Rutter’s Chocolate Chip Mint Milk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “That’s awfully green,” I thought. Then: “How bad can it be?” I took it off the shelf, tossed it in my basket, and moved on. Then, when I got home, it went in my refrigerator where I thought of it no more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As an aside, Rutter’s is a small chain of convenience stores in the south central Pennsylvania area. They’re a solid number three — or maybe number four, behind Turkey Hill or Royal Farms — when one is picking sides in Pennsylvania’s WaWa\/Sheetz feud. Which is a strange feud, because WaWa kinda ends around Lancaster, and that’s where Sheetz kinda begins. Anyway…<\/p>\n\n\n\n This morning, as I worked on the text for the E-P section in the May catalog, I remembered the Chocolate Chip Mint Milk. I couldn’t let that go to waste! To the kitchen!<\/p>\n\n\n\n I grabbed the bottle, I grabbed a pint glass (the Green Dragon in Hobbitson seemed apropos), and I returned to my desk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the pint glass, it looked like a Mickey D’s Shamrock Shake. It smelled like Shamrock Shake. It tasted like a Shamrock Shake, only not as cold or as thick. If you bought a Shamrock Shake and let it melt, this is pretty much what you’d get. It’s a Shamrock Shake, minus the shake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I called it “Shamrock Shake Starter” on social media; put this in a blender with some vanilla ice cream, and you have a Shamrock Shake without having to go to McDonald’s. (Though you might have to add some green food coloring and\/or Creme de Menthe to make it stronger after you diluted the taste and the greenness with the vanilla ice cream.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Went down smooth. Tasted good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Five stars. Would recommend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So, I was at the grocery store the other day. I needed a corned beef brisket, since St. Patrick’s Day was at hand. I waited too long and felt lucky to get the penultimate brisket at Weis Market. I also needed coffee creamer, so a trip to the daily aisle was called for. And thereContinue reading “Minty, Milky Goodness”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[5060,5056,5061,5059,5057,5058],"class_list":["post-33646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-chocolate-milk","tag-rutters","tag-shamrock-shake","tag-sheetz","tag-turkey-hill","tag-wawa","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"The](\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/IMG_20220322_124238.jpg\")
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