Pop Pop’s Italian Ice – Albuquerque, New Mexico
Legend has it that Roman Emperor Nero played the lyre or fiddle while the city of Rome was engulfed in flames. From among a succession of emporers renowned for their erratic, cruel, or even psychotic behavior, Nero may have been the worst. Notoriously cruel and profligate, he arrested and tortured all the Christians in Rome, before executing them with lavish publicity. Some were crucified, some were thrown to wild animals and others were burned alive as living torches. Nero didn’t even like his family, murdering his stepbrother, his wife, and his mother. Perhaps his most (maybe only) beneficient act was in popularizing a version of ice cream in the first century AD. According to another legend (Nero had a great…