I’m on a bit of a nostalgia ride at the moment — remembering family holidays especially.
In 2006 a conference the Big T had to attend took us all to Paris in early March. It was bitterly cold (particularly as we’d come from a very hot Auckland summer), but someone suggested to the boy-child he try ice-cream from Berthillion … and you know how it is, who could let a few (very few) degrees come between a boy and a sweet icy confection.
From memory the flavours were chocolate and blood orange.
Posted to the Ragtag Daily Prompt | temperature
You have to love those name places for a conference, Su. It a source of many lovely memories.
Leslie
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Very sweet post!
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Thank you ๐
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ha ha….. I wondered about the same thing when I lived in England…. The English seem to be able to eat ice cream in EVERY and ANY weather, a thing of no interest to me when it’s cold and icy! But hey, kids don’t know that ice cream isn’t for winter months….. ๐
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I must be such a kid too ๐ I prefer icecream in winter because it doesn’t melt all over the place ๐
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๐ Aren’t we all kids in some ways…. ?! ๐
Hero Husband is one of them boys too – he could eat (and does eat, when he knows I’m not around!) a full container of ice cream even in the midst of winter! I can’t.
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I can’t eat that much!!! A small cone (ideally kid size) is perfect for me.
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Blood orange? Sounds interesting.
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It was. And delicious!!
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He doesnโt look entirely sure about it!
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I think he was a bit disappointed there wasnโt more. He was used to the pile-it-on approach to ice cream here. But a few mouthfuls in I think he learned a very important lesson about quality over quantity.
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Good for him!
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What a lovely memory to re-visit, Su. He’s so tiny!
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I know. And his hair was so short. ๐
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Before lactose intolerance changed my life, I could eat ice cream all year round. I remember standing outside a famous homemade ice cream place in the winter, waiting for almost an hour!
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Thatโs dedication. Ice cream is one of the (many) things I canโt imagine queuing for.
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I still would, if I could eat it!
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Beautiful!
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This theme should have been ‘ice cream.’ I love the expression on his face! Don’t want it–I’ll take it! ๐
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Hehe ๐
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Blood orange ? Woahhh! !
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He doesn’t look very enthusiastic!
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I think he was surprised at the modest size. Kiwi icecreams tend to be larger (but not as tasty). A lesson in quality over quantity.
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A lesson we all need to learn.
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Absolutely.
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Best time to eat ice cream: when it is cold (so it melts slower!!!)
I love the combination of chocolate & citrus – not necessarily mixed in the same scoop, though. Two separate scoops is best!
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Chocolate and orange is one of my favourite flavour combinationsโ not just in icecream. ๐
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Such a sweet photo (pun totally intended ๐)! My cousins are just the same – it could be minus 10degrees and they would still eat icecream – even outside!! Me not so much, I’m more of a hot chocolate person in winter. ๐
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Hehe.
I think I’d have to draw the line at the point where my lips froze to the icecream ๐
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