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According to the article posted, these were not. >After finishing their ice cream, customers handed back their well-licked penny lick, and the next customer at
by inflatableDodo 7y ago
According to the article posted, these were not.
>After finishing their ice cream, customers handed back their well-licked penny lick, and the next customer ate from the same cup. Because of the conical openings, Jacks couldn’t keep the narrow point clean if they tried. Penny licks became the perfect vessel for transmitting disease.
I suspect we might be able to improve on this, perhaps with some kind of new fangled sanitising machinery, more suited to this bright new modern age of steam. No, wait, I'm getting it wrong. Remind me, which century are we in again?
- NeedMoreTea 7y agoWe could invent some new fangled name like washing for this advanced new process you have in mind. I think this thread is in the 18th, but can't be sure. :)
- polotics 7y ago21st! You'll have to grab the soggy waffle cone from my cold dead hands!
- thaumasiotes 7y ago> According to the article posted, these were not. >> After finishing their ice cream, customers handed back their well-licked penny lick, and the next customer ate from the same cup. Because of the conical openings, Jacks couldn’t keep the narrow point clean if they tried. Penny licks became the perfect vessel for transmitting disease. Yes, it says that. The article also has some photographs of period penny licks. The description in the text doesn't match.