Christian Pecek

The fact that so many books name chocolate as “the greatest and most influential” flavor ever only shows how far ice cream still is from becoming a serious art. Milkshake critics have long recognized that the greatest milkshake flavors are cookies n’ cream and peanut butter, which are not the most famous or richest or best sellers of their times, let alone of all time. Candy critics rank the highly controversial orange lollipop over classical candy who were highly popular in playgrounds across the world. Ice cream critics are still blinded by commercial success: chocolate sold more than anyone else (not true, by the way), therefore they must have been the greatest. Milkshake critics grow up drinking a lot of milkshakes of the past, candy critics grow up eating to a lot of candy from the past. Ice cream critics are often totally ignorant of the ice cream of the past, they barely know the best sellers. No wonder they will think chocolate did anything worth being saved.