Winter is the Best Time to Eat Ice Cream

Made possible by modern heating.

My favorite flavors, those chocolatey, vanilla-y, caramel-y ones, are heavy flavors.  Make me thirsty.  Even sorbets make me thirsty.  This is not what I want in the heat of summer.

But in winter, that is when I crave something rich.  Sometimes I want hot chocolate, but sometimes I want the thick creamy slightly hardier texture of ice cream. Cake and pie for when I want something crumbly and flaky, but what if I want something wet?

The cooling nature of ice cream is simply a necessary side effect for textural purposes. I mean, how often have you had warm chocolate pudding*, or warm chocolate mousse? They simply do not exist in hot temperatures on account of chemistry!

*English style puddings and bread puddings don’t count.

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Made possible by modern heating.

Let me explain: My favorite flavors, those chocolatey, vanilla-y, caramel-y ones, heavy heavy flavors.  Make you very very thirsty.  Even sorbets make me thirsty.  This is not what you want in the heat of the summer.

But in the winter, that is when you crave something rich.  Sometimes/Oftentimes you want hot chocolate, but somethings you want the thick creamy slightly hardier texture of ice cream.  The cooling nature is simply a byproduct, a necessary side effect for textural purposes. I mean, how often have you even had hot chocolate pudding, or hot chocolate mousse? They simply do not exist in hot temperatures on account of chemistry!