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...West Coast cities whose inhabitants like to think of themselves as civilized, no longer have the slightest tolerance for ice cream ordinaire. An unpresumptuous little chocolate ripple does not interest them; they want presumption. And to say that they are willing to pay ruinous prices for it-$7 a quart for hand-packed ice cream is not unheard of-is to understate the case. They demand the right to pay these prices...
...fascinated observer, "intentionally or unintentionally created a kind of hole-in-the-wall chic." It sure has; suburbanites frequently drive an hour each way to stand in a 20-min. line in front of Bob's and pay 950 for a cone and $3.75 for a quart of apple-peanut butter, banana mango or mocha almond. People buy Bob's Kahlua for $17 per gal., and some have spent $40 to airfreight it across the country. Owner Bob Weiss, 35, a lawyer who tired of the profession when he followed his lawyer-wife to Washington, started the shop...
...course if you are serious about these things, you must inevitably discover homemade ice cream-silken and voluptuous. A dozen supernal ice creams have passed through my life, notably the mythic chocolate almond chip fudge swirl created on Christmas (two quarts for company, one quart for me and my then husband to eat by the light of the freezer...
...Each flush is one quart...
Associate Editor Gerald Clarke, who suggested and wrote the story, claims it takes him "about three hours and a quart of coffee" to become fully functional in the morning. So to prepare for his story he used the new video-recorder technology to catch all three morning programs, and all 40 winks. Says Clarke: "I've been blinking through the shows for years, but this time I set the timer on my video recorder and watched them later...