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| Ice cream is ice cream is ice cream. |
We once became ice cream millionaires by not being too proud to steal expired product from a dumpster. There is a grocery store called Macey's, named sort of like the high-end clothing store except that they specialized in cheap food. Macey's would throw out rotten fruits and vegetables and outdated food a couple of times a week and my mom would take us down to see what was still good.
Usually, we salvaged some apples or some lettuce. Sometimes some nice fruit on the bottom yogurt that was past its sell-by date, but when do you know that a product that is rotten milk has past it's prime?
One day our routine pickings were bolstered by a massive pallet of ice cream that was all being thrown away at once. There were gallons and gallons, 20 or 30 gallons, all sitting out waiting to be plundered. We struck fast. We stuffed the car and drove like the wind to get the almost melted booty back in the freezer.
For weeks, we gorged on ice cream, normally a rare treat. I still remember the feeling of having so much ice cream as one of the best feelings of my life. I was just so excited, I didn't realize until later that it was actually kind of sad that to get ice cream we had to get it out of a dumpster. They do say good things come to those who are not too proud to beg. They say lots of things that can be anonymously attributed and anecdotally considered true.
