At the strange little ice cream shop down the street.

[cammerman@mstdn.social]

@futurebird Maybe they mean ice cream season?

[wmd@chaos.social]

@futurebird no, it sounds weird.

[futurebird@sauropods.win]

@cammerman

That would make more sense. I mostly went in since their hours are so erratic and I was shocked they were open on such a cold day.

But I thought I'd take a pint home and surprise my husband.

[minmi@sfba.social]

@futurebird my friend worked at a restaurant in college that had amazing food at insane prices. Really unpredictable hours and odd practices. Very similar vibe.

Turned out to be a mob front.

[australopithecus@mastodon.social]

@llewelly @futurebird @tthbaltazar @mcc
Never been to a Coldstone?

[cammerman@mstdn.social]

@futurebird Maybe it makes sense from their perspective. For them, as an ice cream shop, summer would be birthday season, because that's when people buy birthday cakes *from them.* They probably don't get a lot of people asking for birthday ice cream cakes during the winter.

[cammerman@mstdn.social]

@futurebird just realized you said birthday cake ice cream not ice cream birthday cake..... But maybe the logic still works.

[farah@beige.party]

@futurebird lol

[farah@beige.party]

@futurebird @akamran As someone else said “mob front”

[tobybartels@mathstodon.xyz]

@Enema_Cowboy @futurebird

Chili season is winter because that's when people want to eat chili supposedly.

[matildalove@wetdry.world]

@futurebird shout out to all my homies who were born outta season

[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!!