The topic of "Ice Cream Assassin" has been particularly popular recently.
I clicked on the trending headlines out of curiosity, and was immediately introduced to the science of what an "ice cream assassin" is. After reading all kinds of articles, photo collections and helpless emoticons posted by various bloggers, I felt an inexplicable feeling of saying no. Come out feeling.
As a child born in 1990, ice cream and popsicles were the brightest stars in my childhood, and they were one of the few delicious foods in summer that topped the rankings.
When I was a child, there were very few supermarkets. Fruits and snacks were not as colorful and dazzling as those in today’s markets and supermarkets. Most of them were canteens. Pocket money is limited, and small snacks of a few cents are most suitable for children's economic conditions, so they are the most purchased ones, such as large bubble gum for a few cents, Mimi shrimp crackers for a few cents, and beef for a few cents. Banjin ... Ice cream worth a few cents is no exception.
I remember when I was a child, there was a grain and oil station next to the yard where my grandfather lived. There was a big iron gate next to the station. I can’t remember what company it was or a XXX company. It’s not important. The important thing is that there was a wholesale and retail ice cream popsicle next to the big iron gate. window. During the summer vacation, my parents had to go to work, so they put me at my grandfather's house. I am the only child at my grandpa’s house, and it’s very lonely. There are two happiest things that I can think of so far. One is when grandpa plays backgammon with me, and the other is when I have money to buy ice cream and popsicles.
This window doesn’t look big from the outside, but inside there is a large freezer as high as the ceiling. The door of the freezer is very thick, and when I open the door, cold air comes out. Once I went inside and stood by the door of the freezer and looked inside curiously. . From this window, I got to know Yili Bitter Coffee and Yili Torch. At that time, ice cream worth RMB 50 was very expensive, and most people could only eat ice cream worth RMB 50 or RMB a pop.
I like the chocolate crispy crust of bitter coffee the most. It has a thick layer of hard shell, and when you bite it, the bitter taste immediately fills your mouth with a sweet taste. It goes perfectly with the ice cream with cocoa powder and coffee powder. The rich aroma of coffee combined with the taste of milk, and the bitter-sweet taste have made me love it since childhood. And it’s not that sweet, so you won’t get tired of it after eating it. When I was probably seven or eight years old, my mother once wholesaled fifteen of them and told me that I could only eat one a day. But I was not sensible and turned a deaf ear to my mother's words. The weather was too hot. I enjoyed one immediately after the meal, but it was not satisfying. I thought it would be okay to eat another one, right? At worst, I won't eat tomorrow's portion. As a result, I ate one piece at a time, then one at a time, and I ate seven or eight of them. I digested them by running around and jumping. I didn't feel anything at the time, but it didn't kill me until night. My whole body was hot and uncomfortable, I was upset and angry, I couldn't sit still, and it was almost all over the floor. Rolling around. It can be seen that no matter how delicious it is, it must be eaten in moderation.
When summer comes, going to a site that sells ice cream to wholesale ice cream is a must-do, and it is also the most anticipated thing in summer. Our family had to batch two or three times in total during the summer, and each time there were two large plastic bags filled with three or five of each kind, totaling eight or nine kinds. On a summer afternoon, my mother and I went to the ice cream batching place hand in hand. We stood at the window of the ice cream batching station and looked at the rows of huge freezers filled with ice cream in the window. There were so many types of ice cream for me to choose from. . My mother asked me what I wanted to eat. I looked around and saw that the colorful bags in the freezer were piled up neatly, as if they were waiting for me to take them home. I was really spoiled for choice. Usually, you choose a few types that you usually like to eat, and then choose a few new flavors. The staff will also recommend which ones are very popular and delicious. Each took three or two, and soon the bag was full. Watching the staff counting and counting the money quickly, I felt a sweet feeling in my heart. I was so excited that I almost jumped up. I could have a beautiful one when I got home right away! Bitter coffee is my mom’s favorite, a must-order every time, and of course one of my favorites. At that time, the wholesale price of bitter coffee was one piece, two sticks, or three sticks.
Counting on your fingers, there are quite a few delicious and affordable ice creams. Yili Mengniu is the most popular, as well as Hongbaolai, Zhongjie Freezing Point... and some other local or niche brands.
Yili Bitter Coffee is a lifelong love. Yili Torch is the ice cream that I most looked forward to buying from my parents when I was a child. Mainly because it is very big and I can show off to my friends, haha ~
There is also Yili Little Pudding, which costs 50 cents each. It has a rich and creamy taste. It's fragrant and mellow, and the more you eat, the better it gets. Mengniu's Green Mood is an ice cream with mung bean paste flavor, which is very unique. The amount of mung bean paste filling is abundant, and it smells of the fragrance of mung beans. It tastes refreshing and not greasy, and it's so delicious that I thought it was too small and not enough to eat.
Later, we had Zhongjie Nuomizi, which was like a very large glutinous rice dumpling with a ice skin glutinous texture on the surface. When you bite into it, you will find cool and sweet ice cream, which is a double hit of happiness. The whole thing is soft and glutinous, and the filling is icy and cold. You can't resist them both.
Meiyile’s bean popsicle is also a must-eat for red bean and mung bean lovers. The red bean popsicle that I loved most when I was a child has a lot of red beans in it. When you pull out a whole popsicle, the surface is bumpy due to the red beans, so you have to bite into it. Full of red bean flavor and cheap price.
Hongbaolai’s red bean smoothie is made with real ingredients, and none of their ice cream is not delicious.
Tianbing Big Fruit, the round barrel-shaped design is so eye-catching, and the orange shell is sweet and sour with an orange flavor, refreshing and refreshing. The white part in the middle is ice cream, which is soft and has a strong creamy flavor. I like the part inside the most. I suck and suck on it and I can't bear to finish it too quickly.
The Ice+ series of Ice Factory is also a classic among classics. It has many delicious flavors and there are so many varieties that you can summon the dragon when you collect them. The ice + mango shell has a layer of ice-like but not ice-like safisha skin, which is refreshing and relieves the heat. Coupled with the glutinous and fruity filling inside, I will not get tired of eating it for years. It is a must-have every summer. !
Youkang is a very niche brand, but its corn flavored ice cream is also classic and unforgettable. This ice cream is shaped like a real corn on the cob . The outer layer is a fragrant and soft cone skin, and the inner layer is soft and waxy. Corn-flavored ice cream, we loved eating the outer layer of it when we were kids! Yili also has this kind of corn-shaped ice cream, but the price is a little more expensive than this one.
and Ng Fung have American grapes. The American grape ice cream is so classic. I think it is like the perfect combination of pudding and raisins. It can be called a classic taste of childhood.
and...many, many more.
There are also... 369 ice packs, watermelon popsicles, snowman ice cream, four circles of Yili... seven dwarfs, with seven colors in them. One person can eat them for a long time, but the taste of the pigment is a bit heavy.
And... the later more expensive new product Qiaolezi has a complex taste, including crushed nuts, crushed biscuits... there are too many auxiliary ingredients added in it, and the taste is relatively greasy.
From 50 cents to 1.5 yuan, the most expensive one is no more than 2 yuan, which filled my happy childhood. Although I have not eaten ice cream for a long time now, I only eat one now and then. I felt dumbfounded by the appearance of the Ice Cream Assassin. Those luxury goods in the ice cream industry - Zhong Xue Gao , Haagen Dazs , Magnum . Their advertisements are overwhelming, and I have never tasted them. I feel that the older I get, the more enthusiastic I am about ice cream. It has declined, and it is far less attractive to me than when I was a child. Perhaps because today's materials are too abundant and there are so many types of snacks, ice cream is no longer delicious, so it can only take a back seat.
The sweetness of summer is no longer the original price. Doubling the price is already a normal price. All the beauty may lie in the time when "things are rare and valuable". In an era when there are few choices, everything tastes delicious. But when there are too many choices, you lose the joyful mood.
