A Mars a day helps you work, rest and play. (Other Sorbets and Ice Creams)

Member Name: cabletow

Product:	Other Sorbets and Ice Creams
Date:	17/01/02 (345 review reads)
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Advantages: crisp and clean and lovely

Disadvantages: calories

Mars Ice Cream,

A blend of Ice Cream and Mars bars, two of my favourite things.

This ice cream snack has been around for a few years now. I only discovered them whilst gagging for something cool on the forecourt of a petrol station on the only hot day we had last summer. The petrol station only had two Mars ice creams and one bounty bar left in its freezer so the deed was done. I have never looked back.

Now you may ask - Why have you never tried a Mars ice cream before that? The answer is simple; I am not a great believer in cocktails. In my life I have always been disappointed when people try to mix my favourite things together. I present, as case in point, ? chocolate liquors. Each ingredient, pleasant enough on their own, mixed together just taste rank. I could not believe that a Mars bar, all choclatey and nougatty could mix with Ice cream all cold and sweet. But, my friends and enemies, they do. After all if Mars bars can mix with batter and ice cream can mix with peanut butter then why not mix the two together. I started to see that my distrust of food cocktails was unfounded, and maybe it is just chocolate liquors that are so awful. I got brave, I had another then I even had the bounty ice cream, that was, however, truly awful. So my faith in my own cynicism was restored a little. But Mars ice cream had me hooked.

Now these little treasures can be purchased anywhere there is a freezer. Distributed by Galaxy they are never found in Walls freezers but in the other one. Individually they cost as much as 35p each.

Despair not ye Mars fans. At every supermarket you can purchase these little lovelies in boxes of four. Most supermarkets also offer, more often than not, three boxes for the price of two. You are seeing a pattern develop here aren?t you? Yes cabletow's freezer has suddenly started to groan at the seams and Mr Mars has a new convert and his profits have leapt up.

This has got to be greed. Well it
is but they are extremely moreish. But there is another cost. Two hundred calories apiece and eating them by the handful is not a good idea. As my mother in law pointed out, this habit can smooth out any corners you may have in your physique and the terrible sight of spare tyres can appear around your middle.

There is an expression ? "A mars a day helps you work rest and play". This implies these things should be rationed to one a day. So it was decreed that old cabletow needed a little self-discipline and I am rationed to one a day. Of course when the cats away I sometimes come out and play but generally the spare tyres are packed away and I can indulge in a little Tipple of Mars ice cream daily.

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