Tribal People Try Ice Cream

Ice cream in its western forms: tubs of Ben & Jerry's, Magnum bars, soft serve, sundaes, and flavours like mint chocolate chip and cookie dough that do not exist in Pakistani ice-cream parlours.

Cold and sweet is easy. The flavours are the interest — mint with chocolate is often called toothpaste, and bubblegum or cookie dough need explaining. Chunks in ice cream, rather than smooth kulfi, are new.

Kulfi is the village ice cream: dense, milky, cardamom and pistachio, frozen in a mould. Against it, western ice cream is lighter, airier and sweeter.