"ice cream truck" news and stories

Next time you hear the lilting strains of "She'll be Comin' Round the Mountain" from the ice cream truck cruising through the neighborhood, you might want to think twice before tracking it down. The Huffington Post, reporting on an article in the Daily News, notes that a Lickety Split ice cream truck in New York has been busted for selling oxycodone (the main ingredient in the city's favorite pain-killer, OxyCodone, for which one in eight New Yorkers have a prescription), mostly out of the truck. No word yet on the quality of Lickety Split's ice cream, but we suspect the Coke Float could become addictive.

Read the whole story at The Huffington Post.

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Natasha Case has worked in some of L.A.'s most prestigious architecture and design offices. She's also been a Walt Disney Imagineer. Fortunately for SoCal foodies, Natasha has traded in her drafting boards and graphing paper for baking sheets and ice-cream makers. She and her business partner, Freya Estreller, are the two "Principal Farchitects" for Coolhaus -- a pimped-out, find-us-on-Twitter truck that offers a variety of architecturally-inspired ice-cream sandwiches. Their menu is full of treats with names that are puns on terms from the world of design -- you can order the Frank Behry, strawberry ice cream pressed between two sugar cookies, for example.

We caught up with Natasha to get the lowdown on Coolhaus and the future of Farchitecture.

More from Natasha Case, Principal Farchitect of Coolhaus, after the jump.

Andrew mentioned a few weeks back that ice cream trucks in England were being prohibited from operating near schools, largely because of "an over-zealous health lobby. " It looks like ice cream trucks are also being target in some parts of New York, but not for the same reasons.

Instead, parents are the ones who want the trucks banned and they aren't protesting their contribution to childhood obesity, but their own inability to refuse the whims of their children. According to the New York Times, "the mothers and fathers and nannies of TriBeCa had tired of passing [the ice cream truck] each day and arguing with their small charges over whether they could or could not have an ice cream. "

It seems amazing that parents who pass by the same temptation with their toddlers every single day repeatedly have the same argument - apparently with the children winning. If they don't want their kids to eat ice cream, they need to say "no." There was an ice cream truck at the park near the elementary school I went to, to, but it's presence didn't mean that ice cream was something I got, or expected to get, every day.

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