Labor day weekend

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This weekend we celebrate Labor Day and an end of summer of sorts. While we will still have a few summery flavors up until the end of the month this weekend is like a spiritual end to the summer. We will be doing various typical classical American flavors along with some APEM classics. Someone’s been bugging me about the Dannyboy flavor, and I’ve done my best to pretend like I have no idea what he’s talking about. But it will be up at some point this weekend along with some Fresh Mint Chip, good old Cornbread, and El Diablo

Labor Day is an important holiday especially here in Jersey. When I was growing  up, most adults I knew were always busting their asses. That’s that immigrant mentality shit as people would say. You feel like that’s all you got to give and then you hit the clutch and kick it into another gear. And it doesn’t matter if you’re working at an auto body shop or as a pharmacist. You just GO. One of my heroes growing up is an uncle who used to pick asparagus in California and worked on a fishing boat. He’s so crazy. And he learned how to work from my Filipino grandfather who would go until you broke and made you work more. I’m definitely not like them lol. I bust my ass, but I also have a poetic heart. I love sitting idling by a brook just as much as I love turning out the gelato. To me working and creating things for people to consume is a temporary thing. Real living is something beyond labor where we are part of nature and we indulge in its fruits as simple beings. But that is not how our world works, and if I am to labor... then gelato it is. So stop by, shut up, and enjoy.