- Title: 'Not as bad as you'd imagine' hot dog flavored ice cream in NY
- Date: 14th August 2019
- Summary: NEW YORK, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES (AUGUST 14, 2019) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF HOT DOGGERS HANDING OUT ICE CREAM SANDWICHES VARIOUS OF CYNTHIA PENA EATING ICE CREAM (SOUNDBITE) (English) HOTDOGGER MITCH "MEAT-MAN MITCH" MCMAHON SAYING: "Yeah, today we are giving out ice dog sandwiches in honor of National Ice Cream Sandwich day. We have we partnered up with il laboratorio del gelato to make two unique flavors of ice cream. One is a spicy mustard ice cream and then the other is ice cream infused with candied pieces of Oscar Mayer hot dog in it." (SOUNDBITE) (English) CYNTHIA PENA SAYING: "It's weird. It tastes like a hot dog with mustard. That's so weird." GIRL EATING ICE CREAM SANDWICH FAMILY EATING ICE CREAM (SOUNDBITE) (English) UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN SAYING: "It has a little kick to it." HOT DOGGER HANDING OUT ICE CREAM SANDWICHES (SOUNDBITE) CHASE MONTAVON SAYING: "It's kind of gross. Because you can like taste the hot dog with that ice cream and it's not good." [REPORTER: "But you're still eating it." (SOUNDBITE) CHASE MONTAVON SAYING: "I have nothing else to do today." MAN HOLDING ICE CREAM READING WRAPPER (SOUNDBITE) (English) MATTHEW KUSTERA SAYING: "It's interesting, I mean, it's mustard ice cream. It's - it's unique, it's not for everyone I guess. I personally like it, but the mustard is really spicy." KUSTERA EATING SANDWICH WOMAN EATING SANDWICH (SOUNDBITE) (English) UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN SAYING: "It's ok. I was expecting something different." [REPORTER QUESTION: "Does it taste like a hot dog?" (SOUNDBITE) (English) UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN SAYING: "No, does it, do you taste it?" (SOUNDBITE) (English) UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN SAYING: "No, it tastes like mustard." (SOUNDBITE) (English) HOTDOGGER MITCH "MEAT-MAN MITCH" MCMAHON SAYING: "The way I describe it is that the ice cream infused with candied Oscar Mayer bacon is kind of like a salter cookies and cream. And the spicy Dijon mustard just kind of - oh, God it's so unique, it's hard, it's hard to explain. But it really, it has that sweet taste with that kind of a curt feeling to it." (SOUNDBITE) (English) VIOLA PU SAYING: "I personally think it's a little bit weird actually, yeah. I think it's a little bit too sour. I'm only having half of it. I don't know about the other because I heard two different flavors. But I'm too used to the sweet ice cream so it's a little bit different I would say." PU EATING SANDWICH PEOPLE SURROUNDING WIENERMOBILE VARIOUS OF WIENERMOBILE WIENERMOBILE DRIVING DOWN STREET WIENERMOBILE PARKED IN FRONT OF BRYANT PARK IN MIDTOWN MANHATTAN
- Embargoed: 28th August 2019 20:48
- Keywords: Oscar Mayer hot dog flavored ice cream candied hot dogs mustard flavored gelato Bryant Park Wienermobile Ice Dog
- Location: NEW YORK, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES
- City: NEW YORK, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES
- Country: USA
- Topics: Human Interest / Brights / Odd News,Society/Social Issues
- Reuters ID: LVA001AS6V1P5
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text:In honor of National Ice Cream Sandwich day, processed meat company Oscar Mayer has created two flavors of 'ice dog' sandwiches with sorbet producer il laboratorio del gelato.
"One is a spicy mustard ice cream and then the other is ice cream infused with candied pieces of Oscar Mayer hot dog in it," explained hotdogger Mitch "Meat-Man Mitch" McMahon.
Five hundred samples were handed out in front of the company's famous 27-foot-long wienermoblie at New York's Bryant Park on Wednesday (August 14).
As customers lined up to partake in the treats, exclamations of "gross!" and "yum!" could be heard as they took a bite.
"It's weird. It tastes like a hot dog with mustard. That's so weird," said Cynthia Pena.
"It's kind of gross. Because you can like taste the hot dog with that ice cream and it's not good," said Chase Montavon.
The free giveaway is only for two days, while a social media contest will give people a chance to win a shipment of the frozen treats directly to their home.
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