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Ice Cream: What You Don't Know Will Surprise You! · Family Tree Food Stories

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We're on to another show and if you haven't heard our most recent shows,
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the last one we did was on sourdough and the one before that was all about Maybe
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the word is the wrong, but the capers, zucchini, that solved a crime, but.
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Today we are onto ice cream.
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You scream, we all scream for ding, ding, ding ice cream.
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How you ready?
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You ready?
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Sylvia?
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stuff, right?
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Mm-hmm.
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Yum.
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I'm ready to, to dig in and scoop out of the bucket.
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Yeah, let's go.
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Hey, you know what?
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The history of ice cream is fascinating, and it's the history
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of America through the lens of food.
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That's what we're all about, right?
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I mean, it just tells a story and each of us has a story.
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One of mine is my dogs get ice cream on their birthdays every year.
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Doggy ice cream or
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Just regular.
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Take 'em to Baskin Robbins or something like that.
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Give them a cone and they just love it.
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Now, sad.
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Part of the story is heart.
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My beloved golden doodle that died, we didn't get his ice cream for him because
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we were waiting for it to be the heart of summer because he is born in January
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and that's not ice cream time, right?
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But anyway, we missed that window, so don't wait.
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Get your dog some ice cream today.
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Yeah.
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And so people who don't know us behind the scenes, we do wanna share a little story
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so that you know a little bit about us.
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But we did the dog show episode, I think it was about three episodes
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ago, that was a lot of fun.
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But, like a week after that, you lost Hart, who was six years old and tragically
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passed, and literally a week later
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You lost yours!
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We lost Otis of Reding,
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I mean, really, and that it's like it's a member of the family.
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I know, and his birthday is on, well, it was on on July 15th,
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so we're coming up on that.
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So anyway, that's just a little bit behind the scenes of, of who we are and,
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not that we're trying to be sad or, or
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It's just life though.
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I
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but
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unfortunately, that's, it's not within our, reach to know why, so
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we, just,
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We thought it would help you to know.
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Right.
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But it's who we
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We love those
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memories.
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The doggy food stories.
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We love that one.
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We still do,
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Oh, it was so good.
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Anyway.
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On to happier times with
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ice cream
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Yeah, yeah.
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Yeah.
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So the history of ice cream,
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Hey, we could do a quiz too, and at the end we'll give the
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answer I was obsessed with finding the answer to this because I love Dairy Queen.
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Get those wonderful cones with the soft ice cream, chocolate
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covered top, you know, the dipped
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cone
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you, Yeah.
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Yeah.
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That's Carvellllll by
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us.
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and the big giant rumor went through the mill and everybody kind of absorbed
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it is that it isn't real ice cream.
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Okay.
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You get the answer at the end.
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Is Dairy Queen ice cream really ice cream?
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Stay tuned.
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But so ice cream started, really wasn't an American treat to begin with.
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I think it was French, wasn't it?
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Oh yeah.
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No, it started ancient pharaohs out of Egypt.
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So much happened in Egypt, the birthplace of civilization, right.
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And ice cream.
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and I, found this a little interesting, and one of the, like
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one of the pharaohs, I always think of Egypt as not having snow.
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So I'm not quite sure how this Spend, but snow cream and if you haven't had
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snow cream in your childhood, I have.
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The shaved ice
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No, that's snow.
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Literally snow on the ground.
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You go out and you scoop it up and you add in milk and
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sugar and you create snow cream
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Milk and sugar.
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I've never heard of that.
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I have heard of syrup.
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you put like maple syrup , on the snow.
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Snow cream I remember it was at the height when I was a kid.
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It was the height of the nuclear fears and stuff, radiation and I, I didn't care.
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I was a kid.
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No I ate I ate as a
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probably a lot more in our guts and radiation with the snow, right?
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Anyway, so they mixed it with grape juice.
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but it's been with us since ancient times and people created, and then refrigeration
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came along, and that was a game changer.
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and the wealthy had ice boxes, right?
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So they could have it.
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And you know, George Washington that, wild man, he spent $200 on ice
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cream in 1790 and it's on a ledger a merchant's ledger that he paid.
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I'm like, no, we don't know what he did.
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You know,
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back
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why his teeth were bad, right?
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$200 in that era.
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$200 in that time, 1790.
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Whoa.
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Uh, anyway, but you had a story that it even came earlier than that in 1744.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, in 1744, ice cream arrived in the United States And when a
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guest of Maryland Governor Thomas.
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Baldwin wrote about tasting this at a dinner party, but in the late 17
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hundreds is when it actually became a L luxury because it was so difficult
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to get ahold of, predominantly because of the whole ice and keeping it cold.
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But, I have to say, as it comes to ice cream in George
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spending $200, I have spent.
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A lot of money
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Oh and ice cream
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at times.
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Right When, especially the special ice cream at the special ice cream
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shops up north in Connecticut.
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There was, Dr. Mike's High butterfat.
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Oh my God.
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That stuff would so good.
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But I couldn't eat it without having a big glass of water afterwards.
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What was it called?
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It was called Dr. Mike's.
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Dr. Mike's is quite famous up in Bethel,
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Connecticut.
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Yep.
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And then down here we have Papa clyde's.
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Papa Clyde's.
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What a quaint name
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Yeah.
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Also very good.
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But I think Dr. Mike's was a little bit better.
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Hmm.
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Tillamook, you know what?
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Talking about brands, Tillamook was never anything that we had up north.
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We have discovered Tillamook is pretty darn good, I would say as
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good as the homemade Papa Clyde's.
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So we are kind of ice cream
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aficionados
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here.
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Well, I always get briers ' cause you can get the kind that has just sugar
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milk or cream and eggs I think are in it.
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and then the, whatever, the chocolate or whatever, the flavorings,
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that's what, what Telamook is.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, so I try to, I try to gravitate to that, but it sort of reminds me
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a little bit of the , Ben and Jerry's up North Vermont and then Oregon.
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And I think a lot of times those two places are a lot alike sort of,
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minds that are independent kind of contrarians, you know, I don't know.
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That's a stereotype that I have about you.
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Keep it weird is what they say.
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North you, north Easterners, you know, I mean,
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you're, i'm a Southerner.
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The northeast we had rebels, but, we'll, get to that one about rebel ice cream.
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Hey Jefferson.
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Oh, Jefferson.
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He was a wild man.
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He collected recipes and was quite a connoisseur of fine dining
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and all of that, and he had an 18 step recipe for ice cream.
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And they said it.
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Tasted like baked Alaska.
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oh.
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and so he he bought like ice molds, freezers, and all kinds of things that
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would serve his guests, I assume with
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fancy ice cream.
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Have you ever tried to mold ice cream?
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Never.
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You don't bake it, you don't do anything anyway, sorry.
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I do the easy stuff.
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I'm a connoisseur of the grocery aisles.
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I.
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Yeah, so I'm an experimenter.
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You know, the kitchen, is my science experiment and I have tried, but the
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hard part is, I don't know whether you grease the inside or what you get.
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There are these thick write the molds.
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You get an antique mold.
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My mom used to collect strange, like things like that for me and, give them
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to me as birthday gifts or but, I was never able to get the ice cream to come
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out where it didn't stick to the mold.
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So.
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What would be the point of that?
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mean, cause
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you could scoop the ice cream out of a cardboard
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come on Sylvia.
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If you're entertaining, you wanna do something fancy or pretty, or you do
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an ice cream mold that looks like, let's say a giant sheep at Easter
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time and you want to, you know, put
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cool.
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on it and decorate it and make it
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like a Baskin cream cream cake.
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Yeah.
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But
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Right.
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Right?
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Yeah.
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The one that looks Baskin Robbins.
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I saw one that looked like a Turkey cooked Turkey one year.
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I was like, that's crazy.
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I'm not gonna eat ice cream.
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That looks like a Turkey, maybe a sheep, but not a Turkey.
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Anyway, but moving forward, the chatter going on 1813 was Dolly Madison.
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I always thought Dolly Madison bought ice cream to the White House, but it wasn't.
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It was thomas
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Jefferson
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it famous, Right.
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famous, Right.
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Right.
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she trended it.
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somebody by the name of Dolly?
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Honestly, really?
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Yeah, Dolly.
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Hmm.
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We had a dog named dolly, so.
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Uh, so she was what you call an early dessert influencer.
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Ah, it happens.
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so until the beginning of the 19th century, it was really
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a province of the elite.
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And then came, the game changer, right?
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Insulated ice houses were invented in by the late 19th century.
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This is fun.
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American soda shops gained popularity and the soda jerks, soda
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jerks.
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The.
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I wonder why they call them jerks because they weren't stupid, they weren't jerks.
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They were, I don't know, what was
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the whole thing with a jerking?
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you know, that's a good question.
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but I think jerks, maybe he has a colloquialism kind of thing,
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is just people who do things.
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It, it'd be interesting,
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they do something like with the, the, levers or something?
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Anyway, but Did you know that Thomas Jefferson actually had an
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ice house built on the White House ground so that he could keep it?
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So
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that
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was pretty
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Yeah.
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I thought that was
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interesting.
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Here's another interesting thing.
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By the late 19th century, the Sunday.
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Was, you ever wondered why a Sunday is called a Sunday?
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it was S-U-N-D-A-Y, but has been changed now to S-U-N-D-A-E so that it's
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distinguishable from the day Sunday.
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But it was invented when soda began to be banned and the soda shops, ' cause
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that was a, a genre of ice cream.
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Was the soda
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Right, the ice cream soda.
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Mm-hmm.
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And it was banned.
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Soda was banned under blue laws.
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For being seriously too much fun.
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was about to say, who would ban soda?
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It was too much fun.
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I mean, yeah.
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So they took out the carbonation, and at the same time, the 1904 St. Louis
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World's Fair, the Cone was invented.
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They did all these kind of things to try to get around, , this idea
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that something was too much fun.
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It makes no sense.
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Okay.
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A lot of this stuff makes no sense.
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but the sundae was invented again as a way to get around having too much fun.
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You could have a sundae, which is typically, sauce and nuts and,
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ice cream and stuff like that.
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so
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Oh, too much fun.
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Well, I, first of all, first of all,
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I don't like
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I can't imagine people wanting to ban fun.
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Especially around ice
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cream and food.
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I know.
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what part is stupid?
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Did we not get in early?
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Well, in the 19th century, this is not a political statement, it
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is just like plain old stupidity,
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Yeah, I know.
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I mean it, I tell you what would frighten people to death, is looking
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at the old laws that were on the books then about women in particular.
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So.
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don't, scare me
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I know.
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I mean, it's really scary what's actually still on some books.
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They just don't enforce it.
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I mean, we, talk about Arab countries in suppression of women.
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Well, there was a lot of that going on and a lot on the
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books.
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So,
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pantaloons in a bind.
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bind.
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Nancy Johnson came to the rescue in She invented the precursor of the homemade
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crank ice cream big deal ice cream has to have, you know, cranks and all this stuff.
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And she put in Yeah.
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and she invented the very precursor of all of that.
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So they still keep going, but there are very popular recipes
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to make no cream ice cream,
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but they say it tastes
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you know, that's, the way to keep the kids quiet right in the summertime.
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Just Keep, 'em cranking.
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So, We're gonna take a quick little break and then we're gonna crank
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it back up again when we get back.
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Stay tuned.
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So let's get this ice cream cranking again.
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Sylvia.
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Rock salt buckets.
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Have you ever made it
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that way?
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I've never made it.
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I y
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it.
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you know I have to come.
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to Kentucky and teach you a thing or two.
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Oh, hey.
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Before we leave the history though, I wanna say early American flavors
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were not what we have today.
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Today.
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It's sweet.
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Right?
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Although they're now adding bacon and they're infusing it with, liquor.
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So you can go in and get a liquor infused ice cream, so
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Like rum raisin.
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Yep.
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yeah, yeah, yeah, So Parmesan oyster asparagus.
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can you imagine?
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Oh, that sounds awful.
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, anyway,
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blue cheese.
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I saw blue cheese in like
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yeah, yeah, yeah.
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yeah.
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No, flame and hot Cheetos.
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that's just totally sacrilegious.
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anyway,
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Hey, you found an interesting story about Fidel Castro.
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I hope there are people out there who remember Fidel
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castro, the dictator of Cuba.
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yeah, if, if you don't Go google it.
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Right.
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Yeah.
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Anyway, so Fidel Castro had an ice cream obsession, and after the US embargo
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we actually cut off their dairy supply you can't make ice cream without.
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Milk, right?
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Milk and cream.
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So he, created , Coppeli a I guess it is.
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Anyway, it was a massive ice cream parlor that he made in Havana,
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and it served thousands daily and stand out as a symbol of.
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Culinary or culinary, depending upon how you pronounce it, right?
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It's tomato versus tomato.
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It's culinary versus culinary.
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That's probably Martha versus, Julia,
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But it was Cuba's defiance over the U.S.
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where they got their dairy.
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I guess they got it from other countries or something.
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Who knows
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I don't know.
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they stole a cow.
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But anyway, he was known for his eating as much as 18 scoops in one sitting.
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it's amazing.
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I don't know how tall this man was, but he must have had some
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ugh.
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Hey.
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in one sitting.
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He never looked that fat, so I don't get that.
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Anyway,
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I.
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myth.
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and wait a second.
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You know, the CIA actually tried to poison him once with chocolate ice cream.
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I love that.
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I
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Maybe the milk of the ice cream was the antidote that they
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didn't expect to actually work.
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Yeah.
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know, cream solves a lot of things.
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coach's stomach does all
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sorts of good stuff
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ask you what you like best.
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Do you like soft serve or hard ice cream better?
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Oh, I prefer the hard ice cream.
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Soft actually, well wait a second.
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So there was a Carvel ice cream at the base of the hill from, I grew up in
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Glen Head, and we'd go down where the, the baseball and softball fields were.
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And there was a Carvel ice cream.
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. I can see it today.
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With a slanted roof and everything Tom Carvel, but I'll tell
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you about Tom Carvel later.
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But it was the strawberry bonnet and the chocolate bottom ice creams that were
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soft serve with the hard chocolate.
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You know, the shells, the strawberry shells on the top and you bite
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the top and it always oozed out.
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It was on a hot day and Sooner rather than later.
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Once you got and ate all that chocolate shell on the outside and you kind of
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lick really fast to get the ice cream to stop melting, inevitably it was leaking
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through the bottom of the cone, right?
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Because it wasn't a sugar cone, it was one of those, crispy cones you had
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to like suck it through the bottom.
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And of course it ended up everywhere.
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But, yeah.
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So let me tell, can I tell you a little bit about Tom Carvel?
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Please.
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Tom Carvel known for the worst commercials on television and radio ever.
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It's kind of like, if you haven't heard it in years back, oil heat's a dinosaur.
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but anyway, that was also another one but the commercials were so
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bad They were amazingly productive for the Carvel ice cream shop.
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They were so bad that people remember them fudgy.
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The whale, if anybody remembers fudgy the whale was the first cake ever
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made for Father's Day, ever character.
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And you've got the little chocolate crumbs in the middle, so that's important.
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Also, ice cream store ever franchised, which I thought was rather interesting
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So you
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like that crunchies?
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Yeah.
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You
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I like those little crunchies
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I actually love the frosting that they have in those Carve; cakes.
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I don't know what, there's something about them that are really,
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they still out there?
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Oh yeah, they're still out there.
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They, you, I think Baskin Robbins had bought them and now I think Baskin
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Robbins has divested themselves.
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Let's, let's do a field trip.
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We should do a field trip.
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But, for years, I asked for the Carve; ice cream cake for my birthday and Bob
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said, what do you want for your birthday?
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I want a Carvel Never
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ah,
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it.
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And one day he got it.
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I said, well, it's about time.
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I think I've been asking for 10
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years.
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I did that with chuck E. Cheese.
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Ice cream cakes and they don't sell 'em anymore, but,
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a
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oh well you don't need Chuck E Cheese
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Cheese.
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Okay.
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this is the basic difference I think, and I'm not sciencey enough to know.
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soft surf and hard.
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both have milk, sugar cream, higher air and served at a
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warmer temperature is soft serve.
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That kind of makes sense.
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And it melts faster, so Right.
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yeah.
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Talk about my Dairy Queen obsession, but milk, sugar, cream
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and air and, lower air content.
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it has lower air
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content.
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no, it has higher, it has higher and hard, has lower.
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And so it's kind of interesting.
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And then you have gelato.
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Which is Italian in origin.
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It churned more slowly, less air mix, denser, but richer in taste.
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Served at a warmer Temperature, thus creamy.
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And then there's sorbet, which originated in the Middle East.
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dairy free, totally made with fruit,
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realize that it was started in Middle East.
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That's kind of interesting.
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Right.
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Isn't that weird?
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it counterintuitive, sorbet with dairy is sherbert.
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Oh, that, well, that makes a lot of sense.
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But you know what's so great is like the orange
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and vanilla, it's like a creamsicle
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Oh Yeah.
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Oh Yeah.
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But turning is important and, we must thank Nancy Johnson.
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Over and over, women entrepreneurs did not get the kind of, attention
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they needed, but, you made ice cream and girl scout camp.
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You just had such a nice, I wanna go back to
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Girl Scout camp.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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We they were big sort of wood barrels.
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I mean, when you're a small kid, everything's big, right?
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Till you become an adult and it's like, how, how come that's so small?
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But anyway, my trip one year as an adult back to FAO Schwartz
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Schwartz, and finding, how come this place looks so small?
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Well, duh.
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You know, I'm not 10.
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but anyway, so the wood barrel, and then in the wood barrel you
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have a, a metal container with the turning thing on the top, then.
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around the insert, the metal insert between the metal insert
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and the wood barrow is rock salt.
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Lots in rock salt.
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And so I don't know how the rock salt actually makes it cold,
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but it does.
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So it's weird.
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it's weird.
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science,
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right?
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We have to get, bill Nye, the science guy.
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We need to bring him here to talk about ice cream, but
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Oh, I love bill NI love that
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Or beaker.
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You know,
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I, or one of us will have to go back to school and get a
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degree in science or something.
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Hey, um, big brands
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Mm-hmm.
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Ben and Jerry's
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Yeah.
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still ranks at the top now.
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It's been sold.
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It's owned by Unilever, but Unilever is trying to get rid of it, I think down too.
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I know this is cool.
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As an entrepreneurial effort, they started this business.
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They took an online course in ice cream making for five bucks and invested
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$12,000 in a new business in 1978.
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And, you know, it's one of those things where.
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You hook onto the moment and it trends and it's not always happening that way, but
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so Ben unable to smell due to a disease called Anosmia used taste to invent the
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Choking.
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c and chunky mix-ins are like things that are crumbled up and put
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inside the ice cream as like Oreo cookies and and all that chunky monkey.
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Chocolate and chocolate chip cookie dough became very popular.
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Chunky monkey has banana in it.
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I didn't know that.
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I've never had a chunky monkey.
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Yeah, yeah.
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But they were activists and there's some allegations that Unilever
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didn't like that, so we don't know.
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but it does show the danger of companies getting involved in politics.
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Although I don't think Ben and Jerry cared about it that much.
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They
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Well, well wait a second.
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Ben and Jerry's, I mean, these are two characters
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from Vermont and I think a lot of activists in general.
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You know, they we're in the backwoods, we're in tie dye and he's got a little
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too much hair on his face and everything
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else,
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so.
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Probably a nose ring.
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Well, well, I don't think he had a nose back then, but I think that, uh, this
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is my personal opinion, that it is the privilege of an entrepreneur to be able to
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speak their voice and state their opinion.
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And if that's what they wanna do, they can do it.
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And they did it through their product.
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It's such a beautiful way that created stories around everything.
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I mean, we're back to the storytelling, right?
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yeah.
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ice cream wasn't that different.
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It was how they branded them, and I thought that was
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brilliance.
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Right.
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Okay.
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Although I will say if you get involved in politics with your company, it's
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totally, I, I agree totally with
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you, but you accept, I have, we backed a mayor once at our restaurant that
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didn't win, and we've been really shut out by the current mayor.
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It just happens if you're willing to accept the consequences.
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Go for it.
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Because that's what they believe so deeply and I can go with that.
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I'm fine.
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And they invent one called Justice
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yeah.
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Save our Swirl
19:53
Yeah.
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Save our swirl.
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but.
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I mean, You gotta
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I think it's fun.
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they, they make it lighthearted, yet they draw attention to things.
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So
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do
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think it's, it's sweet rebellion, we'll call it.
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Right?
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you gotta accept the consequences.
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And they're fine with that.
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I mean, that's, what they do.
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So, but other popular brands are like Haagen-Dazs.
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I love this.
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Invented by a Polish immigrant in New York City, and he it this because it
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sounded Scandinavian and thus upscale
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than polish,
20:23
And his wife would dress up like she was a sophisticated, she would dress
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up and not be an ordinary person.
20:29
She would be like, Scandinavian.
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And that's, I love that.
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I love that.
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Yeah.
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Breyers and till ook, till Tillamook
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Tillamook, yes.
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Tillamook,
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a cooperative that's so Oregon.
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Yeah.
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A cooperative and blue bunny named in a contest where a man's son called it
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blue bunny figure in a store window.
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And now we gotta talk about good humor, ice cream trucks.
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Yes.
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Yes, Turkey and the straw.
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This is an important thing.
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It's an American phenomenon, and I loved it when I was in Duluth, Minnesota, the
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kids would hear the ice cream truck.
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It comes every
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Monday.
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You could hear the ding.
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Ding, ding, ding, ding.
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And they would thus line up if you wanted anything to get kids
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lined up and out of mischief.
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Rent an ice cream truck, right?
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Because then they anticipate, and you start hearing the ring probably 45
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minutes before it actually arrives,
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kids have more energy than if they were sucking on a whole VA of sugar
21:26
before that ice cream truck comes.
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Right?
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Mm-hmm.
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I have a good humor story.
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So, one year in college, in the summertime, you're
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always looking for jobs.
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During the summertime in college, I decided I was going to become.
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good humor truck driver.
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I love that
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And so I did my research yeah, I could, I could do it again.
21:43
So I did my research.
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Now this was up in Massachusetts, the neighborhoods were not like they
21:47
were in, we were out in a more rural environment and we lived on seven
21:51
acres and neighbors had like 10 or 12.
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And so there was a lot of space between houses.
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But I figured, okay, so I'll rent the truck.
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you actually have to rent the truck.
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then you have to pay in advance for all the good humor product
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that's going into that truck.
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Then you have to pay for your right.
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You have to pay for your inventory, you have to pay for your uniform.
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You have to pay for your gas, you have to pay for your insurance.
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Now, your outlay is quite significant before you even get started, and
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if you don't have the right route.
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You
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are sunk.
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Talk about melted ice cream.
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So, I decided the, the amount of investment.
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Now you could do very well If you found the
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route, but it, but it was a, a hit or miss thing.
22:33
And so in order to get right route, was gonna have to go further out on
22:36
the cape and I didn't know that area.
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So it was probably gonna be, I would say at the time.
22:42
Mm-hmm.
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I'm gonna say probably about a $3,000 investment of $3,000.
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I didn't
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have
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just to get started,
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Sure.
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and you had to wear the white uniform with the little cop hat that
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kind of looked like with a good, anyway, so I did not become a good
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humor truck driver that
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summer,
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but it was
22:58
Oh, fate.
22:59
Yeah.
22:59
fate.
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yeah, let's see here.
23:01
just interesting a truck guy.
23:03
Bought a fleet and created the ice cream bar that is sold.
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Health regulations have really impacted on humor trucks now
23:12
they largely sell prepackaged
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they were all prepackaged when we were kids.
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Yeah, they're all in the paper
23:17
Really well.
23:18
and so But they have their famous things, the pushups, the
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cream sickles, rocket ship.
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Th you know, they're probably those rocket ship things that are red, white, and blue.
23:26
They're probably selling tons of those
23:28
today.
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But, and then, so that's the good humor story.
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But I gotta say too, just some quirky stuff.
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Soft serve was discovered by accident when an ice cream truck had a flat and the guy
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started selling the melting ice cream.
23:39
People liked it for its creaminess.
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born out of necessity.
23:42
And then a famous kind of ice cream is Rocky Road, marshmallow and
23:46
Nuts, and it was invented to make people smile during the depression,
23:50
and it was a collaboration between Breyers, a famous ice cream and Edy's
23:53
I didn't realize it was that old that flavor.
23:55
That's interesting.
23:56
then, and then there's big gay ice cream, and I don't, I don't
23:59
even know about that.
23:59
I don't know where it is now.
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Yeah, I never heard about that.
24:02
but there's one that was freeze, freeze dried for astronauts and they wouldn't
24:05
eat it, so it wasn't all that good.
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Hey, and finally, uh, milkshakes in the 18 hundreds consisted of
24:12
whiskey, eggs, and ice cream.
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that's my kind of ice cream.
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I
24:15
I know but the infusion of alcohol is actually being introduced.
24:19
So, and that's happening again and
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Hey, let's answer the question to your quiz.
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Yeah, yeah, Okay.
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So drum roll.
24:26
Drum roll.
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What I thought, because this is how myths happen, I thought that meant it
24:32
had a bunch of additives and it might still, because the ice creams, do you
24:35
have to look at the ingredient list?
24:36
but what I had always heard is that it wasn't real ice cream.
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Well, it's not, but you know why ice cream is regulated and has to be 10% milk fat.
24:46
Dairy queen, soft serve is 5%.
24:48
That's why they call it soft serve.
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I thought, oh, I'm going back to Dairy Queen now.
24:53
I won't eat that rich Bryer's
24:55
I'll delete the rich Brier stuff and pop lights.
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love my
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Yeah.
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Dipped.
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The Dipped.
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Yeah.
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Well, on that note, I'm gonna send you off to Dairy Queen to go get your ice cream.
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