For the love of ice-cream
I have a sweet tooth, so I love ice-cream, chocolate, cake and biscuits. Come rain or shine, take-away ice creams on sticks are my preferred food group any day.
Recently I stopped eating all these heavenly delights while I was on antibiotics, because I wanted my natural “flora” to adjust, and read somewhere that the “bad bugs” thrived on sugar.
I was pretty impressed, not to forget surprised, that after 7 days of cutting out sugary carbohydrates altogether, that I had lost quite a bit of weight.
The thought occurred to me that I should probably consume protein and build up my muscles, but it also occurred to me to start eating ice-creams again, albeit at a modest rate. I needed to up my weight which had dropped to 40 kilograms.
Considering my options made me reminisce over ice-creams of the past, like:
Hazelnut Rolls divinely chocolate coated vanilla and hazel-nut flavored ice-cream. Probably the nicest ice-cream bars in the world, but too small for an avid ice-cream lover like me.
Fudge bars: no link because I can’t find a picture or info about the original
Fiddler smooth fiddle shaped ice-cream with smooth dark chocolate around vanilla ice-cream.
Original Giant Sandwich who could resist these divine sandwiches of ice-cream sandwiched between chocolatey biscuity slices?
Drumsticks wait, these are still around, but they rate as one of my current favorites, so deserve a mention in my list. I would choose a Drumstick over a Paddle Pop any day.
Humpty Dumpty I loved the TV advert which included “Humpty sitting in the freeza. Humpty waiting to please ya.”
Choc Wedges played “second fiddle” to the original Fudge bars, with inferior chocolate, according to us kids.
I reluctantly accepted Billabongs and Paddle Pops if the more expensive ice-creams weren’t available.
Of course, I love Connoisseur ice-cream (and buy it when it’s on Special) and I adore soft-serve ice-cream in cones, and choc-top “bombs” at the movies.
I have a claim to fame, and it is that I am the fastest ice-cream eater in the West, well, at least probably in all of Western Australia.
This title I earned one day when my partner had just started on his ice-cream, and looked at me and politely asked me, “Where’s yours?”
I patted my stomach satisfyingly, and said “In here.”
Another time, I was out-doors with two friends and they got quite cross because it was a really windy day, and the ice-cream on top of their cones all blew off.
“Haha” I told them smugly, “I don’t have that problem.”
“What did you do with your ice-cream?” my sister asked me, with suspicion about the plight of the treat. You know what my reply was!
In case you’re interested, here is a short history of ice-cream in Australia.
Tonight I am going to indulge in an Almond Magnum!
About the Author
Celine Lai was born in Malaya (not Malaysia) and is the oldest inter-country adopted person in Australia. She loves reading and writing, and runs WordPress blogs and writes technical documents. She blogs mainly on Fascinating Animals.
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