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Ancient Legends, Creative Writing, Fun, History of Science, Ice Cream, Ice Cream Van, Inspiration, Salt and Ice, Snow, Sorbet, Summer, The Silk Road
With Summer’s lingering heat still tempering the Aussie Landscapes… Shiro and daughter… go stalking their quarry. The… ICE-CREAM VAN… that tempts with chimes and jingles throughout the neighborhood… but stops rarely therein. A hunger for Gelati emerges… as the chase goes to Social Media in an effort to assuage this burning hunger it seems indeed. GELATI… GELATO. Our World LEGENDS. Iced… hot as.?. Will Shiro… get cooled and soothed after all or just get the chills.?. Herein.
…NOT THE ACTUAL ICE-CREAM VAN… Shiro + co.,.. ARE STALKING… A LOOK-A-LIKE THAT IS… WELL… …NOT REALLY… BUT YOU GET THE CONEY IDEA.?.
…TIS… STALKIN’ TIME IT SEEMS… TARGET TODAY… GELATI…GELATO… CAPTURE… IS IMMINENT… WE HOPE… OR BEFORE IT MELTS ANYWAYS…
Today… we are stalking a quarry.
My Daughter,.. i, Shiro… too.
The ICE-CREAM Van…
… was the target.
The Legends…
of;
or rather,..
… An ICE-CREAM VAN in fact,.. in deed… also.
Online… and on the streets.
Also,.. NOT just any ol’ Van.
GELATI or GELATO… if so prefer.
HOME-MADE.
CLICK Herein TOP 18 CONDIMENTS OF THE CUPBOARD. THE SLIDE-SHOW. INTEL AND MORE.
…ANOTHER OF THE… NOT THE ACTUAL ICE-CREAM VAN… Shiro + co.,.. ARE STALKING… ANOTHER LOOK-A-LIKE THAT IS…
THAT ICE-CREAM VAN… that is indeed… sublime…
(…when one ignores the Sugars content that is…)
A necessity of LIFE in the Aussie Summers… and any other Season… too.
Ice-cream.
Our World Legend indeed.
SO MANY FLAVORS… SO MANY UNIQUE CLASSIC WEAPONS OF YORE… HEREIN. A SET OF 9. Shiro STYLE. INTEL. THE LEGENDS. BASICS. TERMS… AND MORE. A SCROLLING GALLERY.
Natural. Herein. The Stone. Philosophise.
When in my youth,.. the EUROPEAN born ELDERS oft created their own version.
Simply Grating ICE and smothering with a Syrup or suchlike.
Sweet as and sharply refreshing, esp. the zesty Lemon & Lime one.
When a certain AUNT made them… very several small pieces of Mint Leaf added.
Not sure how the Syrup was made…
… i,… was somehow kept busy trying to make my own ICED PERFECTION Version rather than LEARN this Process…work.
Certain Adults… added Liquor(s)… too…
… and left the Bottle… nearby.
This SORBET Type mix is the historical fore-runner of our Modern Ice-cream.
Known to many Civilisations and Cultures (click).
ICE… and/or oft SNOW… the chilly component.
Fruit pieces, Fruit juices and sweet syrups, Honeys the usual additions (click).
Similar to now. Sweet as.
…SALT UNLOCKS…
THE POWER OF ICE.
THIS HEART… FOR THE GODDESS. THE FIRST. THE PEDESTAL. INANNA. THE LEGENDS. THE SEARCH FOR HER TEMPLE… too. Shiro STYLE INDEED IT SEEMS.
Chemically apt that SALT… (click) is the stuff of LEGEND.
Herein… too (click).
Prior to Electricity… ONLY WITH SALT… could you make Ice-Cream.
Tis true.
So these LEGENDS say.
In times of Yore… only Nature made Ice Blocks.
Hence as noted above… ANCIENT ICE-CREAM… WAS…
…basically SNOW or Grated ICE… and fruit add-ins.
LOTSA ICE… NOT MUCH CREAM… per se.
SALTS… MINERAL STYLE.
Till SALT… came to the rescue… and table… and chef… too.
Salt’s Properties include varying and tweaking slightly BOTH the Boiling Point… AND FREEZING Point of Water.
This ability enabled the CHILL FACTOR of ICE to be lengthened so a milk/cream solution in a bowl immersed in such… had time to chill out indeed…before the ice melted away… and thus;
The Cream… is now… also ICED.
SALT… The HERO there.
ICE-CREAM added to our Menu and when Electricity mass availed… mass produced… also.
CHAKA SALT LAKE, WULAN COUNTY, QINGHAI PROVINCE, CHINA.
A SALT LAKE… (click).
茶卡盐湖
The QAIDAM BASIN and surrounds that are home to the SALT LAKE CHAKA… are also a SILK ROAD Site of Importance of Yore… with a History of some 3,000 years of usage. The Trade goods and basic necessities that traversed these ANCIENT ROADS have long included such as SALT.
The CHAKA Salt Lake is approx. over 5 mtrs. thick/deep and can cover a flatland of approx. 9 kilometres in length and some 15 k’s width.
It ‘ fills out ‘ when the seasonal conditions appropriate and markedly ‘ shrinks ‘ when not (click).
Estimate of 75+ years natural crystalline Salt Stock accrued allows for production and export of hundreds of tons.
Tours and sight-seeing permitted,.. weather permitting of course… too.
Salt Sculptures by Locals and Workers may also oft litter the landscape…
…though these all too oft simply melt back into the Lake with the next rains.
…SALT… of the Earth indeed.
THE ICE-CREAM VAN…
…THAT IS NOT.
THE LEGEND.
ON THE LOOKOUT FOR… LEGENDARY WEAPONS OF YORE.?. A SET. HEREIN. CLICK FOR TWELVE OF THE BEST.
The Tales of this sweet as Dessert tell this.
The first Ice-cream Van… was a Bike,.. well;
… Trike…actually.
In the mid 1920’s (click).
Not a Van… at all.
Till in the late 1950’s (click).
Before that… both Horse and Hand Drawn Carts… as well.
Indeed,.. in deed and in fact… too.
So the LEGENDS say…
whilst Shiro says,.. i, scream.?.
THE VAN… is coming.!?. or going.?.
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The… VAN… chimes seem fainter…
GELATI…GELATO… Where-fore art thou.?.
… GONE THAT WAY… it seems indeed,.. in deed and in fact… too.
Time to go.
More,.. I SCREAM… ABOUT ICE-CREAM…
…VAN Stalking… on the Way.
That Way.
A cool Summer Way indeed.
Take Care. Be well.
Ice-cream.
The Flavors.
Legends ALL.
Our World Legends.
Be One.
Enjoy yours. Be… cool…
OUTSIDE IS OFT A PLACE FOR ICE CREAM… ANY PLACE ACTUALLY… CLICK AWAYS TO SEE IN THE NEW CHINESE YEAR, samurai and ninja quotes of inspiration AND PET PROTECTORS AND MORE… too.
… no matter your approach to the essence of the matter.
…ARE YOU A DIAMOND IN THE ROUGH… OR RARE.?. MINING. THE LEGENDS. SOUTH AFRICA. THE CORPORATION. THE MONOPOLY. THE PEEPS.
Cool indeed.
Every kid… should chase that VAN.
Every kid Dreams of… catching it… too.
I,.. Shiro did… several times… (…the dream… not the actual catching thereof…).
I Dream of Ninja… also.
Do you… have a Dream.?.
Then sure as,.. Shiro sayeth;..
…chase that…
…to LIFE as well.
Till Next…
Our World Legends. 