New York's Ice Cream Truck Turf Wars Get Ugly
It's not really summer if you're not complaining about ice cream. How could something so reminiscent of our innocent childhoods, so cold and so sweet, turn so foul?
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If it weren't for a pesky news report, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would have had a NIS 10,000 ($2,700) allotment to purchase delicious frozen treats.
It's not really summer if you're not complaining about ice cream. How could something so reminiscent of our innocent childhoods, so cold and so sweet, turn so foul?
On Friday Uber, the car service app that Washington, DC almost pushed out of the city, will offer an ice cream truck version of its service, which not only sounds dreamy but has us dreaming about other things we would like to Uber.
We can all agree Burger King's summer-special bacon sundae is passé, but it's worse than that: The cynicism of putting the thing on the chain's menu, especially years after the bacon-as-dessert trend's popularity peaked, is outright insulting.
The official start of summer means it's time for the return of the annual urban earworm, the Mister Softee jingle. Resistance is futile, so here instead is another way to fight: reappropriation.
After a day of staring at Twitter, we're sharing our favorite tweets that made no sense
Ben & Jerry's debuted a new flavor concoction, dedicated to the New York Knicks' Jeremy Lin, which contained pieces of fortune cookie. They have since been removed.
It was a food-centric batch of confusing tweets to start the week
A homemade ice cream shop in Missouri sold out of the flavor within hours
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