The campus book store here sells Godiva chocolate bars for about twenty cents more than a regular chocolate bar. When I used to go over to the mall across the ditch in Canada (we don't have a mall in Sault Michigan) there were two places I always stopped. One was this fantastic Italian ice cream shoppe that had some less common flavors of ice cream and they were all really good. My favorite though was the the chocolate and hazelnut swirl ice cream, with the vanilla swirled with almond paste being a close second. Oh, and they had a lemon one too that was really good. And cherry and strawberry (standards I know). And raspberry walnut. Walnut paste ice cream. Hazelnut ice cream (and it wasn't just vanilla with hazelnuts in it, it was hazelnut ice cream). And toasted coconut caramel (again, not vanilla with caramel swirled in, but caramel ice cream with toasted coconut added). And a bunch of other flavors that I don't remember. They made the ice cream at the shoppe, it wasn't just shipped in. I don't know how they managed it but it tasted dense, rich and heavy but felt light, airy and silky smooth. It's probably a good thing that their largest size was two scoops otherwise I'd have seriously over indulged. The other place I always stopped was the Godiva chocolates shoppe. Truffles and creams, truffles and creams, truffles and creams. Yum. I could bring those home with me so the ice cream was eaten at the mall and the chocolates were saved for later. Mmmm, tasty memories.
