Ice cream on the sidewalk in Singapore
Over the weekend there was a long ass unauthorized biography of Marissa Mayer, current CEO of Yahoo. There was a part where the story talked about how there were two competing ideas for the future of yahoo at the time and one was based on content and another was based on technology. One line from the story was about how when a technology company stops innovating, it dies. I kind of feel like the food blogosphere has been evolving a lot the last few years and it’s kinda blitzed right by me. Sometimes being old school is cool though, such as the my brazilian friends, or old school dude on Orchard Road in Singapore. He’s just slinging refreshing ice cream sandwiches in the middle of the skin clinging heat.
The one thing that’s really evident when you watch his single person operation was how efficient he was. He kept one hand gloved for sanitary reasons, and he was careful never to touch money with that hand. He would reach into the cold box for the requested flavor of ice cream, slice it with the knife, and sandwich it with either wafer crackers or rainbow bread.
It would be awesome if rainbow colored bread contained as many flavors as colors, however much like my resume, it’s just a useless but pretty cover for plain tasting bread. The signs from the cart said that the ice cream where Magnolia’s brand which I find to be acceptable for normal people, but less so for those who get a hard-on for key words like organic, CSA, or nose-to-tail. If there’s one great thing about Singapore’s weather, it’s that it’s almost the same weather year round (aka, it always feels like summer), you can get this ice cream probably all the time.
Posted by Danny on August 26, 2013 at 7:44 pm
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