We all scream for ice cream!
It is so true though, it could almost be said that it is "unamerican" to not like icecream. It is the staple in an elementary school kid's diet. There are just so many flavors to choose from!
Personally, my childhood is filled with memories of walking down the road with my parents to get a strawberry frappe from the local ice cream parlor (which is sadly no longer there). So naturally when I saw that there was strawberry ice cream at the dinning hall this evening I imediately thought of my childhood summers (..right after I screamed "strawberriess!!!")
Even though I may have caused a small scene in the dinning hall I was just so excited because I was almost positive I would not come across strawberries in any of my daily activities. I personally thought that strawberry ice cream as a favorite flavor was only a phase that younger kids go through before they realize the amazingness of chocolate. Apparently I was wrong because the industrial sized container of strawberry was gone and the chocolate had barely been touched in comparision.
By following foods, I am beginning realize I take a different approach to eating foods. For my ice cream instead of just trying to get as much in my mouth in the shortest amount of time, I found myself savoring it, and trying to disect the flavors with my tounge. In this experiement I have concluded that what we think is "strawberry" flavored is nowhere near what strawberries actually taste like. The actual ice cream tasted very sweet, creamy, and echoed that "natural strawberry flavor" that everyone uses in their products. What was interesting was when I ate one of the actual strawberries. It was not as sweet as I expected; it actually was bitter in comparision to the sweet creaminess of the actual ice cream.
In short I have concluded that we've been brainwashed. Ok maybe that was a little extreme, but we do not know the true flavor of strawberry. We can claim it as our favorite fruit, but for most of us it is only our favorite when doused with spoonfuls of sugar. Perhaps Mary Poppin's did know what she was talking about. "Just a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down...in the most delightful way!"
1 comment:
I love strawberry ice cream! You are right that the strawberries in the ice cream taste distinctly different from the strawberry flavored ice cream. Your blog has made me paranoid, are the strawberries in the ice cream real?
Oh and you should check out the rice crispy cereal with the strawberries!
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