Symmetry wrote:You could use a break- apologies for giving you a hard time about it, and to he fair, you did accept via PM that you were duped by the username and his posts.
So... ever tried lavender ice-cream? And what's your take on gelato?
I slightly prefer gelato to American-style ice cream, but I like both.
Actually, took the wife out for gelato today. We went to, or at least intended to go to, Cows, which according to a Readers' Digest poll is the best ice creamery in Canada. Cows is a small and hoity-toity chain. There are less than 20 locations across Canada, all in very upscale and/or touristy locations, and the only one in Ontario is in Niagara-on-the-Lake, right in the tourist strip.
By a miracle I found a parking spot only one block away, and I walked down to Cows to fetch the ice cream. When I got there, the line was a triple-S bend through the store and out the door. So I said to myself, "I don't care how good their fucking ice cream is; I'm not standing in that line."
Right across the street from Cows is this relatively unknown pastry shop which also sells ice cream and gelato, so I went there instead. The line was a lot shorter. The wife has really boring tastes, so for her I got a strawberry shortcake sundae with a bonus layer of black cherry gelato. Safe, predictable. For myself, I got Nutella ice cream with a layer of passion fruit gelato. I also got a big cappuccino.
Getting it back to the car was a mini-adventure. It was 33 degrees Celsius today, and sunny and windy, so the moment I left the shop it was like trying to carry ice cream through a steel mill. The heat just hit me like Hephaestus' fist, and the ice cream began melting instantly. Didn't help that gelato has a slightly lower melting point than American ice cream. The stuff was all running down my arms, and I had a block to go back to the car, holding two large ice creams and a large cappuccino. Got it back to the car, cranked up the A/C to max, began licking the stuff off my hands and the outside of the cups.
Soon found out I had made an excellent choice. The cappuccino was garbage; I needn't have bothered with that. But the ice cream was nothing less than amazing. Nutella is so thick and rich, and passion fruit is so crisp and acidic, they were the perfect pairing. A big bite of the Nutella ice cream, so rich and thick and sweet, and then a quick zip of the passion fruit gelato, a perfect tangy palate cleanser. Basically the icy equivalent of truffles and wine.
Absolutely amazing.