Helado 🇦🇷 Ice Cream

Ice cream is purchased here by volume, yes, 1/4L, 1/2L, 1 Litre – it comes in a polystyrene box – and it can be delivered by a guy on motorbike! This was the case even before COVID-19 and the introduction of food delivery services like PedidosYa (Uber Eats has been run out of town). Argentines it seems are constantly on the hunt for the best heladería and like a lot of things here, there is great debate over which producer is the best, but not just the best in general, it could be for a certain flavour. Oh and by the way, ice cream here is helado – pronounced “elado” (the h is silent) or if you are Aflie, it’s just “ado”.

It is actually rare to see an ice cream on a stick here, for the most part they seem to be novelties made specifically for kids (e.g. in the shape of a Minion, a pig etc.) and you won’t see them in a freezer of a service station, almacén or kiosco. What you will see though (apart from they polystyrene containers of course) is your standard ice cream cone, but the Heladeros (ice cream servers) take their job extremely seriously. After watching a few in action I think that there must be a certain height requirement for which the ice cream must reach in order to be acceptable to the consumer.

I’m not a massive ice cream lover, I prefer a good zesty lemon gelato (or some of the other fruit flavours) however the dulce de leche here is pretty amazing – in fact DDL (as we now call it to not bring it to Alfie’s attention) is pretty awesome. I may have to do a blog post just on it soon. Anyway, I’ll let you ice cream lovers avert your gaze below to the sights of Argentinian Helado y Heladerias!