Do not let spaghettieis fool you, in front of you is a delicious bowl of ice cream.
Imagine you are a small child from Mannheim, Germany on a very sunny day. You beg your mother for some ice cream to cool off. She is willing to buy you the cold dessert. However, you are a very naughty boy and before you eat your dessert she wants to see your pained expression when the waiter brings you a bowl of spaghetti.
You did not ask for spaghetti, even if you adore them. You feel betrayed and before you start crying (you do not even realize that your waiter brought a spoon and not a fork) you dig up some pasta. But the consistency is all wrong. They do not twirl, for once. And they look cold. There is no steam coming from the dish.
It feels like ice cream, but can it be? Or does your mind play tricks? Can you really turn a lunch into a dessert if you say some magic words? Abracadabra, turn the pasta to ice cream, abracadabra, make all my wishes come true.
You bring the spoon of pasta and some red sauce to your lips and cannot understand what has just happened. It does not taste like pasta with tomato sauce but like vanilla and strawberry ice cream.
You try again but this time you also take some parmesan which is actually white chocolate?
You realize that you must be dreaming so you gobble the rest of your unbelievable dish until a new flavor is unlocked: whipped cream.
Spaghettieis – when ice cream is served in an unusual way
Dario Fontanella tasted an unusual ice cream while at a ski race. He intended to surprise the people back home (in the lovely city of Mannheim, Germany) where his father had an ice cream parlor.
He experimented (and failed many times by using the wrong flavors and wrong technique) until he was proud of the final result: an ice cream that resembled spaghetti with tomato sauce: for the pasta he used vanilla ice cream (the closest in color to pasta) which he put through an iced potato ricer (the secret of his success and how the ice cream can look like pasta), for the sauce he used strawberry ice cream, and for the parmesan he grated some white chocolate. All the ice cream is held by some whipped cream. Of course, now there are more types of spaghettieis, different combinations of flavors.
Dario remembers that the first time children saw his dessert they started crying not wanting to eat pasta but ice cream.
He never patented his invention and even if you do not reach Mannheim you could find this dessert elsewhere. Of course, you have better chances of finding it in ice cream parlors near Mannheim but you might be lucky and discover a parlor closer to you.
At the original ice cream parlor, the spaghettieis cost around 7 euro but you can find it a bit cheaper at the ice cream parlors from nearby towns. If you want to taste something unique (and trick your friends by showing them a picture and asking them what it is in the picture) and you do not care exactly for the original taste then take advantage of the many ice cream parlors that recreated Dario Fontanella’s famous recipe.
Just a tip: you feel just as full after eating spaghettieis as you have felt if you have eaten a pasta dish. So, do not come with a full stomach even if we all know that desserts have their special chamber in the stomach. It might confuse it to see something so realistic as a dessert.
