Ice Cream!

Due to other recent ice cream talk and summer approaching, I think we need to talk about ice cream. What is your favorite kind?

 

I'd go for chocolate covered cherries. A scoop of black cherry topped with a scoop of rocky road (in a sugar cone).

 

Tiger tail. In a bowl, because ice cream is a road trip food for me, and whenever you get a cone, you invariably wind up with a nice big smear across the windshield. Usually on that first big left to get out of the parking lot.

 

What is tiger tail?

 

Orange with a black licorice swirl. Tiger tail because it looks like tiger stripes.

 

Yeah, I thought to look it up after I posted that. Apparently it's a Canadian thing. Sounds interesting.

 

Now you're talking my language

Coffee and Orange with Choc Coated Almonds

 

Suddenly I'm back there, all 5'2" of the twelve year old me, in an 'Imbiss' in 80s Germany with a glass/stainless steel receptacle of creamy near frozen sugary goodness tugging my attention—hypno-imposing its delights. It's the cold war outside. It's the cold war in there. I can't decide whether to have a couple of scoops of lemon sorbet or stracciatella...? I opt for the latter—lick it to death and my lips too thereafter. Still my fave now. (Vanilla with choccy flakes in by the way.)

 

I've been living out in Colombia a while and here they only ever serve ice cream topped with a large portion of cheese.
Needless to say, I'm no longer eating Ice Cream.

 

Strawberry, with Chocolate Ripple a close second.

 

My favour? Only one?

I favour nearest ice cream I can get my hands on.

(And I sure no one here has eaten more in one go. When I was at high school age I competed with a friend of mine... He lost his spirit when he was one litre behind me and I started to eat rye bread slices so that I will not get hungry during eating competition.)

 

Haagen-dazs strawberry. Yes, very plain, but I'm a simple man.

 

Maple Walnut Sundae with two scoops of butter pecan ice cream, thank you. Keep the cherry.

 

Rocky Road with hot fudge sauce, or drizzled with Marie's Mango Habañero Sauce.

 

Yep, that's mine as well. Actually Butterscotch Ripple is a close second.

 

I have never heard of some of these flavors. I saw an ice cream maker at the store the other day for about $25. I think I'll go get it today.

 

The Universe thwarted me today. I went to three different grocery stores looking for the needful fixins, came home empty-handed. That whole "think globally, shop locally" is a good idea until you want something not found or appreciated in your local area.

 

Good for maintaining the girth, though.

 

huckleberry

 

Electric ice cream maker bought, plus rock salt, heavy cream, whole milk, cherries, Oreos...

 

Italian pistacchio ice cream from a proper gelateria. Also chocolate.

 

It used to be Haagen Dasz Vanilla Swiss Almond, but a couple of years ago they changed their vanilla base, and I don't like the texture anymore. So now it's one of the chocolate flavors (usually Belgian Chocolate). In Ben & Jerry's it's New York Super Fudge Chunk.

If I'm at an ice cream place, I tend to choose the flavor by color and get dark chocolate plus something like lemon custard, pistachio, cherry, strawberry, or amaretto.

When I'm traveling, I usually try to find a local Mom & Pops ice cream place and get a hard-to-find flavor or two.

 

How close to you is the nearest Italian gelateria?

How can you manage in an gelateria free zone?

 

Let's call it ~3000 kilometers.

I make do with daydreams, lots of tears, gnashing of teeth, and subpar local ice cream.