Wednesday 19 November 2008

Ice-Cream Review #1: Festival del Gelato (Via del Corso, Firenze)

The Seffalice and Ma and Pa Seffalice had the following flavours between us: caffè, ciccolato fondata (sp?), mango (sp again?), vaniglia, zuppa inglese (cf. posting of a few days ago). These reviews aren't going to be very scientific: we didn't like the Festival del Gelato's ice-creams so much as they were not tasty and delicious.

We've had quite a few Italian ice-creams now (I'll be back-dating some reviews in due course using The Seffalice's Cast-Iron Tasty and Delicious rating system), and while they can be tasty and delicious, their reputation seems a bit overblown. They're certainly not a patch on the Devon and Cornwall vanilla.

If any publishers or TV production companies want to advance The Seffalice to hire a refridgerated van from Woollacombe, fill it with best West Country clotted cream ice-cream and drive it around Italy The Seffalice would be most approachable. One half of The Seffalice can't drive and neither half speaks anything approaching comprehensible Italian. Think of it as Jamie Oliver meets Die Hard meets Death of a Salesman.

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