At the strange little ice cream shop down the street.

[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

[risottobias@toot.risottobias.org]

@nev @futurebird @secretsloth @farah @akamran

bleh!

but on the topic, small business icecream does sound tasty

[lienrag@mastodon.tedomum.net]

@farah

Mob front would care to make really good ice cream ?
(serious question, I don't know how that works, I never fronted a mob and AFAIK none of my relatives did)

(I mean, I did once buy from a bakery that I suspect to be a money laundering front because their pastries were so bland that I don't see how they could survive otherwise, since there were other bakeries in the neighborhood; but that's the point, they clearly didn't care about making anything actually good)

@futurebird
@akamran

[bumblefish@mastodon.scot]

@futurebird I have a winter birthday (like real winter, not November) and can confirm, nobody wants to celebrate at that time of year. Especially not with ice cream, but also not with anything that involves leaving thrif homes.

[flyingsaceur@ioc.exchange]

@futurebird it’s birthday season / tom carvel cakes for no reason

[steter@mastodon.stevesworld.co]

@futurebird It has to be mob.

"Crap."
"What now, Louie?"
"Another damn customer. Every single time, I lose my place launderin' the money."
"Tell 'em we ain't got none of whatever they want."
"What if we got it?"
"Make somethin' up! Jeez!"

...

"You know, birthday cake season."

[farah@beige.party]

@lienrag @futurebird @akamran Maybe there’s this one guy who likes making ice cream and the mob boss loves that ice cream; so no one gets to talk shit.

Clearly I’ve watched way too much tv

[anne@toot.cat]

@futurebird

"Yeah I've always been so grateful that my birthday is in the off-season. So much less crowded, never have to wait in birthday lines..."

WHAT

[knowattitude@m.ai6yr.org]

@ai6yr @farah @futurebird @akamran
They inspired Comfort and Joy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comfort_and_Joy_(1984_film)

[coolerpseudonym@wandering.shop]

@futurebird I thought that was spring

What with May and June weddings being popular

[futurebird@sauropods.win]

@CoolerPseudonym

Ah the classic Norman Rockwell painting of the exhausted ice cream man next to the calendar showing it's the middle of birthday season!

[life_is@no-pony.farm]

@futurebird@sauropods.win @tthbaltazar@chaos.social @mcc@mastodon.social

Und ich dachte der Punkt bei einer eisdiele ist, für drei kugeln so viel zu bezahlen, wie im supermarkt für die 1-liter-familienpackung.

And I thought the point of an ice cream parlour was to pay as much for three scoops as you would for a 1-litre family pack at the supermarket.

[grumpasaurus@infosec.exchange]

@CoolerPseudonym @futurebird july through october...

https://www.babycenter.com/family/birthdays/most-common-birthday-month_41002206

Cuz when it's cold outside what else are you gonna do

[lerxst@az.social]

@futurebird @CoolerPseudonym I figured all us Mid-November kids were evidence of a successful Valentine's Day date for our parents.

[caity@bne.social]

@futurebird @CoolerPseudonym September. Sooooo many September birthdays....

[moss@beige.party]

@futurebird @CoolerPseudonym there’s a lesser known Rockwell painting of an exhausted takeout delivery driver approximately nine months earlier