Munch likes ice cream, Munch likes breakfast, and Munch likes healthy food. Munch just didn't know that it was possible to like all three at once.

Enter the Oh Yeah! Ice Cream & Coffee Co. in Shadyside, and its "amazingly healthful ice cream breakfasts."

Oh Yeah Ice Cream & Coffee Co. is at 232 S. Highland Ave, Shadyside. Call 412-253-0955 or visit www.customswirl.com.

Ice cream breakfasts, you say? That's not healthy, that's gluttony. Munch thought so, too, for about three milliseconds. Then Munch thought, so what if the thought of an ice cream breakfast flies in the face of everything Munch thought was nutritionally holy. It sounds delicious. And weren't those so-called experts wrong about margarine, anyway?

A healthy breakfast, Munch now knows, is all about natural ingredients and omega-3s. Oh Yeah gets its ice cream from the Ohio-based Woo City ice cream manufacturers, who use omega-3-rich cream from grass-fed Amish cows. It's all organic, sweetened with unrefined sugars and fresh fruits. Oh Yeah is so confident in the power of ice cream breakfasts that it opens at 8 a.m. on weekdays and 9 a.m. on weekends.

Oh Yeah's breakfast options consist of either waffles or breakfast ingredients folded into ice cream. The "Cracked Berry," for example, features Cracklin' Oat Bran cereal and wild blueberries mixed with vanilla ice cream for $4.

But Munch was thinking waffles, and opted for the Blueberry Bush Super Waffle: a $9 buckwheat Belgian waffle packed with organic blueberries and topped with two scoops of ice cream (Munch chose peach cobbler).

Munch and Dear One of Munch took their waffles outside onto Oh Yeah's lovely front patio and Munch dug into the cold ice cream atop the warm waffle. It was sort of an eating experiment, really. Should Munch use a spoon or a fork? Should Munch try to eat it fast, before the ice cream melted, or was it OK to have melted ice cream filling the waffle pockets like water into an ice tray?

Munch eventually slowed down and simply enjoyed the waffle, and it was delicious. The peach flavor of the ice cream was fresh and intense, and the waffle was perfectly textured. And even with just one waffle, the portion was more than generous: Munch felt no desire to eat again for the next eight hours.

Munch's only complaint was that Munch had misunderstood the labeling system and inadvertently chosen vegan ice cream (made with soy). The flavor was still great, but the consistency was more like soft-serve.

Dear One of Munch, not yet buying into Munch's enlightened view of the ice cream breakfast, chose a plain American-style Crispy Cinnamon waffle ($5.25). While it was tasty, DOOM felt it might be a little overpriced for just one thin waffle.

Oh Yeah does serve more than just breakfast, of course, and has a rather diverse, if not bizarre, list of possible mix-ins to the ice cream. The Sushi Cone, for example, is vanilla ice cream swirled with fresh ginger, smoked salmon, avocado and cream cheese. Munch amused Munch-self thinking of combinations for DOOM to try: habanero/Heath bar/hops, perhaps, or maybe anise/lemon peel/Swedish fish.

DOOM decided not to waste time with toppings, and chose a sugar cone with simple scoops of vanilla and chocolate. As the cashier said handing DOOM the cone, "This is old school." The cone was simply amazing, the vanilla luxurious and the chocolate powerful -- certainly worth a trip for any "old school" customers unconvinced of the health benefits of ice cream breakfasts.