National Ice Cream Day: The Drumstick Might Be My Favorite
Today is National Ice Cream Day. I am not really a big ice cream person, but I do have a favorite. I think it might be the Drumstick.
It has everything I want. Ice cream in a cone, covered in chocolate and peanuts. And of course, that chocolate at the bottom of the cone. I don’t know who decided that was necessary, but they were right.
The original Drumstick goes back to 1928, when brothers I.C. and J.T. Parker created it in Fort Worth, Texas. One of the challenges with a prepackaged ice cream cone was keeping the cone from getting soggy. The solution was chocolate, used as a barrier between the ice cream and the cone. Almost a century later, there are all kinds of flavors and variations, but give me the original and I am happy.
For the photograph, one Drumstick was obviously not going to be enough. So I bought a box of them, piled them up, and photographed them against my very black black background.
I happen to really like this photograph. Then again, I really like what I photographed.
Today seems like a good day to go get another one.
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The First Dairy Queen and a Gap in My Fast Food Project
Yesterday marked the anniversary of the opening of the first Dairy Queen in Joliet, Illinois, on June 22, 1940.
Looking through my fast food project, I realized something.
I don’t have a single Dairy Queen photograph.
Considering the chain’s importance in the history of American fast food, that’s an oversight I need to correct. Dairy Queen helped introduce generations of Americans to soft serve ice cream and became one of the country’s most recognizable fast food chains.
Until I can photograph the real thing, I decided to start with the one thing that made Dairy Queen famous: a classic soft serve cone.
Dairy Queen has officially been added to my shooting list.
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