Ode to things I love: Ice cream

 

What I love most about ice cream

• The sweetness
• The smooth, creamy consistency
• The refreshing coolness
• The crunchy bits (especially the nuts and chocolate bits)
• The huge variety of forms and flavours (endless choice!)

Most exotic and delicious ice cream ever

• Pistachio ice cream in Damascus market (Syria).  It was crammed with delicious pistachio, mouthwateringly creamy and cost less than a dollar.

Favourite childhood memories of ice cream (where my love affair began!)

• Marco Polo ice cream (especially litchi flavour) in SeaPoint, Cape Town - often combined with a ride on the choo-choo train
• Grandpa Station treating me to a soft serve cream on one of our Muizenberg walks
• Mixing up milk and vanilla ice cream at home as a kid
• Caramel-crisp ice creams (with David Livingston after school)
• Soft-serve with a flake and nuts (I still love this)
• Granadilla lollies at the beach
• Chocnut Sundae at The Spur, Cape Town, with the family
• Cassata ice cream at The Cassanova (one of Gramp's favourites, too)
• Vanilla ice cream at home with chocolate sprinkles
• Ice cream at home with chocolate sauce that hardened on impact

Favourite ice creameries

• Kirsten's Kick-ass Ice cream (Cape Town)
• Messina Ice Cream (Sydney)
• Iced Dream gelato cafe in Houtbay, Cape Town
• Häagen-Dazs ice cream (London)

Favourite homemade ice cream

• Mum's christmas cake ice cream (mega-yum!!)
• Jo’s rum and raisin ice cream  
• Ally's home made mango ice cream
• Eva's home made ice cream

Favourite ice cream flavours in a cup or cone

• Pistachio
• Macadamia and caramel
• Litchi
• White chocolate and raspberry
• Coffee
• Softserve (with a flake and nuts)

Best branded ice cream in a container

• Maggie Beer Burnt Fig and Caramel
• Tin Roof

Favourite ice cream on a stick

• Magnum White chocolate
• Magnum Queensland Mango - with white chocolate
• Gaytime (love the name!)
• Cheesy Jive (also loved by Russell)
• Weis Mango and macadamia 
• Paddlepop Banana
• Paddlepop chocolate

Favourite Ice cream with milk

• Mixing up milk and vanilla ice cream as a kid
• Tashas vanilla milkshake (Constantia Village, Cape Town)
• Botannica iced coffee with ice cream (Sydney)
• Lindt cafe chocolate shake (Sydney)
• Thick shake (Dahab, Egypt)

Favourite pigging out memories

• Gelato eating competition with Russell and Roger in Camps Bay (I won, consuming a litre!)
• Death by sundae with the Davidson (UK)

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