Apple crumble with...

[danny la rouge]

You’re in a restaurant. You opt for the apple crumble. (Maybe you’re still hungry. Maybe you only joined the others for pudding. Build your own back story).

They offer only two choices of accompaniment on any given day of the week.

A) cream or ice cream
B) cream or custard
C) custard or ice cream

Which do you choose in each scenario?

For me it’s

A) ice cream
B) custard
C) custard

(At home when the crumble is hot I like cold custard, but if it’s the next day and cold I have hot custard. But that’s not an eating out scenario).

 

[maomao]

I'd be tempted to find the manager of the restaurant and punch him in scenario A but otherwise you're quite right. Why would anyone put cream on a crumble?

 

[RubyToogood]

A and B are easy. You are obviously right as cream is pointless. C is the tough one. I have to admit I would probably go for ice cream but feel that I ought to respect tradition and have custard.

 

[mx wcfc]

(edited as it didn't make sense after Ruby's post.)

But I think all are right so far. Ice cream would be perfectly acceptable at home if a) you have ice cream in the freezer, and b) no one can be arsed to make custard.

 

[Mattym]

Go somewhere else which offers option D) Mascarpone.

 

[May Kasahara]

Cream
Cream
Custard

 

[Raheem]

If you put custard on anything it just tastes like custard.

 

[danny la rouge]

Cream
Cream
Custard

You know there’s a danger it’s going to be squirty cream, though, right?

 

[fishfinger]

 

[existentialist]

I'd check first, and if custard wasn't on the range of options that day, I'd go for the chocolate brownie. With cream.

 

[Sue]

Would your answers change if it was non-apple crumble..?

 

[danny la rouge]

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Because it might be squirty cream.

 

[High Voltage]

Cream
Cream
Custard

Is the correct answer. Unless you could swap the custard for cream in C of course

 

[danny la rouge]

Would your answers change if it was non-apple crumble..?

Like a chickpea curry crumble?

 

[Sue]

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This ^ is a very fair point.

I'd check first, and if custard wasn't on the range of options that day, I'd go for the chocolate brownie. With cream.

This ^, this is not.

 

[fishfinger]

Because it might be squirty cream.

Just stir it into the custard/icecream.

 

[MickiQ]

A and B are easy. You are obviously right as cream is pointless. C is the tough one. I have to admit I would probably go for ice cream but feel that I ought to respect tradition and have custard.

I fully endorse this message

 

[Badgers]

Not really bothered, they are all okay.

Not that keen on apple pie anyway. Will eat it with whatever if put in front of me but would not request it.

 

[High Voltage]

Because it might be squirty cream.

Well it won't be because I would never frequent such an establishment. At worst double cream but more likely a superior clotted cream

 

[danny la rouge]

Just stir it into the custard/icecream.

Squirty cream only belongs on hot chocolate/cocoa/closely related hot beverages. In all other cases it is rank.

 

[Sue]

Like a chickpea curry crumble?

Yes, in that case it would obviously be squirty cream every time in a korma kinda deal.

I was more thinking about rhubarb or whatever though.

 

[danny la rouge]

Not that keen on apple pie anyway.

That’s not on offer.

 

[Badgers]

That’s not on offer.

Mint Viennetta then

 

[danny la rouge]

Yes, in that case it would obviously be squirty cream every time in a korma kinda deal.

I was more thinking about rhubarb or whatever though.

Nanna na nah, nanna na nah, nanna na nup na nah.

 

[existentialist]

Yes, in that case it would obviously be squirty cream every time in a korma kinda deal.

I was more thinking about rhubarb or whatever though.

If they don't have custard available with rhubarb crumble, that restaurant is going to mysteriously burn down one dark night very soon thereafter.

 

[danny la rouge]

Mint Viennetta then

Mint ice cream is wrong.

 

[High Voltage]

Hang on, it's this the gaff that Orang Utan was running not that long ago where there were limitations on what you were allowed to order on a FEB

 

[High Voltage]

If it is I seem to remember it got messy real quick

 

[clicker]

Always anything but ice cream.
If the crumble topping is disappointingly dry and powdery, then possibly custard to disguise/drown it.
But if the apple juices are bubbling tantalisingly through the top, then cream. Lots of cream.

 

[maomao]

Squirty cream only belongs on hot chocolate/cocoa/closely related hot beverages. In all other cases it is rank.

Wrong. Squirty cream is only acceptable when squirted directly into ones mouth.