One flake or two in your ice cream  

Attagirl! Join the twin flake club, and make the most of the treat. I am not supposed to be eating sugar, fat or salt, but I do have the odd day off, and this time I had a day off with bells on, as we say over here.

In Australia we use a lot of your sayings as well maybe as a lot of convicts and pioneers came out of England xx

Well, a lot of my Members of my sites are American, and they think I am absolutely insane and crazy and can not understand half of the sayings lol.

Glad you like my translations though xx

Mmmmmmmmmmmmm Oysters, so long since I have had one of those I had forgotten about them. Maybe, if I am lucky and we go back there before they extend the harbour, the man may be there again and I am going to try one of those!

Glad you like the two flakes, if you are going to indulge, do it in style, I say.

mmmm choc ices may be boring, but that is one up on what I have at the moment. I love the ones with the really really dark chocolate, oh mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

Lol... do I sense that you're a bit of an ice cream lover, by any chance, Shelagh! I don't think there's an ice cream you don't like. ha ha ha

Oh, what the heck... we have to pamper ourselves!

Well, I haven't found a flavour of ice cream yet that I do not like, but I do have favourites, the crispy crack dark chocolate is a bonus. Extra creamy vanilla ice cream and strawbetty sorbet are up there with my favourites. I reckon I should buy an ice cream maker next. hmmmmmmmmm does that entice you to visit?

I am sorry to hear that, I hope there are other things you like just as much which are in your reach.

oh yes, I lurve chocolate, so I suppose you would be going the extra mile and have three flakes lololol.

A flake is a stick of chocolate, about three inches long in the case of the type used with icecream. The chocolate is very flaky and falls into pieces and therefore tastes sweeter than it is, and when we have an ice cream cone, we put one or two of these pieces of chocolate into the ice cream.

However, two, is fine!

The only sorbet I like is the strawberry one, and I love to use it between courses, although apparently lime or lemon is best to refresh the palate. You could put chocolate with sorbet but it would rather diminish the crisp and rather pure flavour.

Oh yes, you certainly are a lady of the ice cream! I agree totally with your comments and must admit I tend to stand back and watch what is coming out of the machine before I actually buy whipped ice cream. I don't have it very often as I am not supposed to eat too much sugar or fat, but when I do I really push the boat out. Everyone seems to be for two flakes!

Magnum I like, that chocolate really cracks. I don't know how they do it but I like it, I prefer the really dark chocolate though.

Trust you to put more on, I would have guessed that lol. I think the reason they are becoming scarce is that the machinery needs a lot of upkeep and maintenance, and also a lot of cleaning, and the ice cream needs a lot of work to mix it correctly, and it is so much easier for the ice cream merchant to merely scoop from a tub, sigh.

Well that is being lazy
As for the Flakes well I like about 5 on mine one for eating first one for eating quarter of a way one for eating half way one for eating 3quarter way and one for the end hehehehehe

As ever, you are sooooooooooo easy to please - not! Well I shall try to have the ice cream maker bought by the time we have the barbecue. We told Spy in the Sky (nosy neighbour) we are having one today and asked her for her shifts so that we do not distub her sleep and she said she sleeps through anything. Not true! That one could hear a mouse cough at 200 paces!

Bookmark this one and remind me to get the flakes for the barbecue, there's a Petal :-)

Hahahaha ok lol

Remember, if Gissi doesn't get a flake, he will sulk, and if you don't get any so will you, so start making my barbecue list now!

hee hee

Ouch. I am sorry about that.

A flake is a sort of short chocolate bar about half an inch square and the chocolate literally "flakes" when it is bitten into. The cold icecream makes the chocolate even more brittle and it makes a good contrast to the smooth icecream.

Have you tried allowing icecream to reach almost melting point, then eating it, it is not cold then. I have sensitive teeth and find that works for me :-)