{"id":5877,"date":"2010-09-03T09:00:49","date_gmt":"2010-09-03T16:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/?p=5877"},"modified":"2017-08-16T09:18:51","modified_gmt":"2017-08-16T16:18:51","slug":"firefly-ice-cream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/firefly-ice-cream\/","title":{"rendered":"My (Labor Day) Food Is Problematic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are you a sci-fi <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">nerd<\/span>fan? If so, there&#8217;s a good chance that you enjoy Joss Whedon&#8217;s cult sci-fi TV series &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/1271\/firefly.html\">Firefly<\/a>&#8216;. Next question: Are you doing anything this summer holiday weekend to showcase your <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">nerdom<\/span>fandom? No? Well, why don&#8217;t you whip up this tasty yet weird ice cream treat featured as a throwaway gag in one episode of the show? What, you have better things to do? I didn&#8217;t think so.<\/p>\n<h6><!--more--><\/h6>\n<p>As seen in episode &#8216;The Message&#8217;, this oddball concoction called an &#8220;Ice-Planet&#8221; is basically a ball of ice cream dangling from a string on a stick. After several attempts to eat such a thing, River Tam declared, <em>&#8220;My food is problematic.&#8221;<\/em> Apparently, that hasn&#8217;t stopped fans from trying to recreate the goofy dessert. <\/p>\n<p>How do you get a ball of ice cream to dangle from a string on a stick? Visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/tastyplanner.com\/blog\/articles\/The-Problem-with-Ice-Planets\">Tasty Planner blog<\/a> for all the instructions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/iceplanet.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/iceplanet.jpg\" title=\"Yeah, it looks weird to me too.\" width=\"300\" height=\"292\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5883\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/iceplanet.jpg 440w, https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/iceplanet-300x292.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Try not to make too much of a mess eating it while plowing through a marthon of the show on Blu-ray.<\/p>\n<p><em>[Post topic suggested by Mrs. Z.]<\/em><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you a sci-fi nerdfan? If so, there&#8217;s a good chance that you enjoy Joss Whedon&#8217;s cult sci-fi TV series &#8216;Firefly&#8216;. Next question: Are you doing anything this summer holiday weekend to showcase your nerdomfandom? No? Well, why don&#8217;t you whip up this tasty yet weird ice cream treat featured as a throwaway gag in&#8230;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_excerpt -->","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":5876,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[140,372],"tags":[169,403,711,1204,909],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5877"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5877"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5914,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5877\/revisions\/5914"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}