New York Plagued by Ice Cream Rustlers

New York City was once known as “A Summer Festival” but this year, with Climate Change, the the Big Apple’s summer is big, hot, sweaty mess. And now there are ice cream thieves.

Shoplifting swarms have been emptying retail freezers at Manhattan CVS, Duane Reade, and Gristedes chain stores. Thieves steal the $6.00 containers of Häagen-Dazs, Ben and Jerry’s, and Talenti ice cream and sell them cheaply to corner stores, which retail them for $5.00.

Things are so bad this summer that John Catsimatidis, billionaire owner of the Gristedes grocery chain, is offering a $5,000 bounty for the arrest of ice cream rustlers. So get your posse together, ride them varmints down, and get the reward. Quick, before it melts.

More:

“Ice cream bandits are wreaking havoc on NYC supermarkets,” Reuven Fenton and Linda Massarella, New York Post

“So Maybe Don’t Buy Ice Cream At A Bodega,” Nell Casey,  Gothamist

Update:

“Stolen, Sold and Savored: Ice Cream Is a Hot Commodity in Manhattan,” Michael Wilson, New York Times

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It’s National Ice Cream Month

In 1984, when President Ronald Reagan designated July as National Ice Cream Month and the third Sunday of the month as National Ice Cream Day, he called for all Americans to observe these events with “appropriate ceremonies and activities.”

Citizens, do your duty.

“Ice cream sandwiches: Washington’s next dessert trend?” Becky Krystal, Washington Post

“11 Tasty Tidbits for National Ice Cream Month,” Mark Mancini, Mental Floss

“It’s National Ice Cream Month. Let’s celebrate with doughnut ice cream,” Lavanya Ramanathan, Washington Post

“Ice Cream to Melt the Blues,” Tom Philpott, Mother Jones

“Parmesan gelato?!? 25 crazy cold flavors for National Ice Cream Month,” Rene Lynch, Los Angeles Times

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Ice Cream Delivery in Space!

The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket has successfully delivered it’s cargo of Blue Bell Ice Cream Sundae Cups to the orbiting International Space Station. This is the first of a dozen missions on SpaceX’s $1.6 billion contract with NASA. See the quantum leap you get with a private space launch company? No more freeze-dried astronaut ice cream.