Things I hate #73: Pretentious ice cream flavours
There are few simple pleasures in life. A good beer, a nice sunset and a nice scoop of icecream on a hot sunny day. That is of course if you can get your hands on a good one.
I did my shopping yesterday, and right there as i exit with my groceries...hooraay! an ice cream shop. I thought fuck it ill treat myself a lilttle. So i walk in and start looking at the humongous selection of flavours they offered and thats when things start going downhill. A few dozen flavours and not a single normal one! Strawberry? No. Raspberry? No. Banana? No. Peach? there has to be peach right? Nope. OK, fucking lemon then. No fucking lemon. Oh but theres stuff like Hawaiian sunset and Canary delight. OK, i think to myself, theres still a chance to save this. Fearing the worst i ask the guy behind the counter about the Hawaiian sunset.
"So whats that one like?" i ask as im pointing to the hawaiian sunset
"Which one? he asks back" (already sensing trouble here)
"The hawaiian sunset, what is it?"
"Its hawaiian sunset" he says with a puzzled look on his face
"No, no, of what does it taste like"
"Hawaiian sunset, like it says"
"I mean of what fruit"
"Oh, i dont know, something from hawai i guess"
"you dont know whats in it?"
"No"
"OK then, help me out here, which one of all of this is strawberry icecream, i assume you have that under some weird name"
"This one" He says as he points to something that looks nothing like the strawberry icecream
"Sure about that? because on the label it says vanilla"
"No it says strawberry on the label"
"Actually the label says vanilla and cookie flavoured with chocolate chips and bits of strawbberies"
"Thats it"
"Thats the one? Thats your strawberry icecream?"
"Yes thats it...do you want a scoop of that one"
"Actually i dont feel like ice cream anymore, just give me a piece of sacher cake to go"
Stupid ice cream vendors. It used to be so simple, you asked for two scoops of strawberry ice cream, you got two scoops of strawberry icecream, perhaps a splash of melted dark chocolate over it as well if the vendor was a bit posh and you were happily on your way, but now it seems that everyone waits to outdo eachother with stupid fucking flavours.
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