Today we had two Grape Italian Ice Enthusiasts drive nearly 4 hours round trip (approx 230 miles) for 2 cans of Grape Little Jimmy’s Italian Ice – “the purple kind.” Her husband had the Grape Italian ice last year at Funtown Pier in Seaside Park, NJ and went crazy for it and couldn’t stop talking about it. So as a surprise for his upcoming birthday, Mandy and Margie drove from upstate New York to Elizabeth, New Jersey to grab some of the purple stuff. Let us know if you would like to visit us anytime during the week- we’ll be here!
Space Shuttle Enterprise
When Little Jimmy’s Italian Ice heard the Space Shuttle Enterprise was flying over Liberty state Park in Jersey City I grabbed my video and drove over to Jersey City to get some footage near the Statue of Liberty from the Jersey side. Pretty amazing- Enterprise actually never flew into space and was the prototype that tested the Space Shuttle for the Challenger.
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Margaret Thatcher
Margaret Thatcher May Have Helped Invent Soft-Serve Ice Cream
From The Atlantic-
Margaret Thatcher died this morning at the age of 87. While some of her achievements over her long career have been and remain controversial, there is one accomplishment that has proven purely and Platonically beneficial — to Britons, to Americans, to lovers of dairy the world over. Margaret Thatcher, the legend goes, helped invent soft-serve ice cream.
Yes. The Milk Snatcher, who was also an ice cream inventor. The Iron Lady of Soft Serve. Thatcher, you see, before she was a politician, was a research chemist. The future prime minister, then Margaret Roberts, received a degree in chemistry from Oxford in 1947. And she put it to use first in work at a glue factory, and then with a research job at food manufacturer J. Lyons and Company, a “foodstuff conglomerate” in Hammersmith. Thatcher’s task in that role? To help figure out a way to whip extra air into ice cream using emulsifiers — so that the ice cream could be manufactured with fewer ingredients, thereby reducing production costs. (And so that, additionally, the dairy-y result could flow from a machine rather than being scooped by hand.) While Thatcher’s exact contribution to the effort remains, in a way that would foreshadow her future political career, a matter of controversy, her team ultimately succeeded. And the work resulted, ultimately, in the swirly stuff we know today as soft serve. (Or, if you’re in Britain, “soft scoop.”) J. Lyons’s airy dairy was served from ice cream trucks — under the brand Mr. Whippy — in Great Britain. And then, as soft serve is wont to do, it quickly spread.
Despite her work in the field, though, Thatcher didn’t love chemistry. (“I just didn’t like staying in the laboratory that long,” she once explained. “I wanted to have more direct work to do with people.”) But her work in food engineering led to her introduction to Denis Thatcher, then the managing director of his family’s chemical and paint company. Denis encouraged Margaret to switch careers — from chemistry to the field that would prove her real, if not her first, love: the law.
Car Alarm Mockingbird
To a lot of people, the first indicator of Spring is birds chirping around 6AM in the morning. Hopefully you don’t have this bird outside your window imitating the sounds of a car alarm.
Here at Jersey Ice in Elizabeth, NJ, our first indicator of Spring is the whir of our Italian ice machines producing Little Jimmy’s Italian Ices at around 6AM in the morning.
As they say, the early bird catches the worm- now is the time to order your Italian Ice pushcart and Italian Ices for the 2012 Spring season which is 30 days away.
Give us a call to place your order at 800 763 4348.
Talk to you soon.
Dennis Moore
Italian Ice Live on Good Day News
Chronicle Publicity Stunt
We used to operate the food and souvenir concessions at Liberty State Park in Jersey City, NJ and sold Little Jimmy’s Italian Ice from our pushcarts located throughout the Park. Here is a video of a publicity stunt at Liberty State Park we just found on YouTube for the movie that’s out now called Chronicle.
Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas- Jingle Bells and Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer Sing-a-Long at my Children’s School on Friday