Hmph.

The Trash Can Cone: my least favorite cone.

Here is my first example of those unsightly trash can cones I mentioned last time.  I'm all for multi-purpose items, like sporks (it's a two-for!) but why turn what could be a perfectly nice advertisement for your tasty gelato stand into something that holds rubbish and smells like sour milk?  (Oh my!  I suppose this means I HAVE found scented giant food items, after all!) 

Will took this photo in April 2007.  We were in Venice, which we visited often because it was gorgeous, only 45 minutes away, and teeming with oversized gelato cones.  This particular instance was back before the Big Food Hunt had become a "thing" (i.e. "obsession") so as I posed I was trying to be inconspicuous to not draw undue attention from the gelato eaters and sellers.  These days I'd go ahead and pull it out of the shop and into the best lighting, swivel it around to the most attractive angle, and perhaps even tuck the trash bag out of sight.  Let them stare.  Shame be damned.  I'm on a mission from god.

What my loved ones have to say about it:

Heather:  Why is ice cream the food that everyone chooses to make gigantic?

Will:  ‎I think because the conical shape makes it easier to fashion into a variety of useful objects like trashcans. They'd have a hard time making a giant steak into a trashcan.

Heather:  Other foods?? I would throw trash in a Banana-can.

A beautiful specimen!

Ice cream ALWAYS tastes good, even when plastic.

BFF.

It's no surprise that the 2nd most attractive gelato cone resides in Monaco.*  EVERYTHING in Monaco is first class.  Even the gelato cone HOLDER is decorated, for goodness sake.  As you'll see shortly, Italians are happy to use giant gelato cones as waste baskets - but not Monacons Monaconians people from Monaco.  They take pride in what they do.

These photos were taken on yet another Army-sponsored trip in March 2007.  If my memory serves me, my good buddy Amber snapped these for me.  The Big Food Search had not yet become a hobby, so these photos were merely taken so that I could finally properly express my love for ice cream.

* Hold your horses, the best-looking ice cream cone will show itself in 2010.