Cornetto minis

So what’s the haps, this March morning? Miniaturized Cornettos, for starters.

Apart from being standard breakfast fare for 99% of italians (cornetto morning rolls being the yin to a cappucinno’s yang), the word “Cornetto”™ also happens to be the Good Humor EuroBrand for a frozen confection not unlike the American Drumstick™ .

Now, we’re probably all in agreement that Drumsticks™ taste good. And so it is with Cornettos™ .

Anyhow, somebody in a lab coat thought these up: Cornetto ‘Minis’, i.e. Cornettos preternaturally shrunk to 1/5 scale. We’re talking expertly-crafted, fully miniaturized ice-cream cones, replete with wee nut pieces on top and nano-sized chocolate nibbles tucked into the sugar cone’s tiny apex. What other ice-cream treat begs to be admired with a 10-power loupe before consumption?

Obviously, I hold Cornetto Minis in pretty high esteem, and would regard them as a passable palate-cleanser course suitable for serving in the finest of restaurants. But these are foodstuffs for the folk, if you catch my drift, and thanks to the miracle of mass manufacture, I hereby predict that Cornetto Minis’ bite-size form factor will radically revolutionize ice-cream just like McNuggets done did to poultry.

Ummm.

What really mean to say is this: I have little business being in a supermarket when I’m hungry, I know that. And while by and large I’m still a sharp cookie, savvy shopper, etc., I’ll be damned if I didn’t come home yesterday having forgotten the red onions for Azure but clutching a box of very-meagerly-portioned ice cream thingies that even an oompah-loompah would sneer at.

Maybe they’re metric or something.