tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30306615.post6195069044780158462..comments2024-02-28T11:29:36.860-05:00Comments on just up the pike: jimmie cone: a small urban space in the suburbsDan Reedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10594208011755406956noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30306615.post-42577638237715159402009-08-03T13:58:46.648-04:002009-08-03T13:58:46.648-04:00Jimme Cone has a definite throw-back vibe to it. T...Jimme Cone has a definite throw-back vibe to it. Their sundaes are great as well.BHZhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07154364493048756840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30306615.post-60717936830851352482009-07-31T14:45:44.552-04:002009-07-31T14:45:44.552-04:00Dan, you say:
[ ... ] they encourage and often fo...Dan, you say:<br /><br /><i>[ ... ] they encourage and often force us to interact with other people, to embrace our innate social urges. </i><br /><br />Try to keep in mind at all times that there is a subset of people who find this sort of place to be basically a living hell, one best avoided. <br /><br />I'm not talking about "Jimmie Cone" in particular, I have never been there.<br /><br />However, there are places where some people are pointedly excluded. Places that a "for the cool people" often get their reputation for being "cool" because they exclude "losers", or "nerds", etc. Back in the day, they used to exclude blacks, or foreigners, or Jews, or Catholics, you get the idea. <br /><br />To add to the fact that you have to understand that for those who are picked out for exclusion these places are no attraction but rather a hazard, let me once again point out that for those of us who aren't gregarious, it would not be our "innate social instincts" that would make us go to such a place, but rather a craving for the product that they serve. <br /><br />If you're with the "in crowd", or whoever it is who has staked a claim to a facility that's supposed to be open to all comers, perhaps the products are a mere excuse to stake out your territorial claims. <br /><br />If you're one of the people picked out to be excluded, well, look at it this way: if it was 1959 and you were a black man and the only place you could get ice-cream was at the meeting house of the KKK, I guess you just wouldn't be satisfying your innate social urges over an ice-cream cone, now would you. <br /><br />And if I recall correctly, that place was at one time infamous for exactly that problem, Maryland being Maryland and Marylanders being Marylanders, dontcha know.Thomas Hardmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07951423786343852055noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30306615.post-43646345904796697112009-07-31T04:28:32.900-04:002009-07-31T04:28:32.900-04:00I love this post - linking to you on APISS right n...I love this post - linking to you on APISS right now...Jessica McFaddenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13126526402551793672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30306615.post-81061658602915825512009-07-30T17:39:31.172-04:002009-07-30T17:39:31.172-04:00I only get up to Jimmie Cone rarely - because of i...I only get up to Jimmie Cone rarely - because of its way-up-there locale. But I can attest that it worth the trip and thanks Dan, for the 411 and a reminder that no summer in MoCo should go by without at least one Jimmie Cone roadtrip!WashingtonGardenerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03950523974356540767noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30306615.post-88050817355928349692009-07-30T17:23:33.610-04:002009-07-30T17:23:33.610-04:00I spent my teenage years near Boston. Everybody o...I spent my teenage years near Boston. Everybody orders <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmies" rel="nofollow">"jimmies"</a> up there instead of sprinkles, but I've never heard anyone around here use the term. There are a lot of Massachusetts transplants down here, and I wouldn't be surprised if the original owners of <a href="http://www.jimmieconemd.com/" rel="nofollow">Jimmie Cone</a> came from the Boston area.Bowie Mikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09656054601003840365noreply@blogger.com