Have You Seen It? is featuring celebrating tasty treats that have seemingly vanished from this plane. First up, Big Ed’s Super Saucers, the best ice cream sandwiches ever.
I miss you so much. Toll House is just a crappy copy.
Every time I venture into a gas station mini-mart, corner shop, or liquor store I always check the ice cream freezer for Big Ed’s Super Saucers. I used to eat those bomb ice cream sandwiches all the time as a kid, at Cal Poly soccer games, Gus’s Deli, and on the curb in front of 7-Eleven. Then one day, Big Ed’s, the dankest of all the dank ice cream treats, vanished. Its history became legend and the legend became myth. As I grew up, I began to doubt if Big Ed’s actually were as good as I remembered, if they actually existed at all. Still, I hunted for them every time I longed for a cold tasty treat.
On my first visit to Club Med, the sadly departed UCSD dining hall on the Med School campus, I performed my routine examination of the ice cream freezers. At this point, years after the vanishing, I had given up hope on finding another Super Saucer. Yet there one lay, alone on a shelf marked by an official Big Ed’s label. Obviously I bought it and loved it. With a shelf specifically marked “Big Ed’s Super Saucers,” I believed Club Med would continually replenish their stock. I was wrong.
I returned the next day and found no more Big Ed’s. The shelf label had disappeared overnight. I hadn’t seen a Big Ed for at least five years and I haven’t seen in the four years following that great day, so I believe I ate the last Super Saucer.
Hopefully I’m wrong. Maybe they still exist in some hidden nook in Vermont or Washington, but I doubt it. Big Ed’s website still exists but it looks charmingly dated. I’m still waiting for a reply to the many emails I’ve sent them.
According to Big Ed’s website “A Super Saucer, a cup of milk and a blender makes an awesome shake!” I have many happy Super Saucer memories, but I regret never trying the Super Saucer shake, and it will haunt me until I die, or until I can find another one.
Deep and Radical 