The Dawn of The Sugar Cone Era The Sugar Cone Era Begins! The Hot Spot is delighted to launch The Freshly Baked Sugar Cone as the Monsoon season tapers off and the humidity levels don’t render everything instantly soggy! Most customers make the switch to…
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Chaos, Disorder, Madness but good-humoured, old fashioned Islamabad fun 90s style October 1996 – The Hot Spot sets up stall at the Foreign Office Annual Fair. One of our first customers returned her ice cream, claiming that there were eggshells in it. Those were, in…
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The Hot Spot Celebrates it’s first birthday on the 17th of August We made it to One Year thanks to the support of all our original customers who used to drop into the House on Street 60 for their Hot Spot Ice Cream fix. We…
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The Hot Spot @ The LRBT Fundraiser The LRBT invited The Hot Spot to participate in their Annual Fundraiser, so we prepared as much ice cream as we could carry across town and set off for a fun day out in the great outdoors. We…
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The Hot Spot on the Voice of America! The Hot Spot is interviewed during the scorching Summer of ’96. They ask us what ice creams are most popular and how people are trying to beat the heat. The little chat is relayed on their World…
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We make our first batch of Fresh Strawberry Ice Cream – Not quite as simple as it sounds. Making Strawberry Ice Cream to the level that we had set ourselves proved tricker than we imagined. There was a whole new factor working with fresh fruit…
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Reviewed by The Friday Times, January 11th 1996 The Friday Times on The Hot Spot, January 11, 1996
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The Big Bang – June 1995 In the Summer of 1995, Mariam, Ali and Myself tried the little wooden ice cream bucket with a hand crank for the first time. We had raided the local market for salt and had a brick of ice all…