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Article: Blue moon.
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- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
- Article date:
- August 31, 2007
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Byline: Nara Schoenberg
Aug. 31--Tropical, fruity and flamboyant aren't typically the words associated with products of the sunbaked, wind-swept prairies of the Upper Midwest, but then again, nothing about blue moon ice cream can fairly be described as typical.
Smurf-blue, marshmallow-sweet and tasting remarkably like Froot Loops, blue moon has been cropping up at ice cream parlors in Iowa and Wisconsin for at least a half-century.
And in recent years, its mystique has only grown, with the Internet allowing self-described "blue moon freaks" from Iowa to Ohio to trade testimonials ("I could not have made it through pregnancy without blue moon"), ...