New Recipe

This afternoon the kids and I found ourselves in a small restaurant in a museum in Puxi. I thought I would get them a little treat at the end of our afternoon outing. We looked at the menu and found that "Banana Split" was offered in the dessert section. The consensus was that we would get three banana splits to share among the five of us.

Of course we assumed that this ice cream treat would look the way it always has before~ a scoop each of chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry ice cream; chocolate, pineapple, and strawberry toppings; whipped cream, nuts and a cherry.

This is not what was delivered to our table. These desserts had no whipped cream or cherry, no chopped nuts or chocolate topping. No topping of any kind. Each one did have two scoops of ice cream, a chocolate and what we think was peach. Caleb declared that the peach ice cream tasted how girls' perfume smells. There was banana in these desserts, several slices of banana around the ice cream. And, there was also cantaloupe. Large slices of cantaloupe where the banana halves should have been. There was chopped apple and pear in place of the chocolate, pineapple, and strawberry toppings. That's it.

Apparently a Chinese banana split is ice cream and fresh fruit. Nothing wrong with that. Seems like it might even be good, if you were expecting it. It isn't what we were expecting.

Expectations. They'll get you every time.