You Don’t Know You’re Born #1

The hidden perils of the ice cream lick

Cartoon of a young woman, viewed from behind, who is looking at an ice cream van ahead. The caption reads, this ice cream van doesn’t look very clean.
Better than a shared receptacle

The name Italo Marchiony (1868–1954) might not ring any merry chimes with you (see what I did there?), but as the man who patented the ice cream cone, and who was the first to sell them from his cart in New York, this gentleman deserves his place in history. For, in Victorian…

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Freelance writer and blogger from the north-east coast of England, specialising in true crime, childhood memories and whatever takes my fancy.

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Joseph Yossarian

Freelance writer and blogger from the north-east coast of England, specialising in true crime, childhood memories and whatever takes my fancy.