{"id":3207,"date":"2014-12-07T07:14:01","date_gmt":"2014-12-07T13:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/?p=3207"},"modified":"2017-06-17T20:57:14","modified_gmt":"2017-06-18T01:57:14","slug":"2014-best-bite-7-blue-cubby-crunch-ice-cream-bobtail-ice-cream-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/07\/2014-best-bite-7-blue-cubby-crunch-ice-cream-bobtail-ice-cream-company\/","title":{"rendered":"2014 Best Bite #7: Blue Cubby Crunch ice cream, Bobtail Ice Cream Company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>For the third year in a row, I&#8217;m using each day in December to celebrate the rest of the best bites (and sips) that I didn&#8217;t get to blog about in 2014, posted in chronological order. <a title=\"Best Bites\" href=\"http:\/\/hillaryproctor.com\/category\/best-bites-2\/\">Browse all of this year&#8217;s Best Bites<\/a>, or look back at year-end Best Bites from <a title=\"2012 Best Bites recap\" href=\"http:\/\/hillaryproctor.com\/2012\/12\/31\/recap-30-best-bites-of-2012\/\">2012<\/a> and <a title=2013 Best Bites recap\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/31\/recap-30-more-best-bites-of-2013\/\">2013<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3252\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3252\" style=\"width: 554px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/bobtailcubbybearblueicecream.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/bobtailcubbybearblueicecream.jpeg\" alt=\"Blue Cubby Crunch ice cream, Bobtail Ice Cream Company\" width=\"554\" height=\"553\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3252\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/bobtailcubbybearblueicecream.jpeg 554w, http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/bobtailcubbybearblueicecream-150x150.jpeg 150w, http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/bobtailcubbybearblueicecream-300x299.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 554px) 100vw, 554px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3252\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blue Cubby Crunch with vanilla ice cream, sprinkles, Oreo, chocolate chips, and toffee<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Why it&#8217;s another 2014 Best Bite<\/strong>: Bobtail makes some of the best ice cream in the city, so I&#8217;m always excited to see what special flavors are in the case when I stop in. Cubby Crunch is a common offering, but this brilliant shade of blue was only available for a week or so. With a vanilla base that tasted almost like cake batter, the ice cream&#8217;s Smurfy hue belied all the other ingredients packed inside: Oreo, sprinkles, toffee, and chocolate chips. <\/p>\n<p><strong>The details<\/strong>: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobtailicecream.com\/index.php\" title=\"Bobtail Ice Cream Company\">Bobtail Ice Cream Company<\/a>, 2951 N. Broadway, Chicago.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>[googlemaps width=300 height=300]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the third year in a row, I&#8217;m using each day in December to celebrate the rest of the best bites (and sips) that I didn&#8217;t get to blog about in 2014, posted in chronological order. Browse all of this year&#8217;s Best Bites, or look back at year-end Best Bites from 2012 and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,2179],"tags":[1526,1528,1523,1524,1527,1525,621,676,1529,1530,1531],"class_list":["post-3207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-bites-2","category-chicago","tag-blue-cubby-crunch","tag-blue-ice-cream","tag-bobtail","tag-bobtail-ice-cream-company","tag-chicago-cubs-ice-cream","tag-cubby-crunch","tag-ice-cream","tag-lakeview","tag-oreos","tag-sprinkles","tag-toffee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3207"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3292,"href":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3207\/revisions\/3292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hillaryproctor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}