Plus: Recent moves by Republican presidential candidates suggests parents’ rights could play a central role in the primaries and general.
This ice cream has a secret ingredient: nitrogen |
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| | Eighteen years ago, budding entrepreneurs Jerry and Naomi Hancock had a problem. The burrito business they’d opened in Orem was not covering the rent. One day, Naomi came across an article about chemists making ice cream using liquid nitrogen. She showed it to Jerry, who was a chemistry major in college. Jerry reached out to his chemistry professors at BYU, who told him that it was relatively easy to make ice cream with liquid nitrogen, but it didn't taste good. It wasn’t anything you’d want to sell commercially. Instead of giving up on the idea, Jerry started experimenting. Through trial and error, he found the perfect ratio blending liquid nitrogen (at minus 321 degrees Fahrenheit) with liquid flavors and ingredients to produce perfectly textured ice cream that was tasty. Better yet, the process took about 30 seconds. A customer could witness their order come to life in less time than it would take to dig a scoop out of a conventional ice cream tub. He and Naomi called their new product Sub Zero Ice Cream and started selling it next door. The burrito business soon died out, but not the ice cream. They’ve been selling liquid nitrogen ice cream ever since. Today there are 30 franchises in locations around the United States, including five in Utah. |
Read more about how the Hancocks' experiment became a successful ice cream chain. |
| In June, Republican presidential contenders Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis — as well as longshots Nikki Haley and Vivek Ramaswamy — all attended the Moms for Liberty Summit in Philadelphia, a move that suggests the issue of parents’ rights could play a central role in the primaries, if not the 2024 general election. Moms for Liberty promotes more parental involvement in public education. For Trump and the other GOP candidates, seeking these votes draws from the playbook of Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin; some observers say Youngkin won the gubernatorial race in 2021 on a parents’ rights platform. Although it’s difficult to say if Youngkin edged out Democrat Terry McAuliffe in the Virginia’s governor’s race solely on a parents’ rights platform, his stance on schools fueled a surge in Youngkin’s popularity in the weeks before voters went to the polls. Political analysts disagree on how much parents’ rights will figure into upcoming elections. Across the board, though, they agree that Republicans own the issue and that Democrats, to their own detriment, have dropped the ball on the topic. Read more about why politicians are trying to court the "parent vote". |
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