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Ice Cream Truck

Ice Cream Truck

FromDecoder Ring


Ice Cream Truck

FromDecoder Ring

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Length:
42 minutes
Released:
Aug 12, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

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Why is the ice cream truck business so bananas? On this episode of Decoder Ring we find out via three seperate stories about the strange world of ice cream trucks—about the first ever ice cream trucks in China, the ongoing ice cream wars of Manhattan, and the life of an ice cream family in Brooklyn.
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Released:
Aug 12, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (97)

Decoder Ring is the show about cracking cultural mysteries. In each episode, host Willa Paskin takes a cultural question, object, or habit; examines its history; and tries to figure out what it means and why it matters.