From the April 18th Cape Breton Post "Ontario dairy bar marks War of 1812 bicentennial gory ice cream."
Hagersville, Ontarioo
Hewitt's Dairy Bar has been on Highway 6 for 50 years and now has a new flavor, "1812 Cannonballs" concocted for kids and "admittedly morbid."
The green vanilla base symbolizes a battlefield, chocolate candies are cannonballs and, the red strawberry ripple, of course, blood.
Grownups can have "Redcoat Rations" an ice cream concoction like what would have been eaten back then consisting of apples, maple syrup and oatmeal cookie.
Cost is $2.15 a cone and the treat was launched April 20th with free samples going out to uniformed re-enactors. But, you better hurry up and get there as these items are available for only two years. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to find any photo of the "1812 Cannonballs."
Getting Your History on the Sweet. --Brock-Perry
2012 marks the 200th anniversary of America's "Forgotten War," the War of 1812 that took place over three years, 1812 to 1815.
Battle of New Orleans.
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