It's It

Cappuccino It's It...no sweeter three words have ever been spoken. Have you ever had an It's It? They're ice cream sandwiches made by a little company in Northern California, and mainly sold in the freezer cases of dingy liquor stores in San Francisco. Ice cream (vanilla, chocolate, mint, or cappuccino) is sandwiched between two frighteningly soft oatmeal cookies, then covered in a thin layer of chocolate. Although they are beyond yummy, I've long suspected that to those of us who love them, a large part of that love is based on nostalgia.

A text from Anh last week teasingly told me that he had found them sold by the box at a local grocery store (I was only slightly deterred that they only carried vanilla). Instead of going right away, though, I hesitated. You see, every time I took a peek into a coffin-shaped case of frozen treats in too-numerous-to-count dingy liquor stores around LA, I had hoped that I would find an It's It. That was the way it was supposed to be; I would glance down, expecting defeat, and there they would be! I would gasp audibly, and snap a picture with my camera phone to send to Micah (just as he had done while in San Francisco a few months back to tease me) before buying up the entire stock. It just didn't seem right to purposefully make the trek, and with every intention, buy an It's It.

I was wrong at thinking it wouldn't be the same, though. As I crept towards the frozen foods isle, my heart plummeted at the thought that "maybe they'll be sold out". They weren't, though...and when I saw them, I gasped audibly and squealed from happiness. Later, after buying two boxes and calling Micah to come over, telling him I had a surprise for him (he gasped audibly when he saw them), we all sat eating them quietly in my bedroom. It was Prez's first It's It, and although he said they were good, I don't think he has the emotional ties to them that I do. Hopefully he'll stick around long enough to procure those ties.


What's your nostalgia-inducing foods?