Much too much has happened to even include in this update. The big thing you know about already, but there were other angles documented of it which I send to people or post on Close Friends every 2-3 hours: that’s taken up a lot of my week. There was a smattering of other, far-lesser celebrity encounters which I will keep intel exclusive to my Close Friends (the place to be, it seems), except the fact that I locked eyes with will.i.am while I was wearing a Fergie t-shirt. I also had a lot of great food, including something I invented called Candy Lunch, i.e. eating a root beer float, caramel-covered marshmallow rolled in M&Ms, and one gummy shark, which I ate at Coney Island (?), for lunch.
I wrote about Jeni’s, Salt & Straw, and Van Leeuwen last week, so let this also be an update that I have since had Morgenstern’s: “Pistachio Blackcurrant Jelly” was good but ultimately pistachio ice cream with jelly in it (grade: A) and “Circus Animals” tasted like birthday cake for a dumb child (grade: C-). A month ago Liam started talking about “Nightingale Ice Cream Sandwiches” at least once a week, when he would tell me they are “so awesome.” I wouldn’t say they ever looked “awesome” to me so much as “probably good,” but the flavors “Key Lime Pie” and “Banana Pudding” were and are, in fact, awesome; seemingly available to varying degrees of flavor diversity at every bodega and grocery store in New York City but neither freezer burnt nor pedestrian in texture. Ultimately, though, I would rather spend my calories at Morgenstern’s BANANAS, which opened 8 weeks ago with the gimmick of being non-dairy and as of this Tuesday now has dairy, because it asks: what if the inside of Morgenstern’s looked like a Harry Styles pop-up?1
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Here are some other things that happened to me this week:
I did NOT walk out of Kinds of Kindness
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