The other day I got a gelato from Rita’s. I originally wanted strawberry water ice and chocolate soft serve, but they were out of chocolate soft serve and suggested I switch up the order, which I did. My strawberry soft serve and chocolate water ice was out of this world. It was also brain freeze cold. That was when I caught myself doing a typical stupid human act: I blew on the gelato to warm it up.
Sure, we often blow on hot chocolate or coffee or tea or soup to cool it down, but of course this doesn’t work in reverse to warm up cold things: it just looks silly and, if your breath is hot enough, may start melting your treat.
I was with a friend at the time, and we had a good laugh about it, but when you think about all the things we exhale air for, it seems this is one habit that came out of nowhere and should stay there.
And despite my blowing, I got brain freeze twice while eating that wonderful gelati.
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