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Ice cream shop life lessons

A few life lessons I learned while working at an ice cream shop, the Yogurt Oasis, during college summers:

1)Don't ever put gummy bears into the ice cream, they get very cold and hard; therefore, very difficult to chew.
2)When sticking your head under the frozen yogurt machine and filling your mouth with frozen yogurt, only do this in short quick spurts. If you fill up your mouth with too much ice cream at once, you'll get the world's worst ice cream headache.
3)Don't EVER get strawberry dressing toppings at an ice cream shop. You don't know what has been in there
4)Ice Cream is the food of the masses. A wide range of people come in to get ice cream. Some nice and polite. Some downright naiiiiiisty. Many are ho-hum. Some goofy. Some rooty. Some tooty. Some rocky. Some vanilla. Some double-mocca chocolate.
5)Don't leave a plastic spoon in the cup when you are making a Hurricane (generic version of Blizzard)
6)Pray for rain all the time. It gives Yogurt Oasis workers more time to goof around.
7)Always fill customers' cup/cone higher than the person you're working with. It makes you look better.
8)Whenever there is cookie dough in 2 gallon tubs available, eat as much as humanly possible and tell the boss, "geez people really like to order cookie dough blizzards."
9)Use the vanilla frozen yogurt when throwing in a frozen-yogurt-throwing-war.
10)Customers don't come in as often when you have the "Closed" sign up.

My twin brother, Erik wrote a bunch of these. (He worked there for three summers, i worked there for two summers)


Posted by: spudart on Nov 07, 03 | 8:05 am  |   [3374] Hits  |   permalink

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Thanks for the strawberry head's up.

Ice cream sounds gooooooood right about now.

Posted by: Niki on Nov 07, 03 | 8:41 am


This entry made me smile :) Thanks! By the way, is there a difference between a Frozen Yogurt Headache and an Ice Cream Headache?

Posted by: Tom on Nov 07, 03 | 8:46 am


I think frozen yogurt takes longer to melt in your mouth then ice cream, so maybe a frozen yogurt headache would be more cloyingly painful.

Posted by: Kara on Nov 07, 03 | 11:57 am


Would that be the "Yogurt O" at Ohio State?
When did you work there?

Posted by: Andrew on Nov 08, 03 | 1:22 pm


nope, it's the Beverly Yogurt Oasis on the south side of Chicago at Western/103rd. I worked there in 1993 and 1994.

Posted by: spudart on Nov 08, 03 | 5:44 pm


11) Celery does not belong on ice cream. Think about what you are doing, people.

Posted by: spudart on Dec 16, 04 | 10:39 am


i'm laughing, reading this again!

Posted by: laura on Dec 16, 04 | 10:51 am


I was gonna make this point 12, but it's really a 3a) Don't ever order the hot caramel, that is also a dud that nobody orders, so it sits there and develops a skin over the surface.

Posted by: spudart on Jun 02, 05 | 1:57 pm


You're kidding, right? I LOVE caramel! Doesn't the ice cream scoop stir the caramel when somebody orders it in order to incorporate the skin and have it melt back into the sauce?

Posted by: Tom on Jun 02, 05 | 3:25 pm


That depends on the qualilty of your soda jerk.

Posted by: spudart on Jun 02, 05 | 3:39 pm


I'm sure you were a quality soda jerk

Posted by: Tom on Jun 02, 05 | 4:21 pm


I'd like to give a shout-out to my co-workers at the Oasis: Kevin and Jenny (the managers that were a couple), Dennis (who stole money from the register and got caught by the supposedly fake security camera), Erik (my twin brother), and all the other peeps that I can't remember you names. WHAAAAZUP!

Posted by: spudart on Sep 12, 06 | 9:50 am


double "mocca"? :)

Posted by: sparx on Jun 16, 09 | 11:52 am



Lots of valuable content here. Thank you.


Posted by: Prinz Kostüm on Nov 27, 11 | 6:55 am


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