When the earth farted.
Few things inflame the passions of New Yorkers on a hot day quite like the subject of their favorite ice cream. Just ask the Platt girls. Daughter No. 1 (Jane, age 11) enjoys elegantly creamy European-style gelati served in long tapering cones. Daughter No. 2 (Penelope, age 8) eats vanilla soft-serve only, preferably encrusted in a thick layer of rainbow sprinkles, gummy bears, or both. Recently, we spent a contentious couple of weeks haggling over our favorite frozen treats. We slurped sundaes in old-fashioned ice-cream temples in Forest Hills, argued the merits of trendy artisanal toppings in the wilds of Brooklyn, and tasted countless varieties of fancy Manhattan gelati on hundreds of tiny plastic spoons. Here, the results of our labor, ranked in order of preference from one to sixteen. In the cases where the girls agreed to disagree, their weary, sugar-addled dad broke the tie.
Dessert Club, ChikaLicious (240 E. 10th St., nr. First Ave.; 212-475-0929)
Daughter No. 1 praised the structure of this inventive soft-serve creation. Daughter No. 2 enjoyed the vanilla soft-serve and “sugary bottom part.” Either way, it’s the epitome of big-city, summertime-ice-cream chic.
L’Arte del Gelato (75 Seventh Ave., nr. 15th St.; 212-924-0803)
The buttery cone is made in front of you, and the smooth, chocolate-laced gelato was the best we tasted. “I like it, Dad,” said Daughter No. 1. “It’s very delicate on the tongue.”
Brooklyn Farmacy & Soda Fountain (513 Henry St., nr. Sackett St., Carroll Gardens; 718-522-6260)
The girls prefer the root-beer floats at this retro soda fountain. They’re wrong. This crunchy, pretzel-laced vanilla-and-caramel sundae is better.
Il Laboratorio del Gelato (188 Ludlow St., at Houston St.; 212-343-9922)
Whatever gelato you choose (Dad voted for espresso, the girls for caramel and honey lavender), it’s hard to go wrong at this famed factory.
Via: New York
time to reflect.
Love this, reminds me of the ocean.
You make me melt more then a Grilled Cheese Sandwich.
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Big Rat Bites Cop in Poice Cruiser
BALTIMORE — A police officer was attacked by a rat while riding to a crime scene in a patrol car earlier this week.
Baltimore police confirmed that the officer was riding in the passenger seat of an unmarked patrol car Wednesday while cruising down Hanover Street when he felt something on the back of his neck.
The officer swiped at his neck and discovered the big rodent crawling up his back, police said. The rat bit his palm and thumb before the officer was able to throw it out of the car window.
Police said the officer's partner rushed him to Harbor Hospital, where they were told they had to retrieve the rat to test it for diseases.The officer said he and his partner went back to where they threw the rat out, found it limping along the road and, after a small struggle, one of the officers beat the rat to death with an umbrella and bagged it.The officer who was bitten is on leave waiting to see if the rat is diseased.
Police said it's believed that the rat crawled up through the car's underbelly and bit apart some wires before it crawled into the back seat.
Police Officer feels something on his neck, discovers a rodent and when he tries to get it off it bites him! Gross!
Via: MSNBC
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"I trust people who are violent about art, as long as they aren't closed-minded. But, unfortunately, most art blowhards are also art bigots."
- Vincent Price
1. Coca-Cola was first made in the colour green!
2. It used to contain cocaine up until 1905, when it was removed due to public concern.
3. It was originally made to cure hangovers and headaches.
4. In Chinese, the name Coca-Cola means "to make mouth happy".
5. If all the Coca-Cola bottles in the world were stacked end to end, they would reach to the Moon and back more than 1,677 times.
6. In one night, a bottle of Coca-Cola can soften a tooth.
7. Coca-Cola is very good at cleaning up blood spots, and is often used in the States to clean blood off from the roads after an accident!
8. Coca-Cola can be used to remove grease from clothes! It's as simple as emptying a can of coke into a load of greasy clothes, adding the detergent, and run through a regular cycle.
9. A bottle of Coca-Cola has a PH scale of 2.8, and could dissolve a nail in just 4 days
10. Coca-Cola released a 'Diet Coke with Bacon' flavour!
11. Another less known flavour that Coca-Cola released was the "Coca-Cola BlāK". This was a coffee flavoured soft drink, released in 2006 in France. Sadly this was short lived, and Coca-Cola discontinued the production in 2008.
12. Coca-Cola even helped create the modern image of Santa!
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Via: The Facts Site