Peppermint Ice Cream

Thursday, December 13th, 2007 | The Daily Special

Hallelujah! Peppermint ice cream season is upon us!  One of the many things that I love about the holiday season is that peppermint ice cream begins showing up on store shelves.  I have every intention of gobbling up several gallons of this stuff in the next few weeks to save up for the rest of the year when there is no peppermint ice cream. 

Although why this is a seasonal ice cream is beyond me.  Peppermint ice cream should always be up on the shelf, right next to Tin Roof Sundae, which I can rarely find these days as well.  What happens to the really good flavors of ice cream that we had when we were little and there was no Ben & Jerry’s?

Here’s the great thing about peppermint ice cream, if you get the right kind it is peppermint flavored ice cream with little bits of peppermint mixed in with the ice cream. It makes the whole thing extra pepperminty and this part of the ice cream has special meaning to me; it brings back happy memories of my childhood. 

Here’s the deal, my sister and I are both a little OCD, and one of the many ways that you can tell that is by the way that she and I would eat our peppermint ice cream when we were small.  When we were children we would eat our peppermint ice cream sitting at the kitchen counter, with a little blue plate next to each of our bowls.  On each of our plates we would place the bits of peppermint we found in our ice cream, sorted by color (red, green and white).  When we finished our bowls we would count to see who had the most of each color. 

It’s sick I know, but my sister and I were pretty competitive about our candy when we were little, and this was just another extension of our obsession.  (At Easter my sister would weigh our candy to see who got the most.)

Anyway, even though it was a little weird, I remember those times quite happily; sitting at the kitchen counter with my sister and praying for the most peppermint bits.  Maybe I’ll take some peppermint ice cream over to my sister’s tonight and see who wins…

 

1 Comment to Peppermint Ice Cream

ellebee
December 14, 2007

I remember doing the same thing with the bubble gum ice cream they served at Scoops! when I was growing up. How our parents didn’t kill us, I’ll never know, what with all the piles of soppy gum on the table. I, too, have already purchased several gallons of the peppermint stuff. :)

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