I used to live on the Isle of Wight. The best local ice cream was considered to be from Mr & Mrs Mingella, parents of the late, great film director. They ran a little cafe and ice cream parlour from the 1950s onward, bringing a a taste of Italy with them.
Then again, there's something to be said for Cornish ice cream, too... 😋
Hey Ralph, many thanks! I am glad to have initiated your internal dialogue of ice cream supremacy. I have my favourite, but it takes a long time to get there, and therefore is an infrequent pleasure. Many thanks for your great comment!
Great photos Søren! Its been a hot one for sure with a heat dome building here in the southern US this week and next and I know over in Europe is been scorching. Stay safe and hydrated! Ice cream is one of my favorite deserts, just good ole French Vanilla!
I happened to be eating an ice cream sandwich when I found this post! How funny 😄
Summer has been as terrible here as there. On the mountain we had sweltering heat way too early, everything bloomed prematurely, then it snowed and destroyed all the blossoms. Whatever was left tried again a few weeks in May but basically puttered out. There will be no fruit crops up here this year.
I know what you mean about which place in Italy you want kept secret. We have one like that in Venice, the family makes it using their recipe and no other is quite the same. I’m saying nothing more 🤐
When I was a child, I often was dropped with my Italian grandparents in Whitestone. It’s a part of Queens, right by its own bridge. On hot summer nights no one could sleep and Grandpa would say, “Jay, get the kid and let’s go to Rockaway.” That was code for it’s hotter than hell here and I need ocean breezes. It also meant Nathan’s Hot Dogs and fries, and a stop at the infamous Lemon Ice King in Corona on the way home.
If this sounds like a mafia movie, it basically is. Lemon Ice made by Sicilians is like no other. It came in a large Chinese food take out paper container—the kind folded with the little metal handle. If you want to talk about a sticky melt down—this is the ultimate! How to get home in a station wagon with no air conditioning before the ice melts out of basically a cardboard box in a paper bag? I have no idea 🙆🏻♀️
Wow, I cannot imagine trying to transport ice cream in a hot car... someone's gonna wear it! What great memories! Thank you so much for the comment. I think ice cream brings out great memories, almost universally, which is what makes it such a great thing to enjoy! Many thanks for a great comment!
There's a place in Penzance in Cornwall that serves only one flavour: clotted cream. The staff complain that people always come in asking for other varieties! I love that they are so convinced about their product. Great post!
Fabulous and enticing photos. They all depict the joy of ice cream. I love stories about ice cream and your own experiences. Ice cream brings so much happiness, satisfaction, and sometimes nostalgia. I bet everyone has many specific memories of eating ice cream. I sure do.
Thank you so much, Andrea! I think that is what ice cream is. It is a trip down into the corners of your memory triggered by the smell of a waffle cone, or sticky fingers! Ice cream is such a great shared experience, yet experienced differently by everyone.
Loved the story. I really liked the very familiar first image from my home town of Blackpool. Interestingly, one of Blackpool’s best rated ice cream sellers only does vanilla, Notarianni’s.
A delicious read! The Moors were indeed industrious as I learned living in Southern Spain. I did not know about the connection to ice cream, though. I do know when I return to Andalucia in July, I will be consuming my favorite flavor unavailable in the US, Malaga. Other than being my flight destination and a beautiful Mediterranean city, Malaga is a rich, creamy dessert flavored with sweet Malaga wine and studded with plump, wine-soaked raisins. It's incredible.
Thank you very much, Paul! Andalucia in July.... that surely must involve ice cream. I was there a couple of years ago and it was 42 degrees at 11 AM. Malaga I went to for Christmas one year. Great town. I will have to follow up with an ice cream next time! Thank you for a great a comment!
Oh yes, ice cream on a hot summer day is the best! Your post reminded me of being a kid and hearing the music of the ice cream truck coming down the street and then running out to greet it with my neighborhood friends. Thanks for sharing - really fun!
Thank you, Todd! I too remember the trucks. They are still around in some places. Though they seem to travel less and stay put longer. Thank you for a great comment!
He is, but you have to be into the soft ice cream, not the hard ball variety. I am of the ice cream scoop family, but the other stuff.... also very, very good! Thank you for your comment!
Awwww, I didn't want the story to end! I was completely immersed in all of the different images and the lovely details that bring to mind the glory of the ice cream cone! Pistacchio di Bronte are harvested by hand only once every two years from what I understand. It is by way of a cousin-in-law in northern Italy where I was introduced. Phenomenal texture and flavor. I cannot imagine an ice cream made from it! I will dream of it now. Thank you Søren :).
Ice cream at the little shop in Bologna is one of the highlights of my life. I sadly get it in a cup, because their cones are not that great. But the ice cream.... oh, the best! Thank you for educating me about the Bronte pistachios! Many thanks for a great comment!
Great post, Soren! Some really good photos there. The Mr. Whippy brings back childhood memories and I really like the “He wants one!” and “Matera” images. As it’s 25C here, I think I might just take a stroll down to the local ice cream shop 🍦Thanks for the inspiration.
I am not such a big ice fan, but can enjoy a delicious icecream occasionally. This post made me linger for one, well done.
Hey Marcel, thank you! A useful distraction!!
I used to live on the Isle of Wight. The best local ice cream was considered to be from Mr & Mrs Mingella, parents of the late, great film director. They ran a little cafe and ice cream parlour from the 1950s onward, bringing a a taste of Italy with them.
Then again, there's something to be said for Cornish ice cream, too... 😋
Thanks for an enjoyable, mouth-watering read 😁
Hey Ralph, many thanks! I am glad to have initiated your internal dialogue of ice cream supremacy. I have my favourite, but it takes a long time to get there, and therefore is an infrequent pleasure. Many thanks for your great comment!
Now where to find rapidly a good ice cream?!!! Loved the story and the photos!
Thank you, Emilia! You should have been in my shoes when I was writing! I needed a fix real bad! 😂
Great photos Søren! Its been a hot one for sure with a heat dome building here in the southern US this week and next and I know over in Europe is been scorching. Stay safe and hydrated! Ice cream is one of my favorite deserts, just good ole French Vanilla!
I happened to be eating an ice cream sandwich when I found this post! How funny 😄
Summer has been as terrible here as there. On the mountain we had sweltering heat way too early, everything bloomed prematurely, then it snowed and destroyed all the blossoms. Whatever was left tried again a few weeks in May but basically puttered out. There will be no fruit crops up here this year.
I know what you mean about which place in Italy you want kept secret. We have one like that in Venice, the family makes it using their recipe and no other is quite the same. I’m saying nothing more 🤐
When I was a child, I often was dropped with my Italian grandparents in Whitestone. It’s a part of Queens, right by its own bridge. On hot summer nights no one could sleep and Grandpa would say, “Jay, get the kid and let’s go to Rockaway.” That was code for it’s hotter than hell here and I need ocean breezes. It also meant Nathan’s Hot Dogs and fries, and a stop at the infamous Lemon Ice King in Corona on the way home.
If this sounds like a mafia movie, it basically is. Lemon Ice made by Sicilians is like no other. It came in a large Chinese food take out paper container—the kind folded with the little metal handle. If you want to talk about a sticky melt down—this is the ultimate! How to get home in a station wagon with no air conditioning before the ice melts out of basically a cardboard box in a paper bag? I have no idea 🙆🏻♀️
Yet somehow, we did 😋
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lemon_Ice_King_of_Corona
Wow, I cannot imagine trying to transport ice cream in a hot car... someone's gonna wear it! What great memories! Thank you so much for the comment. I think ice cream brings out great memories, almost universally, which is what makes it such a great thing to enjoy! Many thanks for a great comment!
There's a place in Penzance in Cornwall that serves only one flavour: clotted cream. The staff complain that people always come in asking for other varieties! I love that they are so convinced about their product. Great post!
Hey Caroline! I love it. Good for them. If that is what they are good at, who are we to ask for anything different! Thank you for your great comment!
Fabulous and enticing photos. They all depict the joy of ice cream. I love stories about ice cream and your own experiences. Ice cream brings so much happiness, satisfaction, and sometimes nostalgia. I bet everyone has many specific memories of eating ice cream. I sure do.
Thank you so much, Andrea! I think that is what ice cream is. It is a trip down into the corners of your memory triggered by the smell of a waffle cone, or sticky fingers! Ice cream is such a great shared experience, yet experienced differently by everyone.
Loved the story. I really liked the very familiar first image from my home town of Blackpool. Interestingly, one of Blackpool’s best rated ice cream sellers only does vanilla, Notarianni’s.
I am so pleased, Mark! There is lots of good ice cream in Blackpool! I am so pleased you sent me this comment!
A delicious read! The Moors were indeed industrious as I learned living in Southern Spain. I did not know about the connection to ice cream, though. I do know when I return to Andalucia in July, I will be consuming my favorite flavor unavailable in the US, Malaga. Other than being my flight destination and a beautiful Mediterranean city, Malaga is a rich, creamy dessert flavored with sweet Malaga wine and studded with plump, wine-soaked raisins. It's incredible.
Thank you very much, Paul! Andalucia in July.... that surely must involve ice cream. I was there a couple of years ago and it was 42 degrees at 11 AM. Malaga I went to for Christmas one year. Great town. I will have to follow up with an ice cream next time! Thank you for a great a comment!
Oh yes, ice cream on a hot summer day is the best! Your post reminded me of being a kid and hearing the music of the ice cream truck coming down the street and then running out to greet it with my neighborhood friends. Thanks for sharing - really fun!
Thank you, Todd! I too remember the trucks. They are still around in some places. Though they seem to travel less and stay put longer. Thank you for a great comment!
I could get lost in everything you post. Such talent. Thank you.
Thank you so much, Holly! I am so grateful you are here!
Someday I'd like to meet Mr. Whippy. Sounds like a cool dude.
He is, but you have to be into the soft ice cream, not the hard ball variety. I am of the ice cream scoop family, but the other stuff.... also very, very good! Thank you for your comment!
Lovely read! I remember the hole in the cone and how the icecream ran down my wrist and arm… 🤣
Right!? I can almost feel it right now!!
Awwww, I didn't want the story to end! I was completely immersed in all of the different images and the lovely details that bring to mind the glory of the ice cream cone! Pistacchio di Bronte are harvested by hand only once every two years from what I understand. It is by way of a cousin-in-law in northern Italy where I was introduced. Phenomenal texture and flavor. I cannot imagine an ice cream made from it! I will dream of it now. Thank you Søren :).
Ice cream at the little shop in Bologna is one of the highlights of my life. I sadly get it in a cup, because their cones are not that great. But the ice cream.... oh, the best! Thank you for educating me about the Bronte pistachios! Many thanks for a great comment!
Great post, Soren! Some really good photos there. The Mr. Whippy brings back childhood memories and I really like the “He wants one!” and “Matera” images. As it’s 25C here, I think I might just take a stroll down to the local ice cream shop 🍦Thanks for the inspiration.
Thank you, Mark! I am sorry to take so long responding! 25 is good ice cream weather. Enjoy, and thank you for a great comment!
As it’s such a beautiful evening, I had another ice cream cone tonight too 🍦😋
Your photos are an even more delicious treat.
Thank you, Mary Kay! I appreciate your kind words!