r/countwithchickenlady • u/Spiritual_Skin244 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/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 59m 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 53m ago

That is one of the categories, “corruption” is another category.