When you grow older your tastes change. You decide that you do like bacon, or coffee (learning), and that Hawaiian pizza isn’t the only flavour you can swallow. You’re tastes in music and clothes and activities change. Maybe this is growing into yourself. Like everyone is born wearing a really big jumpsuit/identity and as we grow older it fits us more and more. Or maybe we are growing out of our selfs. Like when you are born you are who you are, and as your tastes change you grow less and less like who you used to be. Or maybe there is no set “me”. Maybe every second I am a different version of me and that is just as “me” as any other version of “me” that ever has been or ever will?

ANYWAY that has nothing to do with ice cream, which is what this post is about. Yes, that’s right, my taste in ice cream has changed… This is a tragedy.

When I was little I would just squirt some chocolate topping and “100’s and 1000’s” on top of my vanilla cone and I would be as happy as a clam. Later I progressed from cone to bowl, and then I became more of a ‘Milo, Crushed nuts and chocolate chips’ kinda guy. Always on Vanilla ice cream because you can experiment it into whatever flavour you like. And lets face it; who can afford to buy non-vanilla ice cream anyway in this crazy world?

But lately I have been physically repulsed by my traditional flavours. I have been desperately trying to concoct a new ice creaming method. This is what I do: I pour some cocoa and sugar into a cup and melt it into a paste with hot water and then pour it onto my ice cream. This gives it more of a real chocolate taste, but it still isn’t good enough! It just melts my ice cream and I can never get the right amount every time so often it will taste funky. I would go all out and melt real real chocolate but then I will have washing up to do… is it really worth all that for just one bowl of ice cream?

I wish I could go back to the place where I was satisfied with my crude ugly ice cream creations. But I am seriously at the stage where I would just rather NOT eat anything than eat vanilla ice cream with boring toppings. Maybe I am growing more like me, or more less like me, or maybe me is just constantly changing… I am actually considering abandoning ice cream as a dessert all together. Coconut covered banana is really nice; also grated apple is YUM YUM YUM. *pause* AHHHHH!!!! tada! I have the solution!!!!! Grated apple mixed with ice cream! Yum! I will love that for sure!

Apple grating tip: peel apple first and then grate, otherwise you will end up crying like a girl in november.