Superchronicity
Cidu Bill on Jun 23rd 2010
These were back-to-back on my Chronicle page this past Friday. The second one (Speed Bump) is a definite CIDU, though: “Superman flavor”??
Filed in Batman, Bill Bickel, CIDU, Superman, comic strips, comics, humor, synchronicity | 20 responses so far
captainswift Jun 23rd 2010 at 12:06 am 1
http://www.seriouseats.com/2009/06/what-is-superman-ice-cream-flavor.html
It’s a flavor
Marshal Jun 23rd 2010 at 12:15 am 2
And of course Batman is mad because Robin got the ice cream named after
Superman and not Batman.
yellojkt Jun 23rd 2010 at 06:37 am 3
Superman is usually just vanilla with red and blue colored swirls. Kids love it.
Rachael Jun 23rd 2010 at 07:43 am 4
yeah. i’m from Michigan. i had to move to Ohio when i was 5, but i still remember Superman oh so well. it was the BEST.
Rachael Jun 23rd 2010 at 07:44 am 5
oh. but yeah. a few stores here in Ohio have it, but only one near me, so that’s kinda sad….
Mischa Jun 23rd 2010 at 07:50 am 6
We have Superman, Batman, and Spiderman snowball flavors here in New Orleans.
Karen Jun 23rd 2010 at 08:46 am 7
I’m from Ohio, Superman was a big flavor at our Frisch’s Big Boy (back when they had ice cream). My brother got it all the time; I didn’t see the appeal. It really didn’t have much of a “flavor”, it just tasted overly sweet to me.
Morris Keesan Jun 23rd 2010 at 09:00 am 8
Thanks for the link, captainswift. In the past few years, I’ve seen lots of frozen confections on-a-stick that look like cartoon characters, but only sold by ice cream trucks, but this is clearly just regular ice cream in a cone from an ice cream shoppe.
Daniel J. Drazen Jun 23rd 2010 at 09:34 am 9
I’ve lived in Michigan going on 18 years, and have not ever been tempted to try Superman ice cream. Probably has something to do with the fact that, once I discovered that Michigan also has Mackinac Island Fudge ice cream (like fudge swirl with choco bits), I never looked back.
Becky Jun 23rd 2010 at 10:39 am 10
I lived in MI for 4 years and it was pretty much exactly that age where the sweeter the ice cream the better. I LOVED Superman ice cream; that article has it dead on, it isn’t just vanilla with food coloring there are definitely different flavors in there. I’d totally forgotten about it since I moved when I was 10. Thanks for the memory!
Dan Jun 23rd 2010 at 11:55 am 11
Holy hat. I would never have guessed that this was an actual flavor. I thought this was a clever (?) gay-subtext comic. There’s always those rumors about how Batman and Robin are gay (old man, young ward, suspect relationship right there dontchaknow), so I figured here Batman was jealous that Robin wanted “Superman” flavor.
I hope I’m not the only one to read it this way…
Danny Boy (London Derriere) Jun 23rd 2010 at 12:16 pm 12
Dan, there’s no contradiction between your reading and it being an actual flavor. Indeed, knowing it’s a real flavor makes the jealousy joke better.
Molly J Jun 23rd 2010 at 12:17 pm 13
Kroger here in Illinois carries Superman flavor ice cream. I think it tastes nasty, personally. No idea if it tastes like real Superman or not.
The Bad Seed Jun 23rd 2010 at 12:31 pm 14
Considering the whole homoerotic speculation about Batman and Robin, whose flames were fanned by the SNL “Ambiguously Gay Duo” series of short animations, this Speed Bump is definitely an Eeew for me. This strip zoomed in color makes it more clear that Robin’s licking the ice cream (I wasn’t sure if that was tongue or lips, a top lip-line would have helped), as well as the coloration of the ice cream: http://comics.com/zoom/323999/
Lgchrist Jun 23rd 2010 at 01:42 pm 15
Back in the 60’s when the Adam West Batman was on TV a local ice cream parlor had a Batman flavor. It was dark black in color and the flavor was licorice.
No Hombre Jun 23rd 2010 at 10:46 pm 16
Educational.
I had assumed it was a disguised Clark Bar(Kent)
Kamino Neko Jun 23rd 2010 at 10:50 pm 17
Clark bar Kent is his Hebrew cousin.
Lorraine Jun 24th 2010 at 07:03 am 18
@ The Bad Seed #14–also, where exactly is Robin’s left hand?! So he’s eating ice cream and, um, THINKING about Superman?!
ljdarten Jun 25th 2010 at 03:18 pm 19
superman is vanilla with food coloring???
thats blasmphemy where i come from (SE ME)
one of the primary flavors is blue moon, which is another (slightly less so though) regional flavor. its also another flavor that many try to pretend to have.
Araxie Jul 6th 2010 at 08:47 pm 20
These were both lols for me.
And if you wanted to look at it that way, Speedbump could have further subtext (Robin going for Superman instead of Batman? HMMMM??).