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Still, aren't the prices just a trifle extortionate? Are we really talking about $2 for just one scoop and some candy crumbs? Has everybody gone crazy...
...than anybody else, with Australians and New Zealanders spooning their way across the finish line a distant second and third. If all that tonnage is hard to get the teeth into, conceptually, the International Association of Ice Cream Manufacturers is happy to calculate that it would provide ten single-scoop cones for every human being on earth, an idea that might make the MX missile unnecessary-at least until the chocolate chip...
Last year Häagen-Dazs sold 40 million pt.-its largest retail size-made in a new, computerized plant in Woodbridge, N.J., and this year's sales are running about 50% better. The firm has franchised 89 "scoop shops"-as hand-dip ice-cream parlors are called in the trade-and expects to open 19 more across the country by the end of the summer...
...reason that the ice cream in the best scoop shops tastes so good does not seem very mysterious. The player piano helps, and so does the chance to feel like Diamond Jim Brady and still get change back from a $5 bill. But what is most important is that the ice cream is likely to have been made the day before from the best ingredients that the local markets are offering ("Use overripe peaches!" yells Vermont's Cohen to Mattus...
...signified a pineapple soda with chocolate ice cream, and "twist it, choke it and make it cackle" for a chocolate malted with an egg (twist presumably for the twisting of the malted-milk beater, choke for chocolate, and cackle, of course, for the chicken that laid the egg). New scoop shops do not seem to have developed such a memorable language of their own. Carla Seidel, 20, a friendly, blond, Harvard psychology major who scoops the graveyard shift-11 p.m. to 7 a.m.-at Brigham's in Harvard Square, describes the "zeroll" scooping technique (named for the anti-freeze...