One of the many great things about ice cream is the variety. Sure, you’ve got the traditional favorites like vanilla, chocolate and strawberry. Can’t go wrong with any of those.
Plus, you’ve got tasty creations that are unique to certain ice cream shops. Praline’s is proud to serve up Beez Neez. This flavor is a winner for everyone who loves ice cream. It’s knee-slapping good stuff. It’s graham-flavored ice cream with a graham cracker ripple and chocolate honeycomb candy. Praline’s also offers ice cream flavors for the over-21 crowd. Rum Raisin is rum-flavored ice cream filled with rum-soaked raisins. White Russian ice cream is light coffee ice cream flavored with vodka and coffee liquor. Both the Rum Raisin and the White Russian ice creams contain alcohol.
Those flavors might not have had a chance to go on sale in Louisiana.
Seems some stores would like to add wine-infused ice cream to store coolers. One problem: There are a lot of state lawmakers that are cool to the idea.
Apparently the lawmakers are afraid minors could get drunk off the alcohol-infused ice cream. Now there’s an ice cream debate underway.
Louisiana’s Office of Alcohol and Tobacco Control says state lawmakers need to authorize the sale of alcohol-infused ice cream before it can sit in grocery store freezers. Some of the ice cream in question comes with names like Red Raspberry Chardonnay and Cherry Merlot. There are also Buzz Bars, ice cream bars that contain whiskey, cognac, rum and lemon vodka among other flavors.
There is fear among some lawmakers that people under the age of 21 will buy the ice cream hoping to catch a buzz.
A bill that would allow the ice cream to be sold in stores has been shelved for now, as lawmakers try to work out language that would require ID to sell wine ice cream.