I never been this close to one before. Sure, I've taken breaks from eating ice cream, mainly from brain freezes and eating too much both at sports arenas and at work.
But this is different. It's palpable. I don't know if it's hunger, or general lack of thinking or what. But it appears that I see a lot of dairy being wasted, a lot of dairy being unserved, and a lot of core principles like pasturization abandoned here. There are desserts, there is ice cream, and there is frozen yogurt.
And I'm not sure which end is up anymore.
It started with a discussion I had with a culinary friend of mine. He said he doesn't like eating ice cream "because all he tastes is fat." Mind you, this guy is no Alton Brown dittohead. He's probably a more hardcore health nut than I am. But his experience comes from the smelling and tasting that does, you know, on occasion, go on at Baskin Robbins.
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