ONCE IN A WHILE
The Häagen-Dazs was on sale — $2.50 per pint. Yeah, yeah, yeah . . . .
Next to my own home-churned ice cream (which I have not made in at least seven years), I love Häagen-Dazs the best. My fav flav is coffee. Vanilla, chocolate, and coffee were the original flavors for the new ice cream offered at the Mattus family shop in Brooklyn in the 1970s. So today, I bought a pint of coffee Häagen-Daz" and I’m savoring it right now — at least a small bowl of it.
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Now I recently had a peach ice cream cone downtown in a small kinda grocery-candy-ice cream shoppe. It cost $3.70. The proprietress said that a friend of hers made it, and that the peaches were local. I have to announce that it was really, really good. And more creamy than sweet.
Now I could have sat down tonight and eaten my whole pint of coffee ice cream without any problem at all. But I filled a very small bowl, and I am savoring each and every lick. And I’ll probably lick the bowl when I can’t get anymore into the demitasse spoon which I used to make it last longer . . . Now I’ll have some for tomorrow night and the next night and probably the next. So if I string it out rather than eating it all tonight, will I enjoy it more? Either way, it’s win-win. Something to enjoy now, and to anticipate later!
“Everything in moderation, including moderation.” Oscar Wilde
