Posted on 12/29/2014 4:30:36 PM PST by DogByte6RER
Famous Venezuelan ice-cream store closes over milk shortage
CARACAS - An ice-cream store listed in the Guinness World Records book for its 863 different flavours has become the latest victim of Venezuela's economic crisis.
"We are closed during the season due to shortage of milk," the famous Coromoto ice-cream store in the highland town of Merida announced on its Facebook page.
Locals confirmed that the shop, hugely popular among tourists for its exotic and strange flavours ranging from beer to beans, had been closed since Christmas Eve.
A sign on the door asked customers' forgiveness "for not attending you due to the lack of milk."
Venezuelans have been suffering acute shortages of basic goods, from toilet-paper to spare tires, all year due to an economic slowdown, the highest inflation in the Americas, and the impact of strict currency controls.
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“The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.”
― Margaret Thatcher
I want my ice cream ... and I want it NOW!
"I got some ice cream I got some Ice cream......You ain't got no ice cream, you can't afford it, you can't afford it.. 'cause you on the welfare- and your father is an alcoholic... you wanna lick? Psyche."
Just wait until the cheap price of oil really begins to bite in these weak OPEC countries. It will be a crisis.
On a more positive note, the severe food shortages in Venezuela are helping solve the even more severe toilet paper shortages that country has been dealing with for the last 5 years
Turr-Bull, just plain turr-bull. They allow a landmark business to go under for such basic reasons. I don’t mean the Govt. should be supplying milk, I mean, they should move out of the way, so deals could be easily reached and the milk quickly delivered. Some of those tourist will never be coming back to Venezuela. They’ll have to settle for Baskin and Robbins, who only have 31 flavors, vs the 863 flavors of this now closed up store.
My next door neighbor, a brilliant classical musician, is from Venezuela.
he loves his country, but HATES the regime.
I mean, you know, this needs to be referenced in that old “you have two cows” thing.
That’s Brilliant!
No Food = No Toilet Paper
ah yes, the joy of the concentrated blessings of socialism...
LOL - oh man! That takes me back!
This headline from YAHOO? LMAO!
Most of us know just how he feels.
BANANA_REPUBLIC_PING!
too many flavors, that's the problem right there, if they only had 31 there'd be plenty of ice cream...
They have shortages of a lot of things in that country. When government officials run the economy this is the normal result.
their economy was dire with high prices.
It’s the socialism and the fact that incompetence is a bonus in that regime.
It’s a fact of life. Free enterprise and SOCIALISM/COMMUNISM cannot exist side by side. Pure “FREE ENTERPRISE” can not exist for long in those “SOCIALIST/COMMUNIST countries. Venezuela has proven that. Cuba has proven that, North Korea has proven that. The main reason why that is so, is that the governments that are “SOCIALIST/COMMUNIST” will tax the “FREE ENTERPRISE” people out of existance.
Keeping it chained and starved doesn't work too well either.
Stomping on it demanding it produce doesn't produce.
Amazing how the stupid will gladly side with thieves when they promise a share, not able to see just a lil way down the road.
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