My Confession......

I have a terrible confession to make.
Specifically to all me folks and friends back home.
You see...for years (this was the pre-Alan years aka the dark ages) I was seriously anti-mint ice cream. Don't laugh, I'm serious... Mint ice cream was evil, right up there with licorice ice cream (which is still evil) and Satan.
I cringed every time some body walked by slobbering over a neon green ice cream cone. I shuddered at my cousin's insistence that candy cane ice cream not only was NOT evil...but pretty o.k. I screamed silently inside my head for YEARS and YEARS over the injustice of mint ice cream! For an ice cream addict...er...I meant connoisseur like myself, adding mint to ice cream was the cruelest notion I'd ever run across. Taking perfectly lovely, deliciously innocent sweet nectar of the cows and adding...GASP mint to it was so abhorrent I've literally blacked out a few times at the thought...... I suspect this is why I can't remember anything from the seventies.
I thought mint belonged ONLY in toothpaste, the occasional mouthwash and hell....and that essentially the ice cream industry was conning off toothpaste flavored ice cream to it's customers...the fools I thought....
I was sure there was even an elaborate AND evil conspiracy afoot between the dairy industry and the toothpaste industry...shadowy figures pulling the trigger on virgin vanilla ice cream every where. INFESTING said virgin vanilla ice creams with what amounted to toothpaste flavorings..... I'm not sure why they'd be doing this...who can truly understand evil??? It's not my job to explain it anyways, just recognize evil when I see it and give it a hard jab in the left eye with a stick.
Well anyways...that was then...................
People...I have a confession to make.
I eat mint ice cream.
I HAVE mint ice cream IN my freezer even as I write this.
*hangs head in shame*
I've been enjoying mint ice cream for years now...and not a word did I say to the folks back home. How could I face them??? After all my protests, my loud obnoxious derisive comments over mint ice cream eaters. My many many many tears shed over uninformed friend's purchases of mint ice cream.
After all of that I NOW eat MINT ice cream. ME!?!
It wasn't a gradual change either...I didn't become addicted to toothpaste or anything. It just happened one day.....I looked deep in to the happy blue eyes of my husband as he sucked down a mint chocolate chip shake (trying to reconcile the idea that the love of my life was literally ingesting evil) and I saw the happiness there and thought....."Hey, I want some of that"
The happiness.... AND the mint chocolate chip shake.....
and you know what? It was gooooooooooooooooooooood.
Perhaps the idea of it being so wrong, so forbidden and evil so many years made the mint shake ever the more sweeter. What ever the reason I was hooked.
Mint..is o.k.
Strike that one off your list of evil things!
So to recap, mint good, me happy. Conscience clear.
p.s. NEON green mint ice cream is STILL evil only because of the dye not the mint.
p.p.s. Now I don't need to hide that little green plant I've been growing if the folks back home ever come down for a visit!