Ang Alamat ng Ice Cream

THE LEGEND OF ICE CREAM

Long time ago in the city of Manila, there lived a teenage boy named Betilio who loves to travel around. One day while he was wondering in the forest he saw a wounded carabao. He immediately helped the carabao by covering its wounds with leaves. After helping the wounded carabao he heard a faint voice say thank you. “Who could that be ? “ asked Betilio he wonders where that voice came from. Minutes later he heard another faint voice “turn around “ said the faint voice. Betilio was so shocked when he turned around and found out that the faint voice was coming from the carabao. “ As a reward for helping me you can drink my milk “ said the carabao  “ why would I want to drink your milk?” said Betilio “because it would give you superpowers “ Super Powers!? “ said Betilio looking very shocked and excited at the same time. He quickly returned home and get a bucket to milk the carabao .

After getting the bucket he immediately milked the carabao and chugged down the milk straight from the bucket.  Lights flashed around him as he drank the milk then he took the form of a half man half carabao creature.  He gained super strength and the ability to shoot out milk.  Now whenever there’s trouble in town he would always come to the rescue.  The town’s people began calling him “Boy Kalabaw” since he looks like a carabao.

          One  day while Betilio was taking his siesta under a narra tree, he heard the town’s people screaming in terror.  “Help us Boy Kalabaw! “, Shouted the town’s people, Betilio immediately transformed into boy kalabaw when he heard the town’s people.  He saw an old man floating turning everything into ice.  “Who are you and why are you turning things into ice?!”, asked Betilio. “I’m a powerful ice wizard and I’ll turn everything in this tropical country into ice!", replied the old man.  The ice wizard tried to blast a young lady with his powers. Luckily boy kalabaw pushed the young lady away from the ice wizard’s attack.  Boy kalabaw asked the young lady if she was all right “ I’m all right “  said the young lady then the two started asking each other’s name “ I’m Soria “ said the young lady “ I’m ….” The ice wizard blasted him with his powers before he could even say his name in return Betilio blasted the ice wizard with all of his powers the milk reacted with the ice and it turned into a cold creamy white substance. The Ice wizard died and peace was restored to their town while soria and Betilio got married and had many children. The town’s people began calling the creamy substance “sorbetilio” in honor of Betilio and Soria until later on it became “sorbetes“ or “ ice-cream” in English. Their children invented the different flavours of ice-cream which we love to eat during summer today.

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