The ice-cream shop around the corner from my house has the best ice-cream in the city.  When you first walk inside, there is a long chrome counter with matching stools extending to alongside the far wall.  Right where the counter stops, the booth seating begins.  There are lots of old-timey knick knacks on the walls and chrome napkin holders on all the tables.  My favorite part of the shop is behind the counter glass, where they keep all of the ice-cream flavors.  A rainbow of delicious sugary flavors is kept cool and delicious behind the counter glass.

Freezer burn may have wasted more ice-cream than sidewalks.  If you don’t know, freezer burn is when ice crystals form on the surface of ice-cream.  These ice crystals can ruin the texture and flavor of the ice cream.  But you can prevent freezer burn.  Since freezer burn is caused when melted ice-cream is refrozen, rather than eating your ice-cream from the container as it melts, scoop your ice-cream into a bowl and put the container back in the fridge immediately.  Doing this ought to help you solve your issues with freezer burn.

No one knows the true origin of ice-cream, but the first published ice-cream recipe appears in “Mrs. Mary Eales's Receipts,” a cookbook that was printed in London in 1718. Sometime around 1832, an African American confectioner named Augustus Jackson created multiple ice cream recipes and invented a superior technique to manufacture ice cream.  Ice cream soda was invented around 1874, but the real breakthrough may have been at the 1904 World’s Fair in St. Louis, Missouri, when the American ice-cream cone was unveiled!

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Unable to tolerate the dust one moment longer, Elizabeth spent the afternoon cleaning the living room tables and shelves. Now __________ slippery with furniture polish, glowing in the sunlight that spills through the open window.

Randall picked up the tarantula, hoping __________ impress Betty Lou, who had a 10- foot albino python draped over her shoulders.

The slice of pizza was still __________ hot to eat, but Benjamin couldn’t resist, blistering his mouth with the first painful bite.

Grandma believes that clothing color indicates a person’s character. Wearing pinks, reds, or oranges—whether male or female, whether shirts, socks, or ties—indicates __________ morals in Grandma’s book.

So that Mrs. Hoff doesn’t __________ a single minute of class time, she watches the second hand sweep across the twelve, indicating the hour has started, and then launches into her lecture.

If you __________ a sock in a washing machine, Mrs. Chen, the Laundromat owner, will make a puppet with it to amuse the children who visit.

Lolita heaped her brother’s plate with barbecue chicken, potato salad, and baked beans. _________ was so much food that Henry needed two hands to carry the plate to the table.

Svetlana has __________ book bags—one that she wears on her shoulders and one that she pulls on rollers—to accommodate all of the big, heavy textbooks for her science courses

Clarissa sprinkled hot pepper flakes on the arm rests. __________ important that the puppy learns not to chew on the sofa.

Sylvia sprayed furniture polish on the ancient table. __________ surface gleamed until the cleaner evaporated, leaving the same old, scarred wood.

When Mom __________ out the kitchen rug, dog hair, breadcrumbs, coffee grounds, and spaghetti noodles flew through the air and dusted the sidewalk.

Jennifer has discovered that hanging clothes outside to dry has its disadvantages. Recently, a spider crept into a pair of her jeans and __________ a day biting the "intruder"—Jennifer's bare leg—that had invaded the arachnid's new home.

When Henry opened the vegetable crisper at the bottom of the refrigerator, the puddle of rotting lettuce that he discovered __________ up the kitchen for the rest of the day.

One spring Joe __________ tomatoes in the backyard; pollution, insects, and weekend badminton matches did so much damage to the poor plants that Joe went back to buying canned tomatoes at the grocery store.

While crawling along in rush-hour traffic, Kay cranked up her car stereo and __________ the lyrics to "Back in Black" with AC/DC, oblivious to the scowls of annoyance from the other drivers trapped beside her.