Chilly Chile

So I am back from my trip to Chile with the MBA class.  All considered it was a good trip.  I thought I would quickly highlight some of my favorite parts of the trip.  We were studying the wine industry in Chile so we visited several wineries.

 The areas that we visited were beautiful.  I attached a few photos so you can get a sense of what it was like.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Curtis, Teddy and I after dinner at a winery one night.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  Some ladies picking out the bad grapes.  Chile is heading into the fall so it was harvest time down there.  They said only women get this job because they do a better job of distinguishing the colors of the grapes and which ones are no good.

 

 

 

 

 

 So this might have been my favorite part and is the inspiration of the title of this post.  We did lots of wine tastings while we were down there so when we went to tour the Nestle factory they set up an ice cream tasting.  Everyone got their own tray of ice cream like the one pictured. Delicious!!  From left to right: two cups of ice cream (one was the cheap standard Chilean Savory brand and the other was a premium blend), then the Danky cone (black and White) which was really good, a popsicle  thing, and finally a mega bar.  The highlight was definitely the Danky cone.  It was kind of like a Nutty Buddy only no nuts. It had white chocolate all around the cone on the inside and around the ice cream above the cone, then it also had dark chocolate in the bottom of the cone and chocolate and vanilla cream swirl in the cone with some chocolate swirl things on the top.  Sadly they don’t make them in the US yet but hopefully they will catch on and they will introduce them into the US market.  The popsicle thing was kind of cool too because once you finished you could use the stick as a miny water gun.  Anyway it was delicious.  

 

  So the trip was fun but it is always good to be back in the ole US of A.