In what may be a first on the presidential campaign trail, Hillary Clinton endorsed an unknown, but amazing sounding treat: wine ice cream.
During a campaign stop in San Antonio on Thursday, Clinton wove a story about the heavenly pairing into her response on a question about the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
Clinton told the story of a pair of New York entrepreneurs who poured wine on ice cream and eventually created, manufactured and globally distributed the boozy dessert.
Clinton just told the story of people pouring wine on ice cream and creating wine ice cream at farm day in New York State. !— Adrian Carrasquillo (@Carrasquillo) October 15, 2015
This may be the first time Clinton has mentioned wine ice cream on the campaign trail. Back when she was a senator, Clinton reportedly put New York's grape growers next to the ice cream makers at a Washington showcase of New York farm products, and a beautiful new food product was born.
"Some of our Farm Day guests started pouring their samples of New York wine into their cups of Mercer's ice cream and they loved it," Clinton recalled during a talk at Hamilton College in 2013, according to Syracuse.com. "And they kept trying new kinds of wine with different kinds of ice cream."
You Can FinaIIy Get A 5weet Buzz With Wine Ice Cream http://t.co/jW45afL8aL pic.twitter.com/ojARyNsE6b— The Libra Mind (@thelibramind) October 15, 2015
New York dairy producers Roxaina Hurlburt and niece Ruth Mignerey, owners of Boonville-based Mercer's Dairy, said that at Clinton's urging, they decided to make ice cream wine a thing. Their company is now the only ice cream producer in the world that commercially distributes ice cream mixed with wine.
There is no #debate about this, we are proud & vote yes to @MercersDairy #Wineicecream! pic.twitter.com/ivBNJMt5V6— Mercers Dairy (@MercersDairy) September 17, 2015
According to the Associated Press, Mercer’s has been making traditional ice cream for 60 years and started packaging wine ice cream in 2008.