Spaghetti Eis vs. Cooked Carrots
By: Raychel W. Spaghetti eis and cooked carrots. One of my most favorite foods and one of my least favorite foods. Let's start with the good, the yummy, and the cold. Spaghetti eis is a German food. Spaghetti meaning spaghetti and eis meaning ice cream. Sure Spaghetti ice cream sounds bad. Cause I thought that was nasty when I first heard about it but when I realized what it really was, Oh man I ate a lot of it. I first learned about it in my German class but never had true Spaghetti eis until I went to Germany in the summer of 2016 for an exchange trip. I was really interested in trying it and the first thing I ate was Spaghetti eis. It is vanilla ice cream through a press to make it look like long spaghetti noodles, German cream (which is really thick and heavy), a red sauce (normally made from strawberries), white chocolate shavings, and a waffle cracker or a wafer stick. To make this, the people that worked there first put a glob of heavy cream in the middle of a plate. This would create a perfect mound shape to put the “noodles” over. Then they would put three to four scoops of vanilla ice cream in a press and squeezed the ice cream in a perfect circular pattern over the cream. This gave the effect that you got more ice cream and made it look like a colossal knot of spaghetti noodles. After that, the red sauce was put on. This was to make it look like it had tomato sauce but was sweet and tasted like strawberries. Next was the white chocolate shavings, and they were supposed to look like parmesan cheese. Lastly was the waffle chip or wafer stick and I don’t know what the purpose of these were. My best guess was to make it look pretty. Spaghetti eis is carefully handcrafted and perfected as an art. The men and women who all work at one or several of the MANY ice cream parlors (cause there's an ice cream parlors on every block. Not even kidding you) should enter a Spaghetti eis making competition. Only down side to that is everyone would get first place because all Spaghetti eis look the same. I give a lot of credit to the person or people that invented Spaghetti eis because every time I ate a bowl of it, it made my day. Now it’s cooked carrots. Yikes! I really don’t like cooked carrots. I appreciate the effort my mom puts into making them but there's just nothing good about them. Don’t get me wrong I like eating baby carrots and peeling carrots and eating them but I don’t like them cooked at all. When my mom makes cooked carrots most of the time we have pot roast with it. After she makes the pot roast she mixes quartered potatoes and sliced carrots and adds some savory herbs and lets them slow cook for several hours. She checks them every so often so she knows when to turn the crockpot off. If she cooks the potatoes and carrots for too long them could turn mushy and not very good. At dinner time when I have to eat this meal I love eating the pot roast (because meat is wonderfully delicious) and the potatoes and if we have green beans then green beans. It’s just cooked carrots. Bleh. Cooked carrots. Bleh. I can’t even. Well there my favorite food verses my least favorite food. Honestly I don’t know why Spaghetti Eis is not in America. It’s super duper mega good. Cooked carrots that my mom makes, like I said I appreciate the effort she puts into making them, but I just don’t like them. You won’t know the real take of authentic Spaghetti eis until you go to Germany. |