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(There was a blackberry sage pie too, which was certainly delicious though you may know I believe that dessert without chocolate isn’t dessert at all but is salad. The event featured luscious ice cream sandwiches made with Big Gay Ice Cream and Mindy Segal’s cookies – peppermint ice cream with “Black Sabbath” chocolate cookies, and dulce de leche ice cream between ‘nilla wafer cookies (that combo is the “Bea Arthur,” named for the late actress, who was a distant cousin of mine, but that’s a story for another day).Īlso at the party: Bang Bang Pie a la mode including lovely chocolate pecan pie with vanilla Big Gay Ice Cream. The event hashtag combined the names of the businesses into #bighotbang, naturally! Ice cream social extraordinaire I attended a wonderful “ice cream social” event to celebrate three first-class brands: Big Gay Ice Cream of New York and Philadelphia, Hot Chocolate restaurant and dessert bar owned by award-winning chef Mindy Segal, and beloved Chicago pie shop Bang Bang Pie, held in Bang Bang Pie’s back yard in Chicago’s Logan Square neighborhood.
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Here’s a delicious trio for you: ice cream, cookies, and pie – with an overriding chocolate theme, of course! Pie glorious pie: chocolate pecan Bang Bang Pie made with fair trade Kakao Berlin Chocolate And how about the trios of Facebook, twitter and Instagram, or the Three Tenors, or the Red White and Blue! Think of The Three Musketeers, the three dimensions, and the three members of groups ranging from The Supremes, to The Beastie Boys, to Destiny’s Child. The number three is a magical number in realms such as literature, the physical world, and popular culture. By Valerie Beck – “The Chocolate Queen” Tasty trio of ice cream, cookies, and chocolate pecan pie