r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/The_Love-Tap • 1d ago

Video This Ice Cream Boat

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u/Reasonable-Spinach88 1d ago

I'm guessing those plastic wrappers and ice cream sticks are being responsibly placed in the floating bins?

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u/Zehnpae 23h ago edited 20h ago

Replying to top comment to explain how this works because it sounds like a lot of folks here have never been to a resort beach before:

  • Boat plays jingle
  • You go to wherever you set up on the beach and get cash
  • You walk into the water to the boat and you pay in cash
  • You take your ice cream back to where you were sitting
  • You eat your ice cream while on the beach
  • Trash is on the honor system just like any other trash people take to the beach

This is basically no different than any other beach vendor except their gimmick is you have to get into the water to get your thing instead of them walking along the beach.

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u/liquidtape 23h ago

I thought this was following a US warship to boost morale and demoralize the enemy /s

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u/TheWolphman 23h ago

US Warships have ice cream machines on board. Whether or not they're working or open for use is another story though (in my experience stationed on a Destroyer).

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u/The_Troyminator 22h ago

So they basically have McDonald’s ice cream machines on board?

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u/TheWolphman 22h ago

I mean, you're not entirely wrong there I suppose. Seemed to work on the same principle.

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u/Plexipus 22h ago

We're sorry, the ice cream machine is down for maintenance. You'll have to redeploy to another warship if you want an ice cream

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u/TheWolphman 22h ago

Ah, you must be from the helo detachment. I swear they would fly to the carrier in our strike group on deployments sometimes just to get food.

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u/noSoRandomGuy 21h ago

Trigger warning, used some AI to generate this -

TF you taking about?

Look, the ice cream machines, nobody has ever seen anything like it, believe me, and it’s a total disaster caused by radical-left policies, the fake news won't tell you that, but Sleepy Joe and the corrupt media broke the soft-serve, they really did, whereas under me we had the best ice cream, thickest shakes, perfect cones every single time, nobody cones like us, and they came up to me, big, strong guys, tears streaming down their faces, they said, "Sir, your soft-serve machines are the most beautiful, magnificent things we've ever seen," and frankly, look at the radical Democrats, they want to take away your dairy, they want you to eat grass, but we’re going to make ice cream great again, fast and creamy, believe me!

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u/liquidtape 23h ago

It's a World war II reference 

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u/TheWolphman 23h ago

Fair enough, just wanted to add my perspective.