I remain firmly of the opinion that a Magnum is not an ice lolly, it's a choc ice on a stick, though I am resigned to the fact that this might be a minority opinion.
More like a water-ice, but yeah, that definition works for me. A Magnum is an ice cream on a stick - 'choc ice' if you must, but to me that too is a different confection.
Chupa Chups and their ilk are lollipops rather than lollies.
So only in DC, Belo Horizonte and Vienna do pedestrians walk left to right?
I agree that a magnum is not an "ice lolly". But I persist that it is a lolly. The category "ice cream on a stick" has too many entries to not have a proper term for it, and until someone comes up with something more concise than "ice cream on a stick" or "choc ice on a stick" (which wouldn't work for, say, a Funny Feet anyway), I'll continue to use lolly.
While in Italy, I had a liquorice "ice lolly". It wasn't bad but it was all sorts of wrong.
If done well 'Tiger' ice cream (licorice and orange) is just about my all time favourite. Trouble is commercial brands tend to be too kiddie oriented and insipid. You need a really good trattoria to get the real deal and, sadly, there isn't one locally.
He's the wrong colour! He's meant to be white, not that odd shade of pink. This led to my mother announcing it was time to cross the street with the exclamation 'white man!' during my parents' first trip down here. Obviously this has since been adopted by my girlfriend and me.
Puzzling that people who obsess over what to call a food stuff and insist only their view is correct cannot form and maintain long-term respectful relationships with other humans (insert smiley thing here).
If done well 'Tiger' ice cream (licorice and orange) is just about my all time favourite. Trouble is commercial brands tend to be too kiddie oriented and insipid. You need a really good trattoria to get the real deal and, sadly, there isn't one locally.
That sounds interesting. We had liquorice syrup and liquorice "dust" (or somesuch) and didn't know what to do with it so Mrs B used it on vanilla ice cream and said it was delicious but I haven't tried that yet.
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