{"id":2628,"date":"2007-08-16T09:15:35","date_gmt":"2007-08-16T17:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/08\/what_do_you_think_this_is_the_1980_olympics.html"},"modified":"2007-08-16T09:15:35","modified_gmt":"2007-08-16T17:15:35","slug":"what_do_you_thi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/08\/what_do_you_thi.html","title":{"rendered":"What Do You Think This Is, The 1980 Olympics?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The thing about boycotts<\/a> is they never work the way you want them to<\/a>:<\/p>\n

For Kim Myles, co-owner of 5 Boroughs Ice Cream and the brains behind the controversial flavor “Staten Island Landfill,” the publicity stemming from a borough-wide boycott marshaled by Borough President James P. Molinaro, not only increased her profits, but kept her striving for more.<\/p>\n

“The boycott tripled our sales and we crossed state lines,” said Ms. Myles.<\/p>\n

5 Boroughs Ice Cream got its start when she and her husband received an ice cream maker as a wedding present in 2001. After experimenting with a variety of ingredients, the couple began their own business and began marketing flavors focusing on the five boroughs.<\/p>\n

Staten Island’s claim to fame?<\/p>\n

The former Fresh Kills landfill of course.<\/p>\n

What Molinaro described as a “derogatory attack in the name of consumerism,” Ms. Myles sees as a great ice cream that “included everything but the kitchen sink.”<\/p>\n

Although the flavor is still widely unavailable in the borough, Staten Islanders are still managing to get their fix of the cookie crunch-, brownie chunk-, cherry- and fudge-laden vanilla ice cream.<\/p>\n

According to Ms. Myles, Islanders are eating the ice cream despite the opposition, much like people who drank during Prohibition. She even recalls one Island customer ordering a three-gallon tub for a birthday party.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The thing about boycotts is they never work the way you want them to: For Kim Myles, co-owner of 5 Boroughs Ice Cream and the brains behind the controversial flavor “Staten Island Landfill,” the publicity stemming from a borough-wide boycott marshaled by Borough President James P. Molinaro, not only increased her profits, but kept her […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-staten_island"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}