I scream, we scream, we all scream for ice cream

I may have told you this story before, but someone brought up the topic of ice cream makers today, so here it goes.

Last winter (your summer) a friend of Erin's had us over and a number of other local med students over for dinner. I was skittish about going because much of the company that was certain to be attending were pretentious assholes (as many med students are). However, Erin and I are good friends of the host (we'll call her Carmen since, well, that's her name) and felt an obligation to go.

As the evening went on it was exactly as expected. It was a group of 20 or so people, 10 of whom were med students who had very little in common with each other except for the common trait that 19 of the guests shared... that being they were med students. It came as no surprise that the conversation consisted of med school chat and med school chat only. This is often the case at these functions, but on most occasions there were one of two people who acquired the ability to talk about something else other than med school. however, on this night that wasn't the case.

As the night went on I tried to drink copious amounts of beer to dull that pain with little luck in hopes of getting through the treacherous evening. When dessert came it came to my surprise that a certain gentleman brought homemade ice cream. I thought to myself that's nice, put in 3-4 hours of work for something that could be bought for 5 bucks at the store, but hey who am I to complain?

There were two flavours the first being a fruity mixture and the second being a soy vanilla of some sort. The ice cream was okay, it was alright, but far from great. Of course being the pretentious group that it was everyone raved how great the ice cream was (I repeat it wasn't) and began showering the maker about various other ice creams that have been made and other like questions. It was then divulged that the ice cream maker came at a cost of a measly $800. I'll repeat that number in case it didn't set in... ice cream maker= $800.

Lets play a game, a numbers game. If you owned an ice cream maker at the cost of $800...

If the dinner was the first time ice cream had been made with said ice cream maker = $400 a pint.

Made ice cream every day for a year $2.19 a pint.

To make ice cream equal the same amount as what it costs in a store (we'll say $5 for arguments sake) you would have to make ice cream 160 times.

It should be pointed out that neither cost of ingredients or time has been taken into consideration for the cost of the ice cream, but I digress.

I guess the lesson in all this is that an $800 ice cream maker fails to guarantee you affordable ice cream or tasty ice cream. However, it does afford you undeserved compliments from a pompous group of people.

Things I like this week
The Mount Gambier Centrals Soccer Club plays Apollo Soccer Club this Sunday and can wrap up the Premiership.

Things I do not like this week
Applying for permanent residence is on par with cutting ones own arm off.