Getting your player ready...
Baskin-Robbins ice cream made hundreds of new flavors a year at a factory in Burbank, Calif., but only eight or nine would make it to market. Some saluted special occasions:
•Baseball Nut, for the Dodgers’ arrival in Los Angeles in 1958, with raspberries for the umpires
•Lunar Cheesecake, launched the day after man landed on the moon in 1969
•Beatle Nut, during Beatlemania in 1964
Maybe not
Among those that never left the laboratory:
•Ketchup
•Lox and Bagels
•Grape Britain
Los Angeles Times
