In summertime there is only one correct way to eat ice cream. In a waffle cone. Standing on the sidewalk or boardwalk or lawn or otherwise outside. Preferably with someone close by to smooch the rainbow sprinkles off the corner of your mouth. But this is science. There is no room in my life for paper cups or glass parfait dishes or - oh God, these are the worst - cake cones. If you must chase the ice cream truck for a cherry-flavored rocket ship or some other saccharine mostrosity, by all means, do it. I’ll scale mountains for a bit of summer nostalgia. But if you think that your frozen treatlet requires any more tools or paper products than a single wrapper or napkin for wiping the sticky off your hands after the last bite (to then be thrown carelessly into the hydrangea bush), you are wrong and weak and no longer invited to my dinner parties.
I agree with everything except banning the cake cone.
- The science of eating your cake cone:
- Lick the ice cream into a compact dome shape. If you have toppings, attack those first.
- Bite off the top edge of the cake cone all the way around.
- Repeat step one.
- Continue to eat the ice cream until it’s flush with the remaining stub of your cone.
- Put the whole top of the cone in your mouth and take bites of it until all you have left is that funny little grid of cake at the bottom that should have significant amount of melted ice cream in it by now. This will be messy and awesome.
- Eat the super crunchy little grid one nibble at a time.
Cake cups with the little paper wrappers glued on are not invited to this party.
Source: caryrandolph