mister softee
by sam on 07/4/2019A while back, The NY Times wrote about how mister softee vendors were in a turf war with some upstart competitors who were using gangland tactics to push them out of various neighborhoods. The juxtaposition of childhood treats with straight-up street gang tactics was…something.
It has definitely become harder to find a genuine mister softee truck in parts of the city, but you can still find them on the upper west side.
(By the way, mister softee is the best, because they’re the only trucks that ever have the good sugar cones instead of the regular cones that taste like styrofoam.)
NYT article on the ice cream truck wars
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