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Was it because the ice cream was special (why?), who you were with, the good time that you had, the location?
Answer
Mmmmmm......1979. I was in Florence, Italy with a man I was madly in love with, strolling through the streets of the oldest part of that city after dinner one night, when we came upon a little gelateria under the bright light of a streetlamp...with a crowd packed about 5 people deep at the counter and spilling out the door into the street. It was called "Vivoli." We just had to see what the fuss was all about, so we fought our way up to the counter and I ordered, in my fractured Italian, "fragola con panna montada"... strawberry with whipped cream. It was heaven. It tasted like the sweetest, freshest strawberries right off the vine on a sunny summer day. My sweetheart ordered a "misto" of chocolate, hazelnut and rasperry, and that was pure decadence in a paper cup.
We strolled on down the cobbled street back to our little pensione near the Ponte Vecchio, trading tastes in between the kisses. That was a gelato experience I will never forget!
Mmmmmm......1979. I was in Florence, Italy with a man I was madly in love with, strolling through the streets of the oldest part of that city after dinner one night, when we came upon a little gelateria under the bright light of a streetlamp...with a crowd packed about 5 people deep at the counter and spilling out the door into the street. It was called "Vivoli." We just had to see what the fuss was all about, so we fought our way up to the counter and I ordered, in my fractured Italian, "fragola con panna montada"... strawberry with whipped cream. It was heaven. It tasted like the sweetest, freshest strawberries right off the vine on a sunny summer day. My sweetheart ordered a "misto" of chocolate, hazelnut and rasperry, and that was pure decadence in a paper cup.
We strolled on down the cobbled street back to our little pensione near the Ponte Vecchio, trading tastes in between the kisses. That was a gelato experience I will never forget!
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