isoglossia — pending reconstruction

Sunday 20 May 07

SLO cone

Filed under: Random pictures — sgazzetti @ 15.48 MDT+2.00

SLO cone

I suppose it’s time we added a new category: Sunday sladoled walks

8 Comments »

  1. Mmmmmmm … ice cream.

    A slice of pure concentrated evil known as Coldstone Creamery has recently invaded Virginia and brought with it the realization that the only thing better than cake batter is cake-batter-flavored ice cream.

    Comment by Jane — Sunday 20 May 07 @ 16.39 MDT+2.00

  2. Ah, Jane.
    Here in the State of Tax Free Shopping, we have been exposed to Coldstone Creamery and its hiring practice of employing mainly dripping-nose teenagers who, albeit sanitary-gloved, have a tendency to not wash the instruments that they use to spread and melt down the ice cream on the Coldstone. They also tend not to wash the Stone of Coldness when there’s a line of folks clamorring for a dish/cone of the highly pre-handled & priced ice cream. Toss in the dripping probuscusi of the servers and you have the beginnings of a nasty cold.
    ….
    A highly priced nasty cold. I’ll stick with the minimally handled ice cream cone served up by farm kids with impeccable health over @ Woodside Farm Creamery.

    I wish you good health in your ice cream licking endeavours!

    Comment by DarkoV — Monday 21 May 07 @ 21.38 MDT+2.00

  3. DarkoV: Funny you should mention the dripping noses as the last time a friend and I visited the local Coldstone, we had to talk to the manager about the dripping-nose youth who was contaminating the very cake batter ice cream I so dearly love. The Stone of Coldness was clean, however.

    Any sort of dining out is a leap of faith, but honestly, how can people not understand the whole germs thing?

    Comment by Jane — Tuesday 22 May 07 @ 11.44 MDT+2.00

  4. yes, the coldstone seems somewhat cavalier in its antimicrobial approach. ice cream tastes good, though. a couple million staphylococci never hurt anyone, right?

    Comment by kilowatthour — Tuesday 22 May 07 @ 17.17 MDT+2.00

  5. Jane,
    Continuing the ice cream theme, are you familiar with the NJ/NY emporium named Carvel?

    Probably due to brain freeze, the ‘rents seemed locked into buying their kids an ice cream birthday cake each year from this Palace of Germs and Chipped Fingernails. It wasn’t until I was in the find-fault-with-my-elders years that I realized that the neon green and eye-blinding pink on the cakes was not due to the misplaced artistic bent of some bored-to-the-bone high school girl, but rather the nail-polish-peeling attributes of Carvel’s ice cream. And those chewy bits decorating the side of the cake? Oh yeah, some low-class extensions.

    New Jersey ice cream, at its most memorable.

    Oh, one more thing. Back in those days, no one in food service wore those latex gloves, so life was truly an adventure.

    Comment by DarkoV — Tuesday 22 May 07 @ 17.32 MDT+2.00

  6. Palace of Germs and Chipped Fingernails.

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

    Yeah, I’m familiar with Carvel but will never see it in the same way again.

    Comment by Jane — Tuesday 22 May 07 @ 21.40 MDT+2.00

  7. Psst.

    Comment by David Weman — Wednesday 23 May 07 @ 12.53 MDT+2.00

  8. Thanks for the link, David.
    Mr. Sgazzetti, I’ll be doing the traditional Philly thing of voting early and often.

    Congrats on the nomination. Anybody who doesn’t vote for you must hate kids, beer, apple pie, and lovely Polish brides. I’ll be taking names and following up on that behaviour.

    Comment by DarkoV — Wednesday 23 May 07 @ 18.02 MDT+2.00

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