non-dairy flavors

[cos]

solestria, who doesn't eat dairy, told me she wished all the sorbets were placed together on one table.

Later, separately, I heard surrealestate telling about how someone had taken a scoop full of a dairy ice cream and put it into a sorbet container. I asked what she thought of the idea of putting sorbets on a separate table, and she said it'd be great if all the non-dairy flavors had their own table.

wotw chimed in to say that he thinks only sorbets should be allowed because they're much better than ice cream, but having a separate non-dairy table would be better than nothing :)

So, I'm posting to see what other people think of this. Has it been considered before?

Comments

[whuffle.livejournal.com]

We talked of doing something similar with the savory flavors. I'm beginning to think that maybe the tables should be themed to make it easier for folk to gravitate toward the right area for their tastes. Yes, I know it's more work for the freezing team, but I'd be willing to pitch in to volunteer to keep that organized for them while freezing happens and I bet a lot of other interested parties would volunteer to do so as well.

[ceo]

I like that idea, though coming up with intuitive and consistent categories would be... an interesting exercise.

[aliothsan.livejournal.com]

Huh, I thought they already were themed and I just couldn't figure it out. I like the idea in theory, although I'm afraid it might make the "good" tables even more crowded than they already are.

[pekmez.livejournal.com]

Themes could be stuff like "sorbet", "fruit", "booze" and "nuts" and "chocolate" as well as "weird" and/or "savory", in which case I think it would be less clear which table was most "good" to who.

I'd also be willing to help volunteer. It would mostly require more thought when sticking a color and a column on a flavor, right? after that you still hvae the same ordered chao that is the running of the flavor, each quart has its table label right on it.

[dcseain.livejournal.com]

I'd be happy to help with such categorizing/labelling for the running - i think it's a great idea.

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

This slippery slope is why (from what I've heard talking to ice cream crew over the years) there *hasn't* been segregation. Say, for example, there's a non-dairy fruity nutty chocolate flavor or the like. Which table does it go on?

Personally, I think the dairy/non-dairy split is an easy an obvious one that doesn't require any sort of judgment call (is this fruity/nutty/weird enough to be in that category?) and I think we should be careful going beyond that.

I'm also, however, fully in support of special separate tastings that don't happen during the Running of the Flavors, and those can be themed or not in all sorts of ways. But for the Running, I think any splits should be simple and clear.

[chenoameg.livejournal.com]

What she said.

[sodyera.livejournal.com]

I agree.

[cos]

I'm not sure what I think of going beyond dairy/nondairy. Other categories get much fuzzier (was Boston Tea Party "savory"? I'm sure some people think so and others think not - I think not) and there are so many more of them. And the few of them that actually intersect with anyone's real eating restrictions (religious or health related or whatever) tend to cover small numbers of flavors.

[vvalkyri.livejournal.com]

I'd been agitating for a 'savoury' tasting for a long while - opt-in, though. e.g. last year there were a few that were great on their own and awful next to more normally sweet flavors.

[dcseain.livejournal.com]

Yes, this!