People have been eating ice cream in this country since the colonial period. Our founding fathers enjoyed ice cream. When ice cream became affordable to the general public, people flocked to places called ice cream parlors to get the ice cream fix. Join me as i discuss the history of that beloved institution, the ice cream parlor

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