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merrily

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16. I'm a chocolate person, too, but vanilla was the most popular

Reply to Barack_America (Reply #5)

Tue Jul 8, 2014, 07:10 AM

Jul 2014

flavor for many years. Even with the proliferation of flavors today, vanilla ice cream is still the most popular dessert.

Besides, the issue is denying people something just to be ugly.

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In Jim Crow South, black people were denied vanilla ice cream, except on 4th of July [View all] Triana Jul 2014 OP

Sadly, the Jim Crow South was extraordinarily messed up in a lotta ways. AverageJoe90 Jul 2014 #1

Any serious contemplation of that era is a tire iron to the kneecap of American exceptionalism, or nomorenomore08 Jul 2014 #12

Jim Crow did not just happen in the South...it happened all over America noiretextatique Jul 2014 #34

I never heard this before... TreasonousBastard Jul 2014 #2

Black people weren't allowed to go swimming in a lot of areas. LuvNewcastle Jul 2014 #3

Black people weren't let into the pool at Palisades Park in the 1950s starroute Jul 2014 #4

Black people weren't allowed in the swimming pools in black Jamaica malaise Jul 2014 #19

In many southern towns and cities d_r Jul 2014 #6

That was a great read- thank you Marrah_G Jul 2014 #11

That is why the privatization trend is so intimately connected betterdemsonly Jul 2014 #31

Yes. From Detroit to Atlanta d_r Jul 2014 #33

there have been recent cases where black and hispanic kids were prevented from pools, usually JI7 Jul 2014 #10

How petty. Chocolate is so much better anyway. Barack_America Jul 2014 #5

+ an absolute million Number23 Jul 2014 #8

Me, too. Louisiana1976 Jul 2014 #26

This! Sissyk Jul 2014 #14

I'm a chocolate person, too, but vanilla was the most popular merrily Jul 2014 #16

So much craziness! freshwest Jul 2014 #7

k&r tammywammy Jul 2014 #9

Meh...vanilla ice cream Jamaal510 Jul 2014 #13

Check this out, Jamaal! Sissyk Jul 2014 #15

...and then dip them into a bowl of tempered dark chocolate and refreeze. FSogol Jul 2014 #20

Yes! Sissyk Jul 2014 #21

Lately, I've been using a lot of toasted hazel nuts in desserts. FSogol Jul 2014 #22

Blue Bunny, Schwann's, and Walmart have it. nt IronLionZion Jul 2014 #23

I also want strawberry ice cream sandwiches!!! bravenak Jul 2014 #27

How stupid and ugly people can get! merrily Jul 2014 #17

I grew up in Jim Crow Dallas... ananda Jul 2014 #18

Are we sure that this is whistler162 Jul 2014 #24

Maya Angelou and Audre Lorde's words/remembrance of that time... Triana Jul 2014 #25

Really? ieoeja Jul 2014 #29

Whatever. Triana Jul 2014 #30

here's some truth for you noiretextatique Jul 2014 #35

Except on the 4th of July. KamaAina Jul 2014 #28

This wasn't literally true. It was a ranking on Jim Crow. nolabear Jul 2014 #32