Dear Diary,
Eating ice cream nowadays like there is no tomorrow, I find it is a good opportunity to try all the new flavors in the market that I can get my hands on. So I buy ice cream ranging from your everyday chocolate, vanilla and strawberry, to the more unusual cherry garcia, almond fudge, blackberry, butter scotch, etc.
Right now, I am going through a carton of Neapolitan ice cream. This is an interesting one. It is essentially a combination of three basic flavors - chocolate, vanilla and strawberry - which, while keeping their separate flavors, are joined together to form a single block, so that when you cut out a piece or scoop one up, you get all three flavors in one serving.
Although of Italian origin, specifically from Naples (I googled it), it reminded me of something my Marketing professor had once mentioned about America. He said that at the beginning, America was a melting pot, meaning that immigrants came from all parts of the world and melted together, losing their own cultural identity, to blend into a new one that was unique to America.
But now, he said, it is more a salad bowl. People from all parts of the world pour into America, but they dont melt together. Instead, they keep their cultural identities intact - which is very apparent from different ethnic neighborhoods in almost every region of this country - but still sticking together to form one national identity. Like a salad.
While I scratch at the bottom of the ice cream carton with my spoon, I mull over the interesting demographic make-up of this country. The ice cream itself remains the focus of my thoughts though. And naturally, I combine the two.
In a neapolitan ice cream, all flavors have their separate identities - different tastes, different colors. They taste good when eaten together. However, you can eat only one flavor that you like, without ever having to even touch the other two. Hard to do that with the salad. Very much doable in this country. Very much doable with neapolitan ice cream.
Hmmm. What can I conclude from this?
And then it hits me.
If I want to maintain my weight and not end up looking like a salad bowl, I need to slow down on the ice cream and switch to salads.
So from now onwards, dear diary, it's all salads for me. :)
Eating ice cream nowadays like there is no tomorrow, I find it is a good opportunity to try all the new flavors in the market that I can get my hands on. So I buy ice cream ranging from your everyday chocolate, vanilla and strawberry, to the more unusual cherry garcia, almond fudge, blackberry, butter scotch, etc.
Right now, I am going through a carton of Neapolitan ice cream. This is an interesting one. It is essentially a combination of three basic flavors - chocolate, vanilla and strawberry - which, while keeping their separate flavors, are joined together to form a single block, so that when you cut out a piece or scoop one up, you get all three flavors in one serving.
Although of Italian origin, specifically from Naples (I googled it), it reminded me of something my Marketing professor had once mentioned about America. He said that at the beginning, America was a melting pot, meaning that immigrants came from all parts of the world and melted together, losing their own cultural identity, to blend into a new one that was unique to America.
But now, he said, it is more a salad bowl. People from all parts of the world pour into America, but they dont melt together. Instead, they keep their cultural identities intact - which is very apparent from different ethnic neighborhoods in almost every region of this country - but still sticking together to form one national identity. Like a salad.
While I scratch at the bottom of the ice cream carton with my spoon, I mull over the interesting demographic make-up of this country. The ice cream itself remains the focus of my thoughts though. And naturally, I combine the two.
In a neapolitan ice cream, all flavors have their separate identities - different tastes, different colors. They taste good when eaten together. However, you can eat only one flavor that you like, without ever having to even touch the other two. Hard to do that with the salad. Very much doable in this country. Very much doable with neapolitan ice cream.
Hmmm. What can I conclude from this?
And then it hits me.
If I want to maintain my weight and not end up looking like a salad bowl, I need to slow down on the ice cream and switch to salads.
So from now onwards, dear diary, it's all salads for me. :)
2 comments:
Ummmm.........have read ur most ov the posts....this ones a bit diff...u were kinda wicked writer who came up wid some really nice stuff....but this time..nothingz bad ......when stared the topic.. thought it was napolean icecream so i thought u must be one of his 'ice-creame' fanz....doesnt makes the sence but thanx to the pic otherwise i had believed what had hit my mind..........
You're not alone. My posts dont make sense to me either :S
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