you scream, we scream

There’s one thing I’ve realised of late: never trust your friend’s opinion of ice cream. The only way to be sure fire about a flavour/brand/new product, is to do the taste testing yourself. This can be risky business of course, as I found out. I was more than happy to offer myself up for a bowl or two of this new flavour that had been plugged for weeks on the TV and raved about by a dinner party of friends. Yet what I wasn’t prepared for, was the inadequate judgment made by my confidantes.

Furthermore, what I came to understand, was the fact that these people must be frequent by-passers of the frozen section of the supermarket. The reason for their tribute about said ice cream was obvious: they clearly don’t know what they’re on about.

Seriously? Hokey Pokey? Yes! Sounds like it should be a mouth-watering taste sensation with little bits of honeycomb to kindly interrupt the creamy vanilla. But to no avail- honeycomb pieces were few and very far between, miniature little balls of sugar prompting me to think of that old adage “needle in a haystack”. The biggest let down however was the ice cream itself. Can’t really divulge who made this for fear of perhaps discovering later that they might hold the secret to the best tub of the lot (I’m willing to try), but suffice to say, the vanilla was not vanilla and the taste was funky, reminiscent of a milk based cocktail gone wrong at the rocks.

Then I found out, it was low fat.

Oh sheesh. There’s your answer.

Those friends of mine are willing to finally branch out and open the freezer doors of Woolworths and splurge on some dessert, yet guilt riddles them immediately. Opting for a low fat version of ice cream is the first mistake. If you’re going to spoil yourself and get in a sugary mess post dinner, you may as well do it in style and go all out.

Anyway, we’ve moved on from our disastrous experience. The tub was emptied (not in the bin, don’t be silly now, we will not stand for ice cream to be wasted like that despite it’s disappointing results) and hastily replaced by our standing favourites at the moment: Peter’s Overload “Rolo” and “Violet Crumble”.