Ice Cream - The inside scoop

I, V, M. My history memory is when I ask the social media manager of Daenanjiri's Ice Creamer question during an online marketing festival. I am extremely exciting during parties. Is this your mind?

Is this your mind? I'm just thinking with it really. Yeah, yeah, I'm just thinking about it. Wow.

A whole question that gives up? You asked the context of what is your favorite ice cream memory? No, no, I'm not the one that is the marketing manager. No, no, no, let's not get into that.

That is something related to a brand activism and things like that. Whatever happens after this, ladies and gentlemen I get to you, there have been better episode. Benjari is a brand that has filed cases against the Trump administration and things like that. So I basically just wanted to ask her about things like that.

If nothing else, Chuck, give us the origin of Benjari's. I have no idea. Is there two names now? Yeah, just wait for two season three.

Two season three coming up. Anyway, it's difficult to put up Chuck's memory. But, sure, I can put toppings though because of that. No, I see my new story.

Go on. One of the things that I wanted to say was after our, you know, sort of MBA and everything, like two years later, one of our friends was getting married and conned with. So three of us decided we'll meet up in IAM, cold, and then from there, go to conned with stuff like that. So one of the friends, she was a vegetarian.

So you know how extremely difficult it is to get any palatable, vegetable food in cold, or in Caroline's general. So we were driving and basically we stopped at a show. And we were like, I'm not a good guy. And Caroline general.

So we were driving and basically we stopped at a shop and we had obviously a paurota and V4, whatever. And she had paurota and she's like, cheddar, do you have any wedge curry? And he's like, no. And she's like, okay, what about egg?

And he's like, I already told you there's nothing wedge-wise you're asking this egg. So she ended up eating paurota with mango shake with lots of ice cream, which actually turned out to be pretty obvious. Wow. That's the most.

Actually, I remember outside my college, there's an interesting concept of a mix. And Tony can tell me if this is like there anywhere else in Caroline's general. Yes. Yeah.

Me too. Wow. Playing in 2010's to talk about it. So what they would do is so grape juice mix would be they would put one of these milk packets in the freezer and that would be the base for any shake.

Right? You mix that with sha chak and all that. They would take this and they would mix it along with fresh grape juice. And it's a, I know it sounds like a crazy combination, but it was surprisingly brilliant.

And they would do this with pineapple and a couple of other juicers. But did you have this anywhere else? We just call it a mix. Very well.

So I haven't seen this anywhere else in India or can I love it better? Oh, I thought I would just call it a shake. Like you said, but yeah, it's a great shake. I don't know.

It's a guacamole. It sounds like a camole. Like who is it for dear? And then someone's like, I'll do it for her.

Oh, that is a lot of money. You got a marketing answer. You got like a Malayalam etymology. What more do you want on simplified?

I think you have one. Yeah. Now if you're somebody like that. I've got a pretty gross story.

This happened in engineering. So the worst. I mean, you would ice cream, not ice cream. So the worst, some of the worst racking that used to happen in Manipal was Malu's racking Malu's right?

They never troubled anyone else. But two words, fellow Malu's, they would be. Yeah, so one of the things, so back in the day, we used to get this little paper cup ice cream, you know, I know what it was called. Some strange flavor, but okay.

So the Malu's used to have a daily racking thing. So the evening, the bulletin would come and morning everyone had to comply. So this one time, everyone had to buy these paper cup ice creams and one paper cup ice cream and put it in their undies and carry it on for the rest of the day. So it will be dripping going.

But you can't take it out. So if any senior asked for it, you sort of, you know, you have to basically show that the ice cream is. Yeah. And it comes with a warning, contains nuts.

I was actually about to ask whether it was the ice cream, but I think I'll do it. A couple of follow up questions over here. One, that actually sounds pretty nice. I want to try that.

The second thing is, what would the senior ask the person to do after they had extracted ice cream from said nether regions? Would it be just, hey, it exists? Would they be asked to eat it? Or would the senior standard?

So basically, you have to put it in your pants, take out the fresher obviously. So he put his hands into his pants and then it will come all covered with ice cream and then you have to lick it in front of him. And you have to lick it. Okay.

So the smarter ones would then make sure that it's wrapped in some form or is that against the rules of the game. This is the actual starting of that Parikrama song wrapped in a polythene tucked away safe in my hand. You know, I need to step that thing. You know, for people to give lyrics to a Parikrama song.

Parikrama song. How do you say? Oh my God. Okay.

We have established that we can bullshit or give a story around absolutely every keyboard. I still have it. Oh, you have it. Yeah.

But yes, I'm speaking and I will continue in the theme of bizarre ice cream stories with my story coming from when I think I was I think 10 or 11 and we were taking a road trip to the world from Ahmedabad. So this was where I did stop somewhere like on the way I did this literally a truck stop. So there was no there's not civilization anywhere nearby. We stopped in the middle of nowhere and it's at Dada.

But this is like the nicest hubber we can find around and we turn up over there. Like I'm sitting over there like the they give one like they were forced because they had a menu rest of the rest of the rest of the rest of the rest of the rest of the rest of the rest of the rest of the rest of the rest of the rest of the rest of the menu and everything is like dispelled and stuff. And I had I continue to have at certain locations a prosperity of ordering things that are off beat from a menu that you shouldn't be ordering off beat from. So I looked at the ice cream options and there were only two there is vanilla and butter scotch.

All right. So I was like, okay, I'm not good. I'm good. I have butter scotch and butter scotch was dispelled as well.

Which I have a place said order order that comes back with a very nice beautiful small cubes of butter content put on top of it nicely. So that was my butter scotch ice cream. It was only a grammable moment in an era before it's like. So you see it.

I got it. I got it. I got it. I got.

But he was much better. Good. But otherwise. Yeah, exactly.

I was actually just outside. What is the weirdest? What is the weirdest ice cream flavor you've eaten? I think bachelor's has a green chili ice cream.

It's actually pretty good. Yeah. I had that too. I was thinking you're going to be sweet.

I had this thing called Ubei ice cream. Ubei is a purple color tuber. And I think Ubei ice cream is sort of like a local delicacy slash point of interest. It's not exactly, it wasn't exactly very flavorful.

I went to a restaurant here in Bangalore and I had a very excellent bird's eye, chili ice cream. Really? Was it sweet or was it just called? It was spicy and like with the milky element, like the bloody last spicy kind of stuff.

It was really amazing. So yeah. There's some fried ice cream in weird stuff. I've had that fried ice cream.

In the way, you get ice cream sisler. Yeah. You get ice cream sisler. It's basically a gussler lighter.

I'm going to put some vanilla in it. I'm sure they had some. Yeah. In Malaysia, you start some really nice, like a very like beautiful green lime ice cream.

It was literally green lime concentrate. Converted twice. So it was like, stars. L.

In Kochi, there's a place. I don't know if it's still around. It's in the stock exchange building. And yes, Kochi has stock exchange.

There's this place that they give you ice cream by weight. Now, I know that's a fairly regular thing now in 2021. But back in 2000, when I first came across the concert, you put the ice cream into a whole bunch of toppings. And you just keep adding, we put it on the bane scale at the end and you pay by weight.

Like, wow, that blew my mind as a 14-15 year book. Was this caravan? I forgot. I forgot the name.

It was just too long back. Anyway, we have spoken about once in so many minutes. In Malaysia, basically, Milker is called so-so if I'm not mistaken. So I suppose what connects my name, so it's a great mentor.

Oh, wow. Now that all our audience is left, we can get to it. You know, a couple of episodes back, we spoke about form versus content and how the setting can be picked up and all that. Tony is one person who instantly benefits from being in front of a computer connected internet while recording a podcast.

Yeah, there's not to say that your short term memory is bad or anything is just said. You're able to stream together all these random. I'm assuming that you didn't know Parikramah lyrics by heart and you don't know Parikramah lyrics. I actually did.

This is a famous song. I don't know. Many of you think about our co-hosts every day here. It's the best part.

The podcast is for you guys. No, but it's basically played in my best. Therefore, like, this song is called But It's a Train, it's a different honesty. So any more.

Oh, yeah. But it's pretty famous Parikramah song. Yeah, that's not the reason. That's not the reason.

Yeah. OK. Let's go about ice cream for so long. Yes.

So, Larry, can you please shed light on now? It feels like you guys read Nup Guff, no, but I can. Over the years, the introduction has become so big that I'm completely, like, creative of five minutes and then comes the lesson. OK, still at the intro.

Oh, OK. But over the years, intro has so curveed. There's a shout out to you. Of course, old friend of the podcast.

And one's guest as well, if I remember correctly. Yeah. OK, nothing. Please, excuse us.

This is, you know, these are very serious matters, which is why I, so first of all, is ice cream, very serious. And why, first of all, why the ice cream episode, I will tell you that. Please, you guys, if you want to start, I'll be here at Simplified, take the pressing issues of the day, the Sri Lanka in crisis and now ice cream. So, go on.

Yes. So, it's so happened that I have to, you know, I have to attend a wedding, like a very formal affair, where the dress code is formal. And I really don't have, you know, I didn't have a proper suit. And my son, who's a bit of a dandy, he said, no, dad of mine is going to go out and sell it.

He decided to go and buy me a blazer. So, we go to the shop and we try out a couple of blazers and some are loose, some are tight. And then there's one, which is complete Goldilocks perfect. And it's like, everything is absolutely perfect, lovely, card beautiful.

And that reminds me, I have to tell you my original blazer story as well. But anyway, this one was perfect, except the damn thing, I couldn't put the button there on my stomach. It was, it was a perfect. No, I mean, the shoulder, the arm, the card, if you leave it open, I look like sort of a cross between James Bond and Akshay Kumar or whatever, you know, whatever the sartorial elegance, like, oh, actually, Grim Bond and Govinda.

There are so many questions. So, you can drink a martini and eat barners with it. Perfect. You would have done so well.

Instead of 0.07, it will be number one. No, wait, that's cool. No, I was not messing with Kilaari. That was a new thing.

She can start at Kolkata. There you go, wow. So, I was very overcome with emotion at that time. Because I was like, how can it, you know, how can I live like this?

And I know the crashing look of disappointment on my son's face. And how many years ago was this? This is like last week. Last week, last week.

Then I solemnly promised that I would not eat any sweets, including ice cream. You know, specifically, you said that like specifically, no sweet, including ice cream, not like, that's good. Like, specifically ice cream. And the tragedy was purely by coincidence, every day since that day, we've had ice cream served at the dinner table for some reason.

So, one day my sister and brother-in-law brought some. You know, one day some random guy came and, you know, my mom decided to dig out ice cream from the fridge. And so, everyone gets ice cream from the rain and all. Yeah, you know this.

You don't know this, like, when you decide to give up ice cream, it is the universe conspiracy, make sure you get ice cream. Absolutely. Absolutely. It's called the Baskin main of effect.

LAUGHTER Wow. LAUGHTER Well done. Yeah, I was scared about that. Yeah, it's a good one.

Yeah, but you're so very sensitive, Sergeant. Yeah, so after that, I have not been able to think of anything other than ice cream. So that's why I'm... This is the golden position.

This is like, this is like, go and whip themselves. So I'm... We still haven't spoken of... We still haven't spoken of thing about ice cream till now, by the way, we've been doing the set up.

Nicely, true, true. I'm using the frozen desert excuse. It's not ice cream, it's frozen desert. Yeah, actually I just learned.

I'm my research for this article that, yeah, I should have called it frozen desert and... I should have also said episode and not a article, but let's go with what you said. Ten inches, but it's fun. We should have called it six year more often.

So of course, the burning question of the time is, what is ice cream? Don't burn it. Don't burn it. The freezing question of the time.

Freezing question of the time. Freezing question of the time. It's sweetened frozen food, that's what ice cream is. And it's made from milk or cream and is flavoured with a sweetener and a spice such as cocoa or vanilla or such.

Or with strawberries or fruit such as strawberries or peaches or mangoes in my case, mango ice cream. I had to say no to mango ice cream, very emotional moment for me. And also, I mean, last time I went somewhere, there's this nitrogen kind of thing. I don't know how that works, but it's quite awesome.

It makes nitrogen and all and apparently it is lethal enough to kill you if you eat it wrong. So that is basically my research for the ice cream episode. And after this, I was unable to continue any further. I'll just try to make up for it by just being very, very emotional.

And well, it's a little more technical. I read a little more. Mixture is cooled below the freezing point of water and stirred to incorporate. So basically, it's the whole art is, if you just freeze stuff, you get a solid block of ice, which is very difficult to eat.

So you have to incorporate air spaces into it. And this was the, you know, this is why they have those ice cream churners and things like that. So you don't allow the liquids to freeze into one solid block. And anyone who's made ice cream knows how difficult that is.

You have to keep sort of churning, stirring, things like that. Yeah. And it's basically a colloidal suspension or something. What's the technical thing?

It's a colloidal suspension, semi-solid forms. I think there's a little bit of engineering involved in that as chemical engineers, but more very well. And yeah. Yeah.

That's basically then afterwards I paused my research and wept for about five minutes. And then when I resumed, I found out. But this is so difficult. I have no idea what's happening right now.

I don't know. You're a Canadian marine. That's the most emotional, this is the most emotional, impassioned sort of episode I've ever done. Yeah.

So, I'm just asking now. It originated in Persia, by the way, as far as I'm going to be seen. What? You, you, the suit ice cream, what?

Right. Right. I have to say, I have to tell you my original suit story also, which is also... I think we should take a break at this point and come back.

Please join us on the other side for whatever we have. Whatever this is. This is literally a trailblazer episode. Oh, nice.

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Yeah. So I mean, I was in the most significant enough of them. Yeah, exactly. So I was, you know, though I'm laughing a lot, I'm very sad.

Yeah, yeah. Yeah. I think that's the only thing I've ever been able to establish so far in this episode. And I'm really sad.

But anyway, ice cream. We are talking about ice cream in case anyone forgot. And it originated in Persia back in 550, and I still don't get to eat it. But how did they freeze it in Berlin?

So they used to get ice from the hills or wherever ice was formed. And they used to make sorbets out of this. So they would just, you know, I'm sure they hadn't figured out the cream bit, but they would add fruits, water and freeze. And actually I really don't know how they used to freeze it because the fund of adding salt and getting the temperature, you know, it was discovered fairly late in time.

It was discovered only in the 18th century or something. That's why I'm looking at what these do. But people like Emperor Nero and all, when you're not busy fiddling and watching Rome burn, you street ice cream brought from the Alps. So his version was later, we'd ice cream.

Or let me ice cream. But that is basically ice fruit or sip up as we call it in. It's called Pepsi. And another curious source is Marco Polo went to China.

OK, and what a loser. I mean, he goes to China. He doesn't get him some. He doesn't get noodles.

He goes and gets ice cream. But why are you talking about loser? Because I don't know how to eat ice cream. I don't know how to eat ice cream.

He probably doesn't know how to eat himself. So he was allowed to, he was allowed to, however, eat mint ice cream. Because his name was Marco Polo at the end of the day. LAUGHTER Well played again.

No, Tony saw that from my life. Like, it's a good idea. It's an old joke, what do you call it? Like if RBI has like, if there's a theft at RBI and the burglars have just broken in, it's called Polo because it's a mint with a hole.

LAUGHTER Very nice. Super. That's the remind me of, I mean, it doesn't remind me of anything. LAUGHTER So the Chinese used to make ice cream.

The Chinese used to make ice cream. Chinese apparently invented ice cream as well. Chinese invented everything. So ice cream are one of the things they invented.

No, no, no. It's like they invented nothing. You even did anything, exactly, paper, tea, gunpowder. LAUGHTER It's a remind me of the toddler's laws of property.

So toddlers laws of property are that if it belongs to me, there always belongs to me. And if I think it belongs to me, then it belongs to me. And if I saw it first, it belongs to me. No, these are the toddlers laws.

China exactly has the same laws of property. So if it belongs to China, it always belongs to China. If China saw it first, it belongs to China. And if China thinks it belongs to them, it belongs to them.

But Marco Polo took it away. It was basically highway strawberry. LAUGHTER It's already very interrupting your own stream of consciousness. I know it's such an informative episode.

Just make a very good hat, get your eyes clean. Because he got the eyes clean. He's continued. And our old friend Seneca, which everyone will remember from our show, is his own episode.

So Seneca didn't like ice cream. He thought it was too extra. Oh. Yeah.

So Seneca is my good friend. So I think it's too extra. Nobody should have ice cream. Temperance is part of the table.

This is a lot of food, right? And India, of course, India being India, UNESCO world-certified. The Mughal emperor used relay the horseman to bring ice from the Hindu Kush mountains to the capital deli and used to make kulfi. So kulfi was by this time that endothermic effect was probably, have you seen people making kulfi?

They have, I don't know if they're there now. When we were kids, these guys, we used to come on carts. They used to have a box with metal sort of pyramid kind of containers in which the kulfi was made. And it had ice, and the guy would put salt, and then put that container inside.

And everything would freeze up and become a kulfi. It was awesome. You should get these little long, obstacle kind of kulfis. I don't know if I haven't seen one of these guys for ages now.

But they were pretty pretty, and they would roam around the streets of Bombay, shopping kulfi, or kulfi, or the other. And then, the moment he's out, which of course I can't eat now. But before... How does it make you feel, Narind?

I love how committed you are to this character. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

And as a... If we have a quick opportunity to pivot into the history of Mumbai... Yeah. I think it's just as if it's open to pivoting to a relation right now.

If we have to pivot into like, like, sack this, push ya. I think we're on top. He can't do it. If we talk about Scott Galloweth, then we pivot into pivot.

I'm okay. That's true. There must be a Scott Galloweth, put for all this also. Must be, I'm sure.

But let's... I actually won't know. I won't know. Yeah.

So, just to recap, Narind is sad, can't he die? Go. Yeah. Am I kind of eat ice cream?

Because I can't get into a stupid suit, which I didn't want to buy in the first place, but I... It's terrible. I mean, it's just... It's one of the shakes, but I don't know what to do.

I'm not the shicks, but I don't know what to do. But you chose to write a simplified episode. Yeah, man. I'm not talking to you or something.

Or you could have written an episode about suits. This could have gone so many ways. But you can get into the brainstorming session of Simplifying. You have any more facts on ice cream?

Yeah. So, an important development in the 20th century was the introduction of softies, soft ice cream. And why are softies so cheap? They're inexpensive.

They're cheaper, formalized. Because they have a lot of air mixed in, which makes them very soft and light. Yeah. But even softies, like, on you.

Because it's actually because you don't know your Y1. Yeah. That's amazing. Yeah, but it's okay.

So, basically, it's milk or something similar with air so that it doesn't flake into ice flakes and something creamy, basically. That's what the recipe is to create ice cream. Wow. So, Tony, when you speak like that, we genuinely don't know whether there's going to be an episode.

No, no, no, no. No, no, no, no. No, no, no, no. No, that's what actually happens.

I don't know about the listener, but I have not been so edited in an episode before. And for, if you know, you know fans, we are recording on 19th April. This is one day, I'm able to... This is where all the other people are saying.

So, per capita ice cream consumption, US is the... Yeah, I mean, leader, 23 liters per year. And not for the win country. Yeah.

No, I don't know. I generally don't know. It's a lot. 20 liters per person is basically one of those, like, we slurry bottles, they drink to put on your tennis.

Yeah, but that's one. Yeah, but that's one. So, if you have an ice cream cone, your standard corner to ice cream cone. Now, how many, is that a l- I mean, what?

Yeah, that would be about 150 ml, I think. 150 ml. No, that's a good measure. Okay.

Okay. Okay. How do you measure ice cream? What's the standard unit of measurement of ice cream?

Is it like, you have barrels of oil? Like, what is that? I think it's liters because I've seen Amul ice cream another one, which I can't eat. That one is a sold in liters.

Yeah. No, I really like the bislary bottle measure. That is big good. How many bislary bottle of ice cream are you having?

Yeah, that's so... That is a fantastic measure you can use. But anyway, you were saying that you are sad. So, we did.

So, it's 23 liters per year, is it? Yeah, per person per annum. Wow, that's not much. So, basically, if we say 150 ml and like 7 of that is roughly 1000, so like, it's basically every other day you have 150 ml, which is...

That's approximately 23 liters, more than 100. That's the average. So, I mean... You just stay at the...

You just stay at the amount of potatoes which Belgians eat, which... That is true. Belgians eat a lot of potatoes. Yeah, they eat little.

Oh, they eat little. I ate little potatoes. I ate a potato because it's in number. I ate little vegetables after that.

Anyway, let us not all lose track and let us come back. Oh, yeah, sorry. So, just to prove a chucks point, potato consumption per capita in Belgium in 2019 was 87.8 kilos. Wow.

One person. Wow. Wow. All time high was 126 kg in 2000, which means you're eating like 300 grams a day at least of potatoes.

Yeah, wow. That's why I know if you bury a Belgian, you get a potato plant. This is the origin of the term Brussels sprouts. Didn't sign the big pack.

Yes. You heard it first on the big pack. This is like some of the youtubers have like, oh wait, it's the origin of things, fidget. Fidget.

Fidget. Fidget. I genuinely feel like because the last episode to come out is the Sri Lankan crisis one and I actually genuinely feel like there are going to be people who have joined in for that for the first time. Every episode is going to be like this.

Inside for life. On the balls. Yeah. Okay.

Another. Okay. So, this fact was the most popular ice cream in Iran is called the Falunar. Yeah.

So, it's exactly the same as it has vermicelli noodle sugar syrup, rose water and serve a lime juice and sometimes ground pistachios. It's pretty much all just the Falunar. So, I didn't know that Falunar originated in Iran, but now I know that. I know fat food.

Yeah. Fat water. Well, when I related to it in Malaysia, you have an ice cream variant called Gula Malacca where they basically put like, it's a bunch of, it's all, a lot of coconut. The coconut in various different forms.

Coconut milk also and there's like some ice cream thing that and then basically it's like a Gula plus coconut plus some syrup. Alright. It is amazing for the first one you have and then you are disgusted by it for the rest of your life. You can have exactly one in your entire life.

Yes. Gula Malacca, what is Malacca mean? Malacca, the city of Malacca is from there. Yeah, Malacca is from there.

Yeah, Malacca is from there. It's the Gula, Malacca is from there. So, Gula is like, Gula is basically. Gula.

Oh, oh. This is the thing that you get in Gula and Humpy called Shalom Malacca. Hello to the queen. If you know of him.

Oh, wow. Which is basically like you put in all of the leftovers, which is, he had some arrow-root biscuits, banana, I think it's something. Basically, when you're stoned, it's supposed to be the best thing to have. It's the story goes that a couple of Israelis had it and they reacted Shalom Malacca, which means hello to the queen.

So, that's a great story. Amazing. Yeah. So, I don't think you can eat that either.

You can't eat the Iranian thing also. And I also, I'm also told that one of the largest producers of ice cream in the world is India. Oh, oh. I'm assuming it does.

It's not a whole. It's a population. Yeah. And the heap.

Yeah. And that's the reason we are able to produce a lot because the rate doesn't eat any. Yeah. But one question, and I think we should Google and figure this out.

Why is vanilla the most common flavor if vanilla is actually pretty tough and very expensive? Until they cracked vanilla, even like a flavor. Because I remember once in Kerala, there was this huge vanilla craze because wherever vanilla was grown, they had some kind of price rise. And everyone switched to vanilla cultivation.

And basically they all lost a ton of money because obviously it didn't grow well or the market crashed. So, vanilla is one of the most finicky, bloody plants. I don't know anti-darwinist thing which refuses to propagate itself unless it is pollinated by a specific insect between two and four in the morning. Yeah.

So, you have to wake up at around 2am and take a little brush and make a little sort of stroke set. You know, sort of pollinate all the flowers yourself and then go back to sleep. And even then, if the vanilla plant figures out that it's not the same insect, it refuses to. I mean, answering your question, Tony, on the vanilla ice cream thing, it's an entirely reading out the sources that are not a bit wide away.

But it seems like the main reason it is so cheap and easy to produce because artificial vanilla vanilla is very easy to get. Also, vanilla ice cream goes great with nearly all desserts and it's this very visible kind of like a thing. So, it's like a lot of different flavors go that you can have a chocolate dish and vanilla can be the base of all of that stuff. And there aren't many other popular alternatives other than chocolate.

So, the most popular flavors of ice cream are vanilla and chocolate and then anything else after that, like, way below. Not only is it difficult to grow? Yeah, sorry, you know, I mean, this one observation, not only is the damn thing difficult to grow, it's also very difficult supply chain wise. They were having trouble finding transportation for it, which is why it's called van Ila.

Oh, you're right. You're almost like this, seriously. Oh my God. Now, I know what you mean.

Although some of the counter googling kind of stuff has revealed that the 10 most searched ice cream flavors in the world, chocolate narrowly beats out vanilla. Then, oh, and then you have, and the next flavor after that, which is surprising, I thought there would be some other base flavor, but it's been chocolate chip. Ah, I know. I know.

Not too fruity. I was going on there. I was going on there. I was going on there.

Okay. Another important question. What is this? What is the part of the ice cream in Ahmedabad?

And the interesting flavor called BPT. And everyone who went in BPT was Barapisakisa. And what a BPT was like the standard. That is what we eat.

And that is what, like, majority of Ahmedabadis got diabetes. So, vanilla is interesting because then it could have become popular only after this chemical engineering thing happened. But we still use vanilla in common parlance to mean anything ordinary. Yeah.

Interesting. Yeah. What is the product? Is it really made of something like cabbage or something?

Yeah, it is some, you know, flavor, something which is like, makes some sort of gel and then you chop it up in a little bit and put it into ice cream. I don't know. You feel like, surprise by this. I mean, Sabudana is made from tapioca.

First time you realize this is a milieu. It's like, wow. But I mean, if it was made from cabbage, not made from it was surprising because I always wanted to be disgusting. I always wanted to be, two different ice cream is equal to buying a monchides cake for a birthday.

You know, like, it is like, you don't like this person at all. Or like, monchides cake. I like it. I like it.

No, it is like, no, it is like, in our house, we need to buy two cakes, one but from monchides. And one from a regular pick up, the monchides cake was to put on people's faces. And like, it was to eat. But what if you said like, India, India, and to put on a bicycle, immediately quitting to Amul?

But there are actually a lot of these regional brands. I remember, like, in Ahmedabad, for instance, like in Bombay, Dinshas is super popular here in Gujarat. I don't know if Baddila is coming in. Yeah, have more Baddila.

I'm sure down south there, I forgot what I've got, but I'm not there. Yeah, man, one called Hangyo, which in Konkirai. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Which in Konkirai means?

Come here. Come here. Oh, man. Nice.

Come here. Wow. This is something that is too good. Just to listen, I brought it to the mix of the series.

It is made from a mix of the series. It is made from a mix of the like, in the APNIC, in India, it is exclusively made from papaya. Yeah, by infused papaya with the APNIC was because papaya, be meek, tote and out of it, we just have to get the jaxi. So, they're all papaya.

Yeah, in India, 20, 40, 40 is exclusively made from papaya. Very exclusively. Very nice. Very nice.

Any more facts? There is a Hawaiian fruit, speaking of vanilla, there is a Hawaiian fruit called Inga Fuli, which tastes exactly like vanilla ice cream. Maybe that I can eat. It's the most common in the ice cream being.

Yeah. So I should find out where I can eat any good Inga Fuli. Wow. I mean, I have not done with this episode that I have in many classes.

The most horrible flavour is supposed to be hot dog flavour ice cream, which is available in Addis. Yes, now let us talk about Japan. Yes, take it away. I mean, for some flavour, horse side is in all that's, tell us what, did you, in your trip to Japan, few years ago, 2018 or so?

Yeah, so, I mean, honestly, I was more interested in the Ramen part of the ice cream, was it something explody detailed? I always say Ramen flavour ice cream. Yeah, although what I did notice was that there was one place that was very insistently getting samples out of lobster flavour ice cream. Alright.

So it was like, wow. And it was like, they had toppings also. Okay. And they were like, I was like, and everybody was like, going damn crazy over it.

And I'm like, bye. Like, this is against, like, something's just fight against. That country is just wired differently. I had in another age, I had something called Truffle ice cream, which is amazing.

Yeah. I don't know if you had Truffle, it has this very amazing, very garlicky kind of aroma, not something you would associate with ice cream or all this world. Truffle ice cream. I don't know if you're, now it's out of order also.

And on the other end of the spectrum, there was, coming back to when I came back to Malaysia, I discovered one place was actually selling. Boba flavour lobster. So Boba tea. Boba tea.

Boba tea. So Boba tea flavour lobster. So it was actually like a lobster covered with all those balls and all that stuff with like a Boba tea milk all over it. So yeah, there are a lot of, I mean, customers on MLRites being violated over here.

I'm assuming. But yes, Southeast Asia and the rest of Asia flying the flag high for weirdness across foods. Here's a cool fact. Here's a cool fact.

And cool as well. So professional ice cream tasters take a very seriously while tasting a new flavour. You know what they use to taste like? They use golden spoons because most metals alter the taste of ice cream apparently.

Yeah. Wow. But it's better than any kind of metal spoon is still better than a wooden spoon, which is what the taste of childhood ice cream was made. So I'm just really rich ice cream taster was born with a silver spoon and upgraded to a golden spoon.

Well done. So well done. And final fact is that you know, there is a scientific reason that you can get something called an ice cream headache. So it's also called brain freeze.

Yes. And that is because when a lot of frozen stuff touches the roof of your mouth, it makes the blood vessels constrict and sort of alters the blood dynamics inside your head and instantly gives you a headache. And it's also called brain freeze. It affects some people more than other people.

I would never know what it feels like. Because you can't have an ice cream, not because you don't have a brain. Let's just. Yeah.

It's not a distinction. People should know. They say, wow. So this is like my foundation actually has fairly raw ground.

I'm happy to it. We have ended on ice cream more or less. I mean three of us anyway, because Narayan can't eat ice cream. But yeah, so that was really fun episode.

Yeah, most of us educational, genuinely educational and factual and reference episodes we have ever done. So also teaching right also touching episode. Hey emotional, what are the stories? Yeah, touched me as tight as your suit around your billion.

So here's what we like all of you who are listening into do go out by an ice cream today. Put a picture up on social media and tag especially Narayan. Because you can't eat ice cream. It's just for this episode.

Just this. The best picture of something. For sure. Yeah.

That was amazing. Yeah. I don't know what came over you. I know what then go into you.

I know what he did get into a suit. This was genuinely a stoner rock of an episode. Like, yeah. It's a dude who made a suit around us off with the suit story that he didn't let you finish.