Come on ya ducks, just because the name sounds bad doesn't mean the sorbet is. I for one, like the name. It sounds like a name you give to medicine. The title itself hints that it is a helper for the flu. It's the same nomenclature for Cough Drop, Lemon Drop, Ice Cream, French Bread.
The first name describes the second name. Influenza describes what the Sorbet is made for. In "Cough Drop" Cough describes what the Drop is made for. Lemon describes the flavor of Drop. Ice describes the temperature of Cream. French describes what kind of Bread it is. It's a clever name anyway. :P I wouldn't believe that the sorbet gives you influenza anyway.
"Influenza Sorbet" - a great name or a gross one?
L.A. Times
2013/01/21 21:00:00
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Boozy ice cream for when you have the flu? Ohio-based small-batch ice cream maker Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams is making the news this flu season with one of its most popular winter flavors -- Influenza Sorbet, made with honey, ginger, orange and lemon juices, Maker's Mark bourbon and cayenne pepper.
Influenza Sorbet is no flu cure, but owner Jeni Britton Bauer told ABC News that the ice cream flavor inspired by a drink her grandmother made for her as a kid (which also included the whiskey) is intended to make you feel better. She notes that the sorbet contains pectin (also found in cough drops) to help coat and lubricate the throat.
The sorbet is available through February (January and February are flu season -- and this one's a "particularly severe" flu season, according to the Food and Drug Administration) and into March at Jeni's Splendid Ice Cream stores in Ohio and Tennessee, as well as online. It costs $12 a pint. How's it taste? Like a whiskey sour with a spicy kick.
Influenza Sorbet is no flu cure, but owner Jeni Britton Bauer told ABC News that the ice cream flavor inspired by a drink her grandmother made for her as a kid (which also included the whiskey) is intended to make you feel better. She notes that the sorbet contains pectin (also found in cough drops) to help coat and lubricate the throat.
The sorbet is available through February (January and February are flu season -- and this one's a "particularly severe" flu season, according to the Food and Drug Administration) and into March at Jeni's Splendid Ice Cream stores in Ohio and Tennessee, as well as online. It costs $12 a pint. How's it taste? Like a whiskey sour with a spicy kick.
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Tanor Z. Faux 2013/01/22 03:14:01
Leave it to an Ohioan to name something that.
(I'm from Ohio, so I'm allowed to bash my own 'kind'.) lol
influenza means 'under the influence of the stars'.
Arrogant Europeans to the end.
If that happens then it will not go well for the rest of the world. I highly doubt that. I have studied History and human nature and do you really want the USA to act like some inaccurately portray us?
Here are the facts. We have put our own men and women at risk to preserve democracy and to oppose tyrranny where ever it rears its ugly head.
We have been in two World Wars and did not profit directly from either one.
We have engaged in several mini-wars; ie; Vietnam, Korea, Afghanistan and Iraq. In all cases we suffered casualties and resource and monetary losses with nothing to show for it except that we made the world a safer, better place to live in and defended democracy and the world against tyrany.
We are the first nation in 10,000 yrs that has had the means to take over the entire known world and have not done so. Our national character and integrity and ideals are directly opposed to any such notion.
We had the opportunity to take over the world on four seperate occasions and turned our backs on the opportunities each time.