r/PoursTea • u/FizzyAcidBird • 1d ago

PositiviTea 🌞 Amazing work 👏

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u/xSTSxZerglingOne 23h ago

So they say every regulation is written in blood.

So who died from ice cream?

Or was it some dumb shit like "city assemblyman Baskin and Mayor Robbins are implementing this new ice cream permit requirement to protect the children!" I hate that my brain goes straight to corruption first nowadays in matters of complex bullshit.

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u/Contundo 11h ago

Milk products like soft serve and to a lesser degree ice cream, used to have serious poisoning risks.

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u/2_short_Plancks 7h ago

From what I've read, it was:

  • Ice cream products have food safety issues
  • Specific laws are introduced to deal with that
  • Over time, general food safety improves; also more general food safety laws are added which cover ice cream anyway
  • Ice cream is now over-regulated
  • People complain about how silly the over-regulation is but no one does anything about it
  • Mamdani comes in and is just like "can't we just remove the outdated law now it's no longer necessary"
  • Everyone goes all shocked Pikachu, as though this wasn't just the thing someone should have done previously

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u/xSTSxZerglingOne 7h ago

Haha, yep that tracks. Ice cream frequently has eggs in it, too. Seems like a city-based health department that's now handled by state and federal institutions.

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u/get_outta_my_sandwic 13h ago

It probably wasn’t straight up death but definitely a measure to control food safety mixed in with some monopolistic practices