Working in the ice cream industry should be the easiest thing in the world if you think about it. Customers should be easy-going since they’re getting ice cream, right? WRONG. I’ve dealt with a lot of interesting people while working at my ice cream shop, but if there’s one customer that really rustles my jimmies, it’s people that disrespect the art of the banana split.
Let me break it down for you: a classic banana split has a scoop of vanilla, chocolate, and strawberry ice cream with pineapple topping on the vanilla, chocolate syrup on the chocolate, and strawberry topping on the strawberry – with a banana, of course. That sounds simple enough, except no one seems to understand that.
If I had a $1 for every time someone changed something in their banana split, I’d be a billionaire. With that money, I would build my own ice cream shop that makes banana splits the right way. I understand if a person doesn’t want pineapple or something little like that on their sundae, but not wanting anything that’s in a banana split is what gets me going.
Here’s the scenario: I worked at my ice cream shop last night when someone ordered a banana split. As I was prepared to get to work on this beautiful treat, the customer said “Wait, I don’t want anything that comes with it.”
This is where my smile started to break, folks. Obviously, I asked the woman what she wanted, and she proceeded to tell me that she wanted mint chocolate chip, butter pecan, and chocolate raspberry truffle ice cream with hot fudge all over it. Okie dokie, I’ll just get started —
Oh, and she said she didn’t even want the banana.
Ma’am, I hate the be the bearer of bad news, but THAT’S NOT A BANANA SPLIT. There’s not even a banana in it!
At that point, I should’ve calmly closed my window, walked out of the store without saying anything, and locked myself in my car and screamed.
But I didn’t do that. I made it just like she described. A tear or two might’ve slipped in, but other than that, the sundae was exactly how she wanted it.
For the love of the ice cream gods, don’t say you want a banana split if you don’t get the banana. Please, I’m begging you.
This has been a public service announcement brought to you by Kara McKenna.
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