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If you don't know what the wind tastes like when you haven’t quite reached five feet tall, you likely haven't tried Blue Bunny’s Galactic Mint Frost ice cream.
That makes sense, as the nonsensical flavor doesn’t exist — except in an amusing skit that aired last weekend on "Saturday Night Live."
During the live May 7 episode of the NBC sketch comedy show, hosted by actor Benedict Cumberbatch, a six-minute sketch set in an imagined room of the Blue Bunny corporate headquarters — located in Le Mars — spoofs a focus group’s ice cream tasting session.
What starts as a simple taste test with "SNL" cast members Kenan Thompson, Melissa Villaseñor, and Heidi Gardner playing taste testers alongside Cumberbatch quickly spirals into absurdity.
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Cast members Mikey Day and Ego Nwodim play Blue Bunny team members managing the focus group.
They first offer fictional flavor “peanut brittle pie” ice cream to the panel of tasters, eliciting seemingly normal responses of “Delicious!” and, “It tastes a little wet, but yummy” from Thompson and Villaseñor’s characters, respectively.
From there, Gardner’s Dust Bowl-inspired character monologues at length with great specificity about a childhood memory about her mother's hands bleeding into a butter churn. Cumberbatch musters a similarly bizarre memory about catching a tadpole as a kid in a gravelly drawl and a suspiciously Sam Elliott-esque getup, mustache and all.
Cumberbatch pokes fun at actor Elliot, who said "The Power of the Dog," which earned Cumberbatch an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor, wasn't a Western and seemed outdated on Marc Maron's podcast "WTF" in March.
