Unknowingly ate "viral" peach ice cream
For Chinese new year, we consumed peach-flavored ice cream pop, itself in the shape of a peach, sealed within the most structurally intense ice cream containment device I've ever had to open:
Opening the container is pretty hard. It feels like you are engaging with some kind of ceremonial food object, carefully tuned in every way to prioritize quality of presentation.
The ice cream has a white chocolate coating on it, and it's been painted to look like a peach. Holding and examining it in person was a surreal experience. I am a very easily impressed person, but I wasn't the only impressed person in the room, so I feel justified in my awe. Food that looks like other food is always fascinating. Humans have been obsessed with this shit for hundreds of years.
The more time I spent trying to write this blog post, the more inadequate I began to feel in communicating how impressed I was by this novelty ice cream. Then I decided that I wanted to learn how it was made, so I looked it up online and immediately saw this:
Yes, that's a two year old Youtube short titled "Trying the VIRAL PEACH ICE CREAM". Oh no! I am enjoying a two year old viral trend! I'm old! The novelty food item short form video producers have already enjoyed and possibly discarded this viral ice cream! There are even now competitor viral ice creams!
I don't know. I liked it a lot, in the way I might like any novelty food item... but I think my enjoyment was increased by my encounter with the phrase "viral peach ice cream," which suggests a very specific peach-pathogen dessert to me.
I am imagining an ice cream with warts or sores on it, maybe...