Argentina has a rich Italian heritage which has influenced the local culture including the type of food. Ice-cream shops are found on virtually every block in the capital city Buenos Aires. Without a knowledge of the Spanish language many travelers to the city may not recognize many of the unique flavors on offer.
Dulce de Leche Translated to mean sweet milk, this caramel type flavor is available everywhere and comes in more than just one variety. There is dulce de leche with nuts, with brownies, with extra caramel sauce, or Super dulce de leche which contains everything!
Chocolate You can get your everyday classic chocolate or add a bit of variety with dark chocolate, white chocolate, chocolate and nuts, Swiss Chocolate, Italian chocolate but alas no Argentine chocolate! Chocoholics can ask for a chocolate bath and get their cone dipped in melted chocolate. Yum!
Merlot Throw a bottle of Argentine wine into a tub of ice cream and give it a bit of a swirl and this is what you end up with. Red wine flavored ice cream! As with wine in general, the quality can vary. So try a few parlors to taste test this unique Argentine flavor.
Light Apparently you can keep your figure and eat with this variety of ice cream. Light on sugar and light on fat. These generally include a dulce de leche, a chocolate and a range of fruit flavors.
Sometimes the best ice cream isn’t from the biggest stores, including the well known Argentine brands of Munchis and Freddo. Step into one of the hundred of small boutique shops that make their products on site.
Don’t get stuck with a flavor you don’t enjoy. Most parlors will give you free taste testing to sample their range. So try before you buy and don’t stop at just one flavor, load up you cone with several or even buy a one liter tub.
To learn what all the rest of the ice cream flavors mean perhaps you should learn Spanish in Buenos Aires and hope for a field trip to Argentina’s most famous town for ice-cream, Bariloche.
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