Pop Punk The Aughts Episode 7: Flavor of the Weak
After watching Jake Busey dunk on Frederick for a while, the boys got his autograph on a Starship Troopers poster Memphis always keeps folded up in his wallet.
"Man I'm getting kinda hungry," Cameron said, lifting up his shirt and rubbing his exposed tummy. "You got anything to eat around here, Frederick?"
Frederick was still sweating and breathing hard but he managed to raise a hand and point to a door labeled "The Flavor."
The boys filed through the door and slammed it shut. Unbeknownst to them, the plate on the door fell off to reveal "The Flavour."
Inside the door, John, Memphis and Cameron looked around as they found themselves in a giant ice cream parlor.
"Holy shit! There's gotta be a hundred fucking flavors here," John yelled, pressing his face against the sneeze guard.
Suddenly an impossibly old man dressed in a pink striped suit and paper hat appeared behind the counter. The light from the freezer encasing all the delicious ice cream made his sunken eyes seem all the more sullen.
"Wut can I get ya, gents?" the man asked. His words were barely intelligible and dripping with a thick cockney accent.
"You got that Superman flavor?" Cameron asked, his eyes scanning the case greedily.
"For you, of course," he said reaching for an ice cream scoop. "The ole Superman for a proper lad. It weren't always called that though. Used to be it was called Leprechaun Sick and folks didn't find that too appealin'. Then one day I noticed it had colors right similar to that Superman fellow so I's start calling it that. It's been popular ever since."
"Taking you a long time to fill that cone huh?" John said impatiently.
"Wait a minute. Do you guys smell whiskey and cigarettes and like 40 years of groupies?" Memphis said.
"Now that you say that. This dude does look kind of familiar…" Cameron said slowly.
The man finished sculpting Cameron's cone and held it out to him.
"You all can just call me Keef and leave it at that," the man said with a smile that made the boys feel uneasy.
"What's that flavor down there? The one that's like glowing and shit." Memphis said, pointing to the far end of the counter.
"Oh you boys don't want that flavor," Keef sai, his smile disappearing. "That be the Flavour of the Weak and weren't no bloke who tried that ever felt himself quite again."
Will the boys try the Flavor of the Weak?
Stay tuned.
Highlights include: Butterscotch Root Beer; Gratefully dead; 10 Things I Hate About Ledger; Willy Wonka kills kids; Drummer Boi; Radventure Awaits; Named by Keef; Ba-ba-ba, ba-ba-Bob Rock; Ice Cream Semen; Cyrus the Virus; Matchbox 20 Money; Virtual Fidelity; Rolling on Sprewells; Heavy Beating in Parking Lot; Blast from the Past; HER BOYFRIEND; The People vs. Stacy Jones; I Just Married My Boss's Daughter