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I have a wicked sweet tooth. As a kid, I’d take every single quarter or dollar I earned from raking the neighbors’ leaves, and I’d cut through the woods down the street. On the other side was an Acme, the Ritz theater where I saw Tim Burton’s Batman four times in the summer of 1989, and a 7Eleven. At the “sev,” the money would get spent on exactly two things: a Gauntlet arcade game, where the Warrior was my character of choice… and giant chewy Sweet Tarts.
My sweet tooth was insatiable; I once stuffed an entire vanilla Charleston Chew into my mouth and could barely breathe; another time, I was randomly rummaging through my brother’s bureau and came upon the Hubba Bubba he’d been judiciously saving, chewing periodically as a treat… and like a sugar-starved kid in a candy desert, I shoved THAT entire pack of gum right into my mouth. In my 20s, I ate a halloween-sized bag of Reese’s peanut butter cups in a 24-hour span.
And even now, as a much older man with a presumption of self-control, I find it challenging to resist a treat. Our family loves cake, ice cream, and pretty much every other dessert we can get our hands on. When we go to the movies, I’ll get Milk Duds, Junior Mints, Raisinets, AND sometimes a cherry-Pepsi Icee to boot. Every Christmas morning, I make homemade cinnamon buns from scratch. This is simply how we live.
So hunting down Eric Berley, co-owner of the Franklin Fountain and Shane Confectionary, was like a big-game safari for me. Franklin Fountain is unquestionably a hall-of-fame-worthy landmark of ice cream in Philadelphia, if not the country. The meticulously crafted ice cream parlor and soda shop has been dishing out wonder for over 20 years. Eric agreed to talk to me, so we set up in his new space called the Cacao Pod on Market Street, full of church pews and a chocolate roaster—and we talked about nostalgia, old-fashioned lemon ice cream, how to create an authentic and unforgettable experience for your guests, and more.
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