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4 Jun, 10 tweets, 3 min read
Honest question: Are there places in the US where ice cream trucks don't sell soft-serve?
A few people are saying there are a few soft-serve trucks outside NYC, but the consensus seems to be that they're overwhelmingly a New York thing.
So for context, in NYC, pretty much every ice cream truck—I want to say LITERALLY every truck, they're so ubiquitous—has one of these machines in it.
You can get sundaes, milkshakes, cones, cups. Sprinkles, crushed nuts, cherry and chocolate dip.
The trucks also sell the packaged stuff, and there are carts in parks and so on that only sell the packaged, but ice cream truck = soft serve.
Seeing a few reports like this. I'd love to see a heat map of the different kinds of trucks, inside and outside NYC.
Part of why this is blowing my mind is that I'm realizing that every time I heard someone talking about running down a suburban street to get ice cream from a truck, I was imagining something totally different from what they were describing. Like for my whole life.
How is it that New Yorkers have had this thing to be insufferably smug about all these years, and it's somehow never become part of our cultural identity?
It's slowly sinking in that the Good Humor Man was just a guy with a freezer full of pre-packaged stuff. All this time, that's all he was. I'm gonna need a minute.
Many many people are telling me that Mr. Softee actually originated in Philly, which makes all this drama even better, frankly.

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I mean, let's start with how he puts his thumb on the scale with "excessively." Is "policing the discourse" evidence that you're in the wrong in a factual dispute? No, because of one side of the dispute is obviously incorrect, they're going to get yelled at more.
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