The Wallflower Report

So it used to be that whenever I’d go on vacation somewhere or to like an arena or auditorium or whatever the first thing I’d look for would be the Dippin’ Dots stand because there weren’t any around where I live except sometimes in Greco-Roman event structures and I’ve always felt very strongly that food should be available in frozen little globules, you know? Ice cream is just more fun when it looks like something you’d see kids making sculptures out of on a commercial on Nickelodeon.

But I guess the patent must have expired or something because now there’s more brands of dots and you can buy them in regular grocery stores. Which I do sometimes but somehow it’s not as fun as buying them from a pushcart in a museum lobby.

Anyway though so I was thinking, if Dippin’ Dots is “the ice cream of the future” like it says on the stands does that mean that if it catches on eventually we’ll be calling ice cream “the Dippin’ Dots of the past?”

Maybe all food should be referred to in relative chronological terms.

Like if a study shows that more people are eating chicken than beef then we could like call chicken “Tomorrow’s Steak, Today.” Or eggs could be “Tomorrow’s Chicken… No More.” Potatoes could be “Yesterday’s Asparagus.” I don’t know why but it just kind of fits. And a snow cone could be “The Future Site of a Funny Colored Puddle.” At least, my snow cones usually end up that way.

Anyway.

Food for thought.

I’m going to go pour a glass of This Afternoon’s Caffeine Headache.

~Ariella Rasputin Wallflower

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