Rich people problems
Monday, Aug 15, 2016 - Posted by Rich Miller
* People on the South and West sides often fear going to public parks because of all the shootings. In the Gold Coast, they hate their gelato. I am not making this up…
Gelato-gate is heating up.
Gold Coast residents who frequent Mariano Park, a picturesque little plaza at State and Rush streets, clamored for weeks for new park tenant Bow Truss Coffee to bring in the gelato that was promised them.
In mid-July, they got their wish with the addition of Black Dog Gelato, known for its unusual flavors and supplier to some of the city’s best restaurants.
But, these residents now say, it isn’t good enough for their tony neighborhood.
The complaints, voiced via e-mail to DNAinfo last week, cite everything from the texture of the gelato, to Bow Truss owner Phil Tadros’ inaction, to the appearance of the Black Dog stand, essentially a freezer case stationed under an awning next to the Bow Truss kiosk.
Brian Dryer, a Gold Coast resident for nearly 20 years, called the pink stand an “IKEA shack” with inadequate signage and “no smiles at counter it’s terrible.” […]
The park “needs to be updated end of story. We don’t deserve what is being offered right now as dessert,” said Judi Steinreich, who appears to be one of those leading the charge leveled at Bow Truss owner Phil Tadros.
- Anonymous - Monday, Aug 15, 16 @ 11:41 am:
Everything is relative. It’s gelato. It could be fighting over which of the 9 houses to go to next.
- FormerParatrooper - Monday, Aug 15, 16 @ 11:43 am:
This is what happens when you live in a bubble and there is not real work to occupy your time. If 1/3 of the energy expended towards the gelato “problem” was directed at something productive, maybe real issues could be solved.
- Buster crab - Monday, Aug 15, 16 @ 11:44 am:
“Mike Madigan, and the frozen treats he controls…”
- Anonymous - Monday, Aug 15, 16 @ 11:56 am:
==We don’t deserve what is being offered right now as dessert,”==
Let them eat cake
- My New Handle - Monday, Aug 15, 16 @ 11:59 am:
I woke up this morning
Both my cars were gone
Felt so suicidal
Threw my drink across the lawn
Martin Mull, White Man’s Blues
- Cubs in '16 - Monday, Aug 15, 16 @ 12:02 pm:
===Everything is relative.===
Yes indeed! While tens of thousands of IL families will struggle today to scrape up enough food to fill their stomachs, Thurston and Lovie Howell bemoan the consistency of their gelato. That’s some perspective for ya.
- DuPage Bard - Monday, Aug 15, 16 @ 12:07 pm:
Ah the problems of the upper crust. Maybe they should hold a fundraiser for Rauner and Rahm then they’ll get a State grant for studying the best type of gelato that will fit in the neighborhood and then create a TIF district for where the gelato machine resides.
- JS Mill - Monday, Aug 15, 16 @ 12:08 pm:
=We don’t deserve what is being offered right now as dessert,”=
No you don’t. Work harder at something that matters and maybe we will get you a nice Eskimo Pie.
- Ron - Monday, Aug 15, 16 @ 12:08 pm:
Lol who cares? Why would anyone bother to write about this?
- Ron Burgundy - Monday, Aug 15, 16 @ 12:10 pm:
Meanwhile, kids on the south and west sides are lucky if an ice cream truck shows up in their neighborhood, and luckier still if they don’t get shot visiting it. Perspective, people.
- WhoKnew - Monday, Aug 15, 16 @ 12:11 pm:
They can gladly have the Ice Cream truck that blast thru my neighborhood.
- Stones - Monday, Aug 15, 16 @ 12:16 pm:
Where the heck is the Grey Poupon?
- Anonymous - Monday, Aug 15, 16 @ 12:17 pm:
Rich People Problems
Such is the reality of life. Might tsk-tsk this, but it is what it is. As seen from the advisory on a millionaire tax that was disregarded, thank you (to keep programs in place, for one, that feed empty stomachs of the poor), the problem of gelato
will continue to be the worst of the dilemmas of the wealthy. And what will be done about that?
- Blue Bayou - Monday, Aug 15, 16 @ 12:23 pm:
Are there no tumbrels?
- Name Withheld - Monday, Aug 15, 16 @ 12:23 pm:
We need a Gelato Turnaround Agent stat!
- Name Withheld - Monday, Aug 15, 16 @ 12:23 pm:
Gelato Turnaround Agenda
- Century Club - Monday, Aug 15, 16 @ 12:26 pm:
How can we be a world class city when you can’t get a decent scoop of Stracciatella in this town?
- Chicago_Downstater - Monday, Aug 15, 16 @ 12:27 pm:
Did people really not realize how this would look? Good on the shop owners for standing up to rude customers.
Side note: These comments are hilarious!
- Biography - Monday, Aug 15, 16 @ 12:29 pm:
Call Mark Kirk and see what his position is on this.
- IL Dem - Monday, Aug 15, 16 @ 12:30 pm:
Thanks, Obama.
- Ghost - Monday, Aug 15, 16 @ 12:32 pm:
police need to pull over people and give them gelato. problem solved!
btw what the heck is gelato? i see it at Hyvee…. it looks like room temperature playdo, cant bring myself to try it.
- Just Chilling - Monday, Aug 15, 16 @ 12:35 pm:
I’d say “eat the rich,” but the fathead content is too high
- Wensicia - Monday, Aug 15, 16 @ 12:40 pm:
I’m surprised they complained about the appearance. Don’t they send the servants to pick up their dessert orders?
- Frenchie M - Monday, Aug 15, 16 @ 12:40 pm:
—
… fill their stomachs, Thurston and Lovie Howell bemoan the consistency of their gelato. That’s some perspective for ya.
—
It’s also the way Rauner will win re-election. These gelato hipsters — gipsters — have no idea about the decimation of social services caused by Rauner’s “leverage”.
- Cubs in '16 - Monday, Aug 15, 16 @ 12:44 pm:
Diana and I have given millions, millions, to gelato development and research…–Fake Gov Rauner
- Honeybear - Monday, Aug 15, 16 @ 12:45 pm:
Don’t blame them. They know not what they do.
- Huh? - Monday, Aug 15, 16 @ 12:46 pm:
“btw what the heck is gelato?”
Fancy word for sherbet.
- Amalia - Monday, Aug 15, 16 @ 12:47 pm:
have you never visited the north side of Chicago? it’s filled with stuff like this “controversy.” three people know someone in the media and suddenly something that most everyone else is ignoring becomes a story. then because the media gets invested in the narrative they keep covering it, often in the absence of statistics, actual facts. any one story can be compelling. the whole is usually not one story. welcome to life of people with too much happy time on their hands.
- The Dude Abides - Monday, Aug 15, 16 @ 12:48 pm:
We need to make sure that we keep taxes low on these Gold Coast folks because they are job creators. Many middle class workers are being paid too much though. Let’s just pass prevailing wage and get those wages down and this state will prosper. /s
- Demoralized - Monday, Aug 15, 16 @ 12:51 pm:
==We don’t deserve what is being offered right now as dessert==
Did she even think before she spoke or is she just that out of touch to think that this is some big crisis? Someone ought to tell her that we’ve got plenty of real problems to think about and her gelato “crisis” isn’t one of them.
“We don’t deserve?” Words escape me.
- Demoralized - Monday, Aug 15, 16 @ 12:52 pm:
I’ve got a better idea. Give them their precious gelato and we’ll tax it at $500 bucks a pop. Want your gelato? Fine. But you’re going to pay for it if for no other reason than you deserve to pay for it.
- AlfondoGonz - Monday, Aug 15, 16 @ 12:59 pm:
Had the voters not been so short sighted, President Chris Christie would have addressed this injustice immediately.
- @MisterJayEm - Monday, Aug 15, 16 @ 12:59 pm:
– MrJM
- Huh? - Monday, Aug 15, 16 @ 1:01 pm:
“We don’t deserve what is being offered right now as dessert…”
So being served a frozen concoction of water and flavorings that isn’t to your liking is beneath your dignity? What is wrong with the goat cheese cashew caramel gelato? Or were you upset because they ran out of the sesame fig chocolate chip?
Poor pitiful you. You are the sorriest thing we have ever seen. Such problems we have never seen.
- John Gregory (ex-IRN) - Monday, Aug 15, 16 @ 1:07 pm:
DNAInfo writers really didn’t appreciate this article getting criticized.
Their defense was the article illustrates the “unchecked privilege” of rich, white Gold Coasters compared to the life-or-death problems of those in other neighborhoods. But I don’t see that sort of angle in this story.
- Rich Miller - Monday, Aug 15, 16 @ 1:10 pm:
===But I don’t see that sort of angle in this story.===
Me neither.
- BigDoggie - Monday, Aug 15, 16 @ 1:10 pm:
After reading the full article, I honestly had to double check that I wasn’t on The Onion’s website.
- Annonin' - Monday, Aug 15, 16 @ 1:13 pm:
Now we understand why the 1%ers think F* the class worker is reform
- OneMan - Monday, Aug 15, 16 @ 1:17 pm:
I get why the covered it, first it would appear that enough people are talking about it (since there was a meeting about the ‘problem’) and hyperlocal news is kind of what the web can do well when it comes to local news.
Also I can only imagine the conversation ‘they are complaining about what? Dude we have to get someone on record for this’
- Fred - Monday, Aug 15, 16 @ 1:17 pm:
This clearly calls for a Gelato Voucher program. The good citizens could use their gelato vouchers at any shop in town.
- Centennial - Monday, Aug 15, 16 @ 1:17 pm:
Anyone who lived in the area for the past couple years knew there was a pretty tough fight going on between longtime, long loved, Whispers Cafe and the new proposed tenant. My gut, when I saw the headline at least, was that the article was supposed to be about that neighborhood political battle over the cafe space — not gelato brands.
The article and the quotes are just… weird.
- Chicago 20 - Monday, Aug 15, 16 @ 1:27 pm:
- I felt a great disturbance in the gelato, as if millions of taste buds suddenly cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced by bland flavors and unsmiling faces.
- Just Me - Monday, Aug 15, 16 @ 1:38 pm:
People who live downtown are the absolute worst. They think of the downtown as their personal property that allows tourists and visitors to come in. Their attitude transcends into thinking they deserve the best streets, the best sidewalks, the best parks, the best of everything because “this is downtown.” If this dessert stand wasn’t in a public space they wouldn’t say anything, but because it is in a park they think they react in this disgusting manner.
- Anonymous - Monday, Aug 15, 16 @ 1:55 pm:
You laugh, but would it really be so bad if they could add some Aranciata Sorbetto to the menu, for those of us who are lactose intolerant?
- Anonymous - Monday, Aug 15, 16 @ 2:15 pm:
Why is the park being used for private profit in the first place? No need to plop a gelato/coffee stand on public property when there are plenty of places nearby.
- anon - Monday, Aug 15, 16 @ 2:22 pm:
Ghost and Huh?
Gelato is not sherbet. It is Italy’s version of ice cream - the differences include lower butterfat content, higher density, and it is served slightly warmer. It is also delicious. Ghost you should try it next time you are at HyVee!
- JoanP - Monday, Aug 15, 16 @ 2:53 pm:
Oh, my:
The other gelato shop owner is quoted as saying, “You’re dealing with the highest echelon of people who live in Chicago.”
They sure don’t act like it.
“Amorino’s gelato is imported from Europe and is layered, flower-like, into cones. Fans say it’s the most authentic gelato this side of the Atlantic.”
Y’know, I’ve had gelato in many, many places in Italy, and NONE of them “layered it, flower-like” into cones.
- A guy - Monday, Aug 15, 16 @ 3:06 pm:
Don’t even get me started on the tiramisu!
And this, after they took away our goose liver pate.
We might as well just starve.
- Just Me - Monday, Aug 15, 16 @ 3:20 pm:
Anonymous at 2:15 - I’m sure they pay rent to the park district, and is a source of revenue for the district. There are similar ice cream stands, hot dog stands, and restaurants all over the park district.
- BBG Watch - Monday, Aug 15, 16 @ 3:30 pm:
Wonder what Rauner’s favorite flavor is - Rocky Road
- Federalist - Monday, Aug 15, 16 @ 3:34 pm:
The Gold Coast. A Democratic stronghold full of sanctimonious faux liberals who are very much for the downtrodden and minorities as long as they can use them for cheap labor and don’t live to close.
- scott aster - Monday, Aug 15, 16 @ 3:35 pm:
Rich this is what you get from public bidding….average. Should have given the concession to somebody that is on the street like Steve L of the Gibson group. They would take care of it because it is in there front yard.
- JoanP - Monday, Aug 15, 16 @ 3:40 pm:
@ scott aster -
No, it’s their back yard, at least according to Steinreich: “”We want to make the Park great again that is all. It is our backyard we want it great.”
(P.S. You wouldn’t happen to live at Scott & Astor Streets, would you?)
- Smith - Monday, Aug 15, 16 @ 3:44 pm:
This all CTU anti-gelato class warfare propaganda, probably see a giant inflatable rat outside the gelato tomorrow.
- Belle - Monday, Aug 15, 16 @ 4:05 pm:
I live near the store in Wicker Park/East Village.
It’s very good gelato, the flavors are not the run-of-the-mill like vanilla, raspberry, tiramisu etc. Some of them are pretty crazy combos.
It’s an overall favorite wit the 20-something crowd. Maybe too trendy for the Nordstroms-crowd? But, the people who shop at Barney’s would love it.
I agree with JoanP on the layering of gelato–never seen it prepared so exotic. It’s traditionally served as a scoop.
- Anonymous - Monday, Aug 15, 16 @ 4:28 pm:
What they really need is a froyo robot
https://www.entrepreneur.com/business-opportunities/198219
- Arthur Andersen - Monday, Aug 15, 16 @ 4:36 pm:
Well, if the guy could get the Burkes and Jay Doherty to stop by for a scoop after dining at Gibsons, Sneed might pick it up and then the place will be busy 24-7.
- Ron - Monday, Aug 15, 16 @ 4:37 pm:
Non story for the proletariat to get whipped up about. Very DNA info.
- Anon - Monday, Aug 15, 16 @ 4:48 pm:
http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20160709/ISSUE01/307099994/one-of-chicagos-most-connected-entrepreneurs-has-made-more-than-a-few-enemies
- Anti-m - Monday, Aug 15, 16 @ 7:03 pm:
- Ron - Monday, Aug 15, 16 @ 4:37 pm:
Non story for the proletariat to get whipped up about. Very DNA info.
..and to think you have made two comments- welcome comrade!
- jerry 101 - Monday, Aug 15, 16 @ 7:22 pm:
I used to live in the area, many years ago. Rented a small condo.
Whispers, the former tenant, was terrible. Their coffee was awful. The gelato was just regular gelato that you can get in many places on the north side. And it was all pricier than most nearby coffee shops. It was like paying intelligensia prices for folgers crystals.
I don’t even live in Illinois anymore, so I can’t say I’ve tried the new place, but it can’t be any worse than the old place.
BTW Gelato is like ice cream, except it’s made with milk instead of cream. So it’s got a different flavor and texture. Less rich, but the flavors stand out more. Oddly, it also tastes creamier, because its softer.
- Anonymous - Monday, Aug 15, 16 @ 7:47 pm:
Why in effs sake are they serving gelato at one park, and don’t even provide access to another park… Chicago dems really care about income inequality.. #snark
- Amalia - Monday, Aug 15, 16 @ 8:43 pm:
yearning for the good old days. the first gelato around Chicago came to Elmwood Park. You’d drive out to get the lemon ice at Johnny’s and head to the tiny new shop with the gelato. ah, the 80s.
- NorthsideNoMore - Monday, Aug 15, 16 @ 9:33 pm:
“We dont want no gelato nobady sent” Mean while another 9 murders in the city…