where does red button ice cream originate

Across from the front door hang four knockoff Warhol paintings, Campbell’s soup cans labeled Secret Breakfast, Salt & Pepper, Hibiscus Beet and Fetal Kitten. Then there is the art, which tends toward food punk. The physical plant is straight-up soda-fountain retro: black-and-white tile floor, chrome-and-red-leather stools, simple Formica bar.

Godby’s intention when he opened Humphry Slocombe in December 2008 was to create a challenging ice cream store. Just before noon customers started lining up near the corner of Harrison and 24th Streets, an unrehabilitated crossroads in San Francisco’s Mission district: first, a gold-chained Latino laborer who ordered Chocolate Smoked Sea Salt then three 20-something guys - each part hipster, part geek - who stared anxiously at the flavor board, as if they had come in on a dare.

The day was a sunny Friday, ice cream weather. The proprietor, Jake Godby - a man so shy and socially awkward that it never occurred to him when he opened an ice cream parlor that such an establishment might attract children - makes the ice cream with bourbon and toasted cornflakes, including so much Jim Beam that the scoops always run soft. The heavily tattooed woman walking the Shih Tzu ordered Secret Breakfast, the most popular ice cream flavor at Humphry Slocombe.

Where does red button ice cream originate