The briefest glance down the chip aisle in any grocery store will tell the tangy and trend-tastic tale: Salt & pepper chips still very much rule our crunch-centered hankerings.
Oh, for sure, we do obsess over salt & vinegar, and all of the spicy, mustard-y, BBQ choices, but the ol’ S&P has hopped from the shakers and grinders at the center of our dining tables to a variety of foodstuffs, including, quite famously, the potato chip.
Ice cream is also in the salt & pepper swing these days, as evidenced by the Thanksgiving scoop line-up at Salt & Straw.
Five seasonal ice cream flavors debuted at the beginning of November, including Turkey Stuffing and Cranberry Sauce.
The salt & pepper ice cream is the zingy base for the turkey sausage stuffing and bits of cranberry jam. If you lean toward not-so-sweet tastes when indulging in something decadent, and turkey cameoing in ice cream is just your kind of quirk, this will be the scoop to try.
But there are four other festive flavors on the roster, including the best-selling Parker House Rolls with Salted Buttercream, a bready bliss trip that features a butter-strong ice cream.
Two new Thanksgiving ice creams are part of the gourmet group, including Maple Koginut Squash with Pomegranate, a flavor that boasts a cracker-hazelnut crumble.
And as for the vegan choice? It’s a classic Cranberry Orange Sorbet.
There’s one more returning flavor, and this one feels like a traditional Thanksgiving dessert, straight from the sideboard: Pumpkin Pie Tiramisu.
All five flavors are available at your local Salt & Straw scoop shop; you can also choose local delivery or nationwide shipping.
For detailed and dessertful dives into these five flavors, as well as details on where and how to order, take a salty (or peppery, if you prefer) look at the luscious line-up at this page.