{"id":11285,"date":"2019-07-04T09:13:18","date_gmt":"2019-07-04T14:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/?p=11285"},"modified":"2019-07-04T09:13:19","modified_gmt":"2019-07-04T14:13:19","slug":"mister-softee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/04\/mister-softee\/","title":{"rendered":"mister softee"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>A 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&#8230;something.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>(By the way, mister softee is the best, because they&#8217;re the only trucks that ever have the good sugar cones instead of the regular cones that taste like styrofoam.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/05\/31\/nyregion\/a-king-of-ice-cream-a-renegade-upstart-and-a-simmering-turf-war.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share\">NYT article on the ice cream truck wars<\/a><\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=930 border=\"25\" src=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/tempimage-7.jpg\"> <\/center> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 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&#8230;something. It has definitely become harder to find a genuine mister softee [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[14,10],"class_list":["post-11285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-new-york-city","tag-photos"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6ZBi-2W1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11286,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11285\/revisions\/11286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}