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Thursday, September 10, 2015

A Serious Addiction?

It  all began when I was working at one St. Paul's first supermarkets in the late fifties. . I was in high school at the time and my school (Harding) had gone to split shifts due to overcrowding.  Seniors and juniors attended from 7 a.m. to noon.  Afternoons were free until my father decided I had too much slack time on my hands. A carryout boy at the supermarket was my destiny from 1:00 to 9:00 then supper and homework.  My eventual promotion to full time dairy case and frozen food stocker soon followed.  When the guys with the big dairy and frozen food trucks pulled up behind the store I volunteered to help them unload.  The result was two years of free ice cream and other frozen treats for me. I overdosed on it all... mostly ice cream. It isn't that I can't
or won't eat ice cream these fifty years later but now its only rarely. Enough is Enough.

Yes it's Mrs. T with the addiction.  Three hundred and sixty five days a year (or close).  That also counts visits to the "Dairy Queen."  Here we are "imbibing" at a local ice cream shop in Wisconsin...:)

24 comments:

  1. I'm also an ice cream junkie. I love it but now eat very little.

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  2. How sweet you two are!
    Enjoy!
    My ice cream days are over........it doesn't "set well" with my insides anymore.

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  3. I laughed feeling low when the local DQ closed yesterday. I had only visited twice all summer. I think our tastes change, but I still like a ice cream now and then.

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  4. Ice Cream eaten in the Dairy State, you can not go wrong. ;-) Love the photo of you two. xx oo

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  5. It is interesting that your dad noticed you had a lot of slack time. We do lot of icec ream but I am also a desserts guy.

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  6. Love that pic of the two of you enjoying your addiction. I just finished a homemade vanilla cone so I can relate. Though these days I have to get the lactose free ice cream. Who knew that intolerance could hit after 70 years.

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  7. I enjoy it from time to time, but my main addictions (aside from Diet Coke) are chips and chocolate ... although not together. Actually, chips are the worst.

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  8. If that is your addiction, I think you are doing pretty good :)

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  9. We like sherbert but a dish of Maple Nut would be great! I like DQ too...cherry topping please:)

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  10. Aw...that is a sweet photo of you both!

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  11. Had a chocolate milk shake at Dairy Queen this afternoon for the first time in a long while. Got over my addiction for some reason. Nice picture of you and your wife.

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  12. I love ice cream but eat very little of it. Today I had a kid's cone with coffee chip. It was good but there wasn't very much of it. Enough for me, though. :-)

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  13. Imbibing can be good for you. Enjoy!

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  14. I can certainly think of worse addictions. Enjoy, Mrs. T!

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  15. One per afternoon, and that's my limit, and I only have that to be sociable... smiles.

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  16. What a yummy addiction...nothing wrong with it at all!

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  17. I share Mrs. T's addiction. I indulge when I'm out but dare not keep any in the freezer.

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  18. That's an addiction that only hurts the waistline ! Have you tried the new Bryers Gelato? OMG ...as the kids say, "it's to die for" !!

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  19. Couldn't help but notice. Mrs. T has a regular cone. You are the one with the big waffle cone. Just sayin'

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  20. The call of ice cream is difficult to turn away from -- love the photo. -- barbara

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  21. I am ready to help anywhere if I get two years of free ice cream and other frozen treats.

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  22. Well, I see you do join her on occasion! I think ice cream is a good addiction to have.

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