What’s your favorite sorbetes flavor? Flavors of the past include mantecado (vanilla and butter), ube, queso, pinipig, and nangka according to Ambeth Ocampo. Today you can still find some of these and more, including avocado, tsokolate, melon, mango, buko, cookies and cream, and even durian flavors in Davao, and strawberry in La Trinidad.
In the early 1900s sorbeteros once carried sorbetes balanced on carrying poles, similar to that of taho today. Around the same time some of the first ice cream shops were being opened by Americans in Manila. It was also around this time that the term “dirty ice cream” was referred to sorbetes, likely by Americans visiting and escaping the heat.
Today we continue to enjoy sorbetes, pushed around in colorful, often personalized wooden carts similar to the creativity painted on many jeepneys.
Grab a scoop (or sandwich) of sorbetes and say hello to your local superhero sorbetero!
Get this artwork for that sorbetes-lover in your life!
- Printable set: https://www.etsy.com/listing/1488849385/sorbetes-with-baybayin-printable
- Sorbetes cart artprint on Society6: https://society6.com/product/sorbetes-cart_print
- Sorbetes cone artprint on Society6: https://society6.com/product/sorbetes-cone-with-avocado-cheese-and-ube-melting_print