Whatever happened to the Swiss dogs with the barrel of liquor around their necks?
they were too drunk to procreate and went extinct
sometimes it bums me out lemmy doesn’t have many users cus this is peak humour
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
There was a recent thread about normal daytime sounds that would be scary at 2am - the best one was the ice cream wagon.
One ice cream truck around here does hot waffles when the weather is cold.
And Glühwein or other hot adult drinks.
Any hot or warm snacks might go a long ways, too.
I’m pretty sure the licensing for preparing food and drink is more involved than just selling prepackaged ice cream bars.
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.
I don’t like the sound of fermented cabbage either.
Deep fried ice cream is a thing.
I had it once 13 years ago! And still remember it. Would deffo have it again
Went on a Christmas light tour in Brooklyn and they had plenty of cocoa trucks.
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
Have you seen the prices for coffee and cocoa beans? Ever heard about a climate shitshow we’re participating in? You won’t be able to afford a cup of cocoa. And those trucks are not armoured enough to defend themselves from the cocoa robbers.
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 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.
It looks like I recalled something wrong…
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.
