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Cimorene ([personal profile] cimorene) wrote2025-04-25 02:15 pm
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mini daffodils!

All our mini daffodils were in bloom last weekend before the holiday!

This morning it hailed briefly though. 😩 It's over already and the sun is back out. The hail was very tiny, like Dippin Dots icecream or smaller, and the flowers seem fine though.

Also the grass is finally up, so our yard's background color is green and not brown. That was not the case last Sunday.

By the way, [personal profile] waxjism didn't know what Dippin' Dots were, so I suppose it's a purely American phenomenon. If you're a foreigner too and also don't know, I highly encourage you to do a web search (esp. photos), because the idea is incredibly weird and silly and, now that I think of it, extremely American. But basically it's icecream that is made into masses of tiny individual spheres, smaller than a pea but bigger than a grain of couscous, by means of flash freezing in liquid nitrogen. They are sold from kiosks and at fairs like street food. They are not any different from other ice cream, they are just little balls for no reason.
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[personal profile] princessofgeeks 2025-04-25 11:24 am (UTC)(link)
The mini daffodils are my favorite! I have a ton in my yard and they are SO CUTE.
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[personal profile] twistedchick 2025-04-26 03:56 am (UTC)(link)
IIRC, Dippin Dots were made as part of the space program, so astronauts could have ice cream in space. I have had them at the NASA museum in DC and also the one in Hutchinson, Kansas, that stores enormous rockets and also the Apollo 11 capsule.
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[personal profile] ursamajor 2025-04-27 01:52 am (UTC)(link)
Dippin' Dots! I had such a thing for them when I was younger. It was such a fascinating texture, like, almost chewy when first opened, and a distinctly separate texture when I spooned them into my mouth. They would melt together fairly quickly, but those first few seconds, it was almost like eating round sprinkles straight out of the jar. The nearby movie theatre when I lived near Fenway Park had a vending machine where you could get Dippin' Dots without having to buy a movie ticket, so I would buy them pretty frequently, especially since I didn't have AC in that apartment.