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You can not get away from ice cream in France.
Last Thursday was a national holiday, Ascension.
Parisians who did not escape the city
Rushed en masse to l’Île Saint Louis in their quest for bliss.
I went out late afternoon…
A mini break
And was nearly run over
By ravenous ice cream eaters…
The competition, Amorino, Italian gelato creator
Of the ‘tulip’ multi-flavored cornet
Had ever so slightly shorter lines
Then the die-hard acolyte/true believers of
I thought, as a compulsive daily ice cream eater🍦 when I moved to the Île 11 years ago I would taste a different flavor daily. (of 57 available). That lasted about 6 days and I gave up.
❤️ I live in a neighborhood in eastern Massachusetts USA with very few ice cream parlors😢, none I can walk too, it’s horrible. I guess everyone else buys it at the supermarché, but I would rather go out. Our neighborhood small food market has a broken freezer and the part they need is made in China! Can you imagine a summer with no popsicles or quarts of ice cream down the block? Wish I were there in line at Berthillon!
ReplyDeleteThis is truly a tragic situation! I am shocked 😮
DeleteIt was odd that Berthillon was OPEN on a religious holiday. They usually close for several days. ALL of August they are closed, when the other shops lap it up. Politics should not be messing with ice cream 🍦 imho.
Don’t throw anything please 🙏
consider buying an ice cream maker- its easy and delicious
DeleteGee, Anon, you need to come to our neck of the north ‘eastern MA’ woods! There is a wonderful dairy farm in Carlisle that makes ice cream from their own cows. Plus the ‘famous’ Kimballs has a farmstand in Carlisle.
DeleteMy husband and I owned a seasonal (May-Sept) ice cream parlor in a very small town in western Colorado for 13 years. It was great fun and a lot of work! We miss parts of it - our great employees (many of them teenagers in their first jobs), delicious ice cream, and a place where locals hung out - but not the business part of it. Just returned from Paris where my husband had the rose shaped cone at Amorino and then some time in Rome where we found a gelato shop by the Trevi Fountain where all the cones are hand made and gluten free!
ReplyDeleteComparative ice cream travel research 🔬 FUN!
DeleteThe business part…not so fun 😮
Great post! Thanks. I keep a few flavors in my freezer during the summer so I can indulge freely. We live 5 miles from the nearest ice cream parlor so it’s a necessity and much more cost effective.
ReplyDeleteYou have great restraint.
DeleteAnd are not impulsive.
An organized person who plans ahead.
Tea ☕️ leaf reading over.
Also most Parisians have freezers the size of a shoebox 👋
DeleteChocolat amère et cassis — my forever combo and worth crossing the Atlantic.
ReplyDeleteThat sounds like Berthillon flavors 🍦
DeleteI love Berthillon in Paris and Suso in Venice. We have Amorino near the Art Institute in Chicago. I'll be in both cities in October and I'm looking forward to glace and gelato.
ReplyDeleteGood thing that you built up an immunity to Berthillon…living in such close proximity could be very dangerous! I love ice cream. Anytime anyplace, but Berthillon is in its own category. Definitely worth waiting for!
ReplyDeleteIce cream is my weakness! When in Italy, I was almost kicked out of the Caffè Vaticano for purchasing gelato at the outside counter, rather than inside where all my friends were ordering fancy coffees! All was well once I paid the additional service charge for sitting down!! It was a damp day and as my father used to say, “one needs to have enough sense to get out of the rain” but I learned that in Italy you need “sense” and Euros!
ReplyDeleteItaly is complicated about where you sit/stand, stay/take-away. Even where you pay, making you choose, then go and pay and come back with a ticket to get your goods. Patisserie Maison Mulot pulls the same nonsense. Every country different rules. What to do?
DeleteJust catching up on your blog posts, looks like another fun trip to the races plus ice cream I assume with not much of a line up. I’ve never had Berthillion ice cream but I do like ice cream a lot but don’t eat it all the time. I remember a while ago when I was in Italy in summer I ate gelato every day! Yum!
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