Joe McNamee: Summer snackers have 99 problems — but the cone ain't one

"A good ice cream, with the ideal combination of fats, sugars and flavouring, is a singular and unique eating experience, all down to the alchemy triggered by temperature, as the coldness of ‘ice’ encounters the ‘cream’."

"I have no doubt every adult moved to buy a cold sweet ice cream on a hot sunny day is tapping into the most carefree version of their own inner child."

July is World Ice Cream Month and though it may amount to a gross dereliction of duty to bring it up this late in the month, it didn’t feel appropriate until we finally began to experience something of the heatwave that has been boiling mainland Europe alive.

Anyway, every month is Ice Cream Month for me. It is one of my most favourite foodstuffs of all, a nailed-on certainty for inclusion in my death row last supper, still very much in the reckoning were I to be restricted to a single dish.