Every ice cream Nico tried disappointed. They were all pale imitations of that one perfect taste he had loved so much as a boy. He had spent his life searching for it, only to meet failure after failure. Eventually, he stopped eating ice cream at all.
Nico's love of peanut butter ice cream reminds me of my search for banana ice cream from Islay's in Pennsylvania. I have only found it twice since childhood. Islay's was also known for chip chopped ham, which is very thinly sliced ham. I don't eat ham anymore, but I have found banana split ice cream on the west coast.
A sweet story. I also like how it came full circle. But a memory of mine. When my girls were small, I had an overripe watermelon. Since I didn't have a lot of money, nothing went to waste so I pulverized and strained it and then froze the juice in plastic popsicle containers. They not only loved it, they tried buying some and, of course, nothing tasted as good as their memory of those homemade ones.
Nico's love of peanut butter ice cream reminds me of my search for banana ice cream from Islay's in Pennsylvania. I have only found it twice since childhood. Islay's was also known for chip chopped ham, which is very thinly sliced ham. I don't eat ham anymore, but I have found banana split ice cream on the west coast.
A sweet story. I also like how it came full circle. But a memory of mine. When my girls were small, I had an overripe watermelon. Since I didn't have a lot of money, nothing went to waste so I pulverized and strained it and then froze the juice in plastic popsicle containers. They not only loved it, they tried buying some and, of course, nothing tasted as good as their memory of those homemade ones.
I enjoyed how the story came full circle. 😊
And hard!
Wow, how sweet. I was thinking it was just going to be frozen peanut butter 😂