At the strange little ice cream shop down the street.

[kevingranade@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@futurebird @mcc shakes are pretty labor intensive, especially if you use old school tools to make them.

[akamran@indieweb.social]

@farah @futurebird probably more likely than a true Sweeney Todd scenario ;-)

[futurebird@sauropods.win]

@farah @akamran

Because of the secret milkshakes???

[dragonfrog@mastodon.sdf.org]

@futurebird can you have strawberries in February? Of course! Are they in season? No, and you can taste it.

[farah@beige.party]

@futurebird @akamran I was mostly thinking about the cash part but sure

[ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org]

@farah @futurebird @akamran

I think the mob is more into Gelato.

Fortune: Gelato Godfather: Inside the Sicilian ice cream empire built on mafia money
(paywall)
https://fortune.com/europe/2024/10/27/sicilian-ice-cream-italian-mafia-empire/

[secretsloth@mastodon.art]

@futurebird @farah @akamran wait what's this about secret milkshakes I want a secret milkshake. Did I just ruin it because I just said it? Do I now never get a secret milkshake because it's no longer secret?

[futurebird@sauropods.win]

@secretsloth @farah @akamran

god...

if you have to ASK

[farah@beige.party]

@ai6yr @futurebird @akamran Hey they could be Russian! We don’t know!!

[farah@beige.party]

@secretsloth @futurebird @akamran lol

[secretsloth@mastodon.art]

@futurebird @farah @akamran nooooooooo

[sharksonaplane@mastodon.sandwich.net]

@futurebird I mean, it's *my* birthday season but that's no reason for them to deprive the city of birthday cake ice cream in winter…

[thecrushedviolet@mstdn.games]

@futurebird
I agree it sounds like some shop-specific busy season they haven't considered other people wouldn't know about.

I'm mostly just impressed that this is the second reference to birthday cake ice cream I've seen today and so far no one is incensed that birthday cake 'isn't a flavor'

Did everyone just collectively chill out about it finally?

[ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org]

@farah @futurebird @akamran Could be Scottish gangs?

"...The ice cream wars were turf wars in the East End of Glasgow, Scotland, in the 1980s between rival criminal organisations selling drugs and stolen goods from ice cream vans. ..."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasgow_ice_cream_wars

[nev@flipping.rocks]

@futurebird @secretsloth @farah @akamran maybe they simply do not want to bring all the boys to the yard

[farah@beige.party]

@ai6yr @futurebird @akamran I find this supremely interesting, because I literally lived there at that time period. But don’t remember anything because I was too tiny. Gonna have to ask my parents

[futurebird@sauropods.win]

@dragonfrog

So... you are saying because birthday cakes are out of season now the ice cream would not be good? :(

[pattykimura@beige.party]

@futurebird @mcc
Mob front. Or CIA front. Or Russian spies. Maybe "birthday cake ice cream" was a password?

[futurebird@sauropods.win]

@pattykimura @mcc

I can't be the CIA the icecream is too good.

[mycrowgirl@flipping.rocks]

@nev which is very reasonable, tbh! @futurebird @secretsloth @farah @akamran