Ice Cream Anti-Social: Slope Parents Fear Playground Popsicle Pusherman (thepoliticker.observer)
I was shocked—_shocked_—to hear about the backlash that erupted a few weeks ago after a mom on the Park Slope Parents message board complained about ice cream vendors infiltrating our local playgrounds, in a craven attempt to force their obesity-promoting, lactose-intolerant intolerant products on innocent children. In the interest of full disclosure, I was eating a pint of ice cream—well, _gelato_—when I received my weekly PSP digest, which was otherwise a lovely and harmless collection of stories about people getting help spying on their nannies using iPhone apps, or choosing the right Jewish day school, that read like an ever-so-slightly ethnic Nicholas Sparks novel. But when I got to the blast about the the ice cream incident, I pushed back my _stracciatella_ in shame. It all started when someone posting under the innocuous-enough pen name “Sarah” emailed the list serve with her plight: “We were at 9th Street playground... and two different people came into the actual playground with ice cream/Italian ice push carts... I left with a crying 4 year old because I would not let him get ice cream...” “Sarah” then wondered if the vendors were even legal, prompting a self-described “curmudgeon” named Crystal to ...
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