Gelato spoons should be the new ice cream spoons
Jess forwards a Serious Eats item on how gritty biodegradable spoons are possibly on their way to ruining our ice cream experiences, and I think this is a serious concern. If I have to choose between ice cream and the environment, I want to know how much ice cream is involved.
These new-fangled spoons sound awful, and I'm with those backing metal spoons in shops. But for ice cream to go? A few Eats readers suggest cones are the answer, doing away with cups altogether. But in Soviet Russia, ice cream cones… something, something … making everyone use cones is communist. Ice cream lines would be next.
How about, if we're going to hurt the environment, we hurt it slowly? Perhaps in a way that makes our ice cream look giant-sized and last longer? Tiny spoons, my friends. Tiny but sturdy gelato spoons are the answer. On top of helping the experience, these spoons mimic the ice cream size of the tongue and human bites. They also give America's top flavorologists the time they need to find delicious, environmentally good solutions. We are the ice cream spoons we've been waiting for.
August 5th, 2009 at 2:53 PM
Then, in the name of the environment, we can have folks carrying around tiny little spoons, maybe on chains around their necks. It's so retro! I bet there's someone with a warehouse of little spoons he's been sitting on since Studio 54 closed.
August 5th, 2009 at 2:57 PM
In this new world, is there ice cream everywhere as well?
August 5th, 2009 at 5:49 PM
If I find climbing gear I'm definitely using a metal spoon.
August 6th, 2009 at 2:58 AM
Or you could climb with spoons and then you'd have spoons ready. First result in Google Video search for that.
August 6th, 2009 at 5:15 PM
This just started my mental vacation a few hours early. My physical vacation will start at 9. hilarious!!!
August 20th, 2009 at 11:16 AM
[...] Not done on the ice cream: Wonderfully light with the cream flavor just above the spirit. Also, may have made me fall back in love with cones. [...]