Excerpt from story by Sara Madonna at WFMZ 69 News
The Da Vinci Science Center welcomed back a favorite tradition to its new location. Ice Cream Wars pins local companies against one another to come up with the best crowd-pleasing flavor.
After all, who doesn’t love ice cream? Lin Erickson, Executive Director and CEO of the Da Vinci Science Center said, “It’s one of the most popular events every year. It’s my favorite event, no question.”
Over 1,000 people attended this year. 8 different companies took on the task to come up with the best flavor and got creative. There was mint delight, to a banana-chocolate creation, to even “breakfast of champions,” maple ice cream topped with waffle and bacon bits.
But it’s more than just the ice cream, presentation plays a big role. “These teams come together,” said Erickson. “It gets so creative and besides the ice cream flavor, which they are testing in their company, their colleagues also have a theme, they are in costumes.”
WFMZ got into the action with our own wicked cool idea. Wicked From Oz was this year’s theme. We even had our very own Glinda, Elphaba and Oz in costume. As for the ice cream, “We actually have two different flavors if you want Elphaba or if you want Glinda,” said 69 News anchor, Melanie Falcon who played Elphaba. “We have a mint cookie crunch which is green like me, and a vanilla cookie crunch, which is pink like Glinda.”
The event is fun and delicious, with some science snuck in. “We have a show going on here that introduces kids and family to liquid nitrogen and what’s actually happening in the ice cream process to make it do smooth,” said Erickson.
A lot of liquid nitrogen, milk, sugar and toppings later, it was time to call the winners.
WFMZ took home best in show.
The Alvin H. Butz, Inc. was the big winner and went home with the trophy and bragging rights.
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