Ice-cream 'Gadbad' (and a bit of my childhood)
Ice-cream always been my favorite.
Falooda with Ice-cream, fruit salad with ice-cream, banana split etc.
In 1980’s, there came something like Ice-cream ‘gadbad.’ And the best place for it was at cream centre, Panjim (near Market).
‘Gadbad’ is served in a narrow but long glass with T-Sppon which was even longer than the glass.
The glass was jammed packed with ice-cream and plenty of crunchy or crispy items like dry fruits such as cashew
nuts etc. On top, it was garnished with tooti-frutti, a
cherry and a triangular crispy crisp was pierced in it
And that become my favorite too And after a long time, when I saw the ‘gadbad’ under
Ice-cream menu at Navtara, I immediately ordered one.
But it was nothing like the one I had before.
It had no crispy items except some cashew nuts. It had some Pineapple dices (which I think is not a part of Gadbad I use to) and disintegrated pieces of cherries.
Did I like it?
- No, not this one. When we come out of Navtara, there we saw ‘Cream Centre’ to our left across the road.
At school, my favourite was ice-gola (Icecrutt or Ice fruit) costing just 5 paise and I could not even afford it. There was a time, I even chewed discarded dry sticks from the ground because they taste sweet/flavoured.
I guess I was below 10. I even remember trading 10 Cashew nuts (Whole nuts) for 1 ‘ice-crot’. Cashew nut we collected from nearby hillock.
Not that we were poor but my mother was very strict particularly when it come to money and discipline. My father was a ‘tarvoti’ (Seaman). We were rich in our neighbourhood. eg. We had Radio, others din't have one.
Things now a days are different.
While still at school, a school bags could contain all
sort of things, like big money, cigarettes, mobile,
blue film CDs, drugs, condoms etc etc
I wish everybody’s mothers were as strict as mine.
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