Olaf Falafel, the self-proclaimed “Sweden’s eighth funniest comedian,” said this line at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in August 2016:
“It all starts innocently, mixing chocolate and Rice Krispies. But before you know it, you’re adding raisins and marshmallows – it’s a rocky road.”
The joke is on “rocky road”—a popular ice cream flavor.
Wikipedia: Rocky road (ice cream)
Rocky road ice cream is a chocolate flavored ice cream. Though there are variations from the original flavor, it is traditionally composed of chocolate ice cream, nuts, and whole or diced marshmallows. According to one source, the flavor was created in March 1929 by William Dreyer in Oakland, California when he cut up walnuts and marshmallows with his wife’s sewing scissors and added them to his chocolate ice cream in a manner that reflected how his partner Joseph Edy’s chocolate candy creation incorporated walnuts and marshmallow pieces. Later, the walnuts would be replaced by pieces of toasted almond.
The Guardian (London, UK)
Sex, pandas and Boris Johnson’s hair – the best jokes from Edinburgh festival
Guardian Stage
Mon 15 Aug 2016 07.41 EDT Last modified on Fri 24 Nov 2017 23.39 EST
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It all starts innocently, mixing chocolate and Rice Krispies. But before you know it, you’re adding raisins and marshmallows – it’s a rocky road.
Olaf Falafel
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@SnowdoniaJack
It starts innocently, mixing chocolate and Rice Krispies. But before you know it, you’re adding raisins and marshmallows It’s a rocky road.
5:10 PM - 15 Aug 2016
i News (UK)
The 50 Best Jokes of the Edinburgh Fringe 2016
By Alice Jones
Monday August 22nd 2016
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It all starts innocently, mixing chocolate and Rice Krispies, but before you know it you’re adding raisins & marshmallows – it’s a rocky road..
Olaf Falafel, The City Cafe, 4.15pm
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Comedy Barn Theater
@comedybarn
It all starts innocently, mixing chocolate and Rice Krispies, but before you know it you’re adding raisins and marshmallows – it’s a rocky road
11:02 AM - 27 Dec 2017
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It all starts innocently, mixing chocolate and Rice Krispies, but before you know it you’re adding raisins and marshmallows – it’s a rocky road…
7:47 AM - 14 Feb 2018
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Above, Big Apple Corner at 54th Street and Broadway in Manhattan. Google Maps. Stolen and missing, 2021-2024.
Above, John J. Fitz Gerald, from the Aug. 15, 1931, Binghamton (NY) Press, pg. 14.
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