Hello everyone out there, Happy New Year in 2026, great to see all of you, it has been a while, I'm Mario Perillo, Mr. Italy, the kind man in light fabric suits who usually advertises for vacations to Italy. Vacations to Italy are great, because you get to see so much great culture & art.

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@BenHigbie

I remember that guy on TV and radio when I was a kid!

@Quasit I remember seeing his commercials usually on Sunday mornings during cartoons while my dad would be yelling for me & my brother to quit daudling and get dressed for church lol

@BenHigbie

It was really a different time! Reminds me of Joe DiMaggio doing commercials for The Money Store, or Tom Carvel's commercials for his ice cream cakes ("Cookie-Puss"). I kind of miss those days sometimes!

@Quasit I think it mightve been Phil Rizzuto who did the Money Store commercials. I remember getting the Cookie Puss cake at Carvel I think. Is Carvel still around?

@BenHigbie You're right, it WAS Phill Rizzuto! But Joe DiMaggio did something...for Mr Coffee machines, definitely, and probably something else.

Carvel's is still around, but there aren't as many as there used to be. There was one near us, but it was an "Express" location; not at all like the old stores. Of course the ice cream cakes are still sold in supermarkets, but the prices are fairly scandalous now.

It reminds me of Brigham's ice cream in New England. The stores were wonderful, but eventually they were acquired by some heartless bunch of venture capitalists and run into the ground. Now the stores are all gone, and all that remains are prepackaged quarts sold in stores. They're nothing like the wonderful ice cream that they used to sell in the stores.

Not to mention the food! I loved their burgers, hot dogs, and fries. And they served a pea soup that was so thick I could stand a FORK up in it. It was the best!

#IceCream #Carvel #Brighams #Nostalgia

@Quasit I never really remember joe dimaggio in any commercials, I was born in 1981 though so I think he did most of his between the 50s-70s. I used to get a He-Man cake at Carvel's on my birthday. They had really cool character cakes. He-Man was my favorite one and I got it for like 5 years in a row and I was so ticked off cause my mom said itd been discontinued. I absolutely love ice cream cake so much

@BenHigbie
I'm an ice cream cake junkie, too. There's a place near us that makes great ice cream cakes and pies, but they're insanely expensive.

Sometimes I buy a chocolate-oreo pie shell from the supermarket and make my own ice cream pies, though. They're amazing!

@Quasit I love when you have ice cream cake left over from a party sitting in the fridge. I will eat a big block of it for every meal until its gone lol I really like the chocolate gravel stuff lol

@BenHigbie

This is making me want to go get an ice cream cake right now! Or start an ice cream cake club, or something. 🤣

#IceCreamCake #IceCream

@BenHigbie I've also made reverse-ice cream cake, with chocolate ice cream and crushed golden oreos separating the layers.
@Quasit I really like putting crushed cookies in ice cream too haha. You know what I eat sometimes is a cup of yogurt mixed with peanut butter.