Sink like a stone without you

[venta]

Next door to my station, a former sandwich shop has been turning into something else. Today it's got its pink-and-black fascia up. It's called "Afters", and helpfully lists what it will purvey:

Coffee
Gelato
Crepes
Frozen yogurt
Cold stone
Waffles

Err.... a nice cold stone for afters, anyone?

(I'm familiar with places advertising "hot stone" pizzas or steaks, but I have absolutely no idea what they mean here...)

Comments

[jiggery-pokery.livejournal.com]

Your Honour, I understand the term to mean a method of preparing ice-cream desserts in which confectionery that might under some circumstances be referred to as "toppings" is mixed in with the ice-cream upon the refrigerated earthenware of the title, in order that it might be presented with uniform consistency throughout.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Really? Well. There's a thing. Obviously the north is far in advance of that London in the frozen dessert department (or is this a thing you know because you consort with Americans?)

Once Afters is open I shall have to sample it's cold stone wares.

[jiggery-pokery.livejournal.com]

The latter. Don't tell anybody! Oh wait...

[sushidog.livejournal.com]

Yes, this; we have Marble Slab here, which is basically the same thing; they have a chilled slab of marble, you choose your ice-cream flavour and your "mix-ins", and they mix them in on the slab before serving it to you.
It's lovely.

[venta.livejournal.com]

I recently learned what a "mix-in" is... there is a concept called a mix-in in object-oriented programming, and when I enquired as to its name, was told it was named after the ice cream :)