No ordinary custard. Ice Cream in Australia 1839 – 1939

7 February 2025

February 2025

I couldn’t resist it.

The GG

Chocolate ice cream dipped in milk chocolate, malted milk crumb, salted caramel + raspberry.

I’ve been writing a lot lately about iconic food in Australia or nearly so and my attention was immediately turned by this toward ice creams. From the first bite of a Lime Splice to the above ice creams have been a part of my life until recently when I was diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes. Relishing the GG was some kind of redress for the wrongness of this. This article is another.

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Paul van Reyk
My first essay on food was in Year 10 - people seemed to like it. It took me 56 years to come back to it, so I have a lot of catching up to do. My articles cover a range of topics pertinent to the multicuisinal Australian table from foods of the First Nations, through settler colonial food, the influences of migrants to the present day.