Despite what an unsuspecting social media browser might think, your food, more than anything, is for you to eat. To me, food should be expensive because it is delicious. If you are going to Instagram it (as I have successfully done), you must weigh what price a lot of 'likes' come at. At $9 a cup, this is not a snack you pick up on your way home from a long day at work if you aren't planning on Instagramming it, the flavor is not enough to be worth your hard-earned food budget. The first part of the experience, the price, put a damper on the whole thing. Here's Swati, thoroughly unimpressed by the consistency of her ice cream: Amelia Bowen The texture was the biggest kicker, and was inconsistent between each of the three cups. The ice cream was hard and the beautiful display came at the cost of it being very hard to eat. It didn't taste just like normal ice cream - it was weirder and less flavorful, with the taste of the cream being the most present in the Chocolate Mousse and the Cappuccino. That all being said, the ice cream itself was lacking. Said participants were chosen carefully: Swati, who has tried the fabled rainbow bagel and hated it and Diana, who is decidedly cheerful and likes to like things. I ventured into the city on a Saturday afternoon with my participants, ready to go eat some frozen rolls of cream. Rolled Ice Cream tastes exactly like normal ice cream, but costs way more and is somewhat more Instagramable. So, salty that I had managed to be dragged into this trend, I ventured into Washington, DC with a taste-testing squad to empirically investigate this new way of consuming frozen milk and sugar. The Facebook videos have been flowing through my feed for months, and, admittedly, they are hypnotizing to watch. I am firmly of the "if it ain't broke don't fix it" mentality so I scroll angrily past those videos of people eating rainbow bagels (ew) and cronuts (come on), wondering why some trendy NYC bakery couldn't just LEAVE ROUND FOODS ALONE.Īnd then there's Thai Rolled Ice Cream. I hate this, because I really do believe that good food should never be a trend. I am a food trend hater (enter rolled ice cream). We are all familiar with the foods that fill up our Instagram feed, that show up on our Facebook walls, that are linked in an email from your mother with the subject line "check out this new thing ". By adding your email you agree to get updates about Spoon University Healthier
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