Cucumber ice cream (Boston area)

[redbird]

One of the July flavors of the month at J.P. Licks is cucumber. I asked for a sample at the Porter Square shop last week, and liked it enough to order a small dish.

A more intense cucumber flavor would have been good, but I like sweet cream ice cream, so I was happy to eat this. It was the sort of mild flavor that you—or at least I—will notice and like at the first taste, and that can fade into the background before I finish a serving.

Nonetheless, yesterday morning I was strongly encouraging some of cattitude's relatives to go to Toscanini's as long as they were going to be somewhere in the vicinity. (I generally prefer Tosci's to J.P. Licks, but we were already a few blocks from Porter Square, meaning a subway ride away from Central and Tosci's.)

Comments

[anne]

FWIW, I'm told by someone at a local restaurant that J.P. Licks uses the Hood base, whereas Tosci's makes it all from scratch.

I'm glad you're here! I wish I weren't working too much to see you.

[redbird]

I'm already back in Washington: this trip I saw nobody except Adrian, unless you count a very brief chat with Jailbait after he spotted me walking past his car after the ice cream. (And then I got on a train and spent two days with lots of Cattitude's relatives.)

[erik]

That effect (of noticing a flavor on the first bite and missing it by the last bite) is called "Selective Satiation" and is part of why I serve my ice cream in tiny portions. I'd rather give you small scoops of three different flavors and have you actually experience the flavor of all three, as opposed to giving you a big scoop of your favorite, which will fade on you before you get to the end.