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The Irish Sun
18-07-2025
- Entertainment
- The Irish Sun
Sweet-toothed Camilla treats grandchildren to posh ice-cream tasting session with some VERY wacky flavours
THE Queen took home hundreds of pounds worth of ice cream after blind tasting odd flavours including pickled onion and gravy. It came after Her Majesty treated her grandchildren to a £45-a-head tester session at a wacky West London parlour this week. Advertisement 8 The Queen took home hundreds of pounds worth of ice cream after blind tasting odd flavours including pickled onion and gravy Credit: Getty 8 The Queen's grandchildren Credit: Mark Stewart Photography 8 The Anya Hindmarch store, Belgravia, London Credit: Andrew Styczynski The royal and her family were handed a pen and paper and had to guess the flavours of iced treats infused with olive oil, sriracha hot sauce and biscuits. She was so taken by some of the flavours, she left with boxes of goodies — including £4.50 single scoops of Ovaltine and Club Orange flavoured ice creams. But insiders revealed the Queen was not a fan of the pickled onion flavoured iced delights. Advertisement Read More on Royals Their blind tasting at the Anya Hindmarch store, Belgravia, came just two days before A source said: 'Camilla and her grandchildren had a great time tasting all of the strange flavours. But Camilla didn't fancy tasting the pickled onion ice cream. Afterwards she bought a lot of treats for her grandchildren and left with a scoop of Club Orange and another of Ovaltine, both for herself.' The trendy ice cream parlour has attracted a long list of celebrity visitors including former England captain Sir David Beckham and Harry Potter star Rupert Grint. Telly presenter Advertisement Most read in Royals Exclusive Gaby said: 'I come here every year and the ice cream flavours are insane. It's absolutely amazing and there are so many to choose from.' Harriet, who plays Elaine Peacock in the soap, said: 'Both Gaby and I love the sriracha flavour, it's got a real kick to it. It's crazy good.' Queen thanks Novak Djokovic for letting her stay in his 'lovely' property in 'private' chat at Wimbledon For £45 a person, visitors can try 15 flavours in the Ice Cream Project Blind Tasting Tea until September 7. Unusual flavours include Irn-Bru, Bird's Custard, Bisto Gravy, Copella Cloudy Apple Juice, Filippo Berio Extra Virgin Olive Oil and Flying Goose Sriracha. Advertisement Other wacky ones on offer are Garner's Pickled Onions, Maldon Sea Salt sorbet, McVitie's Club Orange, McVitie's Milk Chocolate HobNobs, Ovaltine, Quaker Oats, Romney's Kendal Mint Cake, Rowse Honey and Jacob's Twiglets. The store is primarily a quirky fashion business and also sells a range of bags and trinkets, including Heinz Baked Beans candles for £95, a £1,295 After Eight mints tote bag and a Mr Muscle duster silk scarf for £195. IS POSH NOSH TOSH FOR DOSH? SWEET treats shop The Ice Cream Project by Anya Hindmarch has gone viral with its weird and wonderful scoops. Zara Qureshi braved the queues in Belgravia for a £16-a-tub taste test… Advertisement BISTO GRAVY - 2/5 A WEIRD one, but not totally off-putting. It's got a warm, salty kick that's just right. 8 Bisto Gravy ends up being oddly tasty without being a total shock to the system Credit: Andrew Styczynski It is not too much but not too little either. Advertisement It ends up being oddly tasty without being a total shock to the system. GARNER'S PICKLED ONION - 1/5 The smell hits you before the taste, with unexpected onion bits that take you by surprise. The sourness clashes with the sweetness, which is unusual since I normally like onion sauces. 8 Garner's Pickled Onion smell hits you before the taste Credit: Ian Whittaker Advertisement Overall, a horrid flavour. QUAKER PORRIDGE OATS - 3/5 Chewy, chunky and unapologetically hearty. It's a good thing I skipped breakfast because this is more meal than treat. 8 Quaker Porridge Oats were chewy, chunky and unapologetically hearty Credit: Andrew Styczynski Advertisement The sweet vanilla base and oaty, coarse texture easily doubles as breakfast. FLYING GOOSE SRIRACHA - 4/5 AS a spicy food addict, I thought I'd tried it all, but this was a first. It starts off cold and sweet, lulling you into comfort, then suddenly hits with a fiery kick of garlic. 8 Flying Goose Sriracha starts off cold and sweet, lulling you into comfort, then suddenly hits with a fiery kick of garlic Credit: Andrew Styczynski Advertisement The contrast is definitely unexpected. JACOB'S TWIGLETS - 4/5 I thought this would be awful, but it pulled off a sweet-and-salty surprise — like American bacon waffles with syrup. Slightly Marmite-y and yeasty, it had a softened crunch which made it unexpectedly delicious. 8 Jacob's Twiglets were slightly Marmite-y and yeasty, it had a softened crunch which made it unexpectedly delicious Credit: Peter Jordan Advertisement
Scottish Sun
18-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Scottish Sun
Sweet-toothed Camilla treats grandchildren to posh ice-cream tasting session with some VERY wacky flavours
Insiders revealed the Queen was not a fan of certain flavoured iced treat CAMILLA ICE Sweet-toothed Camilla treats grandchildren to posh ice-cream tasting session with some VERY wacky flavours Click to share on X/Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) THE Queen took home hundreds of pounds worth of ice cream after blind tasting odd flavours including pickled onion and gravy. It came after Her Majesty treated her grandchildren to a £45-a-head tester session at a wacky West London parlour this week. Sign up for Scottish Sun newsletter Sign up 8 The Queen took home hundreds of pounds worth of ice cream after blind tasting odd flavours including pickled onion and gravy Credit: Getty 8 The Queen's grandchildren Credit: Mark Stewart Photography 8 The Anya Hindmarch store, Belgravia, London Credit: Andrew Styczynski The royal and her family were handed a pen and paper and had to guess the flavours of iced treats infused with olive oil, sriracha hot sauce and biscuits. She was so taken by some of the flavours, she left with boxes of goodies — including £4.50 single scoops of Ovaltine and Club Orange flavoured ice creams. But insiders revealed the Queen was not a fan of the pickled onion flavoured iced delights. Camilla takes her grandchildren from her first marriage — Lola, Freddy, Eliza and twins Louis and Gus — for a fun treat each year. Their blind tasting at the Anya Hindmarch store, Belgravia, came just two days before the Queen's 78th birthday on Thursday. A source said: 'Camilla and her grandchildren had a great time tasting all of the strange flavours. But Camilla didn't fancy tasting the pickled onion ice cream. Afterwards she bought a lot of treats for her grandchildren and left with a scoop of Club Orange and another of Ovaltine, both for herself.' The trendy ice cream parlour has attracted a long list of celebrity visitors including former England captain Sir David Beckham and Harry Potter star Rupert Grint. Telly presenter Gaby Roslin was there yesterday, joining Eastenders actress pal Harriet Thorpe. Gaby said: 'I come here every year and the ice cream flavours are insane. It's absolutely amazing and there are so many to choose from.' Harriet, who plays Elaine Peacock in the soap, said: 'Both Gaby and I love the sriracha flavour, it's got a real kick to it. It's crazy good.' Queen thanks Novak Djokovic for letting her stay in his 'lovely' property in 'private' chat at Wimbledon For £45 a person, visitors can try 15 flavours in the Ice Cream Project Blind Tasting Tea until September 7. Unusual flavours include Irn-Bru, Bird's Custard, Bisto Gravy, Copella Cloudy Apple Juice, Filippo Berio Extra Virgin Olive Oil and Flying Goose Sriracha. Other wacky ones on offer are Garner's Pickled Onions, Maldon Sea Salt sorbet, McVitie's Club Orange, McVitie's Milk Chocolate HobNobs, Ovaltine, Quaker Oats, Romney's Kendal Mint Cake, Rowse Honey and Jacob's Twiglets. The store is primarily a quirky fashion business and also sells a range of bags and trinkets, including Heinz Baked Beans candles for £95, a £1,295 After Eight mints tote bag and a Mr Muscle duster silk scarf for £195. IS POSH NOSH TOSH FOR DOSH? SWEET treats shop The Ice Cream Project by Anya Hindmarch has gone viral with its weird and wonderful scoops. Zara Qureshi braved the queues in Belgravia for a £16-a-tub taste test… BISTO GRAVY - 2/5 A WEIRD one, but not totally off-putting. It's got a warm, salty kick that's just right. 8 Bisto Gravy ends up being oddly tasty without being a total shock to the system Credit: Andrew Styczynski It is not too much but not too little either. It ends up being oddly tasty without being a total shock to the system. GARNER'S PICKLED ONION - 1/5 The smell hits you before the taste, with unexpected onion bits that take you by surprise. The sourness clashes with the sweetness, which is unusual since I normally like onion sauces. 8 Garner's Pickled Onion smell hits you before the taste Credit: Ian Whittaker Overall, a horrid flavour. QUAKER PORRIDGE OATS - 3/5 Chewy, chunky and unapologetically hearty. It's a good thing I skipped breakfast because this is more meal than treat. 8 Quaker Porridge Oats were chewy, chunky and unapologetically hearty Credit: Andrew Styczynski The sweet vanilla base and oaty, coarse texture easily doubles as breakfast. FLYING GOOSE SRIRACHA - 4/5 AS a spicy food addict, I thought I'd tried it all, but this was a first. It starts off cold and sweet, lulling you into comfort, then suddenly hits with a fiery kick of garlic. 8 Flying Goose Sriracha starts off cold and sweet, lulling you into comfort, then suddenly hits with a fiery kick of garlic Credit: Andrew Styczynski The contrast is definitely unexpected. JACOB'S TWIGLETS - 4/5 I thought this would be awful, but it pulled off a sweet-and-salty surprise — like American bacon waffles with syrup. Slightly Marmite-y and yeasty, it had a softened crunch which made it unexpectedly delicious.
San Francisco Chronicle
18-07-2025
- Entertainment
- San Francisco Chronicle
Cheese ice cream? New Bay Area shop scooping playful flavors
The new Melt Me Creamery in Berkeley envisions an expansive world of ice cream flavors, from cheddar cheese studded with walnut praline to scoops that incorporate Ovaltine, mochi or smoked corn. Owners Nutchapol Phaungjit and Suphaluk Moontha opened the cheery, bubblegum pink-hued ice cream shop at 1918 Martin Luther King Jr Way last weekend. The couple, both restaurant workers and natives of Thailand, had never made ice cream before. They experimented extensively at home before opening, recreating sweets they love like mango sticky rice or Ovaltine, a chocolate malt drink that Phaungjit grew up with in Bangkok. A cheese ice cream Moontha tasted in Chiang Mai, in northern Thailand, inspired Melt Me's cheddar cheese creation, with the ostentatious color of Kraft singles but a more subtle, milky cheddar flavor. After moving to the Bay Area from New York almost two years ago, Phaungjit and Moontha decided to open an ice cream shop. Their creations are light and airy, peppered with textural mix-ins. Some ride the line between savory and sweet, like a miso caramel ice cream with interludes of salty peanut butter and brownies. Smore's ice cream is everywhere now, but Melt Me's is distinctly smoky, like someone waving a just-charred marshmallow underneath your nose. This comes from marshmallows they torch until they melt and caramelize. The owners find inspiration in social media and pop culture. A drink in an episode of a K-drama show — lattes made with sweet corn milk are a current obsession in Korea — gave them the idea for a Korean coffee and corn flavor. (Corn milk is also popular in Thailand, Phaungjit said.) They swirl two bases, one made from Korean coffee beans and the other from corn, and then add ribbons of corn jam and smoked kernels. Melt Me also offers a dessert that has yet to take hold in the Bay Area: a fruit freeze. Popularized by longtime ice creamery Gunther's in Sacramento, it's a refreshing, layered dessert. A scoop of creamy ice cream sits between slushy-like frozen fruits such as guava, mango or lemon. The owners plan to keep dreaming up new flavors, rotating four every month.
New York Post
24-06-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Post
Ski resort cleans up 780 pounds of ‘unhinged' trash buried under snow — including a message in a bottle
They were frozen in time. Colorado ski resort employees who were cleaning up the mountain post-season found a staggering 780 pounds of trash that had been hidden under the snow — including an iPod Nano and a 'message' in a bottle, per a viral Facebook post. The Mountain Cleanup Day went down this month at the Breckenridge Ski Resort, which shut its doors in mid-May, Fox News reported. 'In addition to being the right thing to do for our mountain, it's also a fun paid event to connect with our teammates [and] see what wacky items may have been lost in the season's powder days,' Maxwell Winter, Senior Communications Manager at the lodge, told the Post. 4 An iPod Nano, which was discontinued in 2017. Instagram/@breckenridgemtn 4 Breckenridge employee holding vapes. Instagram/@breckenridgemtn This year, over 150 employees took to the slopes to clear the alpine wonderland of refuse, during which they found a veritable treasure trove of 'unhinged' items. Along with an unsurprising assortment of lost ski poles and boots, the mountain maintenance team found broken phones, glasses, air pods, a spatula, a driver's license and a Canadian two-dollar coin. They said their 'most unique find' was a note in a bottle, which the Breckenridge crew joked said everything from 'Drink your Ovaltine' to 'Stuck in a bottle, send help,' according to Winter. 4 Some of the other miscellaneous items found during the cleanup. Instagram/@breckenridgemtn To the communications manager's chagrin, however, the so-called mysterious correspondence turned out to be an 'individual's old COVID-19 vaccination card.' But the crown jewel of oddball items was an iPod Nano, which was notably discontinued in 2017. 4 Some of the lost Airpods found on the mountain. Instagram/@breckenridgemtn Facebook commenters were bemused by the oddball items. 'The hamburger flipper stumps me,' exclaimed one awestruck commenter, while another wrote, 'Some gold in them hills!' 'Maintenance got the really good stuff before the cleanup,' quipped a third. Meanwhile, others joked that the crew likely found a lot of drugs that they couldn't show on camera. Others shared their own stories of peculiar items that were lost and found on a ski slope. 'I lost a phone at Beaver Creek 4 years ago and someone found it last summer while mountain biking and called me to ask if it was mine and did I need it because it still worked!!' said one commenter. Another wrote, 'My husband has forever enshrined an AirPod at the Paramount lift at WP. He always have me grief for my wired headphones. THAT is why I stay old school.' 'We used to call it nickle-nosing, as we walked up the hill under the chairlift and found all sorts of treasures after the melt. Good times,' mentioned a third.
BBC News
31-01-2025
- General
- BBC News
Cornwall lifeboat retires after 23 year of service
A lifeboat which is "retiring" after 23 years of service was launched more than 500 times, saved 12 lives and helped hundreds more, the RNLI Falmouth-based Richard Cox Scott was sent off in style from the town for the last time on was named by Queen Elizabeth II in 2002 during her Golden Jubilee celebrations and was called out within 24 hours after she came into lifeboat operations manager Nick Lewis said it was emotional to see her go and added that the boat had "served the town immensely well over the last 23 years". She was launched 537 times, saved 12 lives and helped 718 other people in distress over her 23 years of service. In 2005 the lifeboat was involved in the rescue of eight people from the cargo vessel Galina which lost power in storm force conditions five miles south east of Dodman Point. Ovaltine drink The lifeboat was given as a bequest from Ruth Marygold Dix Scott and was named after her late husband who was a banker. Mrs Scott worked for a time as a commercial artist and designed the Ovaltine drink couple had retired to Cornwall in the Scott swam and canoed on the Helford River and asked for the lifeboat to be stationed near her Mawnan Smith home. Deputy second coxswain David Nicholl said: "We didn't know that she was leaving the money to us."That money has really been used to benefit the community."He said crews had an affinity with the lifeboat."You trust the boat - it's the boat that takes you to sea in all weather conditions."You have quite a close bond to it." 'End of an era' The Richard Cox Scott was sent off in style on Friday. Lifeboats from Fowey, Lizard and Penlee and dock tugs, pilot boats and passenger ferries wished her farewell at Pendennis Point. Mr Nicholls said: "It's nice that she is being taken back up to Poole to retire."Hopefully she may develop another life after that. For us it's the end of an era and we move on."The Richard Cox Scott has been replaced by a temporary lifeboat from the relief fleet and the station's own Shannon lifeboat will arrive later this year.
