HAPPY NATIONAL PISTACHIO DAY
Today, February 26th, 2016 was a day to celebrate the pistachio. It was National Pistachio Day. After work and dinner, I headed down to Thrifty Ice Cream to try a cake cone of pistachio ice cream.
I am no stranger to the delicious taste of Thrifty ice cream. Recently Thrifty ice cream has been the feature ingredient of the delicious treats that Sweet Addiction had served me. Likewise I am no stranger to trying new places. This year I am adding a unique element of fun to yelping about places by achieving to write some reviews on the National Days (everyday is one) that I celebrated. My rule is that they have to be a place that I never reviewed. These reviews will be in a "2016 National Day Yelp Challenge" list. With that said, I had been a stranger to this Thrifty even though I must have driven by it hundreds of times.
Parking by this Thrifty was as easy as 1-2-3. It is located by Pecos Road in the shopping center at the northwest corner of Wigwam. As soon as I walked inside, my olfactory scent was on overdrive as the overpowering candy shop fragrant smell greeted me. The winning attributes of the modern day ice cream shop are that sweet delicious smell with an upbeat environment. Three employees instantaneously greeted me. There were a sundry of flavors from chocolate malted krunch (sic!) to circus animal crackers. Ordering was a breeze because National Pistachio Day led me. This was an easy choice: a cake cone of pistachio ice cream.
The late February weather was serene. I celebrated National Pistachio Day at a table outside overlooking Pecos Road. The cake cone holding the mutant square shaped scoop of pistachio ice cream was nearly $3. And it was well worth it. Just like my olfactory scent overload a few minutes previous, now my taste scent was on overload. Thrifty is quality ice cream that reunited me with pistachio, a flavor that I last tasted back in the Reagan administration. I enjoyed every lick of this delicious green ice cream interspersed with the pistachio nuts until it disappeared into history.
With tomorrow being National Strawberry Day, it is tempting to return here for a large scoop of strawberry ice cream in a cake cone. I'll probably pass, however, I'm sure that the temptation to enjoy a delicious scoop of ice cream could lead me back to this Thrifty in the future.