Ice Cream vs. Sorbet

Speaking of fat (I was
yesterday in case you didn't notice), I don't get it with ice cream. While I've never been a huge ice cream fan,
sometimes I like sorbet. Okay, I really love
coconut sorbet, particularly when it's mixed with chocolate sorbet.

In comes Sharon's Sorbet. I discovered her in a chain store grocer
years ago and fell madly in love. After
teasing me for about a year, the little tart took her stuff and disappeared. I had no idea how attached I'd become or how
I'd miss her. One scoop of coconut, one
scoop of chocolate, both served in a little bowl was like having a bath and a
massage at the same time. Get it? Probably not because you haven't had it. Sadly, now you never will.

To my surprise, I discovered
a tub of coconut sorbet in the Haagen-Dazs section with "New!"
"New!" all over its little lid. I snatched it up and looked for the chocolate sorbet. None to be found. Imagine that. The coconut was melting in my hand while I looked so I gave up and
bought some odd kind of chocolate ice cream Haagen-Dazs was pushing in its
place. It tastes all right, except the
chocolate is too rich, in my opinion. But the killer is the calories. 340 calories for 1/2 cup, while the coconut is less than half that. It's like eating an extra meal just for a
treat – not to mention an extra meal that makes me feel a little sick because
of its over-indulgence-ness.

Haagen-Dazs, if you're reading (and why wouldn't
you be), thanks for the coconut, but would you please make my life complete
with a chocolate to match? Somebody
needs to fill the void that trollop left.