39 min listen
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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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
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