Posts under ‘Ice Cream Week’

The world of ice cream isn’t all sprinkles and sauce, it has a dark side too. In 1984 the Scottish city of Glasgow saw horrendous violence during its infamous ice cream wars. The fighting was not just about ice cream sales, the ice cream vans were used as fronts to sell stolen goods [...] Read more »

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This post is dedicated to Mr Whit Honea, a man who believes that vanilla ice cream can not be exciting. BEHOLD!:

I was reminded of this magnificent creation by a friend on Monday whilst discussing the ice cream of our youth. Forget sprinkles and cadbury’s flakes, the canonball took ice cream adornment to a whole [...] Read more »

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Popular culture is littered with stories of two people overcoming the class divide in order to carve out a future together. Whether it’s uptown girls living in white bread worlds, Richard Gere romancing his pretty woman or rich kid Andrew McCarthy falling for pretty in pink Molly Ringwald, we are consistently told that love [...] Read more »

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Prompted by yesterday’s post regarding my cacky ice cream maker I came to realize that it was about time that Amy and I indulged in our own bit of ice cream creativity.

Incidentally, as well as being International Ice Cream Week today is international talk like a pirate day. Arrrr, ice cream me hearties; or [...] Read more »

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My brother over at Rabbits Confused with Raisins has tagged me with a meme of his own creation, the Go Go Gadget meme. As he is leaving the country shortly I thought I would lower myself to acknowledging his existence just this once. And anyway, I’ve been running dry on post ideas recently.
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