It Ought to Be Called Vice Cream

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34 points·tintinnabula··5 comments

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Somewhat off-topic: Amsterdam's city center has recently seen a huge explosion of ice cream parlors, to the point where the center district now wants to ban any new ones.

Ice cream parlors, not "coffee shops" or "massage parlors" are currently the most hotly debated topic in Amsterdam's tourist area...

I never understand this kind of debate.

Why would anyone (other than other desert sellers) care how many ice cream shops there are, except to complain that there isn't one? I love the Dutch, but they are about as foreign to me as the Japanese, even more when it comes to anything food related.

A healthy economy should have a range of services that people might want to use in that area.

We have the same argument locally about betting shops and cafés.

It is a known business strategy in these industries to open additional stores to dilute the success of competing stores. This creates an artificially high number of stores, wasting public space and limited resources: potentially reducing the economic health of a whole area.

I haven't been back home (Amsterdam) for most of this year, but I find that surprising — I usually have trouble coming up with more than three ice cream parlours off the top of my head. Where's all this great ice cream I've been missing out on?

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