So my Mum is Italian and because of that, I’ve been exposed to the culture of the place since birth.
When you think of Italy there are probably quite a few things that come to mind – from fashion to waving little white flags, however one area that it’s universally known for is it’s food.
The Chinese might have come up with pasta but it’s Italy that mastered it however another food type that it’s inherently known for is ice cream.
Gelato is an art form in Italy.
There’s no ‘Mr Whippy’ shit, it’s all grade-A, super flavoured majesty.
Hell, I once even had charcoal flavoured ice cream [no, I don’t know why they’d make it either] and it was tastier than Walls Vienetta that at one point, I would have sworn was made by God’s own hand … so imagine my surprise when I saw this:
Now I may be wrong, but something tells me it might be an over exaggeration to claim they are the producers of “Italy’s Favourite Desserts”.
Why?
Because as much as Italy is also home to some of the worst taste in Europe, even a leopard skin Versace suit wearing, mullet ridden footballer would draw the line at serving – let alone eating – some ice cream SERVED IN A FUCKING COCONUT SHELL.
There is a little part of me that admires them for trying to make the sort of shit you get offered at a crap Indian restaurant in Nottingham look classy [the platteresque effect, the 3[?] coconut halves, the description, the silver spoon] but let’s face it, it’s complete and utter pants isn’t it.
And what about the photo?
I don’t know if it’s the beige background or just the incredibly bad lighting, but I’ve seen quicksand that looks more inviting than that.
Whilst food is functional, it is also a very emotional thing – especially when dining in a restaurant – so to literally shove a bad pic of a coconut onto a bad piece of card like it’s a 7 year olds school project is probably not going to drive their incremental revenues however if their aim was to piss off the entire Italian population, then they’ve been more effective than if they got the US to invade claiming they had WMD’s.