When I was a boy, there was a little hole in the wall ice cream spot… It was LITERALLY a window/counter in a wall. In the winter months, that window sold pizza slices. This is the way.
Deep fried ice cream is a thing.
I had it once 13 years ago! And still remember it. Would deffo have it again
The ice cream truck here in IB, CA, US, runs every day of the year. They serve nachos on Saturday and Sunday.
Might be because we never have temperatures lower than 4° C overnight in February and early March, and we never see temperatures above 30° C at the peak of summer.
There was a recent thread about normal daytime sounds that would be scary at 2am - the best one was the ice cream wagon.
This guy clearly hasn’t heard of the ice cream wars
Please don’t give them any ideas. That 20 second MIDI track they play over and over again as loudly as possible is like fingernails on the chalkboard to my misophonia.
I don’t like the sound of fermented cabbage either.
The elotes and chicharrones man who bicycles by my work several times a day has a horn like this. It’s kinda fun.
I used to live near an ice cream shop that switched over to doing doughnuts and cookies in the winter
Went on a Christmas light tour in Brooklyn and they had plenty of cocoa trucks.
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I did a quick search and got this:
https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/cocoa
Cocoa futures traded around $10,280 per tonne, their lowest in over a week and down from recent 3-1/2-month highs of $10,932 per tonne, on some profit-taking and amid expectations for favorable rain in West Africa.
so around $1.03 for 100 grams.
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Or maybe you’re prescient. Roving bands of cocoa robbers who surround armored ice cream trucks is a plausible dystopian scenario in the US, and now I’ll be disappointed if I don’t get to see it.
The problem with cocoa isn’t really global warming. It has been consistently dying because of a plague, that is well adapted to the same weather as cocoa.
Perhaps the solution would be a genetically engineered yeast that secretes theobromine and can be grown in vats anywhere. In a decade or two, that may be the only economically viable source of chocolate, and a few decades later, there may be nobody left who remembers the difference.
And Glühwein or other hot adult drinks.
Any hot or warm snacks might go a long ways, too.
Kids going to be running out on the ice to chase a truck full of boiling water lol. I say do it only the strongest will survive
Hot cookies and cocoa
I’m pretty sure the licensing for preparing food and drink is more involved than just selling prepackaged ice cream bars.
One ice cream truck around here does hot waffles when the weather is cold.
Whatever happened to the Swiss dogs with the barrel of liquor around their necks?
they were too drunk to procreate and went extinct
sometimes it bums me out lemmy doesn’t have many users cus this is peak humour
Quality > Quantity
