Dirty deliciousness! Not very long ago, my friends (Bok, Pie and Diane) and I hung out at U.P. and well, pigged out a little bit. While we walked around the campus, we stopped every now and then to eat a couple of sticks of isaw, gizzard, barbecue and fish balls. Yum. Our last stop was dessert and what better choice could we make than dirty ice cream!
Manong had three flavors that day: chocolate, avocado and cheese. One cone costs P10 (about US$0.20?). If you opt for the fancier cone though (I think it was a waffle cone), it can cost you P20. What I love about dirty ice cream is that it’s not very creamy, but it has a smooth milky consistency. It’s not very rich but still flavorful.
Dirty ice cream is homemade ice cream sold from pushcarts on the streets. Maybe that’s where it got its name. There was talk when I was a kid that it’s dirty because the vendor’s sweat drops into ice cream buckets when he bends over to fill your cone. Yuckkk. Truth is, the ones I’ve encountered are quite sanitary. I haven’t gone home with a bum stomach because of dirty ice cream.
There are other ice cream men who go around neighborhoods with their carts. You know, the ones of the more prominent brands with their jingle playing while the ice cream men peddle towards your place. Then there are elegant restaurants which serve equally elegant ice cream (Have you tasted truffle ice cream? It’s heavenly.) But dirty ice cream has a charm of its own. The nostalgia, the cheap thrill, the quaintness, its distinct homemade taste — all these go into a cone of dirty ice cream. And if you slide some dirty ice cream scoops between two slices of monay bread? Oh so dirty but so delicious, delicious, delicious.
Hi! I'm Toni Tiu,
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barbara
August 21, 2006 at 2:09 pm (18 years ago)my mother had very strict rules about dirty ice cream… i couldn’t have it then – she preferred the magnolia stuff.. so after school i always sneaked out to get some on the way home.. heheheh
sarap eh.
i love the avocado and cheese.. and yes please for dirty ice cream witih monay bread! ohhhh man, i remember the days.
now, the only thing i crave for is ube ice cream! and we’re prepared to pay $14 australian dollars for a small tub of it!
sarap!
-B
Kay
August 21, 2006 at 2:50 pm (18 years ago)I love Dirty Ice Cream. I love the Strawberry and Cheese Flavor. Yummy.
jeanny
August 21, 2006 at 2:54 pm (18 years ago)UY sarap nyan. true enough na this dirty ice cream has this something na kids and adult likes. This ice creams kc are not that sweet and they are really flavorful. Then there’s this ice cream and monay combo…panalo….sarap….
😀
Toe
August 21, 2006 at 7:19 pm (18 years ago)OMG! I miss dirty ice cream! I want keso and ube. There’s no ube? That was a fun pig-out!
JMom
August 21, 2006 at 10:14 pm (18 years ago)oh yumm! sounds like my kind of food trip
on the Rock
August 22, 2006 at 12:21 am (18 years ago)I love ice cream, especially ice cream in other parts of the world! It’s a good treat and makes us feel special! Though I would have trouble eating ice cream with someone else’s sweat – scary!
mare
August 22, 2006 at 3:23 am (18 years ago)Mmmm, reminds me of the summers back home! We’d recyle the Coke bottles then chase after Manong especially if he has the corn & cheese ice cream.
ate sienna
August 22, 2006 at 4:35 am (18 years ago)dirty ice cream!!!! walang tatalo dyan. kahit na gusto ko ang sorbetero at selecta at magnolia, iba pa rin ang attraction ng dirty ice cream na nilalako ni mamang sorbetero! ang sarap talaga!!!!!!!!!
Jet
August 22, 2006 at 1:14 pm (18 years ago)When I was doing sales in the Bicutan area (of all places ha, considering I lived in Antipolo… hehehe), the best part of a cold call would be our dirty ice cream pit stop… hahaha!
Yeah, dirty ice-cream brings along a lot of nostalgia. Sigh!
tintin
August 22, 2006 at 8:39 pm (18 years ago)i love dirty ice cream! esp ube flavor! this was our usual dessert after lunch when i was in high school. when my son enzo turned 1 we hired a sorbetero to serve dirty ice cream during the party. that was a lot of fun!
karol
August 23, 2006 at 8:59 pm (18 years ago)yumyumyum!!! cheese & chocolate! divine! =D
eye
August 24, 2006 at 10:22 am (18 years ago)hahaha! relate na relate ako sa 1st paragraph of this post — guilty during the college days! ang fave naming ice cream eh dun sa tapat ng 1 dorm kasi dinadagdagan kami ni manong parati ng 1 scoop 😀
DanieL
August 24, 2006 at 4:59 pm (18 years ago)i so miss UP and i so miss doing that… walking around andpigging out on the food sold by street vendors.
me wanna go back. now na!