 Hi everyone, welcome to Real Conversations in English with Liz and Adam. I'm Liz Wade and this is Adam Navest. Hello everyone. And this is our conversation program for Spotlight English. And today we are talking about something sweet and cold and delicious. It is ice cream around the world. Oh, wonderful. I know, right? Well, we did pizza a little while ago and now we've got to do another delicious world food. I was actually surprised to find that ice cream really is an ancient and worldwide food. So if you have not listened to that program yet, you can find the link in the description below. Or I'll also link the videos up with that little dot I and you can check out those programs in a classic version and an advanced version. And we also have another video for that as well that we have a special video this week. And so you can check that out as well and I will link that when it goes live. 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I was surprised to hear that it's over 2,500 years old for one or 2,500 years old. We talk about the different kinds of ice cream that were in the past and the business of ice cream who knew it was a huge business. And also, what else do we talk about in this program? Oh, yeah, we give a recipe for you to try at home. And that is very exciting. I can't wait to talk about that a little bit later. But Adam, so are you an ice cream person or not? Oh, so I definitely am. Let's be clear here. I am an ice cream person though. I get a little grief and this is not going to surprise you. Oh my gosh. Are you going to say that your favorite flavor is vanilla? Is that what you're going to say? It's not my favorite flavor, but I don't like the super sweet, like ice cream has evolved so much, right? So it's become, you jam candy bars in, you jam all sorts of stuff in. I don't like that kind of ice cream. It's overwhelming to me. Oh, okay. I see. So I like a vanilla based ice cream rather than a chocolate based ice cream. I like a few little things, but the primary, yes, is vanilla. And I do enjoy a good vanilla ice cream. Like it doesn't, yeah. Yeah. I will say, okay, so vanilla can be good, but I would definitely not say that it's like my favorite ice cream. But I get your, I understand your idea about like putting too much stuff in an ice cream. Sometimes when you put in like say chocolate chips or chocolate chunks, they're just too hard. They get too cold. Yeah. And then they, and then they're not pleasant. And the mouth feel is not pleasant. And then I don't really like eating it. So I could see, I could see that. I have been very into fruit. Oh, fruit in an ice cream. Yeah, blueberries or pineapple. Blueberries? Yeah, it's like cream and blueberries and cream, strawberries and cream. And did you say pineapple in an ice cream? Not with the blue, yeah, strawberry pineapple and vanilla ice cream. Well, Adam, the great thing about ice cream is that everybody gets their own flavor. So I don't have to eat that because that sounds disgusting. It does melt the ice cream, the acidity of the pineapple. So I'm going to say the best ice cream ever made is by Ben and Jerry's. And it is called Half Baked. Okay. And it has cookie dough bits and brownie, brownie bits. No. And it is delicious. No. See, I'm going to argue. I'm going to, we're going to throw this whole script out. And I'm just going to argue with you now. We don't have a script. Cookie dough, cake batter, things that don't taste like ice cream. Don't make it into something else. Don't, don't give me coffee ice cream. Don't give me pie ice cream. Don't give me brown, you don't even give me brownie ice cream. Like it's. Oh my goodness. Okay. So we're going to have to move on because this conversation is getting quite heated. It might break out into a fight. Yeah. Leave us your favorite ice cream below. Maybe we could have an ice cream tasting based on what we find. You know, I do think it's really interesting. We talked about different kinds of ice cream in this program, but we did not talk about different flavors of ice cream from different countries in this program. And I know that, like for example, in Japan, matcha ice cream is very popular, but it is not popular in the States. I just had that the other day. You had it? Yeah, they started selling it. And you're talking about those little balls of. No, that's mochi. Okay. I'm talking about like green tea, like matcha ice cream. Yes, yes, yes, no. Yes. Yeah, we have mochi quite often actually. I kind of like mochi. It wasn't. It wasn't bad. Yeah. I like that kind of gluey texture. Some of it was better. Like I think there was a peach flavor that was really quite good. Yes. So what I love about this though is that it's kind of like pizza in the way that people just really love an ice cream flavor or don't, right? Everyone's got their own opinions about ice cream. Oh, okay. I'm going to test you then. Are you ready? Okay. Yes, I'm going to give you three different flavors and you and I'm going to try to find one that you're like right in the middle about that you don't either love or hate. Okay. Okay. Okay. We're going to go with this is a ice cream that is very popular with kids has a variety of names. It's it's like three or four different colors all very bright. And I know what you're talking about. I know it as Superman ice cream. Yes. I love it. No, no, how love it. It's like my favorite kind. So this Superman ice cream might guess it might be a local thing like it might be a sort of Midwest United States ice cream. Yeah. And it is a blue moon flavor, which is I think I think a cherry and then a vanilla, but it's bright blue and bright red. It looks like it should come out of a nuclear reactor. It's so okay. So we found I got two more ice cream. I got two more. What is that one like there's there's always one that my dad would always get when I was a kid. I'd be like who would eat that. It was like Praline's in cream or something. Yeah, I would probably say I would never order that. And I wouldn't I wouldn't actually if there was a carton of Praline's ice cream in my or like you're probably talking about butter pecan butter pecan. Yes, butter pecan. That's what it was. If there was butter pecan in my freezer. I probably wouldn't eat it. I'd be like not worth it. No, see there so we're in the work. We're closing in on the middle. I'm gonna try that is it's an old people ice cream. It's an old people ice cream. That's what I think. So okay, so now I'm gonna try to come up with one that you don't like. Is there an ice cream you don't like? I would say I would never eat a pot. Well, okay. I won't I won't say never. I would probably not choose to eat an ice cream with pineapple in it. Oh, a tropical like mixed in. Yeah, it's good. Okay, so here how do you feel? You're gonna have to explain this one. How do you feel about banana splits? Oh, I like banana splits. It's kind of like a hot fudge sundae, but I'm definitely gonna include a picture of a banana split in this conversation right here. So it's basically you take a banana and you cut it in half the long way and then you put it on in a big dish. You have to have a banana split dish. A boat, I believe it's called. Yeah, a boat. I do not have one of those. So I actually don't eat this ever. And then you put three scoops of vanilla ice cream and then you have your toppings, right? Because well, you have three scoops because it's got to fill that whole banana. Yeah, I thought you get like chocolate vanilla and in strawberry scoops. Oh, really? Maybe you can get whatever. Whatever and then you put like toppings on it like a hot fudge sundae. So you'd put like whipped cream and fudge and maybe peanuts and... Cherry on top. A cherry on top, whatever else you put on it. So I would eat a banana split, but I haven't in maybe ever. It is the kind of thing sometimes you split with other people. Maybe that's why it's called banana split. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Share, split me. So, okay. So getting back to this program, I thought it was really funny that, okay, so ice cream is a huge business. It's like something like $68 million U.S. Oh, probably billion. No, I don't think so. I think it's $68 million. And they think it's gonna hit a billion almost in 2020. Yeah, $68 million U.S. Okay. Okay, and it will hit almost, it'll hit... No, it won't hit a billion. It will hit almost $100 million in a couple years. Okay, it's going up. It's trending up. It's going up. But one of the things during 2020, when everything was shut down, people bought a lot more ice cream. And they think it is because it's a comfort food. So people want to feel good. And everything around them is crumbling and they can't see any friends. So you just sit there with a taste of ice cream. And you just want to have a carton of ice cream and maybe you just with a spoon straight out of that carton and you just want to eat it. And maybe that is what also led to some of the fitness craze in 2020 where people bought a bunch of exercise equipment. They're gonna have a dumbbell in one hand, some ice cream. Oh, I'm doing curls. Yes, exactly. So, yeah, so that increased the sales of ice cream, which when I learned that I was like, oh yeah, that makes a lot of sense. So before we end, we have to talk about the recipe. Oh, yes. Okay, so have you ever made ice cream in a container like this? I have a memory of as a kid trying it and it not really getting cold enough. So I will say I made this video and I had a special assistant as well. My assistant was Brea, who is my daughter, my youngest daughter. You know that already, but I'm just explaining it. And she, of course, is an ice cream lover. She loves ice cream. And so she was the perfect assistant for this video. And we followed this recipe that we have on our website and below on the video. And it was super simple. And it was actually delicious and very easy. And it turned out it made great ice cream. So I think that's a great, if you're watching this video, you've made it this far. You've let us know your favorite flavor. Go watch that video. Yes. And then please, please send us a video of you making ice cream. It took us about 10 minutes total with like measuring the ingredients and putting everything in. And after we were done, I have older kids as well. And they were like, well, what could we put? Could we put chocolate in it? Could we make chocolate ice cream? Could we put fruit in it? And so it was very exciting and it turned out really well. And it tasted good. Yeah, it did taste good. And you said you had a hard time getting it like hardened ice cream. We didn't have that problem at all. Like maybe you needed more salt or ice. It did melt a lot of ice cream. I'm going to go try and do it again and maybe I'll post to the comments of my attempt or maybe I'll just run to the store and get some ice cream. I will, okay. So last question before we wrap up. What ice cream is in your freezer right now, Adam? Well, any ice cream? There is some ice cream and it's just vanilla. That is, well, okay, so here's why. We don't keep up. Well, I think there's some other ice cream that might be in the back somewhere, a small thing. But we were making root beer floats for the kids. Oh, yeah. So that definitely requires vanilla ice cream, which is simply a glass of root beer with then you put some vanilla ice cream in it. Oh, I do love that. That is very delicious. The one thing about vanilla is that you can use it for a bunch of different stuff. You can make shakes with it. You can make root beer floats. Goes to pie. You say root beer floats and I say root beer floats. Root beer floats. So in my freezer right now, we used to have vanilla, but we used it on a strawberry shake, which is the only thing you should use vanilla for, just for something else. And we have a chocolate chunk. So it's like a vanilla with chocolate chunks in it. And we have one of my very favorite ice creams. Wait, let me guess. Okay. I know I've said it in our last- I'm going to go with mint chocolate chip. It is. But it's a brand specific mint chocolate chip. The Andes? No. It's Trader Joe's. Trader Joe's mint chocolate chip is my favorite. And we're not sponsored by them or anything. Though, if you are working for Trader Joe's and would like to sponsor Spotlight, let us know in the comments. We want to know what ice cream is in your freezer right now if there is one. If there is ice cream. Or what your favorite flavor is. Make sure you subscribe. Hit the little bell. Always get a notification. Don't miss any videos. Join as a member. 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