After reading her epic account of a mutant cockroach in the women's room at work today, one might suspect the Missus will be in no hurry to try the crunchy ice cream at Toscanini's.

Save Toscanini's - $6,500 in pledges as of Sunday night.

Debate between people who want to help kindly Gus Rancatore and his ice-cream shop get back on their financial feet and people who don't understand why they're being asked to support tax evasion.

Rancatore e-mails a statement to the Cambridge Chronicle.

Via B0st0n LiveJournal.

What in the world would convince Toscanini's to make wasabi pea ice cream? And what in the world would convince Ben and a co-worker to eat some of it? Well, for the latter, it was a double-dog dare:

... It's really pretty bad. It's just sweat cream ice cream with a bunch or wasabi peas dumped in. The ice cream was good, but the peas tasted all mealy and weird.