Watching someone dip a cone into a bowl of sprinkles
Jun 1st, 2008 by satisfyte
Ice cream season is upon us! (okay, for me every season is ice cream season…but whatever) It’s finally hot out, and the tourists have begun to flood my hometown. One advantage to growing up in a tourist trap is that even though it’s boring and dead in the winter, in the Summer you’re surrounded by delicious seafood and ice cream. In a one mile radius, there are 4 ice cream stores, and there’s another on the other side of town. Mmmm.
Today’s wicked satisfying tribute goes to the act of dipping a freshly assembled cone into a bowl of sprinkles. Now if you’re from Massachusetts, you probably call them jimmies. As it turns out, technically jimmies only refer to the chocolate sprinkles, so if you say rainbow jimmies, it’s wrong, and if you say chocolate jimmies, it’s redundant. I disregard both of these rules because a) if you say jimmies, the counter staff will ask you rainbow or chocolate, and b) the redundancy comes into play with my staple ice cream order: chocolate chip with chocolate jimmies. Just rolls off the tongue, doesn’t it?
Some ice cream places attempt to spoon on the jimmies to their ice cream cones, but that’s just stupid. Unless the ice cream is soft serve or super melty, the ratio of stuck jimmies to jimmies that fall off into the bowl is incredibly low. The hardcore way to dress your cone with sprinkles is to jam it into a large bowl of the delicious little waxy morsels and have at it.
For this process, it’s very important to make sure you’ve packed your cone well so that you don’t go to invert it and lose the ice cream in the bowl of sprinkles. Coming at it from an angle and pushing the ice cream back into the cone as you rotate seems to be a pretty good method. What you’re left with is this delightful cone that’s evenly smothered. Chocolate sprinkles are super satisfying because they’re all the same color and the cone just looks like this amazing chocolate victory torch that you get to extinguish with your mouth.
Next time you go to the ice cream stand and get a cone, ask for sprinkles and try to watch them in action. Sometimes they even invert the cups, too, which is super hardcore. I’ll have a chocolate chip with chocolate jimmies, please.
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