Socially Acceptable Street Foods

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This is bothering me.

Last night I saw a middle aged man, casually dressed, walking through the town centre with an ice-cream cone (avec Flake).

This disturbed me, and in fact I can't recall ever having seen any lone ice-cream eater ever walking through the town centre.

I wouldn't do it. I asked my boyfriend and he said it would never occur to him to buy an ice cream cone for himself and eat it alone.

Am I crazy or is this an okay thing to do? Would YOU do it?

― Rumpie, Thursday, 15 September 2005 09:44 (twenty years ago)

Of course. I don't get how you could be disturbed by such a thing.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Thursday, 15 September 2005 09:47 (twenty years ago)

actually, that IS kinda weird. i wouldn't do it.

― g-kit (g-kit), Thursday, 15 September 2005 09:47 (twenty years ago)

i've probably done this. maybe it was me.

― N_RQ, Thursday, 15 September 2005 09:48 (twenty years ago)

Are you all mentalists?? Do you buy an ice cream from a van and then take it home to eat it (probably with a knife and fork)??

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 15 September 2005 09:50 (twenty years ago)

If one wants an ice cream cone, why not buy one and consume it, regardless of the status of one's company? I wouldn't think twice about it.

― The Brocade Fire (kate), Thursday, 15 September 2005 09:51 (twenty years ago)

What's wrong with eating ice cream?

Is this the first recorded example of street food rockism?

Eating ice cream on one's own, how inauthentic...

― , Thursday, 15 September 2005 09:54 (twenty years ago)

It's probably a freudian thing. If it had been a woman, it'd be arousing!

― nathalie (stevie nixed), Thursday, 15 September 2005 09:55 (twenty years ago)

Hmm, a quick straw poll in my work has produced varied results - the majority saying No - they wouldn't. Nobody can tell me why not though... I don't even know why not myself.

― Rumpie, Thursday, 15 September 2005 09:57 (twenty years ago)

i can't envisage eating an ice cream cone alone.

i'd quite happily walk down the street, alone, eating other foods - a tray of pasta, a bag of chips, a lollipop, packet of haribo, a box of wet, milky potatoes...
but not an ice cream cone. that's a social food.

― g-kit (g-kit), Thursday, 15 September 2005 09:58 (twenty years ago)

take or leave us only please believe us we are never going to be socially acceptable

― N_RQ, Thursday, 15 September 2005 10:01 (twenty years ago)

I regularly walk down the street eating ice cream cones. Well about five times a summer, when it's warm enough. If someone was doing it on a day like this I might think 'hmmm...'.

― alext (alext), Thursday, 15 September 2005 10:14 (twenty years ago)

It was at night, around eight o clock, the weather - cold and overcast.

Not that it makes a heck of a lot of difference though.

― Rumpie, Thursday, 15 September 2005 10:42 (twenty years ago)

Maybe it was not weather related at all, but some kind of childhood nostalgic moment, the taste of 99 flake being the taste of summer or childhood, or something else he was missing on that cold and overcast night?

― The Brocade Fire (kate), Thursday, 15 September 2005 10:44 (twenty years ago)

I wish I'd stopped the fella to ask.

― Rumpie, Thursday, 15 September 2005 10:45 (twenty years ago)

WTF? Anybody who is surprised by a lone ice cream eater, or who actually takes the time to decide it's unusual is batshit crazy. Like whoa. You only eat ice cream socially? Are you ralph malph?

― Lumin, Thursday, 15 September 2005 10:45 (twenty years ago)

i never claimed not to be batshit crazy.

― g-kit (g-kit), Thursday, 15 September 2005 10:47 (twenty years ago)

Batshit is actually incredibly interesting stuff. It's made of the pulverised exoskeletons of insects, and is surprisingly light and clean. It crumbles away to dust if you rub it between your fingers.

― The Brocade Fire (kate), Thursday, 15 September 2005 10:47 (twenty years ago)

GUANO.
it's also the material ingredient for the Fireball spell in AD&D 2nd edition.

― g-kit (g-kit), Thursday, 15 September 2005 10:48 (twenty years ago)

i don't get why this is odd

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Thursday, 15 September 2005 10:49 (twenty years ago)

fuck you and your street food fascism.

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Thursday, 15 September 2005 10:54 (twenty years ago)

There should be LAWS and PUNISHMENTS to deal with solitary ice cream eating.

― Rumpie, Thursday, 15 September 2005 11:02 (twenty years ago)

but why? what is wrong with it that makes it (a) unacceptable or (b) punishable?

i thought ice cream was supposed to be a nice little treat, not an unlawful punishable offence

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 15 September 2005 11:03 (twenty years ago)

I guess I'd be burned at the stake or hung at the Tyburn tree, then.

(Perhaps that should be my hook for internet dating - looking for a pointy nosed blond boy for non-solitary ice cream eating. But alas, I'd get only twee fuX0rs.)

― The Brocade Fire (kate), Thursday, 15 September 2005 11:03 (twenty years ago)

Only slightly connected.

On holiday last year there were people queuing up to buy the most delightful ice cream from a little stall at the side of the road.

We watched a young couple each buy a small tub of ice cream and set off down the street with it.

The man was relying quite heavily on a crutch, and seemed rather dismayed to realise he couldn't get tucked into his ice cream with the dinky little plastic spoon. His partner strolled ahead oblivious giving it "mmm, delicious" while he lagged forlornley behind with ice cream melting and running down his arm.

― Rumpie, Thursday, 15 September 2005 11:12 (twenty years ago)

it's just the simple "This disturbed me" that disturbs me

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Thursday, 15 September 2005 11:12 (twenty years ago)

Weirdest thread ever.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 15 September 2005 11:16 (twenty years ago)

How about eating french fries on the street?

― nathalie (stevie nixed), Thursday, 15 September 2005 11:25 (twenty years ago)

Perfectly acceptable.

Even ice cream from a wee tub wouldn't have made me think twice.

― Rumpie, Thursday, 15 September 2005 11:32 (twenty years ago)

Wee tub?!

― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 15 September 2005 11:35 (twenty years ago)

wee tub is far more acceptable than solo cone munching. what's wrong with you popel?

― g-kit (g-kit), Thursday, 15 September 2005 11:37 (twenty years ago)

Wee tub?!

Could be wrong but I think he's referring to this:

http://static.marktplaza.nl/images/1/Baby-Born-potje-695837.jpg

Just kidding.

― nathalie (stevie nixed), Thursday, 15 September 2005 11:38 (twenty years ago)

some people think going to the cinema on your own is for saddoes. obviously they can get bent, but otoh, i have never bought popcorn alone. it doesn't feel right. maybe i will now.

― N_RQ, Thursday, 15 September 2005 11:40 (twenty years ago)

i'm with matt here. this is ridiculous. what is wrong with eating an ice cream on your own in public? i've done it hundreds of times. the only time this would be even vaguely strange is in the middle of winter or when it's raining. it's certainly better than tennents super and lots of people seem to consider this acceptable to consume on the street.

― sfxxx, Thursday, 15 September 2005 11:41 (twenty years ago)

I've eaten a Tangle Twister alone, but it felt kind of dirty.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 15 September 2005 11:41 (twenty years ago)

it sounds fuckin dirty, too.

― g-kit (g-kit), Thursday, 15 September 2005 11:43 (twenty years ago)

Ice cream better than beer?

This thread is spiralling out of all control.

― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 15 September 2005 11:43 (twenty years ago)

I have eaten an ice cream cone, a Mr Whippy no less, on my own on a street corner.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 15 September 2005 11:45 (twenty years ago)

solitary confinement for you!

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 15 September 2005 11:45 (twenty years ago)

what if a person were walking alone in the street with a can of tennents in one hand and a mr whippy in the other?

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 15 September 2005 11:46 (twenty years ago)

Drinking Super Lager in the street has been proven to be socially unacceptable - especially when one vomits upon oneself and stains ones trousers.

It is not a food either.

― Rumpie, Thursday, 15 September 2005 11:47 (twenty years ago)

x post

on a street corner? what kind of monster are you?

― Rumpie, Thursday, 15 September 2005 11:47 (twenty years ago)

i love walking down the street with an ice cream cone, it's one of the loveliest things about springtime or summer. sometimes it's nice to do small celebratory things alone.

ice cream is perhaps the ultimate street food because it's almost entirely self contained. you might have a napkin to dispose of after but you largely eat the container, the cone, which is 100% classic.

― carly (carly), Thursday, 15 September 2005 11:52 (twenty years ago)

Best in a pint glass with a big whippy floating on the top. I wonder what the froth would taste like.
(crosspost)

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 15 September 2005 11:53 (twenty years ago)

Chocolate stout ice cream float. Now there is a concept!

― The Brocade Fire (kate), Thursday, 15 September 2005 11:54 (twenty years ago)

sometimes it's nice to do small celebratory things alone.

Yes! Hurray.

― Anna (Anna), Thursday, 15 September 2005 12:03 (twenty years ago)

and fnarr, obv.

― g-kit (g-kit), Thursday, 15 September 2005 12:03 (twenty years ago)

The logic behind this is that ice cream is FATTY and therefore only ok to indulge in as a social tool.

I can eat ice cream whenever I want because I have a 200 watt metabolism.

― ~~~~ DODONGO DISLIKES SMOKE ~~~~ (ex machina), Thursday, 15 September 2005 12:05 (twenty years ago)

i can eat ice cream whenever i want because i am confident enough in myself as a person to do so. either that or i'm a shameless fatty.

― g-kit (g-kit), Thursday, 15 September 2005 12:07 (twenty years ago)

i don't like ice cream. alone or in company.

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 15 September 2005 12:08 (twenty years ago)

I called my roommate a fatty yesterday because she went to dunkin donuts and asked for 3 donut holes and they told her she could only get 7 for a dollar. I accused her of knowing this fact but practicing the art of rpetend forgetfulness.

I am a dick!

― ~~~~ DODONGO DISLIKES SMOKE ~~~~ (ex machina), Thursday, 15 September 2005 12:11 (twenty years ago)

It is a bit creepy.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 15 September 2005 12:12 (twenty years ago)

I'd happily eat gallons of ice cream.

But not alone. At night. In the street.

Perhaps it was the juxtaposition of tenement buildings, loitering kids, night sky and innocent swirly flake topped cone. Perhaps not, but it wasn't quite right. Or maybe it was right. Maybe it was too perfect for my brain to interpret.

I don't know.

― Rumpie, Thursday, 15 September 2005 12:14 (twenty years ago)

I felt self-conscious eating an ice-cream walking back from work by myself recently (though it was a magnum not a cone) - but I'm pretty sure that it was because I was wearing a suit.

I don't think I'd feel so conspicuous in casual wear.

― Bob Six (bobbysix), Thursday, 15 September 2005 12:18 (twenty years ago)

http://www.know-the-ada.com/ice%20cream.JPG

How about this? Socially acceptable?

― nathalie (stevie nixed), Thursday, 15 September 2005 12:19 (twenty years ago)

I feel self conscious eating Magnums as I find it impossible to do without dropping bits of chocolate everywhere.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 15 September 2005 12:20 (twenty years ago)

The trick is to eat it in one.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 15 September 2005 12:23 (twenty years ago)

The problem with eating ice-lollies or ice cream on sticks is the fear that they will fall off the stick and all down your front. That's embarrassing in any company, even your own.

― Rumpie, Thursday, 15 September 2005 12:30 (twenty years ago)

Not if you're naked, because then you can just lick them off your front.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 15 September 2005 12:31 (twenty years ago)

socially acceptable? : walking around alone in the nude eating an ice cream cone

― carly (carly), Thursday, 15 September 2005 12:33 (twenty years ago)

what flavour is the blue ice cream supposed to be? smurf?

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Thursday, 15 September 2005 12:33 (twenty years ago)

Bubblegum?

Naked ice cream eating. Mmmmmm

― Rumpie, Thursday, 15 September 2005 12:35 (twenty years ago)

Puffi!

(real ice-cream flavour in Italy, un puffo being a smurf).

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 15 September 2005 12:37 (twenty years ago)

(it tastes a bit like toffee)

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 15 September 2005 12:38 (twenty years ago)

Father Abraphart to thread.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Thursday, 15 September 2005 12:38 (twenty years ago)

you feel self-conscious eating ice cream. you are all frigging mental and have thrown my entire world into disarray today. i was in a good mood and now i'm angry. this thread is absurd. i hope a moderator deletes it

― sfxxxxx, Thursday, 15 September 2005 12:44 (twenty years ago)

hey, some of us delight in eating ice cream!

― carly (carly), Thursday, 15 September 2005 12:45 (twenty years ago)

cheer up! have some ice cream!

― carly (carly), Thursday, 15 September 2005 12:46 (twenty years ago)

I love eating ice cream. It's fucking magic.

― Rumpie, Thursday, 15 September 2005 12:46 (twenty years ago)

Ice magic is what's fucking magic.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 15 September 2005 12:47 (twenty years ago)

I eat ice cream while driving, walking, and it feels acceptable, but now that you mention it, the next time I eat it solo I'm going to murder anyone who stares, steal the wallet and hire a prostitute only to eat ice cream with, since that's what you all want. Way to go, guys.

― LeCoq (LeCoq), Thursday, 15 September 2005 12:48 (twenty years ago)

We want the best for you.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Thursday, 15 September 2005 13:00 (twenty years ago)

Ice Magic - I've only seen it in dark chocolate flavour and that's not magic. Bring on the milk chocolate and strawberry.

― Rumpie, Thursday, 15 September 2005 13:05 (twenty years ago)

Ice cream doesn't usually sound that good but for some reason, right now at 9 AM, an ice cream cone would really hit the spot.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 15 September 2005 13:06 (twenty years ago)

My uncle would ALWAYS let his icecream melt and drink it up. Gross.

― nathalie (stevie nixed), Thursday, 15 September 2005 13:10 (twenty years ago)

super sweet milkshake then.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Thursday, 15 September 2005 13:11 (twenty years ago)

Delicious, I like to let ice cream melt and mash it all up with raspberry and a crushed flake.

Unacceptable?

― Rumpie, Thursday, 15 September 2005 13:14 (twenty years ago)

not if you then regurgitate it and use the resulting paste as a sandwich spread between two pringles.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Thursday, 15 September 2005 13:38 (twenty years ago)

Rumpie, you're a FOOD MENTALIST.

What if it was gelato, would that make a difference?

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 15 September 2005 13:41 (twenty years ago)

ice magic is best in mint choc flavour

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 15 September 2005 13:54 (twenty years ago)

I don't understand the people that wouldn't. When you eat ice cream is it just some "hey look at us we are, like, EATING ICE CREAM!" thing?

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 15 September 2005 13:54 (twenty years ago)

i went to frankie and bennies for lunch with friends today and on the table next to us was two girls eating a cone of ice cream - in a bowl with a knife and fork, i found that disturbing the ice cream was already in the cone and so did not warrant the bowl treatment.

― battlingspacemonkey (battlingspacemonkey), Thursday, 15 September 2005 15:16 (twenty years ago)

I think I've figured out that you have to be homophobic or destitute/diet-conscious enough to diss on eating ice cream solo. Or is eating ice cream alone 'too corporate'? I'll tell you what, I'm going to make myself a cone of PINK ice cream 50000 calories shaped like a COCK priced at one MILLION dollars, then as an olive branch of sorts, i'm going to save the last little conical tip part for stabbing into your eyes. Now you'll never be annoyed by seeing solo ice cream eaters, or seeing anything, for that matter.

http://www.midsplatternight.be/images/moviepics/thebeyond01.jpg

"I laughed at him when he said his job was 'internet thug'. I laughed when he rocked mister floppy that time. I laughed when he ate ice cream by himself. The last one, I'm not laughing about anymore."

― LeCoq (LeCoq), Friday, 16 September 2005 04:25 (twenty years ago)

ICE CREAM

IMPRISONING ME

ALL THAT I SEE

ABSOLUTE HORROR

― LeCoq (LeCoq), Friday, 16 September 2005 04:26 (twenty years ago)

"Sometimes, I wonder if the internet thug derision was worth it either. The last thing I saw, excepting the bottom of that waffle cone, was something called EELS.MPG. I ordered some eel at the asian restaurant today, to confront my new self and feel alive, but all it did was taste like ass."

― LeCoq (LeCoq), Friday, 16 September 2005 04:29 (twenty years ago)

bananas, raisins, shelled sunflower seeds, lollipops, candy bars

― youn, Friday, 16 September 2005 05:25 (twenty years ago)

food bought from a street vendor, except not meat

― youn, Friday, 16 September 2005 05:28 (twenty years ago)

not peaches. not oranges.

― youn, Friday, 16 September 2005 05:35 (twenty years ago)

not dripping toast. not watermelon.

― youn, Friday, 16 September 2005 05:36 (twenty years ago)

not carrot sticks.

― youn, Friday, 16 September 2005 05:37 (twenty years ago)

I ate a chicken sandwich on the street today. It was terrible. Bits of mayonnaise covered chicken kept nearly falling out.

Some people don't have friends to eat ice creams on the street with.

― rainy (rainy), Friday, 16 September 2005 09:24 (twenty years ago)

OK this is weird. "eating ice cream in cold weather - whats with that?" I could understand (tho its a bit Seinfeldian) but um, huh? Am I meant to eat a Mr Whippy with friends if I'm seen in public? Are there LAWS?

I dont like icecream that much anyway.

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 16 September 2005 10:20 (twenty years ago)

Anyway I was hoping this thread'd list things like "eating a really stinky stinky curry at your desk at work" or "munching tasty hot chips on the tram on the way home thus making everyone else on the tram hungry and want to kill you".

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 16 September 2005 10:21 (twenty years ago)

I think eating food on the street is generally a bit silly anyway.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Friday, 16 September 2005 10:24 (twenty years ago)

My mum's school banned pupils from eating ANYTHING on the street when in school uniform (er, hope that dangling modifier doesn't incite pervy interpretations).

Anyway, I agree that it can be silly. Sometimes it makes me sad when I see people walking along eating lunch - are they SO busy and rushed and imporatnt that they can't even sit down on a bench? But ice creams are ok, especially if you're just strolling rather than power-walking back to your soul-destroying job.

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 16 September 2005 11:05 (twenty years ago)

Recently there were people giving out free ice creams (Maltesers and Mars) all along Western Road in Brighton. Which meant that every second person you walked past that day was eating one. Rumpie would have had a coronary ;)

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 16 September 2005 11:07 (twenty years ago)

"eating ice cream in cold weather - whats with that?"

cf. drinking tea in the middle of summer. it's actually quite sensible - just ask the people of India...

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Friday, 16 September 2005 11:12 (twenty years ago)

haha i live the idea of eating ice cream alone being too corporate

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Friday, 16 September 2005 11:55 (twenty years ago)

Last week I purchased a caramel sundae from an ice cream truck, which I proceeded to eat while walking along Bloor Street. I had a brief moment of "this is probably not something you consume while on foot", but it was so tasty that I just didn't care.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Friday, 16 September 2005 13:03 (twenty years ago)

Calzone pizzas are very difficult to eat without a knife and fork.

― Rumpie, Friday, 16 September 2005 13:24 (twenty years ago)

Was he walking down the street eating a banana split or some other elaborate sundae? Perhaps that would be remarkable.

Are there no ice cream trucks on the planet where you live? Also, what color is the sky.

― Laura H. (laurah), Friday, 16 September 2005 13:30 (twenty years ago)

This is maybe the greatest thread we've had all year.

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Friday, 16 September 2005 13:36 (twenty years ago)

Again, it's 9:30 AM and I'm craving ice cream. Apparenly I only ever want ice cream first thing in the morning. Do they make breakfast ice cream?

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 16 September 2005 13:37 (twenty years ago)

Drinking tea in hot weather just heats you up (it has a cooling effect because it makes you sweat, but you still end up hotter than when you started). Drink cold water instead.

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 16 September 2005 13:46 (twenty years ago)

They make coffee ice cream, Nick.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 16 September 2005 13:47 (twenty years ago)

OH YEAH! I wonder where I could get some coffee ice cream.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 16 September 2005 13:51 (twenty years ago)

Many's the day I buy an ice cream after a hard day at work, and eat it as I walk alone to the bus stop. I do sometimes think "does this appear weird?" and apparently my suspcions have been vindicated.

My innocence has been lost, I may never enjoy an ice cream alone again.

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 16 September 2005 13:53 (twenty years ago)

pwned.

― g-kit (g-kit), Friday, 16 September 2005 13:54 (twenty years ago)

Personally, eating ice cream cones with one or more friends makes you look "gay." Or like a hiveminder. When I get an ice cream cone from the truck and walk down the street with it by myself, which is most often, I have to admit that I pick up on this unspoken judgement from passersby because I feel like, "Yeah, that's right, motherfuckers, I'm eating an ice cream cone!" Like a true rebel.

And just now you helped me to realize some feelings about this I've never fully grasped before, such as that groups of people eating ice cream look like dorks and that I actually am not insane for feeling I'm walking over some line in the sands of coolness with hiveminders for being a lone cone-eater.

― Ice Cream James Dean, Friday, 16 September 2005 13:56 (twenty years ago)

FUCK EVERYTHING I'M GETTING AN ICE CREAM CONE

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 16 September 2005 13:57 (twenty years ago)

fear my public ice-cream-cone eating tongue-lathe technique.

― elmo (allocryptic), Friday, 16 September 2005 14:08 (twenty years ago)

Do they make breakfast ice cream?

All ice cream is breakfast ice cream! Sprinkle some granola on it, if you must.

― Jaq (Jaq), Friday, 16 September 2005 14:10 (twenty years ago)

When eating an ice cream cone alone on the street it's best to eat just the ice cream and wear the resulting empty cone as a hat.

― laurence kansas (lawrence kansas), Friday, 16 September 2005 14:17 (twenty years ago)

A gentleman should never be seen carrying an object in public.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Friday, 16 September 2005 18:00 (twenty years ago)

Am I crazy or is this an okay thing to do? Would YOU do it?

ive thought about this too!! i always think its very sad when i see middle-aged men eating ice cream cones alone. they must be so lonely. its very very sad

― phil-two (phil-two), Friday, 16 September 2005 18:15 (twenty years ago)

They are not sad because THEY ARE EATING ICE CREAM YOU CRAZY CRAZY PEOPLE! If they were eating cabbage or spam or plain gelatin, now that would be sad.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 16 September 2005 18:16 (twenty years ago)

Get one sense of tragedy.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 16 September 2005 18:16 (twenty years ago)

n/a you are so right.

― carly (carly), Friday, 16 September 2005 18:17 (twenty years ago)

I used to wander the streets eating cabbage.

― laurence kansas (lawrence kansas), Friday, 16 September 2005 18:19 (twenty years ago)

Oh laurence, I'm so sorry. *sniff*

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Friday, 16 September 2005 18:20 (twenty years ago)

it's slaw right Dan

― laurence kansas (lawrence kansas), Friday, 16 September 2005 18:21 (twenty years ago)

THANK YOU FOLKS, WE'LL BE HERE ALL WEEK! PLEASE TIP YOUR SERVERS!

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Friday, 16 September 2005 18:21 (twenty years ago)

I was paying for ice cream with a wad of change, which I put in the cashier's hand before I realized it had lots of pocket bits in it, including a long blonde hair. I winced and said, "eww, sorry about the hair." He lifted his eyes toward me very seductively, and said, without a trace of laughter, "iz okay, I like your hair."

We should ask that guy what he thinks about solo ice cream---I think he would have the conclusive answer

― emilys. (emilys.), Friday, 16 September 2005 19:57 (twenty years ago)

This thread reminds of how Stalin used to force vendors to sell ice cream year round on the streets of Moscow because the weather is perpetually warm and sunny.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 16 September 2005 19:59 (twenty years ago)

You should have told him it wasn't yours, then covered your mouth and muttered "oh no i've said too much" and run away.

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Friday, 16 September 2005 20:00 (twenty years ago)

oh how sad. that guy must be a total loser and must never get laid or something. i'll never eat ice craem alone 'cos i don't want to be socially shunned like him.

― simian (dymaxia), Friday, 16 September 2005 20:16 (twenty years ago)

maybe this should be incorporated into the constitution so that we know we should never do it.

what other rules have ya got.

― simian (dymaxia), Friday, 16 September 2005 20:17 (twenty years ago)

Not laid much, probably. But this was not the sad, retiring type of dude.

Whenever my (fairly obviously) gay male friends go in there, he's always like, "you get any pussy tonight?"

― emilys. (emilys.), Friday, 16 September 2005 20:31 (twenty years ago)

two months pass...

i have been obsessed with this topic since Adam brought it up in passing about three weeks ago and had to hunt down this thread. I have to admit that something about it seems weird but I can't figure out why.

― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 15 December 2005 16:49 (twenty years ago)

more socially acceptable street foods
1. curried fishballs on a stick

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 15 December 2005 16:55 (twenty years ago)

This is still really, really funny.

― Dan (OH NOES, SOLO ICE CREAM) Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 15 December 2005 16:57 (twenty years ago)

2. anything on a stick

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 15 December 2005 16:57 (twenty years ago)

3. except horse or human flesh

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 15 December 2005 16:57 (twenty years ago)

4. chips

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 15 December 2005 16:58 (twenty years ago)

http://www.scentuality.biz/Stick_burners_Pics/SB-7224.jpg

― Dan (Mmmmmmmmmmm) Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 15 December 2005 17:00 (twenty years ago)

Would anyone ever consider eating candyfloss alone in the street?

― Rumpie (lil drummer girl parumpumpumpu), Thursday, 15 December 2005 17:06 (twenty years ago)

What does she look like?

― Dan (Derail) Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 15 December 2005 17:08 (twenty years ago)

Rumpie, didn't we already establish above that you're a complete menko?

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 15 December 2005 17:10 (twenty years ago)

my fantasy is to get on a bus with a Cup-a-soup.

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Thursday, 15 December 2005 17:13 (twenty years ago)

you should do it. pot noodles on-the-go is great (you use those hot water 'pot-stop' machines at petrol station)

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 15 December 2005 17:17 (twenty years ago)

No, it has not yet been unanimously decided.

― Rumpie (lil drummer girl parumpumpumpu), Thursday, 15 December 2005 17:20 (twenty years ago)

low turnout

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Thursday, 15 December 2005 17:25 (twenty years ago)

Plate of spaghetti on the subway. Real china plate, real silverware. You could add more touches like a little table, wine chilling on the side, etc. but that would be too much like Trigger Happy TV, which is not funny.

― Der, Thursday, 15 December 2005 17:54 (twenty years ago)

Oh, I didn't realize it was kyle who revived it! oops

― [jailhouse tattoo] (nordicskilla), Thursday, 15 December 2005 17:55 (twenty years ago)

I once saw a girl sharing her popsicle with her ferret while walking down the street. That's the only unacceptable thing I can think of.

― except feces (Jocelyn), Thursday, 15 December 2005 17:57 (twenty years ago)

two years pass...

Ice cream: still unacceptable?

― HI DERE, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 13:18 (seventeen years ago)

I don't understand this 'disturbed by lone ice cream eating' position in the slightest. I think it may be a sign of sociopathic tendancies.

― chap, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 13:29 (seventeen years ago)

i ate a cup of frozen yogurt on monday afternoon while walking to class. no one batted an eyelash. i actually thought of this thread.

― get bent, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 14:00 (seventeen years ago)

Fro-yo is completely different!

(NOTE: Not really.)

― HI DERE, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 14:02 (seventeen years ago)

Hey! I'm no sociopath!

― *rumpie*, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 14:10 (seventeen years ago)

goat shoulder

― ken c, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 14:13 (seventeen years ago)

chips and drinks

― ken c, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 14:16 (seventeen years ago)

yeah

― ken c, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 14:16 (seventeen years ago)

burgers or chips

― ken c, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 14:18 (seventeen years ago)

or what the shrapnel in your back pocket could afford

― ken c, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 14:18 (seventeen years ago)

would work better as a double act.

rather like eating ice cream, apparently.

― darraghmac, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 14:19 (seventeen years ago)

http://images.jupiterimages.com/common/detail/59/14/23051459.jpg

UNNACCEPTABLE

― HI DERE, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 14:21 (seventeen years ago)

GET THIS FILTH OR OUR STREETS

― chap, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 14:25 (seventeen years ago)

Ahem, OFF OUR STREETS

― chap, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 14:25 (seventeen years ago)

bah ruined my joke

― HI DERE, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 14:25 (seventeen years ago)

Sorry Dan.

― chap, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 14:28 (seventeen years ago)

There's an international food fair here in the summer. I can definitely say that foods of all cultures can be eaten while walking down the sidewalk, but I would not recommend doing it with kimchi. Nor would my friend who ended up spilling it down the front of his pants while talking to me.

― mh, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 14:37 (seventeen years ago)

Kebabs are almost always consumed on the street, but are rather poorly designed for it. Even the 'wrap' style with flatbread rather than pitta tend to be so greasy that you inevitably end up with blobs of fat and garlic sauce all down your jeans.

― chap, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 14:41 (seventeen years ago)

Shashlik is unacceptable in public.

― snoball, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 14:43 (seventeen years ago)

ive notice in many other countries people will stop to eat their street foods - where as in america we tend to eat and walk

fold the slice up and youre on yr way - this is actually quite degraded

― jhøshea, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 14:45 (seventeen years ago)

tacos would be hard to eat while walking

― get bent, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 18:29 (seventeen years ago)

insert link to cameltoe thread *here*

― HI DERE, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 18:40 (seventeen years ago)

Memo to Perry: BLEURGH

― suzy, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 18:53 (seventeen years ago)

Is that the sound it usually makes?

― Michael White, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 18:54 (seventeen years ago)

i don't really feel comfortable eating, drinking OR smoking while walknig unless ABSOLUTELY necessary (ie. i am starving or parched or v. drunk and in a rush) and this is probably due to years of childhood conditioning, hell, i still feel weird eating not-at-a-table (unless it's candy or something at the copmuter) or in the company of others.

i think part of the weirdness of the ice cream cone thing is that it's kind of juvenile and kind of "low" insofar that seeing a businessman-looking-type eating an icecream cone without the excuse of having a child or date with him is just... weird? i can see where it comes from.

whatever, i hate ice cream anyway.

― Will M., Wednesday, 12 March 2008 18:59 (seventeen years ago)

two months pass...

this is bothering me

last night i saw a middle aged woman, casually dressed, walking through a public square licking a grocery groin

― and what, Thursday, 15 May 2008 14:51 (seventeen years ago)

Ha! Amazing. ;-)

I don't think I responded to this the last time it was revived but this might be the most WTF thread ever.

― ENBB, Thursday, 15 May 2008 14:56 (seventeen years ago)

weird fuckin thread

this summer im gonna wear shorts and eat ice cream no matter what ilx sez!!! repost with Ned wearing black reeboks quote

― deej, Thursday, 15 May 2008 14:59 (seventeen years ago)

grocery groin

― sleep, Thursday, 15 May 2008 14:59 (seventeen years ago)

― sleep, Thursday, 15 May 2008 15:00 (seventeen years ago)

WTF this thread premise

― Noodle Vague, Thursday, 15 May 2008 15:01 (seventeen years ago)

repost with Ned wearing black reeboks quote

Roffle.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 15 May 2008 15:02 (seventeen years ago)

I would eat an ice cream on my own.

I never eat any take-away in the street. It's not good for one's digestion to eat and walk at the same time. It is also v easy to inadevertently drop food on the ground, ncouraging rats and adding to the general untidiness. I always take them home and eat them there.

― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 15 May 2008 15:04 (seventeen years ago)

Your search - "grocery groin" - did not match any documents.

― G00blar, Thursday, 15 May 2008 15:07 (seventeen years ago)

Yeah, you told me and that evening I vowed never to accompany kev through customs. They are kiwi sized but don't appear out of proportion next to his large cock. Far from being circus-freak like, he is jaw-droppingly awesome. What a guy. I can't wait to get home and climb aboard his grocery groin.

-- Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Wednesday, March 3, 2004 10:09 AM (Wednesday, March 3, 2004 10:09 AM) Bookmark Link

xpost to sleep

― Lingbert, Thursday, 15 May 2008 15:08 (seventeen years ago)

feeling ill now

― sleep, Thursday, 15 May 2008 15:12 (seventeen years ago)

http://img374.imageshack.us/img374/6283/grocerygroinfe7.jpg

― sleep, Thursday, 15 May 2008 15:12 (seventeen years ago)

TWO GREAT TASTES THAT TASTE GREAT TOGETHER

― HI DERE, Thursday, 15 May 2008 15:30 (seventeen years ago)

what a guy

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 15 May 2008 15:31 (seventeen years ago)

From eating ice cream in public alone to grocery groins. What a thread.

― Bimble, Thursday, 15 May 2008 15:39 (seventeen years ago)

three years pass...

I once saw a girl sharing her popsicle with her ferret while walking down the street. That's the only unacceptable thing I can think of.
― except feces (Jocelyn), Thursday, December 15, 2005 12:57 PM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

― CLUB PISCOPO (DJP), Friday, 12 August 2011 22:43 (fourteen years ago)

That's clearly really good.

― Inevitable stupid samba mix (chap), Sunday, 14 August 2011 00:41 (fourteen years ago)

just as little a mental note to myself for the inevitable time when this thread will come back to haunt me > a guy eating ice cream gives eats something delicious and has fun on his own without a need to be 'social' just like a little child would so this obvious happiness feels suspect / subversive and implicitly homosexual to horrible people.

― wolves lacan, Sunday, 14 August 2011 02:19 (fourteen years ago)

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