Then there is ice cream akin to a sundae in a pint container: so full of nutty brittles, veins of fudge and chunks of cookie or brownie that the ice cream itself becomes pretty much secondary.
You can have it in a cone, in a dish, in a soda, in a sundae, in a "crater" (hot fudge, custard and devil's food cake), in a milkshake or in a "concrete" -- the house special since the 1950's -- a gravity-defying, extra-thick shake, so thick you can turn it upside down without losing a spoonful.
"The last time he was here he ate a sundae in this same room".
And now I hear the San Francisco Creamery might add a sundae in my honor.
Never eat a sundae in the morning or for a meal, unless you look forward to stomach cramps.
The cast overacts each scene by performing any activity, from getting a shoeshine to pouring hot fudge on an ice cream sundae, in a sexually suggestive manner.
The airline scene, which, in fact, has nothing to do with the rest of the story, is the emotional cherry on the sundae in a movie that blithely paints the world as a technological booby trap.
WHAT WE LIKED Maryland crab cakes, Asian grilled chicken skewers, clams casino, butter and blue salad, Hollow Brook salad; Mama's meatballs, grilled black angus filet mignon, pesto Chilean sea bass (special), cockles and shrimp with penne in pink carbonara sauce (special); chocolate tower, brownie sundae in a glass, berries melba.
For a Nantucket getaway, it's Virginia Rich's classic island mystery The Nantucket Diet Murder inside a decadent @nantucketjuicebar Triple Chocolate Mountain Sundae in a Homemade Waffle Cup.
Whenever we got in the family Buick and headed out of Providence, I counted the miles until the iron pole with its hanging logo — Simple Simon, the Pieman, and Simon's drooling dog — signalling the choices I would have to make between peppermint stick with hot fudge and marshmallow sauce in a sundae, or a double-scoop sugar cone with sprinkles.
After lunch, a waiter delivered a brownie sundae to an elderly woman — a "cottonhead" in the book — and serenaded her with a surprisingly melodic rendition of "Happy Birthday".
