It’s-It! The San Francisco Treat That Sparked a Cult Following

Bay Curious

KQED

History, Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.9 • 999 Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2017

⏱️ 7 minutes

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San Franciscans have been having a love-affair with this ice cream treat since 1928. Reported by Alyssa Kapnik Samuel and Seth Samuel. Bay Curious is Olivia Allen-Price, Vinnee Tong, Paul Lancour, Penny Nelson, Suzie Racho and Julia McEvoy. Our managing editor is Ethan Lindsey. Vice President for News is Holly Kernan. Theme music by Pat Mesiti-Miller. Ask us a question at BayCurious.org. Follow Olivia Allen-Price on Twitter @oallenprice.

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0:00.0	From K-QED.
0:02.0	Hi, how are you? I'm good. I'm looking for... Oh, here they are. It's it's it's ice cream.
0:12.0	Yes.
0:13.0	Okay, you know this is made in San Francisco, right?
0:16.0	I do, yes.
0:17.0	Oh my God, this is my favorite.
0:19.0	The mint.
0:20.0	The mint. But they're all good.
0:21.0	All right, let's go put it in.
0:22.0	I'm Olivia Alan Price, and this is Bay Curious, a
0:25.0	cake-ready podcast where we are exploring the Bay Area one
0:28.4	question at a time. I made a quick stop at my favorite bodega to buy what I think is one of the Bay Area's finest delicacies.
0:37.0	Now, It's if ice cream sandwiches have been around San Francisco for a very long time. I'm talking
0:45.1	like before the beat poets, even before the Golden Gate Bridge was built. I
0:50.0	mean these things are iconic. But where did they come from how do they get to be here in the
0:55.7	first place and where did the name come from?
0:59.0	Support for Bay curious is brought to you by Sierra Nevada Brewing Company, still family owned, operated, and argued over.
1:06.0	Explore their brews wherever fine beverages are sold and taste how trailblazing runs in the family.
1:12.0	Visit Sierra Nevada.com to find you how trailblazing runs in the family.
1:12.8	Visit Sierra Nevada.com to find your new favorite beer today.
1:17.8	Independent radio producers Seth Samuel and Alyssa Capnick Samuel
1:21.9	got the sweet assignment to go find out.
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