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 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. so it is with Cornettos™ .

anyhow, somebody in a lab coat thought this up: Cornetto ‘Minis’, i.e. Cornettos preternaturally shrunken to roughly 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 the highest esteem, and regard them as passable palate-cleanser courses suitably served in the finest of restaurants. but in their essence, these are foodstuffs for the folk, if you catch my drift, and with 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.

well.

what i am trying to say is this: i got no business being in a supermarket when i’m hungry, i know that, and by and large i’m still a sharp cookie, savvy shopper, etc., but damned if i didn’t come home yesterday having forgotten red onions but clutching some very-meagerly-portioned ice cream thingies that even an oompah-loompah would sneer at.

maybe they’re metric or something…