Think pink and blue cupcakes are passé? Eric and Aly Nelson, of Minneapolis, took their "gender reveal party" in a different direction. They learned the sex of their forthcoming baby by way of the cheese in a Juicy Lucy.
It's a tradition for the family that Eric started two years ago. A fan of the Minneapolis-born cheese-stuffed burger, he and his wife were unsure how they wanted to find out the chromosomal makeup of their child.
"Lots of our friends are having big baby gender reveal parties," said Eric, who was trying to think of his own version.
Aly was less interested, and she shot down a few of his ideas. But on their way to a doctor's appointment, Eric was still coming up with creative ways to find out the baby's sex.
He was also thinking about lunch.
"I look for any excuse to get a burger," he said. "Why don't we go to the Nook and have it revealed by cheeseburger?"
At the appointment, the doctor wrote down the sex of the baby without them seeing, and placed it in an envelope. At the Nook in St. Paul afterward, the Nelsons handed the envelope to their server and explained that they would have two Juicy Lucys; the filling, however, would be determined by what was in the envelope. Yellow cheddar for XX, white pepper jack for XY.
Turned out, they were having a pepper jack, whom they fittingly named Jack. He's now 2.
