If you grew up in the 1980s you ate it at least once, but don't think it's gone. It is returning, albeit more faded and with the flavor of Banana Guava or Trolls
I was born in 1980 and as with all children of my generation, the Smurfs have been the cartoon that has hypnotized us for years. Glued on TV as in a scene from Poltergeist, we dreamed with the adventures of Great Smurf and Smurfette and we sang, indeed, we still know by heart, the acronym sung by Cristina d’Avena. The Smurfs sold everything: toys, cases, folders, T-shirts, and of course, ice cream. In Italy as in the rest of the world were the first years of the branding of games and products, and the Smurfs were very popular throughout Europe. The Smurf flavor was in every ice cream shop and we ate it all, but nobody remembers its taste. But don't worry, the smurf flavor is back (and it's not that bad).
The Smurf taste, food of memory
In the spasmodic search for “food of memory”Of the chefs, questioning the taste of Smurf ice cream is a philosopher's thing. Seriously, if Umberto Eco he wrote an essay on the language of the Smurfs, we can ask ourselves about the nature, or non-nature, of that ice cream cone tasted about thirty years ago. Almost certainly, by asking Gargamel, he would have squeezed the Smurfs, passed the sieve to remove the bones, and used them on a mozzarella base. In reality, the Smurf-flavored ice cream, blue as an airplane swimming pool, had no flavor. It was sweet, vanilla-flavored, based on fior di latte (therefore cream). He had nothing of blue and he didn't know of anise (like the blue ice) and not even of mint. Fortunately, he did not know about E132 and E133, which are blue. He didn't know about anything, but the power of TV made him very good. Indeed, smurf.
The Smurf today is a blue banana (or a troll)
The Smurfs are no longer in fashion, but this does not mean that blue ice cream has disappeared from ice cream parlors, indeed, it is experiencing a new youth. Although the bright blue color is still produced by companies of semi-finished products for ice cream parlors, the imagination has now moved to unicorns and other fantastic animals. Rubicone, a leading company in the semi-finished products, still has the Azzurro 83 in its catalog, a concentrated paste of intense blue color with a good taste of Vanilla, or the Bubble gum blue, with a Chewing-gum flavor, now focuses everything on new products such as Sea Salt, sweet and salty at the same time, with sea salt and pastel color, inspired by the shades of the sea, or the new Blue Java Banana. Blue Banana is a special type of tropical fruit also known as "Banana Gelato" because it is characterized by a creamy consistency and a taste reminiscent of a Vanilla Ice Cream. And the most curious fact is that their skin turns blue before ripening and therefore with the addition of spirulina it creates a concentrated flavoring paste with blue color and vanilla taste with a delicate banana aftertaste. Pregel, another leading company in the sector, has a catalog instead Unicorn, vanilla and to decorate with confetti and glitter, and the new one Trolls, With a fun violet color but with a delicate cream and strawberry flavor, to amaze the little ones with their favorite cartoon characters. Trolls are the new Smurfs.
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