What Would You Do-o-o For a .....Strawberry Ice Cream?

I was recently asked "What is the farthest you have traveled for food?"

The first thing that came to mind was the quest for Westfall Stew. I swear I killed every boar in the zone before I had the required three Goretusk Snouts. For a rather common piece of anatomy, they sure were scarce. Unless, as I suspect, they were all on crack and their noses just fell off or something (I think that must be the reasoning behind most of WoW's drop rates - have you ever noticed how many seemingly headless creatures are wandering around out there?).

Then I got to thinking. Yeah, the Westfall Stew quest was a pain, but really, I didn't go very far to get it. It just seemed like it because I was running in circles killing everything in the zone several times over.

No, the farthest I ever traveled was quite a bit further than the other end of the zone. Try the other end of the world. And for what? Strawberry Ice Cream.

Yes, ladies and gentlemen, you read that right. I traveled the length and breadth of both Azeroth and Draenor for a simple ice cream cone.

It was Children's Week. I love children's week. I stopped by Orgrimmar first chance I had and got the quest. And the orphan. The little orphans are so cute.

So I got out my whistle (is anyone else disturbed by whistling up an orphan? It reminds me a little too much of the beginning of The Sound of Music) and called up my orphan so I could get the quests. Get Cairne's hoofprint, check. Visit the throne room at Undercity and the Mor'Shan Rampart in the north of The Barrens, check. Nothing in Orgrimmar. Of course not. That would be too easy.

So off we go, the poor little orphan running behind my demon horse. We visit the ramparts and get Cairne's hoofprint with no trouble. Then on to the Eastern Kingdoms to visit the Undercity.

So I get all these quests done. Oh, hey, there's another one. He wants ice cream. Tigule and Foror's Strawberry Ice Cream, to be exact. From the racetrack at the Mirage Flats in Thousand Needles. Why couldn't this quest have shown up while I was still on the same continent???? Or better yet, before I'd left Orgrimmar. After glaring at my orphan balefully for a few minutes, I grudging agree to go find him some ice cream.

Back to the zeppelin we go. Thankfully, I find a vendor in Orgrimmar who sells this ice cream, since I wasn't looking forward to a second trip down Kalimdor.

That was my first year doing Children's Week. The next year, I help out the orphans in Orgrimmar and then head to Outland to help the little orphans in Shattrath. This time, I gave the orphan my sternest look and told her in no uncertain terms to tell me RIGHT NOW if she wanted any ice cream. No? Ok, but I'm holding you to it.

So off we go, to visit Sporregar, the Throne of Elements, the Dark Portal, and then to Azeroth to visit Silvermoon City and the Caverns of Time. We had to pass near Orgrimmar to get to the Caverns, so I asked her again if she wanted any ice cream. Nope. Ok, let's go.

We visited all the places she wanted to see, and as soon as we got the toy dragon in the Caverns of Time, sure enough, now she wants ice cream. At this point I threw up my hands in surrender and bought her the damn ice cream.

And that's how I traveled the length and breadth of two worlds for a damn strawberry ice cream cone.

And the worst part is I'll do it all over again next year.