If you’ve ever walked into a dive bar, breathed in that sticky, dank, musty smell and felt a strong desire to lick various parts of the venue to capture that taste, then today is your lucky day.
The chance to taste a dive bar — sans whatever disease you may contract from if you actually licked the floor — is now a dream that can be achieved, in the form of an ice cream bar.
Beer company Miller High Life has partnered with Tipsy Scoop, a New York-based brand that sells liquor-infused ice cream, to give people the chance to eat the flavors of a classic dive bar and celebrate the 100th anniversary of the ice cream bar.
The boozy ice cream experience will combine a “delicious peanut swirl,” as an ode to “the saltiness of the quintessential dive bar snack” with a hint of tobacco smoke flavor “reminiscent of that unforgettable dive bar scent.”
The stickiness of the floor has even been captured by the “gooey caramel swirl” and carbonated candy is mixed in to provide the “iconic Champagne of Beers effervescence in every bite,” all of it tied together by dark chocolate to “evoke the dark wood and dim lighting ambiance that all good dives share” — and the bars even contain 5% alcohol.
Patrons are divided on whether are not they’ll be seeking out a dive-ice-cream-bar experience.
“Just what I always wanted, ice cream that tastes like stale cigarette smoke and cheap beer,” one unenthused response read.
“Is it April Fools?” wrote another.
Other people were keener to relive a night out in the form of ice cream.
“A taste of our youth,” declared one user.
“I never knew I needed this in my life until now,” agreed another.
New Yorkers are no strangers to wild and wacky ice cream flavors, with local shops experimenting with unusual combinations, straying away from the usual flavors to try vegetables, spices or — in the case of Miller High Life — all-encompassing experiential taste sensations.
“Six packs” of Miller High Life Ice Cream Dive Bars are available to pre-order online for adults 21 and older, or from one of Tipsy Scoop’s three New York City scoop shops for $6.
