Sorbetero

January 13, 2008

Just a quick one for today.

My brother and I were walking in the streets of Bambang. We saw an ice-cream vendor, the kind of "street ice cream" peddler that pinoys call as "sorbeteros".

Me: Hey, bro, want to buy an ice cream?

Bro: Eh, sure. 

Me: You know, I really dig the ice creams these vendors make. Y'know, great tasting, and only 10 pesos each.

Me: Speaking of cheap, it reminds me of something I grew irritated with when I was in school (De La Salle University).

Bro: And what is that?

Me: We also had a sorbetero vendor near our school (at Agno, to be exact), and a lot of us would also buy from it. The irksome thing is that, these Lasallistas call sorbetero's ice cream as "Dirty Ice Cream".

Bro: Huh.

Me: I mean, what on earth is with their talking-down-on-everything-not-bourgeois? They call it "dirty" just because it ain't something-gelato?

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