Men of a certain age will remember Bill Cosby’s routine about his anticipation of ice cream following his childhood tonsillectomy. “Ice cream! I’m gonna eat ice cream!” I listened to that album (“Wonderfulness”) nonstop for months.
The frozen treat is one of the great all-time comfort foods. In addition to its medicinal properties, ice cream is also one of the world’s greatest bonding agents. Before there were social media, there was the ice cream social, perhaps the first networking event. Today, hospitals and other organizations find that nothing brings people together quite like ice cream.