LIES! ALL LIES!

[telophase]

This font LIED TO ME! I was in the cooking area of the library and grabbed a couple of books on ice cream that looked interesting, and went back to me desk. Too late, I realized I should have looked inside them first...

See, this cheery font on the spine here?



Here's a representative example of what's inside:


Sorry, you'll have to tilt your head.



And you can't actually read it because it's the smallest size my phone will send because I sit in a dead-signal zone here at work. ANYWAY, that is two pages full of boring tables about world ice cream production. Elsewhere, the book goes on at length about the composition of milkfat, etc. There are no recipes for tasty, tasty ice cream!

THAT FONT PROMISED ME FRIVOLITY, NOT SCIENCE

Comments

[tessercat]

LYING FONT SHOULD DIAF!

[telophase]

FILTHY LYING FONT!

[helen_keeble]

BWAHAHAHA! Oh, evil typography!

[telophase]

How could I look at that title and not expect yummy ice cream recipes instead of boring culinary school textbook, I ask?!

[movingfinger]

Strangely, that font is so similar to the font on a book of ice-cream recipes that I do own that I just had to get up and go check.

[telophase]

When I opened the book, the texture and weight of the paper coupled with the small denseness of the characters of the interior typeface had me checking the publication date, because it screamed 1950s to me.

Published in 1973, which explains the title font, at least.

[golden-bastet.livejournal.com]

What? Ice cream can't be Srs Bzns? :D

[telophase.livejournal.com]

NOT WITH THAT FONT IT CAN'T!

[wyrdness.livejournal.com]

No noms for you! Unomnomnom. :(

[telophase.livejournal.com]

*cries*

Luckily, there was another book called Jeni's Splendid Ice Cream at Home, which contained a bunch of recipes for wacky artisanal ice cream, so I got that, at least! (And there's a pint of Toasted Rice Ice Cream with a whiff of Coconut Milk and Black Tea in the freezer right now.)

[wyrdness.livejournal.com]

Sounds yummy. Both the book recipes and the actual ice cream in the freezer, but then I do like coconut milk an awful lot and tea isn't so bad when it's a flavour in something and I can taste it (I always experience liquid tea as a mostly fragrant cup of hot water). :)

[telophase.livejournal.com]

The ice cream had way more coconut flavor than promised and I couldn't taste the tea at all (I used Fujian Baroque, perhaps another tea would have been stronger), but I liked the rice. I've got a book with a rice ice cream recipe that I'll probably try one day.

Toby loves coconut, though, so he's happy about the ice cream.