Further up and Further in

It's been a good week. Much to my delight, mangosteens grow in northern India, and are findable here in Chennai. I told Lisa I thought we should have a mangosteen-a-day countdown until the time we leave, and so far we've been keeping up, more or less. A little more towards the less, but good enough.
I think the reason why I love mangosteen so much is because it reminds me of my favorite Ben & Jerry's flavor of all time...a sorbet (ice cream's not my favorite thing): Purple Passionfruit Sorbet (flavor graveyard link). It was retired sometime around 1999. It is described on the Flavor Graveyard site as being "A ripe rapturous swirl of raspberry-blackberry and passion fruit sorbets. This deep purple treat made fruit lovers quiver." Everything about it was delightful and enticing: a blend of two shades of purple (raspberry and blackberry) and a cream-colored twist of passion fruit tanginess...that's what the mangosteen is like. The contrast of the purplish-red with the white fruit and the tangy yet sweet taste is more than I can resist.
A true friend once brought me back some Purple Passionfruit Sorbet in a cooler from Idaho when we learned after returning to Utah for school that it was not sold at any location so close to the Rockies. I still don't understand what is was about our location that made it so impossible to get the sorbet made in heaven there. Maybe the presence of the sorbet would have made the Rockies tremble.
There was once a time when I worked at a Ben & Jerry's scoop shop for 2 months or so, and I am still haunted by the memory of the only frozen delight I have ever truly loved.

Oh yum, that sorbet sounds delicious! I had something like that at the Ben & Jerrys in State College once, but I'm not sure that it was that flavor exactly.

I'm enjoying all of your foods posts -- very informative and fun. And I definitely love food...especially ice cream. ;)

Keep finding/enjoying yummy treats!

Purple Passionfruit was (is, let's be optimistic) positively palatable. What was the money you were collecting in the empty container again? Bob Dylan or bust?

Every time I visit Coldstone I think about how you had to watch that educational/training video on how to properly scoop Ben&Jerry's...

You remember that? Ah, Crown #9. Deej and I were collecting for our "Santa Cruz or bust" fund. Finally arrived in Santa Cruz about 2 years ago. About 4 years after we started the fund.

The Ben & Jerry's training video was superb...correct ice cream scooping technique is essential if you ever want to achieve great heights as a scooper.