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President Joe Biden ascended the podium Monday and joked about chocolate chip ice cream before calling for more gun control in the wake of the Nashville Christian school shooting. He joked about ice cream with the audience in the East Room prior to shifting to talk about the Nashville school attack. Biden said, “We know there are a number of people who did not make it, including children.” He said, “We have to [do] more to stop gun violence. It’s ripping our communities apart, ripping at the very soul of the nation. We have to do more to protect our...

Even the mainstream media admits there were “widespread glitches” with Arizona voting machines on Election Day this year. But for some reason official don’t seem concerned. How different from reports last year that the Federal Trade Commission was investigating McDonalds over breakdowns in ice cream machines. See, for example, this NPR article: “Feds Are Reportedly Looking Into Why McDonald's Ice-Cream Machines Are Always Busted”. https://www.npr.org/2021/09/02/1033715465/mcdonalds-ice-cream-machines-mcflurries-ftc-investigation Double-scoop standard, anyone?

t’s probably not even the weirdest ice cream flavor out there. There is squid ink ice cream (Travel & Leisure dubbed it “surprisingly delicious”). A Delaware ice cream shop sells ghost pepper ice cream, and you have to sign a waiver before you can eat it. You’ll find lobster ice cream in Maine, and Cheetos-inspired soft-serve in New York. An Irish ice cream shop made ketchup-flavored ice cream as some kind of weird tribute to the singer Ed Sheeran. Foie gras ice cream has popped up in a number of fancy restaurants. And let us not forget the scandal that...

WASHINGTON (AP) — One handshake, one hug and one selfie at a time. If President Joe Biden could greet every American this way, longtime allies say, his approval ratings would soar. Biden has never been at his best in big speeches, where his delivery can be stilted, his stories sometimes meandering. It’s the end of his speech that often marks the beginning of Biden’s favorite part of an event — the rope line, in the parlance of political operatives. He whirls around, scans the crowd and zeroes in on his first target for a one-on-one connection. It might be with...

It’s one of the richest, fattiest fruits and treated as a delicacy across Southeast Asia. It’s also known for its pungent reputation, which once led to the evacuation of an Australian university campus. It’s even banned from being carried on subways, aboard airplanes and in certain hotels overseas. Durian, with its bright yellow meaty interior, is a fruit you either love or hate — and it’s coming to a Bay Area Costco near you in pint-sized ice cream form this October, dreamed up by the two sisters behind San Jose-based Mavens Creamery. “Some things just can’t be explained,” said Christine...

It’s not rare for major companies to take sides on political issues but it is rare for said companies to be SO vocal about it. Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream has always made it abundantly clear that it’s got leftist ideology churning through the business. But in the last month alone, Ben & Jerry's franchise has pushed leftist propaganda at least seven times. Unilever is Ben & Jerry’s parent company and wanted to transfer “its assets to local licensee Avi Zinger in Israel,” New York Post reported. Attorneys for Ben & Jerrys reportedly blocked the transfer in order to maintain...

By analysing DNA extracted from the petrous bones of skulls of ancient Europeans, scientists have identified that these peoples remained intolerant to lactose (natural sugar in the milk of mammals) for 5,000 years after they adopted agricultural practices and 4,000 years after the onset of cheese-making among Central European Neolithic farmers. The findings published in the scientific journal Nature Communications (21 Oct) also suggest that major technological transitions in Central Europe between the Neolithic, Bronze Age and Iron Age were also associated with major changes in the genetics of these populations. For the study, the international team of scientists examined...

The human ability to digest the milk sugar lactose after infancy spread throughout Central Europe in only a few thousand years. This is the conclusion reached by an international research team led by Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU). The researchers analyzed genetic material from the bones of individuals who had fallen in a conflict around 1200 B.C. on the banks of the Tollense, a river in the present-day German state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania... found that only around one in eight of the assumed warriors had a gene variant that enabled them to break down the lactose in milk. "Of the...

We all scream for ice cream on July 17.National Ice Cream Day is July 17. And if you're a fan of the frozen dessert then it's your day too, because ice cream shops and manufacturers are offering giveaways, discounts and other goodies to celebrate. President Ronald Reagan inaugurated the celebration in 1984, designating July as National Ice Cream Month and the third Sunday of the month as National Ice Cream Day. Of course, frozen treats have been enjoyed for millennia: The earliest mention dates back more than 2,500 years, to when Mesopotamian elites would mix snow with mashed fruit as...

Salt & Straw’s $65 edible perfume for ice cream is fun, but not worth it. Following in the footsteps of Van Leeuwen’s extremely viral Kraft Macaroni & Cheese ice cream, other brands are getting in on headline-grabbing, extremely bonkers flavors. There’s a Nathan’s Famous hot dog ice cream, which is laced with caramelized bits of the famous meat (yum?) that shatter like crispy bacon between your molars. And I will never understand why French’s turned its respectable tomato ketchup into an abominable popsicle. I know that none of these batty products are really meant to become household staples. Still, when...

The price of ice cream made by China's most famous brand of baijiu liquor, Mao-tai, has surged to 250 yuan (Singapore$52)[USD$37.18]a cup, triggering public debate over the high price. Mao-tai ice cream reported on Wednesday (July 6) that each cup of the ice cream available online through third parties was priced between 120 yuan and 250 yuan, a mark up of about four times the official price, in a Weibo post. In May this year, the alcohol brand partnered with Chinese dairy company Mengniu to launch a series of baijiu-flavoured ice cream products. Flavours like tiramisu, classical original, vanilla and...

President Joe Biden's pattern of delivering speeches and hosting events from the so-called 'set of Jeopardy' - the White House's South Court Auditorium - has left White House aides asking, 'why are we doing this?' as he fails to break through. CNN interviewed 14 White House aides and other Democrats close to the president for a story out Thursday, which charted the struggles they've faced trying to get Biden to create the right kind of headlines. 'He has to speak about very serious things,' explained one White House aide to the network, 'and you can't do that getting ice cream.'

Walmart has apologized for its controversial “Juneteenth” ice cream as pictures began to circulate over the weekend, and it plans to remove items “as appropriate” in response to the backlash. Pictures of Great Value’s Juneteenth “celebration edition” ice cream began to circulate across social media over the weekend. President Biden signed a bill last year establishing Juneteenth National Independence Day, commemorating the end of slavery.

In a shocking move, mega-ice cream seller Baskin-Robbins has re-branded itself for 2022 — and neglected to include any obnoxious, in-your-face woke themes in its new marketing! No parade of rainbow creatures, no pant-suited feminist mascots, no underdogs bravely standing up to America’s racist, sexist, homophobic, bigoted, xenophobic system. There’s nary a victim nor a woke hero to be seen. It’s almost eerie.Almost as inexcusably, the re-launched branding is relentlessly positive. The new campaign — the first in 20 years for the 77-year-old company — is called “Seize the Yay.” It focuses on celebrating the myriad joys of ordinary life....

When Joe Biden was declared the winner of the 2020 presidential election, millions of Americans shared tears of relief and a shrug of acceptance. However, despite becoming president of the United States, voters always knew that there was one thing more important to Biden than helming the executive branch: ice cream. Despite his well-known fondness for the dessert, few expected that he would prioritize it over the most important job in the nation. Yet, Biden has announced that he has stepped down from the presidency effective immediately to chase an ice cream truck. “Look, folks,” began Biden in a video...

In an 8-1 decision, the US Supreme Court ruled that Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron has the authority to defend the state's law against live-dismemberment abortions. The ruling reversed a 6th Circuit Court decision that "a State Attorney General lacks the authority to take action counter to the wishes of the current Governor." Writing for the majority, Justice Alito said that "defending the state's laws is an independent function of the state's Attorney General. The fact that the current governor disagrees with a law enacted prior to his administration is not a valid reason for trying to negate its defense...

President Biden, sporting a cross of ashes on his forehead, told reporters Wednesday that he had given up ice cream and other sweets for Lent this year. In response to a question about what he had forsworn, Biden responded that he decided to give up “all sweets — and you know me, I start off with dessert. No ice cream, nothing.” The president began the 40-day period of Christian repentance and reflection before he departed for a trip to Minnesota and Wisconsin. ... The president fended off a reporter’s question about his support for legal access to abortion when Catholic...

“Well, let’s see, um, this morning I think he had some policy meetings, uh, also a PDB meeting,” Psaki said. “Uh, he, um, later this afternoon, uh, I think is doing some remarks review. There’s some days that we spend some time doing internal meetings and discussions, uh, with policy experts, with policy leaders, um, and that’s that’s what’s happening today.”

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki seemed stumped earlier today when she was asked about President Joe Biden's seemingly empty Tuesday schedule. ... But around 1:41 p.m. President Joe Biden was on the move to a boutique on Capitol Hill. During his visit, he talked about Russia and a potential invasion into Ukraine. “I made it clear to Putin early on if he went into Ukraine there would be consequences," Biden said. "We have no intention of putting American forces or NATO forces in Ukraine. But we I said they're going to be serious economic consequences if he moves. can...

When the going gets tough, Brandon gets ice cream! Please like and share this video and subscribe for future content! Background music is Anthrax's "Got the Time".