Snowballs were the ultimate summertime treat for my brother and me when we visited our grandparents in New Orleans – the West Texas kids didn’t adapt well to the Louisiana humidity, and snowballs were just the thing the wilting flowers needed to perk up. Texas’ closest approximation of these airy, icy, sugary, super-artificially-colored Styrofoam cups of coolness is at Mam’s in Houston’s Heights. They recently started hauling their little trailer out and opened for the year, and a couple of weeks ago, Alisa invited us out for BBQ at Hickory Hollow (fried zucchini, yum!) and Mam’s snowballs afterwards. Alisa’s always on top of the happenings in town, and she not-so-secretly wanted to find out if my favorite flavor, spearmint, would turn my breastmilk and then William’s poo green – yes, we are in our 30s, I promise! Inquiring minds want to know, and the answer is…NO CHANGE!
DISCLAIMER: No babies were licked in the making of this blog post.
Nang ordered a flavor that was purple (to match the color of the shirt he was wearing, no doubt), took a couple of bites, dropped a little on William in his baby carrier, and abandoned the snowball as too sweet.
I finished all of my spearmint (duh!), and enjoyed watching Maddy and Emmie polish off their matching yellow flavor (ice cream, wedding cake, lemon?).
Kim shared her red snowball with Drew-Drew, and he busted out his sign language to ask Kim for “more” when she didn’t feed him quickly enough.
yes, i'm so "in the know"! hahaha... but kim says there's a place in richmond, too, but that's not even houston! it's like, past sugar land!
ReplyDeletedarnit, no green poop for willie, huh?!
yellow was bubble gum, and thoroughly enjoyed by the girls.
can't wait to do it again soon! we don't get to see enough of willie!
I'm pretty sure yellow was ice cream!
ReplyDeleteBob's Taco Stand started out with Snoballs way back when. After I spoke with Alisa, I decided that Mam's might be a little bit smoother than Bob's.