
I have a new craving. For a time it has been Chabury’s milk chocolate. Before that it was a particular type of soda, and before that the sweets called Sugus.
My new craving is Moo ice cream on a stick. I bought three at the 7-Eleven, thinking I could have one in front of the computer and save the two others in the freezer. But all three sticks disappeared within 20 minutes. This was mysterious. Maybe the Thais are right and there are ghosts here, ghosts that steal ice cream.
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Yesterday I bought a box of Haagen-Daz strawberry ice cream at an S & P restaurant. They are expensive, at 329 baht per personal size box. After waving my discount card it was 296 baht. I took it home. Chalerm jumped around and yelled “I want ice cream” while I ate. But he didn’t mean it. He doesn’t like ice cream.
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When I was in Malaysia my dubious friend The Pirate taught me a new word. It was “ice cream”, as a verb. Example: “He can ice cream you”. The Malay spelling is aiskrim.
The Pirate also taught me the verb “bam-bam”. Example: “You want bam-bam only 200 ringit?”
Maybe bam-bam is related to boom-boom, which I heard when I was in Poipet, Cambodia. But the Cambodian equivalent of the ice cream verb is “yum-yum”.
Take note of these words. They don’t appear in the dictionaries.
February 16th, 2008 at 2:36 pm
Chabury? Not Cadbury?
February 16th, 2008 at 3:45 pm
Um yes Cadbury. Chabury is a country in Africa.
February 16th, 2008 at 3:52 pm
“Ice cream” as a verb ? Please explain.
February 16th, 2008 at 4:15 pm
Ice cream = smoke the pipe, I guess?
February 16th, 2008 at 8:01 pm
I thought Chadburi was near Anyburi?
February 19th, 2008 at 5:29 pm
lol… “Chalerm jumped around and yelled “I want ice cream” while I ate”