Micro Posts

After a long day's work, with another impending overbearingly huge workload tomorrow, this blog is looking extremely sad with lack of updates. Thus, all my backlogs shall stay as backlogs until there is actual time to sit and write a proper long entry, and that includes cafe series.

Micro entries are the way to go really.

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Introducing the guest of my entry for today: the Maggie Beer ice cream line. Was first introduced to this line of ice cream by JL, whom I absolutely trust in terms of taste buds.

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There are quite a few flavors out at the moment, but it was specifically this one that I was most interested in trying: the burnt fig, honeycomb and caramel ice cream. 

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I must say, at almost $9 for a small tub of this, I almost hesitated in buying this. $9 is the price of Connoisseur on special, but!! Connoisseur is a litre... this? Half a litre... for 500mL, you are paying $9.

I guess you pay premium for this ingredient list:

Cream, milk, burnt fig syrup (11%), (figs sugar, verjuice, lemon juice), sugar, honeycomb (6%) (sugar, glucose syrup, butter, cocoa butter, gelatine, sodium bicarbonate, salt), water, egg yolk, skim milk powder, glucose syrup (from wheat), natural vegetable gums (carrageenan, locust bean, guar), natural caramel flavour, natural flavour (contains wheat). contains 17% milk fat mimimum. contains milk, wheat, egg and sulphites.may contain traces of nuts.

That was taken from the Maggie Beer website. I don't actually see any preservatives and rubbish that a lot of commercial ice cream has...

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Though the price tag did put me off for perhaps a few seconds, just looking at that enticing swirl of caramel and ice cream broke all resistance in me and I found myself justifying my buy all the way to the self-serve counters.

Hey, I did just have a very trying and long day at work ok. My last session was half an hour of screaming terror in the form of an 8 year old boy. I don't see myself buying this very often, but a person's got to try this at least once. And maybe the vanilla bean and elderflower one too, that one sounds interesting, though essentially, you'd be paying $9 for vanilla ice cream... hm.... dilemma of a poor but greedy person, first world problem indeed.

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Fine print for ice cream. Gotta say, it's good. It's very good. The crunchy honeycomb pieces were the highlight of this actually, and the sweetness of the burnt fig syrup balances out the not-too-sweet ice cream. Trouble is, I only had two spoonfuls and the tub is already 1/4 gone... this thing is absolutely tiny!

And my spoonfuls were gigantic I guess. Oh well, not sharing! Except maybe with my mum, cos I like her =)