8.06.2005

we love new york

Help keep our city safe from unapprehended icy* vendors. From the People With Nothing Better To Do files:
"Deponent states that he observed approximately four un-apprehended individuals surrounding defendant and said cart, and further observed one un-apprehended individual hand defendant a sum of United States currency."

"In exchange, defendant handed to said un-apprehended individual an icy."

The "un-apprehended individuals" were customers, many of them children. The defendant was the man selling them. The deponent was the policeman, and the sum of United States currency was one dollar.

Some would argue that selling an icy on a day as hot as July 19 was more a public service than an illegal enterprise. In fact, his customers tried. "They were saying, 'Dios mío! Leave the sellers alone'," Mr. Luna said on Thursday, back at his painted wooden cart, with children swarming around like flies.

Then Mr. Luna, a mild-mannered man wearing spectacles, admitted what was true: He did not have a license for his $60-a-day operation of ice and syrup. Not then, on July 19, and not now.

Here's how the police recorded that fact:

"Deponent further states that he approached defendant and asked defendant in sum and substance if he had a vendor's license and/or a tax certificate. And defendant stated in sum and substance: NO."
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*Yes, in New York City, the flavored shaved-ice treats are now called icies, singular icy. I'm sure everyone will weigh in with what they called these things when they were growing up. We called them ices, or sometimes, Italian ices.

6 comments:

Marnie said...

Good grief.

In sum and substance we called them sno-cones, but you could only get them at fairs or, I think, the local skating rink.

laura k said...

We have Sno-cones too, they're slightly different from icies. Different shape, but also a different taste. I will have to look into this.

Here's something on Italian ices, and an appreciation of ices and coco helado, the Latino version.

James Redekop said...

By the way, some of the best ice cream in Toronto is at Ed's Ice Cream in the Beaches. Ed based is recipe on those developed during the Great Boston Ice Cream Revolution of the late 70s (Steve's, Herrell's, etc, which led to Ben & Jerry's), and makes some spectacular ice cream.

mister anchovy said...

I love the fact that the word Sno-cone has no W.

Anonymous said...

Oh, God! National travesty! Call in the guard!

The Ices Are Coming, The Ices Are Coming ... !!!

laura k said...

LOL :)