Happy to see @patientled here on mastodon. They're the folks who formed early in the pandemic and have led the way in understanding #LongCovid and pushing for research that actually helps people. Without them, we'd be so much further behind.
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Kind of want this as a tattoo. Spotted on Hawaii Kai.@docpop This is my favorite Kaua'i rooster. He always orders the nuggets.
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Vance's idea to group chronically ill people into high-risk pools so insurers can shun & gouge us was something that used to happen pre-ACA.Vance's idea to group chronically ill people into high-risk pools so insurers can shun & gouge us was something that used to happen pre-ACA. So yes, he wants to go backwards. Fuck this guy and his terrible ideas.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2024/09/20/vance-health-care-affordable-care-act/
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Today's #IceCreamInsight is about everybody's favorite novelty...the CHOCO TACO.The Choco Taco went on to be a big hit and was sold in Taco Bells for years.
A few years ago, the company shut down production. It was pretty big news, and I don't know why they stopped making them. You can now find $12 bespoke non-official Choco Tacos at high-end ice cream shops.
Dad is now in his 80s and not in good cognitive health anymore, but I think he's leaving the world a little richer for being the co-inventer of the Choco Taco. /end
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Today's #IceCreamInsight is about everybody's favorite novelty...the CHOCO TACO.Eventually, dad designed a machine to be able to handle this, which is good...because the amount of person-time required for each Choco Taco before that was excessive and they were thinking of shutting down production.
A few years later, they applied for a patent. It's my favorite patent. Just look at the illustration. 3/
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Today's #IceCreamInsight is about everybody's favorite novelty...the CHOCO TACO.After a year or so of work, they had a production line. A machine folded a sugar cone into a taco shape, filled it with vanilla ice cream & dipped it in chocolate.
They wanted nuts on top. But they didn't have a machine to do that, so for the first year or so, a worker on the line had to hand-dip every Choco Taco in nuts. 2/
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Today's #IceCreamInsight is about everybody's favorite novelty...the CHOCO TACO.Today's #IceCreamInsight is about everybody's favorite novelty...the CHOCO TACO.
In the late 1980s, my dad and a colleague from Good Humor/Breyer's had a meeting with a guy from Philadelphia who worked for Jack & Jill Ice Cream Co. This other guy came up with the idea of an ice cream taco & my dad, Harold, a refrigeration engineer & his colleague Ben Benjamin, who was an ice cream scientist with his own little lab, went about figuring out how to make it. 1/
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Do you want to know a secret about ice cream?Do you want to know a secret about ice cream? It has air in it. In the biz it's called 'overrun.' Cheap ice cream has 100% overrun, meaning the volume has been doubled with air.
Premium brands like Ben & Jerry's and Haagen Dazs typically have 20-30% overrun. Less air, denser ice cream.
My dad worked for Good Humor/Breyer's.
Follow me for more ice cream insights.
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For an article I'm working on, I'm interested in talking with folks who have visited #LongCovid clinics in the US to hear about your experiences.For an article I'm working on, I'm interested in talking with folks who have visited #LongCovid clinics in the US to hear about your experiences.
Drop me a note here or at [email protected] if you're interested in chatting.
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I am so glad the Post saw fit to publish this wonderful obituary for @stevesilberman. He deserves it.I am so glad the Post saw fit to publish this wonderful obituary for @stevesilberman. He deserves it.
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