by Marcus Bentley Wise

Created on: April 14, 2010

To ask what is your favourite flavour of ice cream is like asking you to choose between your children. It is not fair and you should never have to do it.

But if you have to choose then you would have to think about what is the best ice cream. And the best ice cream is all about what you are doing and at what time. At Christmas I make a white chocolate and cranberry ice cream. And hot fudge sundaes and banana splits all rank in the very top ten.

As for an ice cream that you can get from the shops you have so many to choose from. All with fruit, chocolate, rum and resin, cookies and just about every thing you could think of that could be mixed in a ice cream.

On holiday now I take my kids to the ice cream parlour on the beach front that has about eighty or more ice creams to choose from. One day we hope to have tasted them all but it seems a endless task that I do not really have the hart for. In fact that to chose just one flavour of ice cream is not easy but I will chose just the one. But it has to be from a set place at a time of year and time of day.

If you drive from my house to the coast you have a number of places that you can go and see but for ice cream you have to go to Bridlington. On the sea front next to the harbour there is a row of food stands that sell every thing from hot dog to burgers. The air is heavy with the smell of cooking, doughnuts, Fish and chips and candy floss. To get there you walk past the fair ground down past the sea wall and to the harbour. Around are the tables of the food stands and the air is heavy with the sound of sea gulls and people talking, children playing and the smell of the sea. You walk down and get a ninety nine ice cream with a chocolate flake. This is a soft vanilla ice cream in a cone. And you sit on the harbour wall, watch the boats come and go. It is special as this is the ice cream of my child hood. Not that I used to go to Bridlington as a child. But is like so many sea side town that you use to go to. And your mum and dad would get you an ice cream at the end of the day after a dinner of fish and chips.

So if I had to choose it would be a soft vanilla ice cream on warm summers day at the seaside, perfect.

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