United States and little known elsewhere, Blue Moon’s flavor dances on the tip of your tongue, taunting you into another guess, at turns familiar and elusive.

An alluring hue of cosmic blue, this ice cream has secrets. It is, perhaps, one or more of these flavors, but that’s not for us civilians to know. It’s almond, it’s raspberry, it’s lemon, it’s Froot Loops, it’s cotton candy, it’s beaver musk additive (seriously-more on that later). Ask six different people what the flavor of Blue Moon ice cream is and you’ll get six different answers, at least.

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