Should soft-serve ice cream be a public utility? It’s a question that now has been asked twice, if you count the headline. I know, I know, it sounds a little Soviet, but when you think about food deserts, the idea of putting soft-serve machines in Post Office lobbies starts to sound like it could be a good initiative. Plenty of protein in soft-serve, right? And those machines with the vanilla and chocolate and swirl options can’t be that expensive.
Personally, I don’t think it should be a utility. You’re hampering innovation that way, and soft-serve is rife with opportunities for innovation. But I am curious about a public option. Get it in the marketplace, subsidize it a little, maybe work with schools instead of the postal service, since the postal service is trying to figure some other things out these days and schools are running completely perfectly with not a flaw in the world and plenty of room to do things like think about ice cream. Just starting the discussion here. A discussion we need to have.
P.S. One of the funny-not-funny things about this would be Democrats switching to frozen yogurt when they take power and Republicans mandating only vanilla ice cream when they take power.
