
La Rambla is the place where tourists from all over the world mingle with locals, human statues perform they static performances, street hawkers offer some weird voice changing devices for kids (as if they needed it!) and where all types of street foods are sold. Here is the picture that has the feel of Rambla in Barcelona.
Well one of the greatest foods offered there is real Italian gelato. If you don't know what gelato is, there will be a whole blog entry on what gelato is and why it is so much greater than ice cream. But for now, let's just say gelato is a frozen desert, to which ice cream is a mass produced cousin.
That one particular shop was fantastic. I know the word 'fantastic' has been overused. Nowadays it's value indicates 'slightly better than ok', or 'ok, stop annoying me with your story'. But not in this case. That gelato brings 'fantastic' to where it belongs.

This gelato simply created a benchmark in our taste buds. It is now the standard for what real gelato should taste like. It also caused us to frown upon the frozen deserts who lure you by pretending they are gelato, yet they are mere powder water mixtures. And now this is our aspiration to make each scoop to this standard.
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