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The Snickers Ice Cream Cone

Lucky Charms consumption behavior is supposed to divide people into two groups: those who are left with only marshmallow bits and those who are left with only toasted oat-based pieces.  This is too coarse of a distinction, and it fails to capture the way I would eat a bowl of Lucky Charms: judiciously adjusting the composition so that the proportion of marshmallow bits to total bits and pieces increase smoothly and near-linearly.  This meant that eating Lucky Charms (and actually, they were more likely Marshmallow Blasted Froot Loops) required a level of concentration it probably didn’t deserve.

This is to say, I can appreciate the constraints of an ice cream cone.  Start at the top, go to the bottom.  No need to think.  Just need to eat.  But, problematically, the ice cream is better than the cone, yet the proportion of cone increases as you consume your dessert.  So your best bites are at the beginning, and they just get worse from there.

The Snickers Ice Cream Cone, however, is a feat of design on par with the Eiffel Tower.  While tastiness of current bite increases and decreases depending on your position, average tastiness of remaining bites peaks right before the end.  The caramel spine is the axis on which the deliciousness pivots, and that chunk of chocolate at the bottom facilitates this remarkable bite right before you finish where caramel, chocolate, ice cream, and cone combine in a ratio whose mathematical properties need to be examined more closely.  It’s a really important bite and I’m a pretty big fan of Snickers Ice Cream Cones.