ANISEED POPSICLES.

August 4th, 2018

The taste of summer.

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Do we share the same childhood memories?

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Growing up in Italy, every summer we would go to the beach for a few weeks.

My dad would drive our RV to the same camping site, year after year, which resulted in creating lots of good memories from that time; the one that I miss a lot  during summer, is being able to lay down in the sand, just to hear the ice-cream truck passing by.

Now, I’m sure you are all imagining the regular ice-cream truck with the cutesy song, but we didn’t use to have those at all in Italy (I’ve never once heard or seen one); we have so many ice-cream shops that there is no real use for something like that – instead, only at the beach, there would be a little truck driving by the shore. It wouldn’t just sell ice-cream, but all kinds of snacks, like cheese puffs and chocolate with grissini.

Yet my favourite was always aniseed popsicles!

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I could eat so many, and never get tired of them.

People either love the flavour, or hate it… so I’m curious: where do you stand?

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As you know, not long ago I went back to Italy for a few days… my friend and I went to grab some cold sweets and I asked for an aniseed popsicle – which I can usually get there.

BUT THEY DIDN’T SELL THEM ANYMORE.

I was not happy about that.

So I asked my mom to send me this bottle up here, which contains aniseed syrup to mix with water to create drinks and – you guessed it – popsicles.

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So I made myself some, waiting impatiently for them to be ready so I could finally taste some after so many years.

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I’ve told legends about these popsicles to Felix, so as soon as he got home, I made him try one.

He hated it. I expected it.

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SO. I’m curious: where you live, do you have aniseed popsicles available? Have you ever tasted them? And do you have any similar childhood memories to share?

 

Marzia