Last day for Whole Foods 50% off ice cream/frozen treats sale.
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Looks delicious, is chocolate your family favorite?
I have physical therapy this afternoon next to Whole Foods. I’m tempted to go in for more.
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as a kid it was always a mint chocolate chip ice cream cone with chocolate sprinkles (jimmies).
As an adult 99% of the time I go for vanilla soft serve with rainbow sprinkles.
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Oh, but fear not those seeking to put on a few pounds, Kroger (at least in Denver) has Tillamook on sale this weekend for $3.29
Chocolate and the raspberry chocolate
Ice cream was our dessert, snack, treat year round. When I was 5 years old I was sent to the pharmacy about 5 blocks away (across a busy street) almost every night to get the last paper of the day (‘a 4 Star Item’ with the 4 stars meaning it was the last edition of the day), 2 packs of Pall Malls with no filters, and a pint of hand packed ice cream.
My mother wasn’t a coffee drinker but loved coffee ice cream, so therefore I did too. Also loved peach ice cream in the summer as it was always fresh and delicious.
We loved the ice cream man but also loved the milk man who’d give us treats (my grandfather worked at the dairy so the truck drivers knew him and would treat us). Popsicles, fudgesicles, dreamsicles.
Now I tend toward frozen fruit bars and vanilla-ish ice creams.
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I stopped back in this afternoon. The shelves were empty. I got a few things but everything else I wanted was fine.
Here are my two freezers.
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Bought 3 boxes of SO Delicious—coconut milk, almond milk and cashew milk. Had coconut milk ine just now—yum!
Back in the day when they would sell cigarettes to kids!
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Back in the day, anyone could buy cigarettes from the vending machines that were in every diner/mid value restaurant/bowling alley/movie theatre/etc!
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The reason your story struck me was that as a kid my mother sent me to the corner grocery store to buy cigarettes and I got told no because I was under 18. (1960’s in NYC)
I was told young female candy stripers sold cigarettes at hospitals back in the day.
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That was my go-to order at Friendly’s growing up. The jimmies were coated so completely that you couldn’t see the ice cream until you took a bite.
I’m surprised I haven’t commented on this thread yet.
As a kid, we were not an ice cream truck family (I think I got ice cream truck treats once or twice when I was visiting an uncle and his kids were getting some). When we lived in the northeast, Friendly’s peanut butter sundae (with Reese’s peanut butter cups or Reese’s Pieces) was my favorite. Thus, whenever I’m in the northeast I always make sure to hit Friendly’s for one, if it’s at all geographically possible. Outside of Friendly’s, it was primarily chocolate-based ice cream. Rocky road (for more generic ice creams) or Haagen-Daaz chocolate chocolate chip or Ben & Jerry’s Chocolate Fudge Brownie or New York Super Fudge Chunk for more decadent times.
As an adult, it’s still chocolate-based ice creams for the win. I like Tillamook Mudslide, especially for an option that has less sugar than most other ice creams. Ben & Jerry’s (both flavors from childhood) but also Impretzively Fudged, an occasionally Phish Food, or The Tonight Dough if I don’t want just chocolate ice cream. I like Baskin Robbins’ Chocolate Peanut Butter ice cream (their cookies 'n cream is good, too, if one needs to balance out a chocolate high).
My grandparents lived in Cincinnati which is how I was introduced to Graeter’s, though my mom always talks about how the family went to United Dairy Farmer growing up (and got ice cream at ridiculous prices…maybe 10 cents for 5 scoops or something like that) and never to Graeter’s. My Graeter’s favorite is the Double Chocolate Chip.
And the Whole Foods sale…the first time I went their freezer was on the fritz and about 2/3 of their ice creams were super soft (as in, I suspected they were going to need to be eaten immediately as slush or thrown away), so I only got a couple things that were on the bottom shelf or two in the very back. Second time, things were highly picked over.
Thus, I didn’t get to pick some faves but decided to look for a good ice cream to accompany hot fudge, and for ones that would please the rest of my family (fruitier flavors and frozen novelties…I prefer pure ice cream).
Regardless, we did some damage, but no pictures, as my family ate much of it too quickly (as in, eating the last Yasso bar less than 24 hours after they were purchased). From what I recall:
McConnell’s
- Salted Caramel Chip
- Sweet Cream Caramel Brownie
Van Leeuwen’s
- Peanut Butter Brownie Honeycomb
- Chocolate Caramel Cheesecake
- Black Cherry Chip
Jeni’s
- Chocolate Silk Pie sandwiches
- Key Lime Pie sandwiches
- Snow Cone (watermelon, brambleberry, and pink lemonade sorbets)
Only 1 item from brand
- Ben & Jerry’s Phish Food
- Yasso’s Cherry Chocolate Crunch Bars
- Some brand’s raspberry chip bars
Obviously I have lots to say about ice cream! 
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I always had a note! (“Please sell my granddaughter 2 pack Pall malls no filter (red)”) As I said, I was 5! the danger wasn’t that I’d smoke the cigarettes, but that I’d get hit crossing the street.
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Only had it outside the US: dark chocolate sorbetto (sorbet). I generally prefer dark chocolate over milk chocolate.
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As a kid I loved French vanilla.
Currently I’m apt to choose a good quality rocky road.
Ice cream always sounds good but I hardly eat it.
I may have to send that to my son.
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