Rock ‘N Pop SwirlTell me if you’ve heard this one: Baskin-Robbins serves

Rock ‘N Pop SwirlTell me if you’ve heard this one: Baskin-Robbins serves a line of brightly-colored and crazy-sounding sherbets. I had no idea until I stumbled into the Rainier Ave. shop last week while researching gross ice cream flavors. There’s a Wild ‘N Reckless sherbet that, while very colorful and toxic looking, isn’t exactly novel in its flavor scheme: green apple, blue raspberry and fruit punch. But there is another similar looking flavor, Rock ‘N Pop Swirl, that is speckled with one of my favorite candies from the ’80s. Can you guess which one?Pop Rocks! Actually, Baskin-Robbins calls it “popping candy,” and they’re mixed into green-colored grape sherbet and purple-colored green-apple sherbet. It’s super sweet and clearly exists to cater to the younger set of customers, but it’s refreshing and begs to be eaten by anyone on a warm, sunny day. Not all cotton candy has a stick up its ass.The sherbets sit right next to two of my favorite (and also toxic-looking) ice cream flavors: bright-pink bubble gum and cotton candy. I swear I’m not 8 years old, but I absolutely have a soft (serve) spot in my heart for ice cream that simply looks like you shouldn’t be eating it. If there was a bright yellow Peep-flavored ice cream, it would also be on this list.The cotton-candy ice cream at Baskin-Robbins is good, but if you want an even better one, head to Seattle Fudge at Seattle Center. The cotton-candy flavor from Cascade Glacier is even more intense and comes in an even brighter shade of pink and blue instead of purple. Am I the only one who loves this stuff, or would you eat it, too?