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BANG FOR THE BITE
It doesn't cost a cent more, and if 10,000 Biters choose regular cones the next 5 times they go out for ice cream, by foregoing the spoon alone they'll keep the equivalent of 1 American's summer trash out of landfills.
COCKTAIL FACT
The largest ice cream sundae in the world was made in 1988 in Alberta,Canada, and weighed 54,914 lbs.
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Got brain freeze every time the ice cream man asks "Cone or cup?"
The Bite
Let us help. Here’s the scoop: one less paper cup or plastic spoon isn’t going to save the world, but it’s one of those little things that add up - choose a cone, and enjoy the sweet taste of no waste.
The Benefits
- Lap it up. “Away from home” US ice cream sales topped $12.5 billion in 2002. Help keep single-use spoons out of the waste stream with one of these two simple words: “waffle” or “sugar.”
- Americans throw away some 25 billion (yes, with a “B”) polystyrene cups a year. Keep styrofoam out of landfills - the cone you eat your mocha chip from today won’t still be sitting in a landfill in 500 years.
- More fun! Come on, how many foods come in edible containers?
Personally Speaking
If she manages to get to Italy this year, Heather plans to eat her weight in gelato - cones only, grazie. Jen was afraid of the ice cream man as a child and still shudders whenever she hears “Pop Goes the Weasel.”Wanna Try?
- Ben & Jerry’s - their ice cream is produced on family farms without the use of rbGH, a synthetic growth hormone linked to cancer in some studies.
- Stocking up your home freezer? Try some of our faves: Whole Foods’ 365 Cookies & Cream ice cream, Stonyfield Farms Organic Javalanche nonfat frozen yogurt, or Double Rainbow butter pecan soy cream.
Jun 07,2006
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So sometimes Jen comes up with tip ideas that make me roll my eyes, assuming that there is just something I don’t “get” that other light greenies out there do (who’dda thunk “Pet Portraits” would be such a popular thing???).
Sometimes we get submitatips that seem equally unlikely to make a great tip, but somehow go over amazingly well (I'll never forget the infamous “Shower Bucket” tip).
And every so often, I am on the other side of that equation – finding tip ideas that make other people roll their eyes (the “Get Gum with Less Packaging” tip is a prime example).
Today’s tip fits in that category – a tip I think RULES that makes the rest of the staff look at me with concerned gazes, wondering if I had a little too much wine the night before.
For me, though, today’s tip is one I love – one of those things you will never think about until you are standing in line to order that ice cream, and then you get a "double scoop" – a great ice cream treat and the feeling that you just made a choice that was better for the world (although not for your thighs).
The other great thing about cones? If it’s good and hot outside (I recommend gelato in Florence, if you want to test this), and the ice cream starts dripping down your arm, it’s a fun parlor trick to see if you can lick your own elbow.
-Heather... off to dream of coconut gelato in a sugar cone...
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Posted by: Catherine | June 07, 2006 at 05:25 AM