Tricks
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Many employees of Amy's will do "tricks" with the ice cream as they prepare it and before the customer receives it. These tricks include, but are not limited to, throwing ice cream scoops under the leg, behind the back, and over people. Some locations are known for throwing ice cream across the street, where either the recipient or another employee will attempt to catch it.
Every year, at different locations, Amy's hosts a contest called the Trick Olympics, in which employees who are especially skilled in the art of tricks compete against one another. Typically there are three different subsets of the competition: Decathlon, where employees do ten different tricks as fast as they can; Best Team Trick, where pairs of employees work together to complete a multi-level trick; and Best Solo Trick, where individual employees try to outdo each other with complicated tricks.
These contests are open to the public, but ice cream is usually not given away. Tricksters use balls of Sweet Cream with either no Crush'n or only chocolate sprinkles.
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Famous quotes containing the word tricks:
“Which I wish to remark—
And my language is plain—
That for ways that are dark
And for tricks that are vain,
The heathen Chinee is peculiar:
Which the same I would rise to explain.”
—Bret Harte (1836–1902)
“English general and singular terms, identity, quantification, and the whole bag of ontological tricks may be correlated with elements of the native language in any of various mutually incompatible ways, each compatible with all possible linguistic data, and none preferable to another save as favored by a rationalization of the native language that is simple and natural to us.”
—Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)
“The tragic hero prefers death to prudence. The comedian prefers playing tricks to winning. Only the villain really plays to win.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)