Our favorite April Fools' 2025 pranks in Richmond

Zoom in: Here are four of our faves.

🐷 Brisket-chunked ice cream sandwiches

Nightingale, our beloved homegrown ice cream sandwich maker, announced the The Sweet & Smoky, a flavor collab with Texas barbecue favorite, ZZQ in this post:

• "This first-of-its-kind smoky + sweet meat treat features two Golden Crusted Corn Bread cookies filled with Smoked Madagascar Vanilla Ice Cream, candied ZZQ Brisket Chunks + is ribboned with thick BBQ Sauce swirls."
• This might be the flavor combo Richmond didn't know it needed. Sign us up.

🦉 Shooters

The Jasper owned April Fools' with its real life Hooters-themed popup, Shooters.

• Yep, if you popped into the swanky Carytown bar Tuesday (or Wednesday, they kept the theme going an extra day), you were greeted by scantily clad servers, complete with custom-made Shooters T-shirts.
• The theme extended to the menu where fruity drinks and wings could be found ... so our only question is, when's it coming back?

🍕 Bone-filled pizza

Rest in Pieces, everyone's favorite local oddity shop, said it was getting into the pizza biz with a coming-this-summer shop: Rest in Pizza.

• Their pizza pies would stick to their brand, according to their post, with every slice coming with a signature ingredient: bones.

• The RIP team went all out, too, heading over to Zorch Pizza for a full-on photo shoot for their prank and creating custom T-shirts that sold out.

🏢 High-density Windsor

Richmond-based climate scientist Jeremy Hoffman got us again, by simply retweeting his Windsor Farms zoning prank from last year.

• The joke, if you've forgotten, is that the 100-year-old neighborhood designed for the "well-to-do of Richmond" would change its zoning to allow for higher-density, mixed-use, and transit-friendly development within its boundaries.
• You won't get us next year. (We hope.)