Politically Correct Ice Cream

Growing up I lived in a very health conscious home and my parents made me order milk or orange juice during the one time visit we took to McDonalds when everyone else was drinking root beer, I was taught a very strong message about eating balanced meals. You may need to know a little something about me in order for you to truly understand my issue here - my one eternal weakness is ice cream! I can't eat lots of it but I can't help but have some of it. Somewhere along the line I thought that ice cream with fruit in it, like strawberry or blueberry or even mango was better for you even though there usually isn't much fruit if any. As I became an adult I started to branch out on my own and enjoy the rich dark forbidden flavors of chocolate and I started to indulge in a variety of chocolate ice cream treats over the healthier fruit selections - it was a family scandal! As I wandered away from the teachings of my youth I began to see the many options ice cream lovers had to choose from. Nuts, caramel, mint, licorice, bubble gum, cotton candy, rainbow, cookie dough and many combinations that would almost be sinful to consider.
Over the years I have also noticed from my peers that they become loyal to a flavor - they either align with the chocolate genre or with the fruit flavors. There have been many industrious campaigns to win people over by adding nuts to the chocolate or larger pieces of fruit or even creating designer names for the flavors but one thing stays the same - fruit or chocolate.
I have since matured and realized that my love of fruity ice cream will always be a part of me but I don't ever want to smother my secret passion for chocolate so thus I have a found the most politically correct ice cream to satisfy both camps. I am exposing a secret to my happiness in life; this is how I blend both of my flavor spectrums. I have found a flavor that allows me to sit on the fence, to be neutral, to live like I am Switzerland - I can eat ice cream like an impartial voter. I am eating Chocolate Covered Cherries and I am proud of it!
I had a small DQ Blizzard tonight (my first one of the year) and I always find them so big but I just savored every spoonful - some with fruit - some with chocolate chunks.... It was divine... I don't ever remember a Sunday evening so sweet.