NvB: Bored in Brno?: Eidolon

Eidolon

Why I couldn't find any ice cream bars to buy at Interspar last night? There were a lot of tubs of frozen stuff posing as ice cream, but when you looked closer you found out that it was a weird chemical conglomerate. I shouldn't have expected anything more at a large chain store (what can I say, it must've been an ice cream binge and there aren't many options at 8 p.m. on a weekday evening in the country's second largest city). All I really wanted was a Haagen-Dazs bar with dark chocolate over vanilla ice cream or maybe even something like Ben & Jerry's. But nothing of the sort was to be found. I didn't even find any ice cream bars in bulk (I wanted more than one to take home). There were some that you could buy individually, and I picked a very unsatisfactory vanilla one with a strange white frosting. The unsuccessful ice cream bar kept me wondering, what would my evening have been like had I made another choice? Could it be that those ice creams I rejected, the ones hidden away under strange labels marked "Pinko," "UFO," and "Magnum," might have been better? They didn't sound like ice cream, but who knows.

Tags: discursions

Posted 29 August 2006 at 22:43.

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What is "Bored in Brno"? a) the best Czech movie of 2003, b) a blog about Brno (the Czech Republic's second largest city) and my adventures in and observations of south and east Moravia. I usually post about music, arts, culture, and stuff in Brno; or, I talk about whatever; or, I may bore you.

There's a Czech saying about how you are a new person for every language you learn. Here's your chance to experience Czech vicariously and to become your new self, now conveniently available in English translation. (Or at least something reasonably close to English.)

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The Blogger

A graduate student in music and anthropology writing a dissertation about music in Moravia, the eastern third of the Czech Republic. At some point, the Czech Republic's "second city" (that would be Brno) captured my attention, and I've since been blogging about events, arts, music, and other stuff—basically whatever interests me in and around the cityscape. I'm not living in Brno now, but I keep up with the cultural pulse from afar as best I can.

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Comments:

Michael M. said . . .

As always, tuckova speaks the truth. Magnum is the shiznit; they recently unleashed some new flavors that pretty much combine every possible sweet substance known to man. It rocks.

10:30 AM, August 30, 2006

Anonymous said . . .

I had a Hagen Daz at end of hike on IR, was yummy. Unfortunately milk chocolate instead of dark but not a bad substitute. They weren't ordering anymore as was end of season, nobody to buy them soon. Glad to find your updated version and also share phatic conversation with you recently.

1:37 PM, August 30, 2006

I tried different types and YES, the only decen thing is Magnum. I come from Rosario (Argentina) where we have really good icecreams and I missing them, and still about another for months till I go back.

7:47 PM, September 03, 2006

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