It’s a hot Saturday, and you’re out with your family walking down Orchard Road trying to escape the blazing sun and all the pesky tourists with their giant shopping bags.

From afar, you spot a saving grace: an umbrella perched atop a metal cart, manned by an old uncle who is busy reaching into the cart to grab blocks of ice-cream, hacking them into smaller blocks and fitting them neatly between bread or wafers.

Yes, for the price of around US$1, the uncle’s ice-cream sandwich is the delectable, cheap treat that you must try in Singapore to combat the sweltering heat and hordes of crowds squeezing past one another.

We in Singapore love it so much and apparently so do the tourists who join in the queues at these ice-cream carts littered all around the Orchard Road shopping belt, which is why it’s quite puzzling when we found out that this sandwich creation ended up on a subreddit that highlights weird food.

The r/shittyfoodporn subreddit covers visually-unappetizing food such as cheddar cheese slices melted on top of cream crackers, spaghetti shaped like a brick and a smashed-up Louisiana King Cake.

Among these creations, user u/Golden-trichomes decided it would be great to highlight the ice-cream sandwich that he bought at Orchard Road when he visited Singapore.

The dessert in question. (Photo: u/Golden-trichomes / Reddit) More

The user was quick to comment that the dessert was, in fact, tasty, but the creation looked like he was eating a slab of butter wrapped up in some bread.

That didn’t stop commenters from defending the dish.

(Photo: Reddit screengrab) More

(Photo: Reddit screengrab) More

The user was also fully aware of the pushback he was going to get because of the incident, which he received on the r/Singapore subreddit.

(Photo: Reddit screengrab) More

The user has tried to gain back some votes by posting a photo of the plate of chicken rice he had in Singapore, on both the r/FoodPorn and r/Singapore channels since the previous post on Thursday.

If there is one thing we know about Singaporeans, it’s that we will fight for our food even when neighboring Malaysia seems to always want to stake their claim on such dishes as well.

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