Cheese Ice Cream
Wednesday, June 21, 2006 | 12:05:21 AM
Today, I went into the kitchen hoping to find a quick snack. A quick peek in the refrigerator revealed nothing that would satisfy this weird craving I had. I tried the freezer and a small package piqued my curiousity. It was a container filled with corn and cheese ice cream.
Yes... corn and cheese ice cream.
My mom seemed to have gotten some at the local Filipino store. Cheese ice cream is a rather popular flavor in the Philippines. In fact, it was my mother's childhood favorite.
I've tried some cheese ice cream, myself, when I was in the Philippines. We were out eating at a restaurant and it was time for dessert. They had something of a dessert bar with ube, halo-halo, and three flavors of ice cream. The ice cream was not the standard vanilla, chocolate and strawberry. The colors were, instead, yellow-orange, purple, and... a darker yellow-orange? I knew that two flavors were mango and ube, but I didn't know what the second yellow one was.
I was about to find out.
Mango ice cream is one of my favorite flavors. Interesting, though, as I dislike the actual fruit. Anyway, I scooped some of the yellow ice cream into the tiny provided cone. Excited, I brought it to my mouth, eager to savor the...
... what is this?
The ice cream tasted disgusting. I inquired my mom, and she told me "Oops!" It appeared that I got some cheese ice cream instead of mango. So that's what the other yellow-orange was.
I was a bit confused, though. Cheese ice cream? Uhh... sounds... unappetizing. I handed the cone to my mom and consulted her to find the mango.
Since then, I've always been wary to get mango and not cheese when eating ice cream in the Philippines.
It's interesting how different cultures can have very different tastes. I'm sure most foreign to the Philippines would be amazed that cheese ice cream is actually popular somewhere.
I'm still amazed at that as well.
I remember when you introduced me to Mango Ice Cream (well..it was orange, haha..I can't really remember the flavor) It was in Solvang...Wow..that seems so long ago...I'm never going to eat Cheese Ice Cream..sticking with my American flavors, thank you! ^O^!
Yeah, my favorite ice cream? That'd be "chocolate chip cookie dough." Or "mocha almond fudge." But, because I love you, I promise to one day, if the occasion arises, try mango ice cream. Though I absolutely despise the fruit. However, if you hate the fruit and like the ice cream, I will set store in that and put aside my squeamishosity at the thought of it, and I will take the plunge! Just for you.
I shall spread the greatness of the mango ice cream!
And yeah. I like mango juice and ice cream, but I abhor the fruit. It's oh-kay when dried, though. It's something of a desperately-need-food sort of food.
Hmmm, I've never even heard of cheese flavored ice cream before... and i know of some strange foods, chitlin for example. Perhaps I'll try that flavor sometime... er maybe not, but perhaps mango.