Ice Cream

There’s nothing like a cold, melting ice cream cone on a sweltering hot summer day. The clash of hot versus cold is mind shatteringly intense since you never would’ve thought your insides could feel so cold in the hot weather. As small droplets of the ice cream slowly begin their journey to your wrist, and then your elbow, you lick the ice cream, and then the cone, then your arm as fast as humanly possible. It is all a very skillful process that requires quick movements and developed taste buds in order to fully enjoy the ice cream. Many people order the boring vanilla or chocolate ice cream but the true dairy-lovers get a new flavor each time, experimenting with jimmies and sauces. Soft serve is a predictable buy, either having a chocolate, vanilla or a chocolate-vanilla swirl but I remember in Cape Cod one hot summer as I biked down a twenty-mile biking trail, I stopped at a quaint little ice cream shop. When I arrived at the ordering window and took a quick glance at the flavor list, I froze in my path. As I looked again, I saw the most beautiful array of flavors I could ever see in my entire life. They had almost twenty flavors of soft serve, something I have never seen before. I love soft serve. It took me hours to pick one, after sampling many times, I finally decided on the blueberry soft serve. Thought it may sound gross, it was the best thing I have ever let in my mouth ever. Though that may be a big statement to make, I don’t doubt the truth of it one bit.

If for some bizarre reason you don’t particularly enjoy the firmness of regular ice cream, there’s always the choice of a frappe or a milkshake. As I love soft serve, frappes are also very high on my list. Due to the fact that frappes aren’t completely liquid and have chunks of ice cream in it that didn’t get fully mixed in is why I enjoy them so much. I can’t fully explain why frappes are so good and are sometimes way more satisfying than regular ice cream. Though I said earlier how plain ice cream is boring, vanilla frappes, though very predictable, are actually very good. Mint chocolate chip and chocolate chip cookie dough frappes are also a must have.

Like all other food, there are many brands of ice cream. Ben & Jerry’s is known and well-liked and I agree, their original flavors are all very good and creative. Also, Haagen-Dazs is also very good, even their vanilla is refreshing. However, there isn’t one brand that screams gross and distasteful, but some are definitely better than others.

Yes, it is the sad truth that ice cream can be very fattening, but only if you eat it too much. Everything is fine in proportions so go for an ice cream today and skip the cake for dessert. I promise that it will be worth it.

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