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Post by spiderjohn on May 14, 2020 5:51:28 GMT -5
What are your favorite brands and varieties?
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Ice Cream
May 14, 2020 7:06:47 GMT -5
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Post by quickcall on May 14, 2020 7:06:47 GMT -5
Small place in Shaftsbury VT., The Chocolate Barn. Make their own ice cream using fresh berries from the fruits and vegetables place across the street, called Clear Brook Farms. They also use locally boiled maple syrup for their Maple Walnut ice cream. Everything is ‘seasonal’. The strawberry ice cream season doesn’t last long, so you have to time it right. It goes fast. The coffee ice cream and blueberry ice cream, are my favorites.
Store bought? Probably Haagen Das coffee. Expensive. Buy it once every 10 years. Usually buy Friendly’s ice cream when on sale.
I am a coffee ice cream person, unless I can get fresh blueberry ice cream.
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Post by shoes on May 14, 2020 8:40:54 GMT -5
The Carousel was a local place with home made ice cream and a lunch counter with a very limited menu but included hot dogs, burgers, soups and a great shredded beef sandwich. My favorite flavors were what they called French mint, and is the equivalent of mint chip, and toffee crunch. Single scoop for 10 cents, double scoop for 20 cents and triple scoop for 25 cents.
They also made great chocolate sodas, which is a forgotten art.
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Post by bobtailnag on May 14, 2020 10:21:43 GMT -5
This is actually not ice cream but it included in the category - Ted Drewes Frozen Custard which opened circa 1930 and is still in business but is currently closed do to our friends the Chinese. It was probably 10 to 15 miles away from our house so it was really a treat when we got to go there. They had 3 flavors, vanilla, chocolate and strawberry. Being a chocofile I never tasted the other flavors but it tasted similar to Nestles chocolate bars.
We did have a Velvet Freeze close by which I think was just in Missouri and thought their chocolate shakes were the best. A shake was $0.25 and a malt was $0.30 - gasoline was $0.18 a gallon.
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Post by spiderjohn on May 15, 2020 16:16:45 GMT -5
My favorite treat these days,including gelato, sorbet or custard. Local Cincinnati favorites include nationally famous Graeter's(best choc chips varieties) Black Raspberry Chip, the new interesting Buzzed Bull varieties and Matt Madison's Madisono gelatos and sorbets(also sold under the Dorothy Lane Market label). Lexington has very interesting Crank and Boom varieties(if you ever go to a sale or Keeneland). Jeni's is out of Columbus(now high end national), has a lot of interesting flavors though imo is not as good since a health dept issue and going national. Their Black Coffee and Lemon Blueberry Yogurt are personal favorites. California offered high end McConnell's Turkish Coffee(my favorite coffee brand).
National favorites are a few Haagen Daz--Pineapple Coconut a supreme warm weather favorite--Vanilla Bean maybe my top vanilla. Ben & Jerry's Pistachio scores with me, and in Florida, I go for Kilwin's and Big Olaf.
Would love to try the other favorites mentioned!
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Post by 1hooper on May 15, 2020 18:23:26 GMT -5
Natural Vanilla Bean for the wife. Chocolate and most varieties for me day to day. Pistacchio and Black Raspberry as back ups. East coast brands like Breyers,Friendlys and Ben and Jerry's at the market. Enjoyed Cold Stone when my youngest daughter worked there for one summer during college.
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