Yesterday, every time I jumped on the internet, I was inundated by tales of the Big Gay Ice Cream Truck. I had no fewer than four Facebook status updates directing me to the Blondie and Brownie food blog review of this little ice cream cart.
As it turned out, none of the people I knew had actually visited TBGICT. A friend from Hawaii even posted, frantically begging her New York network to check it out and give her the scoop (hehe, scoop!)
I sucked it up, left work early and did my duty.
You guys owe me big time for enduring this kind of torture. This is equal to an extra 45 minutes on the ArcTrainer some time later this week. And it's all for you, of course.
On my way to give my final presentation for my Entrepreneurship class, I swung by the cart to claim the final cone of the afternoon. I even ordered the version featured on the food blogs ~ vanilla ice cream with dulce de leche and crushed Nilla wafers (although I was sorely tempted by the Extra Virgin Olive Oil with Sea Salt topping...)
Do I even need to tell you how yummy it was? I mean, you see that photo up there, right? I'm sure you've already licked your computer screen a few timed (don't deny it, I know. Obviously it was a decadent exercise in creamy, goopy delish. The Nilla wafers crumbs were fresh and the dulce de leche was sweet and the smile and nice chit-chat from TBGICT man made that extra 5 block detour worth the effort. The truck gets around, but he's often on the West side of Union Square during the day, it seems.
Will I be going back? Aw, yeah, baby! If you make it there, let me know, I want photo evidence!
Then our professor served wine during class, rounding out about the best Tuesday evening I've had recently (not that any of my Tuesdays have been particularly spectacular lately, given that they've all been monopolized with work and school nonsense).
Now I have this overwhelming urge to dust off the ice cream machine and whip up a few concoctions of my own...
Not sure what dulce de leche is but it looks yummy!
Posted by: grigorisgirl | June 24, 2009 at 11:38 AM
Oh, wow. I hate that New York is 3,000 miles away!!
Posted by: Jocelyn | June 24, 2009 at 02:42 PM
katie is my hero. *licks screen* ^_^
Posted by: joy | June 24, 2009 at 02:47 PM
where can I find this big gay truck? we arrive in the big city tomorrow!
Posted by: CatsPlay | June 24, 2009 at 03:08 PM