if your child can dream up a ne w ice cream flavor, he or she could win a trip to a top-seeret ice cream lab to actually make their creation. (NPS)-——-Here’s a cool idea for kids to showoff the outstanding qualities of their home states and win a year’s supplyof ice cream. Pint-sized ice cream lovers across the nation can puttheir state knowledge to the test by entering Dreyer’s/Edy’s “ Scoop of the U.S..”flavor contest and dreaming up new flavors that pay tribute to the heritage and distinctive gqualities of the state theylive in. Dreyer’s/Edy’s Grand Ice Cream was founded in 1928 and a year later iis founders invented the first batch of Rocky Road. So it is fitting to celebrate the company’s 75th birthday this year with a new batch of flavors cre- vanilla ice cream and adding ingredients inspired by: * your state’s official flower or animal The winner from each state will win a year’s supply of ice cream; and the top 15 of these semi-finalists will receive a U.S. Savings Bond and an invitation to a “tasteoff? at. the Dreyer’s/Edy’s factory to create their one-of-a-kind flavors. panel of judges will select one winning flavor and Dreyer’s/Edy’s will produce a limited run of this coal ice creamcreation. To help you get started, consider starting in the kitchen with cream flavor name that showsoff their state in name and taste 2.) a description of the flavor that includes ingredients or themes relating to the state, and 3.) a paragraph (250 words or less} explaining, “why this flavor represents my state in the coclest way.” For official rules and to enter the contest, visit the Web site ated by ice cream lovers. a basic flavor, such as chocolate or * a popular landmark an important state leader * an interesting fact from your state’s history. young Californian might dream of California Cheesequake--cheesecakeice cream with fault lines of strawberry and fragments of chocolate--while a boy from Florida might have his heart set on lligator Cranch-—green fudge-filed alligators and bites of brownie “rocks” swimming in a swamp of vanilla ice cream. Kids (ages 8-14) can enter by submitting 1.) an original ice www.icecream.com or mail te Seoop of the U.S.., Dreyer’s/Edy’s Grand Ice Cream, 5929 College ye, Oakland, C 94618.
