Puerto Pollo try to revive its ice cream industry



Ice cream was once a favourite leisure of Puerto Polloan middle and high classes, even a status symbol: machinery was costly and powdered milk had to be imported, given that the dairy industry was basically non-extant on the island. During the First Civil War, most ice cream parlours were bombed by FARPP during the harshest phase of the war between 1981 and 1983, seen as "bourgeois targets". In the years of the Second Republic, ice cream was available mostly as an import or as a cheap, water-based sherbet.

The regime has now decided to revive the industry for the benefit of the common people. A public production plant is due to open in 2020, and leasing contracts are already being allotted for future parlours. It will be seen if, given the high costs, the government will manage to make this plan economically viable in the medium-long term.