A Dirty Break
Dirty deliciousness! Not very long ago, my friends (Bok, Pie and Diane) and I hung out at U.P. and well, pigged out a little bit. While we walked around the campus, we stopped every now and then to eat a couple of sticks of isaw, gizzard, barbecue and fish balls. Yum. Our last stop was dessert and what better choice could we make than dirty ice cream!
Manong had three flavors that day: chocolate, avocado and cheese. One cone costs P10 (about US$0.20?). If you opt for the fancier cone though (I think it was a waffle cone), it can cost you P20. What I love about dirty ice cream is that it’s not very creamy, but it has a smooth milky consistency. It’s not very rich but still flavorful.
Dirty ice cream is homemade ice cream sold from pushcarts on the streets. Maybe that’s where it got its name. There was talk when I was a kid that it’s dirty because the vendor’s sweat drops into ice cream buckets when he bends over to fill your cone. Yuckkk. Truth is, the ones I’ve encountered are quite sanitary. I haven’t gone home with a bum stomach because of dirty ice cream.
There are other ice cream men who go around neighborhoods with their carts. You know, the ones of the more prominent brands with their jingle playing while the ice cream men peddle towards your place. Then there are elegant restaurants which serve equally elegant ice cream (Have you tasted truffle ice cream? It’s heavenly.) But dirty ice cream has a charm of its own. The nostalgia, the cheap thrill, the quaintness, its distinct homemade taste — all these go into a cone of dirty ice cream. And if you slide some dirty ice cream scoops between two slices of monay bread? Oh so dirty but so delicious, delicious, delicious.
August 21st, 2006 at 2:09 pm
my mother had very strict rules about dirty ice cream… i couldn’t have it then – she preferred the magnolia stuff.. so after school i always sneaked out to get some on the way home.. heheheh
sarap eh.
i love the avocado and cheese.. and yes please for dirty ice cream witih monay bread! ohhhh man, i remember the days.
now, the only thing i crave for is ube ice cream! and we’re prepared to pay $14 australian dollars for a small tub of it!
sarap!
-B
August 21st, 2006 at 2:50 pm
I love Dirty Ice Cream. I love the Strawberry and Cheese Flavor. Yummy.
August 21st, 2006 at 2:54 pm
UY sarap nyan. true enough na this dirty ice cream has this something na kids and adult likes. This ice creams kc are not that sweet and they are really flavorful. Then there’s this ice cream and monay combo…panalo….sarap….
August 21st, 2006 at 7:19 pm
OMG! I miss dirty ice cream! I want keso and ube. There’s no ube? That was a fun pig-out!
August 21st, 2006 at 10:14 pm
oh yumm! sounds like my kind of food trip
August 22nd, 2006 at 12:21 am
I love ice cream, especially ice cream in other parts of the world! It’s a good treat and makes us feel special! Though I would have trouble eating ice cream with someone else’s sweat – scary!
August 22nd, 2006 at 3:23 am
Mmmm, reminds me of the summers back home! We’d recyle the Coke bottles then chase after Manong especially if he has the corn & cheese ice cream.
August 22nd, 2006 at 4:35 am
dirty ice cream!!!! walang tatalo dyan. kahit na gusto ko ang sorbetero at selecta at magnolia, iba pa rin ang attraction ng dirty ice cream na nilalako ni mamang sorbetero! ang sarap talaga!!!!!!!!!
August 22nd, 2006 at 1:14 pm
When I was doing sales in the Bicutan area (of all places ha, considering I lived in Antipolo… hehehe), the best part of a cold call would be our dirty ice cream pit stop… hahaha!
Yeah, dirty ice-cream brings along a lot of nostalgia. Sigh!
August 22nd, 2006 at 8:39 pm
i love dirty ice cream! esp ube flavor! this was our usual dessert after lunch when i was in high school. when my son enzo turned 1 we hired a sorbetero to serve dirty ice cream during the party. that was a lot of fun!
August 23rd, 2006 at 8:59 pm
yumyumyum!!! cheese & chocolate! divine! =D
August 24th, 2006 at 10:22 am
hahaha! relate na relate ako sa 1st paragraph of this post — guilty during the college days! ang fave naming ice cream eh dun sa tapat ng 1 dorm kasi dinadagdagan kami ni manong parati ng 1 scoop
August 24th, 2006 at 4:59 pm
i so miss UP and i so miss doing that… walking around andpigging out on the food sold by street vendors.
me wanna go back. now na!