Ice Cream on a stick or in a bowl
It is summer time and the living is easy. That means it time for ice cream in all its glorious ways. Each summer at the lake we make ice cream with our fresh picked berries and we eat them as ice cream sandwiches on fresh home made cookies. Summer doesn't get better than that. You can have a bowl of ice cream anytime of the year but summer means eating it more often and in different ways. As a kid my mother would make kool-aid pops with sticks in them so it was like having a portable cold drink or Popsicle.My father's first jog in America was working for an ice cream company. We had one of those freezers that were in stores filled with fudgsicles, ice cream sandwiches and drum sticks. I was one of the favorite kids to visit in the summer time. But that was not good enough for me, I would pine away the hours for Mr Softee. I didn't want what my father made but that soft stuff that came out of the daily truck stop on our street.It could have been the song that let us all know he was there or it was evening when he came. Thousand of stories of summer and ice cream that will never be part of our grand children's own stories.
Today in the New York Times Dining section is an article about Mothers in Brooklyn who want to stop ice cream vendors in the park. These mothers are not about the nutrition but control or lake of it with children. The children want these things and throw tantrums when they say no. The article states about a neighborhood in Chicago that shut down ice cream vendors when residents complained about noise, unclean vendors and possible drug sales.
My personal thought, Mr Softee is around 170 calories, not much more than a glass of milk. Children are being told they do not have enough vitamin D in their diet. It is a health issue and a good one. If you have your children playing when the truck comes they are getting excerise and the can eat their vitamin D. Figure out a schedule one how often the kids can eat it and figure a way for you children to earn the treat that day! No means no but earning is a great way to achieve a treat that can be considered health with out letting your kids know it is healthy!
Keep a journal of all these days so that when your kids are successful in life they can find out how they learned to achieve simple tasks which helped them get there. And it all started with ice-cream.
Today in the New York Times Dining section is an article about Mothers in Brooklyn who want to stop ice cream vendors in the park. These mothers are not about the nutrition but control or lake of it with children. The children want these things and throw tantrums when they say no. The article states about a neighborhood in Chicago that shut down ice cream vendors when residents complained about noise, unclean vendors and possible drug sales.
My personal thought, Mr Softee is around 170 calories, not much more than a glass of milk. Children are being told they do not have enough vitamin D in their diet. It is a health issue and a good one. If you have your children playing when the truck comes they are getting excerise and the can eat their vitamin D. Figure out a schedule one how often the kids can eat it and figure a way for you children to earn the treat that day! No means no but earning is a great way to achieve a treat that can be considered health with out letting your kids know it is healthy!
Keep a journal of all these days so that when your kids are successful in life they can find out how they learned to achieve simple tasks which helped them get there. And it all started with ice-cream.
Posted by Hella at 8/19/2009 8:50 AM 
Categories: Cookbook Writing, Kids in the kitchen, Stories for your Memory Cookbook
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Categories: Cookbook Writing, Kids in the kitchen, Stories for your Memory Cookbook
Tags: family traditions family cookbooks heirloom cookbooks cookbook create a cookbook family memory cookbooks
If we followed the line of thinking of the Mother's in Brooklyn who want to remove the ice cream vendors we would also remove candy bars from the check out lines at grocery stores and pop from grocery shelves.
Would seem easier to me if these Mothers taught their children the meaning of the word no.
Cindy Lou
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I pined after the popsicle man. We almost never got to buy anything (too darn many of us). And didn't even get to spend our own money but the sound of the ding, ding, ding is the sound of summer.
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Graeters Ice Cream parlor, located on Hyde Park Square,suburb of Cincinnati is the oldest surviving ice cream manufacturer in America (125 years) and the only one left that still makes ice cream using the French pot method. This is the best ice cream on the planet.
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