A local dairy company has come up with some wonderful flavors of ice cream. I just finished a bowl of Banana Pudding flavor. Yes, it did taste like banana pudding, and I love banana pudding. It is ice cream, crunched up vanilla wafers, and a swirl of marshmallow – just like mom use to make – except cold.
My very most favorite, though, is their orange/vanilla yogurt. It tastes just like a Dreamcicle. Remember Dreamcicles when you were a kid? Ice cream coated in orange flavored icy stuff. Gosh, they were good. Always melted and fell off the stick if you didn’t eat fast enough, so I learned to lick pretty fast. Wonder if they even make Dreamcicles any more?
There are all sorts of interesting flavors now: S’mores, Turtle Tracks, and Moose Tracks are a few others. You might be able to figure out what S’mores is like, but Turtle Tracks is a little more of a challenge. You know that chocolate candy they call a ‘turtle’ with peanuts and caramel? You got it.
But never in a million years would you figure out Moose Tracks. I’ve never figured out the logic to it myself, but it is vanilla with big hunks of chocolate and peanut butter. Man, I would hunt all day and almost kill for a bowl of it. It has got to be loaded with calories, and I have to be very good to save up that many fat grams. But, boy, is it worth it!
Funny how childhood memories seem to be associated with ice cream. We didn’t worry about calories or fat grams in those days. Any hot summer afternoon could be cooled down with a chocolate covered ice cream bar on a stick. This is another treat that was a sticky mess. The chocolate always slid off the ice cream, which melted and ran down the stick. The challenge was to trying to eat the chocolate coating before it fell off on the ground.
Like ice cream and childhood, life melts away and only the memories remain. Things were so simple when we were young and did not worry about life or death – only ice cream.
©1998 Sheila Moss
Do you have a favorite flavor of ice cream? Of course you do, everyone does.
Being a long weekend, it seemed a shame to waste it, so we decided to visit the Tennessee Aquarium in Chattanooga. I was not really sure that fish would be interesting, but – what the heck – nothing else around here to do except fight the crowds at the shopping malls, and who wants to do that?
Anyhow, I was pretty cool until we came to an area called the “Delta.” Here is where the fish really became pretty. They were pink, blue, yellow – every color you can imagine! Man, I didn’t want to leave – even though I secretly figured I could be getting pretty low on oxygen from being under the water for so long. I didn’t realize that there was any place in the U.S. that had fish so colorful and exotic looking.
The jellyfish area was especially interesting. The jellyfish sort of swim around like small size umbrellas opening and closing gracefully. The largest collection was called “Moon Jellyfish.” They were really quite attractive. I hardly minded being mooned at all.
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