Friday, January 20, 2006

Chronicles of Lardbutt, Pt. 2

When my friends and I were about 18 and 19 years old, we worked at various times at a local ice cream and candy plant. They made gourmet candies and ice cream and also ran a locally famous ice cream parlor. We started as dish washers and then could work our way up to soda jerk.
We all became friends with the manager, a very nice guy named Bill. They served everything you would expect; hot fudge sundaes, banana splits and so on. They also had a dish called a tutti-frutti. It consisted of nineteen scoops of various ice cream flavors plus all of the toppings they had; chocolate, pineapple, strawberry, marshmallow, the works.. Obviously it was meant to serve a whole party of people.
We went in one day when we were off work. While we were trying to decide what to order, Lardbutt saw a group of people sitting next to us order a tutti-frutti. He got up and walked over to Bill and asked him that if he could eat a whole tutti-frutti by himself, could he have it for free? Bill shook he head in disbelief and then agreed.
He got through the first half in half an hour but it took him over an hour more to finish off the rest of it, which he did. We were amazed. As we stepped outside into a light rain, Lardbutt stopped and held his arms out for us to wait. Then he threw the whole works up onto the sidewalk. It was a rainbow of colors in a large puddle that began to mix with the rain. You could still make out the chocolate and vanilla and strawberry not to mention the nuts,
My only regret is that I didn’t have a camera handy to record it forever.


4 Comments:

At 8:00 PM, Blogger ... said...

What a waste of icecream...but the barfing continues and that must have gotten a laugh, huh?

 
At 9:48 AM, Blogger Mind Sprite said...

I think I like this Lardbutt guy. What a trooper! At least he made it outside and missed all of you.

 
At 2:26 PM, Blogger J.R. said...

It is also impossible to keep a gallon of milk down that you drank in under an hour. Physics is physics...

 
At 3:02 PM, Blogger Chicken said...

I'm surprised he had teeth left after all of this vomiting.

 

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