There’s a new product on the market just in time for the holidays. It’s called “Whipped Lightning”, and is alcohol infused whipped cream in a can. 18% grain alcohol, in fact – that’s 36 proof, if you’re counting, which puts it about three times as potent as a bottle of wine.
Ostensibly, it’s for use in making cocktails.
Nobody believes that, of course. It’s really just another time saver.
Anyone who’s come home after a night of too much drinking – or home from a really bad day at work -- and dug through the fridge to find something to eat and noticed that can of whipped cream hiding in the door knows what I’m talking about.
It’s there, leftover from some celebratory event, and we all SWEAR that we are not going to eat it directly from the can, but we all know that, like a recovering junkie offered a fix, there’s going to be a time when we succumb and mainline the stuff, praying there’s enough left to get a buzz on.
I suspect that more whipped cream in a can is eaten directly from the can than is actually put on other food products, the same way that more peanut butter is eaten from a spoon while standing in the kitchen than anyone ever thought about being spread on bread and becoming a sandwich.
We need not discuss other uses for Whipped Lightning that numerous teen T&A movies have made popular for it's tamer cousen Whipped Cream, but it’s not much of a leap of the imagination to see that adding alcohol IN the whipped cream probably just takes one step out of the process.
No mention as to what that would do to the calorie count, though.
It’s hard to get a buzz off the pure sugar, although after a while things are vibrating around enough that you feel like a hummingbird. Adding alcohol to the product is bound to be a real product improvement.
This product comes hot on the heels of the ban against alcohol infused caffeine drinks that have become popular. These are presumably great because they let you recover from a hangover at the same time as you’re getting it.
If only.
Whipped Lightning is only available by special order in North Carolina right now, but that’s OK.
It’ll give me time to dig out my recipe for homemade pudding. We’re about to kick it up a notch.
In the interest of being helpful – because I know that a lot of you are going to be trying to find this stuff and order it – the website is http://www.whippedlightning.com/.
3 comments:
Ralph - and we thought that sliced white bread, the wheel and computers were the greatest inventions of all time.
We have lived such sheltered and unfulfilled lives until now.
Boy would that help with the morning coffee :-)
Ralph - When I see the photo of you and Pudge I don't need to guess who has been putting that delight in thir morning coffee.
I wonder how he would do with a little morning "treat."
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