Doing another of these prompts because have not thought of a story for the cards I pulled yet.
Peppermint candy ice cream. Specifically the white kind with the green and red peppermint candy pieces inside of it.
When I was a kid, we lived in a small town that was maybe about a mile across. It had a creek that ran through it and a bicycle path that followed the creek. On one side of town, there was a large park, a wide expanse of well-maintained grass and trees. On one end of that park was a firefighter memorial devoted to local firefighters that had died when they traveled to Colorado in 1994 to help with a particularly bad wildfire, and on the other end was a playground. Right next to this park was the public pool.
Say what you will about the grossness of swimming in a public pool, it was one of my favorite places to visit during the summer (the other being the public library). My mom couldn’t drive, so we would walk to get there, and spend a couple of hours splashing around and swimming before making the walk back home. And on the way back, we always inevitably stopped at this one place so that we could get ice cream cones. And I always got 2 scoops of peppermint candy ice cream.
Usually the flavor is more popular closer to Christmas, when all of the mint flavored candies seem to emerge and take over the grocery aisles. But a lot of them are slightly different than the one I remember from my childhood. Luckily, I discovered after moving to Oklahoma that Braum’s has a peppermint candy ice cream that is exactly the same as the one I used to get, so sometimes I still indulge in it. And every time, it makes me think about carefree childhood summers.
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