If You Have an Ice Cream Machine, Pour a Coke in It
COKE SLURPEES AT HOME, y’all.
For as long as I can remember, I have loved Coke Slurpees. When I was a kid, my extremely patient and generous mother would drive me to 7-Eleven whenever I needed a pick-me-up, and if the Coke portion of the flavor selector was broken or overly liquidy, she’d drive me to the next closest 7-Eleven to try again. I once declared that my “dream job” was working at the snack stand at Target, where they pour Coke Icees. When I was 12, I had a Slurpee t-shirt that I wore as often as I was allowed to. It had a drawing of a blue-haired dude upside down and said “brain freeze.” I loved it.
These days, I still love Slurpees but I’m really into making as much of what I consume as possible at home. I’ve made my own vegan cheeses, I pickle veggies, I bake bread. I’m nowhere close to being a completist about it — love you, Field Roast corn dogs — but I always get a thrill out of figuring out how to make from scratch something I was previously buying at the store.
And so it is with great delight that I want to inform you that if you have a simple at-home ice cream maker, you can just put coke in it. Yes…
