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free stuff
Free drink giveaways are supposed to be a joyous occasion. Sadly, at least one customer lured to Carvel in the hopes of trying one of their new ice cream drinks was cruelly rebuked. This poor guy went to two different Carvel locations trying to get the free drink they've been advertising. As a great man once said: Hell hath no fury like a customer who is denied free ice cream. Or something.
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Two Carvel Locations in NYC Say "No Free Ice Cream Drinks For You"
diets
Reader Tim sent us this seemingly oxymoronic photo from his local Kroger in Grayson, GA. It reads, "Buy any 4 Healthy Choice meals and get 1 free Breyers Ice Cream." Be warned, if you follow this diet you will probably notice that your ice cream is shrinking more rapidly than your waistline.
Kroger Supports Your Ice Cream Diet
Reader Tim sent us this seemingly oxymoronic photo from his local Kroger in Grayson, GA. It reads, "Buy any 4 Healthy Choice meals and get 1 free Breyers Ice Cream." Be warned, if you follow this diet you will probably notice that your ice cream is shrinking more rapidly than your waistline.
complaints
Stingy Ben And Jerry's Manager Cuts Off Free Cone Supply, Ruining "Free Cone Day"
Karen is breaking up with Ben & Jerry's because one of their managers defiled "Free Cone Day," by deciding to cut it short. Here's the tongue-in-cheek Dear John (or is that, Dear Jerry?) letter she sent them. More »
grocery shrink ray
Attention Ice Cream Lovers: The evil entity wielding the grocery shrink ray has pointed its malevolent device at Edy's Ice Cream. The standard jug of ice cream is now 1.5 quarts, down from an already-shrunken 1.75. The price, naturally, is exactly the same.
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Grocery Shrink Ray Hits Edy's Ice Cream
Attention Ice Cream Lovers: The evil entity wielding the grocery shrink ray has pointed its malevolent device at Edy's Ice Cream. The standard jug of ice cream is now 1.5 quarts, down from an already-shrunken 1.75. The price, naturally, is exactly the same.
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shrinking products
Breyers Ice Cream Shrinks To 1.5 Quarts
Reader Bill noticed that someone hit Breyers Ice Cream with the grocery shrink ray... again:I'm just getting over the first wave of ice cream shrinkage (from 1/2 gallon to 1.75 quarts) when I noticed today that Breyer's is upping (or rather shrinking) the ante - they're beginning to roll out 1.5 qt packages!More »
competitive markets
Dreyer Loses Truck Deathmatch To Häagen-Dazs
Jay writes: "I caught these two photos on my way in to work today in San Diego. At first I just thought is was amusing that the Dreyers truck was on its side, it really is the little things in life that make it worth living. Then I saw the Haagen-Dazs ice cream truck nearby, standing in victory. Apparently Haagen-Dazs is no longer satisfied with being the superior ice cream, they must now ram their competition off the road."
You never knew the ice cream bizness was so mad gangsta, did you? This is worse than the time Vanilla Bean took out Heath Bar Crunch. Bigger picture inside...
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commerce
Are Ice Cream Vendors A Public Nuisance?
The city of Portsmouth, Va. certainly seems to think so. An ice cream vendor who has been fined repeatedly for playing music from his truck has challenged the city's regulations, claiming that they are a violation of his constitutional rights.Sanchez drives a truck for Norfolk-based Jumpn' G's Ice Cream. He was convicted three times this summer in Portsmouth General District Court for the illegal use of noise from an ice cream truck.More »
lawsuits
Baskin-Robbins Fined $500,000 For Shorting "Pints" Of Ice Cream
Baskin-Robbins has settled a consumer protection lawsuit with the San Diego Attorney General after it was discovered that 83% of their "hand packed pints" of ice cream were about 4 oz short of being an actual pint. Whoops. More »
free stuff
Tomorrow is Ben & Jerry's Free Cone Day... and Tax Day
Tomorrow is Free Cone Day at all participating Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream shops. More »
cookie o'puss
Great Moments In Commercial History: Carvel's Cookie O'Puss
Let's take a trip back to a St. Patrick's Day long ago. Tommy Carvel, ABSOLUTE FUCKING GENIUS, was still alive and he still had a great idea or two left in him. Sure, Cookie Puss was already a big seller. Fudgie The Whale, too. But then one late night, while many a stoned/wasted New Yorker was watching TV, this appeared (dig that spacey Irish accent!) Not only did it change the way millions (ok, maybe hundreds of thousands) celebrated the holiday, it also inspired a Beastie Boys song.More »
tobacco
Wacky Tobaccy
The cover of a 2002 anti-smoking pamphlet brought to you by your friends at the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company. Besides the fact that no kids gather in ice-cream parlors anymore, where does the one above even exist? They must have had to open up the secret wing of the confectioner's museum for the photo shoot. More »
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Pith & Vinegar...and Ice Cream!
• Remember those Alaskan baby seals? No? Well, they still have Exxon on their whiskers. [NYT]• Gay Batman, Gay Batwoman and now, Gay Superman. We're still holding out for a gay Magneto.
• What's hot this summer? Designer hot pants. Lordy. [LAT]
• Newegg switched for rotten. [As Far As I Have Gone]
• Mr Softee co-founder dead. Relatives, friends, spoke hardening in his old age. [1010Wins]
customer service
UPDATE: Requiring Minimum Credit Card Purchases is a Violation
A day without ice cream is like a day without sunshine. More »
ben & jerry's
Ben and Jerry's Free Ice Cream Day, Sort Of
The free ice cream at Ben and Jerry's today until 8pm, celebrating 28 years of having your ideology and eating it too, is only as free as they want to be. Doug writes: More »
customer service
UPDATE: Requiring Minimum Credit Card Purchases is a Violation
Amy's Ice Cream has a new sign (right) that seems to say that the $10 minimum charge is suggested, not required. The sign we originally posted (left) was one a store manager had replaced the 'official' sign with, according to Steve. More »
customer service
