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Surely you have already heard the siren call of the ice cream truck as it makes its rounds this summer. Over and over it plays its slightly out-of-tune glockenspiel (?) song, calling children and adults out of their overheating apartments to purchase a treat that will spark their imagination, remind them of the fleeting nature of pleasure, and imbue them with a caloric and spiritual strength that they do not deserve but so desperately need. Its song is a Pavlovian haunting, a call to frivolous vice, a reminder of a childhood to which we can never return. Will you resist...

President Biden finished his campaign-style Saturday trip to Michigan with a cherry on top. The Democrat met with local officials and voters at a cherry farm near the Traverse City National Cherry Festival, an event that has also attracted Presidents Herbert Hoover and Gerald Ford. He chatted with two Guatemalan couples who worked on the farm for 35 years about a potential pathway to citizenship for farmworkers, before eating a cherry out of their basket.

The Twitter account of Ben & Jerry’s, the Vermont-based ice cream company founded by Jewish businessmen Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, has been uncharacteristically silent for nearly a month after being relentlessly attacked for doing business in Israel, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) reported. Ben & Jerry’s, which maintains a production facility and offices south of Tel Aviv, was tweeting almost daily until May 18 when the company posted an advertisement for its new Thick Mint ice cream flavor and was flooded with negative responses. “Love mint but hate being complicit in ethnic cleansing and apartheid, so I won’t be...

President Joe Biden delayed the start of his speech marking the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa massacre on Tuesday by asking two girls in the audience if they were getting ice cream. The commander-in-chief noticed the two youngsters off the side of the speech and ran over before beginning his remarks. 'I just had to make sure the two girls got ice cream when this is over. Almost five years old coming to hear the president speak. My lord. In my faith we call that purgatory,' he said before heading back to the podium.

He tried, and he failed. But the worst part is he never got a chance to even start. And now he’s got a $200,000 debt to pay off. That’s the story of Jason Yu, a 30-year-old father of two who had the audacity to attempt to open up an ice cream shop in San Francisco’s Mission District. Unfortunately, the city got in his way. As reported by San Francisco Chronicle, Yu started his project – a shop that sold green-tea-flavored ice cream – in late 2018, and ultimately found a location in mid-2019 where he got to work. After committing...

They really got the scoop on this one. With the White House poised to unveil the largest federal budget in US history, spy agencies investigating whether a lab in China caused the COVID-19 pandemic and gas prices skyrocketing ahead of a major US travel holiday, President Biden was grilled Thursday … about his favorite flavor of ice cream. “Mr. President, what did you order?” was the first question shouted by a reporter as Biden licked a cone at Honey Hut Ice Cream in Cleveland, Ohio. “Chocolate chocolate chip,” the commander in chief replied, to oohs and aahs from the fawning...

Though there are many products where grape flavor can be welcome, such as juices, sodas, popsicles, and (of course) the actual fruit, the one place you’ll rarely find a grape is in your ice cream. Many conspiracy theories have been floating around as to why the lowly grape has yet to make its way to the creamery, but you might find that the real reason is the simplest of all. Let’s review. The main idea running rampant around the Internet blames the absence of grape ice cream on the Food and Drug Administration, which banned the flavor because of pet-related...

Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream put their scoops down for a minute to push for dismantling white supremacy after Daunte Wright was shot and killed by a police officer in a Minneapolis suburb. The wealthy white liberal men who have made their millions peddling ice cream believe Wright’s death was caused by white supremacy. Ben and Jerry’s is calling for police departments to be dismantled and another system rebuilt in its place to combat this.

President Biden continued to receive friendly coverage from the press on Sunday when reporters caught him on a tarmac in Delaware to inquire about what he was giving up for Lent, resulting in another conversation about ice cream. A reporter shouted, "Mr. President what are you giving up for Lent?" "I gave up all sweets for Lent, you have no idea how hard it is for me," Biden said as reporters chuckled "What’s the first sweet you’re looking forward to having?" the reporter asked in a follow-up question. "Ice cream," he said.

O.J. Simpson tweeted a photo of himself getting an apparent coronavirus vaccination on Friday — along with some gloating advice: “Get your shot. I got mine!!!” The photo posted to Simpson’s Twitter account shows him getting a jab in his left upper arm; the person wielding the needle is wearing protective gloves, a white lab coat, a surgical mask and a clear plastic face shield. Within minutes the photo was ricocheting around the web, with some notin

The sundae, officially called the "Yóupō Làzi" (油泼辣子) Sundae, consists of soft-serve vanilla ice cream topped with chili oilI scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream — especially when it’s burning a hole in our esophagi. Certain McDonald’s locations in China reportedly began serving spicy chili ice cream sundaes earlier this week, as part of a day-long promotion for users of the McDonald’s China app. The sundae, officially called the "Yóupō Làzi" (油泼辣子) Sundae, consisted of soft-serve vanilla ice cream topped with chili oil, like the kind enjoyed as a condiment in traditional Szechuan cuisine, Hypebeast reported. It...

Officials in a Chinese municipality said that three samples of ice cream tested positive for the CCP virus, and thousands of boxes were confiscated, according to state-run media. Storage of the ice cream, produced by Tianjin Daqiaodao Food Co., was sealed after samples sent by the firm to a local disease control center last week tested positive for the virus. Officials said that the company’s more than 1,662 workers were placed under quarantine due to the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus—also known as the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19. Authorities in Tianjin said the company produced more than 4,836 boxes...

Three samples of locally made ice cream that used milk powder from Ukraine and whey mist from New Zealand — under the Daqiaodao brand, tested positive for Covid-19 on Thursday in Tianjin. The city has launched a campaign to close down cold storage houses related to the ice cream since then. The company said it had produced 4,836 boxes, and 1,812 had been sold to various provinces. More from AsiaOne Read the condensed version of this story, and other top stories with NewsLite. So far, a total of 2,089 boxes of the ice cream had been sealed up. Each box...

I assume many are going to DC rally on January 6. Even with no funny business cell phone service will be difficult if not impossible. Any ham radio operators going? Suggestions for frequencies, etc?

Fries dipped in ice cream. It sounds like a weird combination of flavours — hot fries and cold ice cream — but I know more than one person who does it. In fact, I had a childhood friend who would always insist on getting a small pack of fries alongside her ice cream cone or sundae. Apparently, she's not alone — and as one colleague put it, most of us have probably tried it before. Well, you'll no longer have to order two separate items from the menu just to fuse them together. Burger King has introduced a new menu...

A bizarre and upsetting burglary at a popular ice cream shop in San Francisco. The Toy Boat Cafe has been in business for 38 years. The shop is known for its window display of colorful vintage toys, such as tin robots, wind-up cars and godzilla figurines. Thursday morning, someone in an orange vest posed as a repairman to fix store windows that were tagged by graffiti. While the staff was busy serving customers, in 10 minutes, he made off with a quarter of the store's collectibles.

RZA, of the Wu-Tang Clan, has partnered with Good Humor to write a cheerful new ice cream truck jingle in place of “Turkey in the Straw” — an earworm with a troubled history long criticized for being racist. “[The] melody originated from British and Irish folk songs, which had no racial connotations,” Good Humor wrote of “Turkey in the Straw” in a statement on its website. “But the song itself was first performed (and gained popularity) in American minstrel shows in the 1800s. Some songs using its same melody contained highly offensive, racist lyrics.” “While these associations of ‘Turkey in...

Consumer goods company Unilever said on Thursday that demand for personal care items have slumped. The company, which owns brands such as Dove soap and Axe deodorant, said that the lockdowns have led to the decline in sales. It hasn't been all bad for Unilever, though. The company owns ice cream brands such as Breyer's, Ben & Jerry's and Magnum, and ice cream sales at home are up as people consume more food at home.

GASTONIA, N.C. (WBTV) - Police responded to protests outside an ice cream shop in Gastonia Wednesday night. The situation happened at Tony’s Ice Cream on East Franklin Boulevard. All roads were closed near the business. The situation is happening at Tony’s Ice Cream on East Franklin Boulevard. All roads were closed near the business. Gastonia Police, Gaston County Police, the Gaston County Sheriff’s Office, N.C. Highway Patrol, Belmont Police, Mt. Holly Police, Bessemer City Police and Lowell Police responded to the incident they say started at 3:15 p.m. Police say the protests happened following some civil disturbances there at Tony’s...

Dear San Franciscan, Today, the House passed H.R. 6800, the Heroes Act to support our frontline workers who risk their lives to save lives, pursue a science-based path to safely open our economy and put money in the pockets of America’s workers and families. House Democrats have committed to protecting the lives and livelihoods of the American people and the life of our democracy in responding to the pandemic and the economic catastrophe that has followed. Here's what is included in the Heroes Act: