{"id":352,"date":"2008-11-18T19:43:34","date_gmt":"2008-11-18T19:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ireland.markciecior.com\/?p=352"},"modified":"2024-11-27T22:00:52","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T22:00:52","slug":"coldstone-cant-even-compete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ireland.markciecior.com\/?p=352","title":{"rendered":"Coldstone Can&#8217;t Even Compete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My roommate Nate spent a semester in Florence last year and told me how wonderful Italian gelato is.\u00a0 I was more than ready to try some and, fortunately, there were gelato stands waiting for us as soon as we got off the train.\u00a0 After we put our bags away we got some white chocolate gelato; it was excellent.\u00a0 I thought of Coldstone ice cream as soon as I tasted it, but this stuff was something more.\u00a0 It&#8217;s creamier, and smoother, and better.<\/p>\n<p>We started walking the streets of Venice and noticed that gelato is pretty cheap.\u00a0 Even in the really 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