Doan Chung-Hernandez

Everyone has that one thing that they just can’t live without and ice cream is indubitably among my list, that and my wonderful husband. Today Ray and I took a stroll through Sprouts because well, it just opened and I love grocery shopping. Ray hates grocery shopping but he loves me and loves making me happy. A year ago today we were in New York and that is when I decided to stop eating meat. I would love to go completely vegan but the thought of not being able to have ice cream sends tremors up my spine. In my head I know it contradicts my morals and ethics but this is how I justify it, eating meat is murder but eating ice cream is rape. I could live with rape. Yes, it’s still wrong, but I could still look at myself in the mirror and go to bed at night. Anyhow, A gripe I’ve always had was that grocery stores never have enough vegan ice cream but today while scoping out the scene at Sprouts I uncovered a whole plethora of vegan ice cream. It was so hard to decide but in the end I picked Coconut Bliss Cherry Amaretto and Ray got Tempt Mint Chip made from hemp milk.

I hate writing this but Coconut Bliss wasn’t all that blissful and Tempt wasn’t all that tempting. I really wanted to love it, I really did. I’m not saying I hated it but had I loved it it wouldn’t have lasted 1 night in my home. I’m pretty sure both lasted about 5 days. Coconut milk is just so strong and rich that it just over powered the ice cream with it’s heavy, creamy, richness and the hemp milk gave the mint chip a floral, slight bitter flavor. Nonetheless we finished them both but in the end I couldn’t help but wonder, maybe this is what they mean by, “pleasure spiked with pain,” I’m sorry poor little cows, I’m sorry we have to rape your sore boobies for milk, but I promise, it’s for a good cause.

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