Ice Cream: The Cream of the Crop

This is a piece of writing that I did for class last semester. Hope you enjoy.


Ice cream is the best food in the world for a number of reasons. Ice cream makes people feel good, and it tastes wonderful. Ice cream does have some nutrional value: it is a dairy product, which is an important part of a human's diet. Ice cream comes in a variety of forms, and it would have to take a lot for a person to stop liking all of its glorious goodness. Ice cream is an inspiration. Even jobs are brought about by ice cream.

Ice cream is good for the soul. Ice cream has long been known as the perfect comfort food. It has helped people get through break ups, disappointing situations, and depressing moments in life. Ice cream is often the food of choice at birthday parties, fancy dinners, or summer outings. Ice cream has a sweet taste and texture, and melts on the way down. It comes in beautiful colours, and is shaped like lovely, fluffy clouds. It has a pleasant scent, and helps people rise to the heavens in their minds.

Besides being a part of the dairy family, ice cream also contains sugar. People should be aware that vegetables break down into simple sugars; therefore, what could be a better health food? I like to think so, anyway. It leaves a person's breath fresh--thus improves the overall quality of the surrounding citizens' environment; this contributes to everyone's mental health, and makes the world a much better place. Ice cream can also cool and hydrate a person on a hot summer day, which also aids a person's well being.

Ice cream can come in a number of ways. Ice cream comes not only by the truck, by the store, or by the ice-cream parlours; it also comes in different forms and flavours. Ice cream can come in a sandwich. It can come in a cone; one can choose between a lovely cardboard flavour, or a waffle cone. For the less adventurous, ice cream can come in a bowl. Ice cream can come on a stick. Ice cream can even come in a float. Ice cream can be served with cake or pie; it is even a good way to follow up pizza. If a person leaves ice cream to melt, one can compromise with ice cream soup--it still tastes good! Ice cream can be vanilla, strawberry, mint, caramel, rum and raisin, cotton candy, bubblegum; the list can go on and on! Ice cream can be topped with countless items; one could top the dear frozen delicacy with flavoured syrups, sprinkles, marshmallow topping, chocolate chips, various fruits, gumdrops, candy pieces, and anything the imagination can create! Ice cream can be eaten with a spoon; it can also be eaten with fingers for those with less decorum or the young at heart.

Ice cream can be a muse for people's creations. There are songs about ice cream, including "I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream," and Vanilla Ice's "Ice Ice Baby". Ice cream is the inspiration for this piece. There is art created from ice cream, but my favourite art is the sensation it leaves on my tongue.

Ice cream helps create jobs for society. People are employed in making ice cream, and harvesting the ingredients. People also get jobs from transporting and selling this splendorous dessert. There are also jobs created from the people who provide vendors with uniforms, and those who create bowls. Ice cream is simply beneficial to unemployed folks around the world.

The moral a person should learn from this information is that ice cream is a diverse food that brings joy, improves health, inspires various art forms, and helps society. Hopefully, the population can appreciate all the magnificence that ice cream represents.

(Stacy)