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That's what I would have said as a kid. NO ONE in St. Maries, ID, ever even thought about starting one. I don't remember them selling ice cream bars at gas stations either - if you wanted ice cream bars you had to go to the Thrift Store (it was a brand of supermarket that doesn't exist anymore; they're probably something else now) or the IGA and buy a whole box. I mean, yeah now I know what they are but we didn't have them where I grew up.

Quick question: were ice cream vans the first kind of food truck?

Okay, back to the question: the best thing is the chocolate coated frozen banana. Every year in St. Maries there's a big celebration called Paul Bunyan Days, and every year the people who owned the Thrift Store would put whole peeled bananas on sticks, freeze them and dip them in melted chocolate. This had to be done by a grocery store because they sold so many, only a supermarket backroom freezer was big enough to hold them all. Now that the Thrift Store is gone, one of the other supermarkets in town (there are currently two) does it.