This post revolves around ice creams and tea. Long time back when I was a Ph.D student at Kanpur, I went out for dinner with a visiting faculty from Sweden, one of the few people whom I consider a thorough gentleman. He, I think, was fond of food. One has to marvel how he survived on the mess food for a year on campus. And he is one person who beat me at every single TT game I played with him. On top of that my feeling is, it is because of his generosity I could make 14-15 points with him, if he wished he could thrash me under 10 always. But then I am digressing.
So, that night at dinner, the food was over and we were ordering desserts. We decided to order ice creams, he was very sure he wanted to eat Kesar Pista (an Indian flavor) and I vaguely ordered vanilla. Some discussion about our choices occurred and I remarked, “I am really quite indifferent to food.” A little later we were eating our ice creams and I told him, “Mine tastes good.” And the gentleman that he was, he said “Because you are eating mine.” I must have gobbled at least a quarter if it by then (the waiter served it wrong!) but we exchanged the ice creams and I had to finish the bland vanilla one. I told him, “See, I am that indifferent to food.” This incident is almost a decade old, the time when I didn’t need to watch the number of ice creams I ate in a week or even in a day.
I was reminded of this incident because last week I was drinking ‘black coffee’ and I was telling someone that it is not good, there is too much coffee in it. And I was told, “Well, it is not coffee, it is tea.”
Hmm, a decade later I am as bad, still not able to differentiate between tea and coffee (but only black) but I am sure I would know a vanilla ice cream now, or better still I will not order a vanilla ice cream anymore!
Hmmm … interesting. If you could not differentiate between coffee and tea then I believe, you are truly indifferent towards food.
I find black tea or coffee very difficult to digest. It’s not that I am a regular consumer of the tea or coffee with milk added to it either though.:DAmong ice-creams, I like vanilla with hot chocolate sauce, especially the kind available at McDonald’s.:P
hmmmm thats strange.. not differentiating b/w tea and coffee when you like tea so much… may be because it was black.desserts in picture looks so tempting. 😉
This is funny – You could not tell vanilla ice-cream from kesar pista and coffee from tea!! Is there a term analogous to color blind that applies to taste ? 😉
Welcome to the club!! 🙂
I am a food junkie. I love and try food from different cultures and countries. Food hai to Jahan hai..How to enjoy black tea: use mild tea leaves (tea bags – better option), boil with fresh mint leaves (pudina) and use honey as sweetner – drink hot. Coffee: Freshly brewed black coffee, mix generous amount of MilkMaid’s condensed milk, add ice cubes – stir and enjoy. Ice cream flavors in the US are boring – century old flavors and no creativity at all. My best ice (shaved) and ice cream experinces – Hawaiian Islands and “Lakhnawi” Kulfi Falooda.
Well… Ice cream tastes better when its raining & cold outside…
need a tongue overhaul :)yes, I am finally done with Spiti 🙂
And, food tastes better when you are in shorts, T-shirt and bare feet…
Kusum, I also suspect so, 10 years of mess food and no taste buds are left!Sidhu, thanks for sharing, I am more fond of Pastry and cakes than ice cream.Nilesh, it has to be because it was black otherwise tea is tea. This was the dessert at Club Mahindra Coorg!Pooja, I am glad you do not know the term.Thanks Alka :)Arun, 10 years of mess food, and nothing can work now. I am glad you are finally through with Spiti.Atul, I can see your enthusiasm for food. Do you like to cook too? My guess is that you do.Sathish, not for me, no thank you :)Atul, to me food tastes heavenly after 9 hours of walking on hills.
LOL Mridula..those were funny incidents indeed. Mortals like me dwell on food…but people like you have higher things to dwell on and thats why the indifference towards food! 🙂
Akira some people (like me) do not have food sense simple as that 🙂