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Thread #101214 Message #2038928
Posted By: George Papavgeris
29-Apr-07 - 05:21 PM
Thread Name: BS: Soda fountains, ice cream and pharmacies
Subject: BS: Soda fountains, ice cream and pharmacies
Reading Vonneguts's "Dead Eye Dick" again after a long time, and his references to pharmacies, soda fountains etc woke up an old unsatisfied query. Perhaps our US brethren can shed some light for me:
What is it with pharmacies and ice cream in the early part of last century? It seems a very unlikely place to be going for some ice cream - for any kind of food, really. Pharmacies in most of the world deal only with medicines and health-related paraphernalia. How could they end up selling ice cream in the States?
And while we are at it, I would expect a "soda fountain" to be dispensing soda, carbonated water, sugared or not. But ice cream? How did the two terms become linked?