When I worked at the second coffee shop we had three sizes of ice cream, junior, single, and double, and they were all a *lot* of ice cream.
People would come up to the counter and ask for a double with strawberry and cookie dough and I’d say “you might want to do a single or junior with two flavors instead of a double, a double is really big” and they wouldn’t listen, and it was always a delight to watch their eyes open in mild panic as the scoops materialized in front of them.
But the *best* was when a kid would ask “dad can i have a double scoop?” And I’d say “you might want a junior scoop with two flavors, they’re big scoops” and the parent would say “no, he wants a double” because i worked at that coffee shop for six years and I had a lot of time to practice and very strong arms and I could easily pack a pint and a half of ice cream on top of a sugar cone, and I did so with gleeful abandon every time someone made that mistake and the kids *loved* it when I’d pass the cone over and it would almost tip out of their hands with the weight of the ice cream.
Kids who ordered a junior cone *also* got a truly unmanageable amount of ice cream, but that was never as amusing to me as watching the parents’ reactions as I was shoveling a monkey’s paw worth of ice cream into a waffle cone and they couldn’t change their mind mid-scoop because after all I *had* warned them and backing out after telling me to go ahead would be admitting defeat.
Anyway. If you were a kid who had an unwieldy double scoop at Bean Town Coffee Bar from 2005 to 2011, I hope you had as much fun with your ice cream as I did.
Also we did not give a single fuck about seasons so you could order a PSL or a peppermint latte whenever because who cares if it was “off season ” drink your coffee.
We would also stick a slice of pie in a blender with some vanilla ice cream and a splash of milk and call that a smoothie.
We had Italian sodas, which are soda water, syrup, and half and half, so we had about 40 flavors of torani syrup. Once there was this teenager who had lost a bet whose friends made him order an Italian soda with every flavor. I had nothing better to do so I filled an extra large cup with a half second pour of each flavor, mixed it together, poured half into a 20oz cup (waaaaaaaaay too much syrup for an Italian soda) and served the drink (i charged them for ten syrup shots). Since I had a bunch of the mixture left over, I tried it in a more moderate ratio in an Italian soda, and i can *still* taste the creme de menthe, blueberry, and caramel overwhelming everything else.
The kid drank his entire Italian soda and then threw up.
