The New York Times reports that on May 12, local ice cream man John Cicero pulled up to his favorite spot to hand out soft serve to the boys and girls of Midtown Manhattan.
In any event, both soft serves, which are made primarily of water and skim milk, certainly have fewer calories than Häagen-Dazs, and even those who don't think much of the taste say they believe they are better for them.
"Art and MTV — hey, don't stay home without them," commands a baby-faced Richard Prince, holding a cone of vanilla soft serve in front of the Guggenheim, in his Art Break from the eighties.
Making good on the promise of its exterior, Sea Swirl also carries 24 flavors of soft serve, and another dozen of hard ice cream.
Finely rendered gummy bears, avalanches of soft serve, the supersaturated palette of the candy store, and a direct lining tapping into our collective childhoods are Magruder's active ingredients.
Here, a little cranberry juice generally does it… Tomorrow there's another round of Soft Serve, on the house.
Hard ice cream is served at about 5 to 7 degrees, while soft serve comes out of the nozzle at 14 to 25 degrees.
The appeal of soft serve lies in part in a bit of science.
"I was about 6 and one of my first memories is of my first bite of a soft serve with a chocolate shell," said Mr. Hill, owner of Pizzeria Picco in Larkspur, Calif., a destination for Bay Area pizza connoisseurs.
She loaded up her plate with a slice of pie and a scoop of soft serve and sat down to eat.
