Wilmington, California

✦ Years ago, I read an

RD story about a lady whose car wouldn’t start again if she stopped for pistachio ice cream. Chocolate and vanilla were no problem. It turned out that those popular flavors were prepackaged, but pistachio was scooped on demand, and it took so long that the car wouldn’t start after waiting in the Texas midday heat.

—Allison Dolan

Peabody, massachusetts