At work on Saturday I had someone ask me a question that I've never been asked before. Of course I am asked every single time I work why you aren't allowed to mix flavors, and what are store hours are and things like that. But Saturday, man. It was something new.
Saturday was a pretty busy night. I had to scoop so much ice cream, which is nuts because I never scoop ice cream. So while I was standing in front of the nut flavors chatting up my high school buddies, a girl comes up to us and asks "How many calories were in my ice cream?" My high school buddy, Alex, and I looked at each other and then turned back to her and asked, "what flavor did you get?" and she replies "Bittersweet Mint."
So then Alex and I went to the back counter and opened up this massive book that has all of the nutritional information for all of the ice cream. We found Bittersweet Mint, after a little while because apparently high school kids don't know the alphabet very well, and saw that a cup of the flavor has 340 calories. Now I have no idea what the serving size is at the creamery, but I'm pretty certain that it's significantly more than a cup.
I told her this information about the calories and she looked quite upset and walked away. I don't understand who asks questions like how many calories are in my ice cream. Ice cream is delicious because it is so bad for you, don't worry about your calorie count.
Ahahaha. Why would you want the calorie info? That's just depressing! You get some strange characters over there, but the mint flavor is one of my favorites.
ReplyDeleteHahaha, that's too funny. If she was worried about counting her calories, I don't think that eating ice cream was a good idea.
ReplyDeleteNext time someone asks that question, tell them that Ben & Jerry's flavors have smaller serving sizes with WAY more calories (in the long run) And creamery ice cream is so much better!!!
ReplyDeleteThis is my favorite flavor! :( But when I do go get ice cream at the Creamery, which isn't very often, I know that I am over-indulging and 'treating' myself. If you want ice cream being healthy just a sacrifice you have to make. On the plus side I am overly motivated to exercise and eat healthy after a cone.
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