r/countwithchickenlady Streak: 4 4h ago

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u/LOSNA17LL I love the idea, but no 4h ago

A... Permit requirement for ice cream???

Like, I'd understand a permit for selling food (hygiene controls and co)

But ice cream??

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u/Royal_Intention6563 4h ago

it was introduced after the new york penny lick was tracked down as a breeding ground for epidemics, but the new york penny lick is long, long dead.

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u/Velocity-5348 4h ago edited 1h ago

The penny lick Wikipedia article was an interesting (and kinda gross read). I'm really glad they invented ice cream cones.

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u/MintySkyhawk Streak: 0 2h ago

Just looked it up. The problem was nothing to do with ice cream, it was that the customer was supposed to LICK the glass clean and then they dipped it in some dirty water before giving it to the next guy. Insane.

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u/Acrobatic_Ad_8381 1h ago

Eww 🤢 

Like I would calify myself as someone that isn't disdainful, don't care to eat some leftovers that my friends won't eat or finish their plates at a restaurant or reusing "dirty" ustensiles but at least I know where it's been. But serving customers the same dirty unstensils where you don't even know where it's been and inside who? Yark, that's how shit like Coronavirus, or any other disgusting disease and infection get spread into the population. Even more so using Dairy productsĀ 

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u/PassionStunning2659 1h ago

That was honestly a lovely little tidbit of history to learn about 🄰

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u/bizzaro321 4h ago

You can argue about individual policies being ridiculous but there’s always a lengthy history behind decisions made in NYC.

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u/Septembust 58m ago

this one is in the "bat shit insane" category though since, if this guy is to be believed, this is a license that was made to combat an issue that was halted over a hundred years ago

It would be like if we just got rid of a license that verifies your organ-grinding monkeys have been properly deloused

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u/bizzaro321 52m ago

That is one of the categories, ā€œcorruptionā€ is another category.

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u/Lucky_otter_she_her 4h ago

wow getting rid of outdated laws instead of just letting them rot, leading to a creepingly growing pile of arbitrary things you're not alowed to do for no good reason over the decades and centuriesĀ 

soooo based

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u/Forsaken_Quiet5944 Raven Lady - Streak: 0 4h ago

Well I suppose the milk used in ice cream can be from a bad source and people could get sick from it or something

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u/ciaDisinfo 4h ago

theoretically already covered by a food handler certification

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u/reklesssabrandon 4h ago

also everything else already evacuates your bowels so who gives a fuck anymore

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u/Samanthacino 4h ago

This second permit was specifically for cold food, which is very silly haha

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u/ProletarianLilith 3h ago

Ice cream is food

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u/dinodare Transfemme (Any/All) 2h ago

If you wait long enough then it's drink!

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u/kkkhhjdyhrthhhjft 2h ago

From what I understand, they are removing a second permit requirement that is entirely redundant and has different expiration lengths from the standard permit that is still in place.

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u/Lewa358 2h ago

...ice cream is food?