It was raining yesterday and my local icecream van was out there cranking around like a champ, they don’t give a shit if it’s raining or sunny, you’ll get your icecream.
Deep fried ice cream is a thing.
I had it once 13 years ago! And still remember it. Would deffo have it again
This guy clearly hasn’t heard of the ice cream wars
I used to live near an ice cream shop that switched over to doing doughnuts and cookies in the winter
My regular Saturday morning walk along the Mersey had a hot chocolate van by a lake just before the final stretch. Often the ice cream van was also still there even when it was cold.
There was a recent thread about normal daytime sounds that would be scary at 2am - the best one was the ice cream wagon.
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.
The elotes and chicharrones man who bicycles by my work several times a day has a horn like this. It’s kinda fun.
I don’t like the sound of fermented cabbage either.
Went on a Christmas light tour in Brooklyn and they had plenty of cocoa trucks.
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
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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.
I’m pretty sure the licensing for preparing food and drink is more involved than just selling prepackaged ice cream bars.
And Glühwein or other hot adult drinks.
Any hot or warm snacks might go a long ways, too.
One ice cream truck around here does hot waffles when the weather is cold.
Hot cookies and cocoa
I hear a ice cream van go around my neighborhood but I don’t know where the truck stops, pain
