You don’t need to book a plane ticket to Istanbul to get your hands on Turkish ice cream. This treat is a popular confection♦in tourist areas around the world. And even if you don’t feel like buying a cone♦, it’s worthwhile to stop to watch someone else make a __1__ when you spot a Turkish ice cream stall. Wait a minute or two and you’ll be __2__ an amusing show.
tacky [ ˈtækɪ ] a. 有點黏的 confection [ kənˈfɛkʃən ] n.（精美的）甜點∕甜食 cone [ kon ] n.（盛冰淇淋的）甜筒餅乾
Here is what you can expect to witness. When a customer reaches out to __3__ their ice cream, the vendor will often twirl the cone out of reach, turning the transaction into a game. The ice cream—still attached to the end of a long stick—gets placed within the customer’s grasp and __4__ away at the last minute time and time again. Eventually, the vendor relinquishes the dessert, bringing the __5__ and joking to an end.
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Try this trick with any other ice cream and you’ll likely end up with a __6__ on the ground. However, Turkish ice cream isn’t like most __7__ of the frozen treat. Also known as dondurma, Turkish ice cream contains some of the standard ingredients, namely cream and sugar. But what makes this treat different are two unusual __8__. One is salep♦, which is a flour made from the tuber♦of an orchid♦. The other is mastic♦, a plant resin♦that is used as a spice and in chewing gum and ice cream. These two ingredients give the ice cream its characteristic hard texture and resistance to __9__. This is why the vendor constantly stirs the ice cream with a long-handled paddle♦. Not doing so would cause the ice cream to __10__ and be unscoopable♦. In fact, some variations of the dessert can be so hard that they require a fork and a knife to eat!
salep [ ˈsæləp ] n. 蘭莖粉 tuber [ ˈtubɚ ] n. 塊莖 orchid [ ˈɔrkɪd ] n. 蘭花 mastic [ ˈmæstɪk ] n. 乳香 resin [ ˈrɛzn̩ ] n. 樹脂 paddle [ ˈpædl̩ ] n. 平匙狀攪拌器 unscoopable [ ʌnˈskupəbl̩ ] a. 無法用勺子挖起來的
