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.
Yeah, I thought to look it up after I posted that. Apparently it's a Canadian thing. Sounds interesting.
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.
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.)
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.
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.
Let's call it ~3000 kilometers. I make do with daydreams, lots of tears, gnashing of teeth, and subpar local ice cream.