Sugar or Cake?

I've been chatting with my dear sweet Allan this evening, and he was talking about the yard sale he and his sister are masochistically inflicting upon themselves holding tomorrow.  Allan mentioned finding some books at the last minute, and I asked him to buy me an ice cream with the profit from their sale. 

Here's Allan's response:  I will. 

This led to an extrapolation on my part.  Here it is for your entertainment and education (I mean entercation. Different from edutainment).  There really ARE things you still don't know about me.

Alison: Oh, goody.  I love ice cream. I want it in a sugar cone, please. 
Alison: My mom NEVER bought sugar cones when we were kids.  We were a cake cone family. 
Allan: So were we.
Allan: Just because they were cheaper, I think.
Allan: We would get sugar cones on the rare occasions we went to Baskin-Robbins.
Alison: Although one of my favorite sensations is biting into the ice cream-filled grid at the bottom of a cake cone.  I always push my ice cream down in there with my tongue for maximum effect.  Nothing more disappointing than an empty cake cone grid.
Alison: Yeah, cheaper is the reason we had cake cones.
Allan: So did I!
Alison: I'm going to blog that.
Alison: Unless you want to.
Allan: I would lick the ice cream rather than bite it, so as to push it down into the cone.
Allan: I was very methodical.
Allan: No. You go ahead and blog it.
Allan: I have all these memes to do.

So, Constant Readers, which do you prefer, sugar or cake?  What did your mom buy?  And which is more satisfying, nipping off the end of a sugar cone in order to suck out the ice cream, or biting into a full cake cone grid?

PS:  Allan, you have all those memes to do. 

Comments

[Bonnie]

Cake, if we ever bought any. We rarely did, because any kind of cone was an extravagance - if you're having ice cream at home, why waste money on a cone when you can just use a bowl?
Fun didn't figure in.
But I always loved going out to Stroh's (now defunct, and yes, like the beer) for ice cream, because I would get a sugar cone (my mom was finally persuaded that a cake cone was not significantly "better for you"), and they would put a marshmallow in the bottom to prevent drips. That last bite was my favorite part.

So, Ali: How do you get your ice cream to make a nice, neat point like that?

[Alison]

Bonnie, I am a) speechless and b) wiping the water off of my monitor. Just after we discussed the sugar vs. cake cones, I told Allan that I would have to get one of my sibs to tell him the ice cream cone story.

You've evoked it. I might have to blog it.

Oh, and cones were a summer treat, or an occasional treat. I can't remember. Usually we had ice cream in bowls.

[bhd]

I'd answer, but nobody took my desert island ice cream flavor poll, so no deal.

[Alison]

BHD, I must have missed that poll.

For me it's a toss-up between caramel and something with lots of chunks in it. Like Rocky Road, or Butter Pecan, or The Ice Cream Flavor I Haven't Discovered Yet.

[newwavegurly]

BHD, I missed it too, or else I would have told you... Mint Chocolate Chip. Without a doubt. That is unless I could have Ben & Jerry's Coffee Heath Bar Crunch. Then I might have a problem.

Alison - Sugar vs. Cake Cone... when we had cones in the house, they were cake cones. When we would go out and get ice cream, it was a sugar cone... until the waffle cone was introduced. Yummm.

[Bonnie]

Heh. If you blog it, I'll blog my lobster story. And desert island ice cream would have to be...

...I can't believe I'm saying this, but: Ben&Jerry's Pistachio Pistachio!

Ask me tomorrow, though, and I'm sure it'll be something else.

[Susan]

It was always cake cones, and I still, to this day, want cake cones for I love the cake cone grid. I also would lick the ice cream to get it down there. It was always the best part.

Desert Island Ice Cream would be Rocky Road or Black Raspberry.

[bhd]

Is this a forum now?

NWG, coffee heath-bar crunch is my favorite B&J flavor.

And thanks to you all for answering my blog entry titled "Your Opinion Please" in the most obvious of places, Alison's blog. Well done!

[edieraye]

I liked my icecream in those metal bowls we all used to have. The bowl would get soooo cold! Now it is waffle.

[angel]

we only got cones when we went to the ice cream store and I always wanted sugar or waffle cones. we only got ice cream in bowls which was fun cause we'd use our spoons and twirling the bowl around making "soup" until the bowl'd go flying and there'd be a huge mess. that'll teach mom to only let us have bowls! ;)

[Chris]

Sugar. Always sugar. I think. I often get confused which is which.

[Yibbyl]

At home, in a bowl and I, too, made "soup" or added pudding, then waited to eat the semi-frozen pudding!

On the road...cake cone, pushed ice cream down, sucked off wet portion at the bottom of the cake cone, then sucked out ice cream as if my life depended on it!