７月３１日（月曜日）
アメリカの人はアイスクリームが大好きで冬でもよく食べています。また種類も豊富です。
私は昔、冬に男子学生が１クオート（約１リットル）のアイスクリームの容器を片手に持って一人で食べているのを見て驚いたことを覚えています。寒い冬に冷たいアイスクリーム、日本人にはなかなか考えつきません。
先日、街中に面白いアイスクリーム屋がありました。Unicorn Taiyaki、「ユニコーン」とは一角獣と言われる架空の動物のこと。つまりたい焼き型のコーンに色々な味のアイスクリームを入れて、真ん中に角になるクッキーを刺し、両側に耳をつけたアイスクリーム。面白いので中に入ってたい焼きのコーンがどんなのか見てきました。狭いアイスクリーム屋さんでしたが、若者が沢山このUnicorn TAIYAKIアイスクリームを買っていました。
見るだけで買わなかったので値段や食べた感想が報告できませんが、楽しい発想で笑ってしまいます。
American people like ice cream very much and even in winter they often eat it and you will be surprised at the number of ice cream kinds. I still remember male students were holding one quart of ice cream and eating it alone in the winter. I think most Japanese people don't have the idea of eating ice cream during the cold winter.
I found an interesting ice cream shop in the town the other day. "Unicorn Taiyaki" was the name of the shop. Taiyaki is a popular Japanese sweet which is a fish shaped cake with a sweet red bean inside. They use a Taiyaki shaped cone instead of regular one and put ice cream in it. They also use a stick size cookie which is used as a horn and put two little ears on top of the ice cream.
Since I didn't buy Unicorn Ice Cream, I cannot report the taste and other points other than the appearance. It is a small ice cream shop but it was crowded with young people who entered to buy it. It is an interesting and unique idea. I was amused by it.
