[HN Gopher] Keeping an ice cream factory cool
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       Keeping an ice cream factory cool
        
       Author : Brajeshwar
       Score  : 15 points
       Date   : 2024-02-27 12:22 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | CWuestefeld wrote:
       | In college I worked at an ice cream factory. It was _not_ cool.
       | It wasn 't even air-conditioned.
        
       | the_crocodile wrote:
       | Favorite quote that I'm not sure why the author included: "You
       | can't just put your mouth underneath the nozzle of an ice cream
       | machine and fill your belly," he says.
        
         | gwern wrote:
         | It was included because it was hilarious. The mental image of a
         | worker ducking under a nozzle and their stomach bloating like
         | some sort of ice cream mosquito justifies itself. (Watch out
         | for the ice cream headache. That may not be covered under the
         | health plan.)
         | 
         | However, I bet it's also a question he gets asked a _lot_ by
         | people:  "do you ever just snack on some of the ice cream
         | yourself?" And the reality squashing the dream would be no,
         | that would be unsanitary, often infeasible given the mechanism
         | and scale, and so on and so forth.
        
           | Symbiote wrote:
           | It was made clear to me when I worked in a food factory that
           | if I ate anything, I'd be fired immediately.
           | 
           | The exception was when a low pressure hose popped open, and
           | squirted food all over my face. The line manager, who has
           | been fiddling with it, said "please swallow that!" as
           | spitting it out would be been much worse. (Having to clean
           | and discard a lot of stuff.)
           | 
           | Once a week or so there would be leftovers in the canteen.
        
         | world2vec wrote:
         | Well, I always wondered if I could do that as an ice cream
         | factory worker.
         | 
         | Turns out, you can't. There goes that dream.
        
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