Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Onehundred and Six


Do you think vanilla was the first flavour of ice cream? I suppose it's easy to think that way because vanilla is always portrait as the most basic of ice cream flavours, but that doesn't mean it was the first to come around. Hey so then, with this theory that ice cream doesn't have to be vanilla, why don't we see plain ice cream? There's plain yogurt... plain bread? and plain ...icing... so why not plain ice cream? Well maybe there is but it's not common, and certainly not common in North America.

Hmmm.

Okay but the question still stands: was vanilla the first flavour of ice cream? If it wasn't ...do you think it might have been some kind of fruit? I don't think it would have been chocolate because ...that seems too extravagant. This is based on the theory that ice cream was a mistake at first, so it would have just been frozen cream, and some one liked it.

They proposed this idea to a friend or family member, but for public exposure they decide to add some flare, add some ...fruit? Nuts? Caramel? Raisins? Or maybe the first add-in was something gross like ...potatoes? and people didn't like it so they added fruit instead.

I suppose it would help if we knew where ice cream was discovered, cause then it'd be all a matter of timing in finding out what kind of desert add-on was popular and so when the ice cream guy discovered ice cream, he was all "I've got a great idea, everyone likes ... so I'll add a little of that in and, voila: ... iced cream". Cause if he called it "ice cream" well... I just think it would have been called "iced cream" at first.

Oh, I suppose the first add-on could have been a spice too, such as nutmeg or cinnamon or um... that other spice.

Look it up if you want but I'm moving on to the WOTD:

Herringbone - (n) a pattern made up of rows of parallel lines with adjacent rows slanting in reverse directions; also: a twilled fabric with this pattern

Haiku:

Swing forth to justice
Fight their dark twisted nature
Batman saves the day.

1 comment:

Robin said...

I did some research (on Wikipedia, cause I'm too lazy to look anywhere else), and they had frozen "ice" treats way back into 2,000 BC. But they don't mention milk, just flavored ice or something (like a snow cone!). But it says the very first mention of ice cream how we know it, is this:

The earliest reference to ice cream given by the Oxford English Dictionary is from 1744, reprinted in a magazine in 1877. 1744 in Pennsylvania Mag. Hist. & Biogr. (1877) I. 126 "Among the rarities..was some fine ice cream, which, with the strawberries and milk, eat most deliciously."

And so it sounds like it was regular ice cream, with strawberries. And is regular ice cream the same as vanilla? I wouldn't think so. I think that vanilla has added flavor to it. Similar to Soy milk, how "Original"
and "vanilla" are very different.

So my final conclusion: "regular" ice cream, with strawberries. But I'm hesitant to call it "strawberry ice cream"