“You will never see a Mister Softee truck in Midtown," he said http://nyti.ms/24hcXDT pic.twitter.com/STAYOKrHKb
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Replying to @mccanner
'The founder of Van Leeuwen ice cream said he had gotten death threats from Softee drivers' http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/31/nyregion/a-king-of-ice-cream-a-renegade-upstart-and-a-simmering-turf-war.html …pic.twitter.com/8Zm9k1XMi4
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Replying to @mccanner
I want to do a Boardwalk Empire-style mob story about the rise of Mr. Softee
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Replying to @harrisj
i mean, we don't know what happened after the final season, so I'm just gonna assume it's this.
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Replying to @mccanner
it begins with Sy Softowiscz stepping off the boat from the Old Country with 23 cents in his pocket
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Replying to @harrisj
he tried to bring grandma's recipe from the old country, but it melted half an hour into the voyage.
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Replying to @mccanner
people soon learned the hard way not to make fun of his head
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(I did appreciate very the literal use of "coneheaded" in that story)
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