McBizzle’s Bizznass!

As a child, I gorged myself on delicious homemade Danish ice cream from Farfar’s. Mom and Dad implemented a one cone a day rule for me and my brother. It was my Achille’s Heal. Physically moving away from the source tempered my cravings a bit while I was in college, which I guess is a good thing, given the nutritional qualities of ice cream. (Though there was the day during finals sophomore year when Ben & Jerry’s and Baskin Robbins had free scoop day the same day and I ate somewhere in the neighborhood of five free cones!) I digress. Only recently have I discovered a similar love: hot mochas!

It is curious to think that such qualitatively different stimuli could invoke the same satisfying sensation. When I think about it, both foods have a correlate to my body temperature and thus my mood. Although I truly love the taste of coffee and hot chocolate and the creamy goodness of ice cream, the gem of each is the calming effect on my mood. I crave coffee in the early morning hours on a cold day or during class on a winter afternoon. Coffee warms my soul, while ice cream cools me off when I am a sizzling ball of stress.

Many people would argue that coffee is satisfying to me because of the drug caffeine. I do not agree with this because cold beverages containing caffeine in the same quantities do not evoke the same calmness in me, and I neither like nor dislike them categorically. I’ll admit that the stimulant in coffee makes me focus intensely on the task at hand, and I like that a lot. I think ice cream allows me to drift from focus, which is also nice sometimes.

On another note, I kind of think that Guinness tastes like lattes and ice cream. In jest, I refer to Guinness as the “latte of beer”. Has anyone else noticed this likeness? Also interesting to me is the fact that Guinness contains only about 125 calories per pint glass. This is a mere fraction of the caloric content of either a mocha or an ice cream. How does that work?

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