Ice-cream? In Juba???

You could be forgiven for thinking this is just a vicious rumour, but in actual fact, it is reality: we have discovered ice-cream in Juba!!

Until now, we have accepted that ice-cream is simply not a Juba option. We knew that sometimes it appears in the expensive ex-pat supermarkets, but with unreliable electricity for shop freezers and a long truck drive to get it here in soaring temperatures, I have never wanted to risk buying it. Just in case it has been melted and refrozen enough times to make us sick.

However. we had a double revelation this week as far as ice-cream goes.

Firstly, Andrew discovered a long-life chocolate milkshake, sold in 1 litre cartons. On the back of the carton, we read that this chocolate liquid could be whipped up and then frozen to make ice-cream. We thought it was worth a try, so duly whipped it and froze it.
Look at the results:


Real chocolate ice-cream!!
We dished up bowl-fulls! We had a visitor from northern South Sudan staying with us on Wednesday night, as we revealed our ice-cream. She has been staying in a place without a fridge, never mind a freezer, so she was even more excited than us at our first attempt at Juba ice-cream!




The second revelation was when we went out on Friday night to eat at the home of friends who live across town. After dinner, they told us we were having ice-cream for dessert! Since they do not have a freezer, they would be popping out to a local ice-cream parlour, where ice-cream is freshly made! So we had a second yummy helping of ice-cream- what a lot of dessert-inspired excitement in one week!