Steel City Pops has very tasty frozen pops. I guess they’re not frozen custard ( I don’t know what frozen custard is)
anyway… if you get a chance to try one, the Buttermilk ones are very good. So are the coconut ones, (if you’re a coconut fan). The fruity ones are very good, too.
edit…found this on wikipedia…
Frozen custard was invented in Coney Island, New York in 1919, when ice cream vendors Archie and Elton Kohr found that adding egg yolks to ice cream created a smoother texture and helped the ice cream stay cold longer. In their first weekend on the boardwalk, they sold 18,460 cones.[1]
from the pics, it looks like regular ice cream, not soft serve or anything like the cold pops that SCP sells.
“Also will put a vote in for Portillo’s if I’m in the Chicago area. From a hot dog to the chopped salad, so easy to find something to love!”
The owner of Portillos has a house in my home town that I drive by nearly every day. It’s about 30,000 sq ft (not a typo). That’s a lot of hot dogs!
M2ck - I actually don’t like pizza all that much. The screen name was based on something else and was a really poor choice. For the record though I far prefer east coast style pizza over Chicago deep dish (which I don’t eat at all) and pizza should be cut like a pie; cutting it in squares is an abomination.
Chain: Blimpies for tuna heroes
NYC: Great American Health Bar for split pea soup and toasted pita with muenster and avocado (wouldn’t actually recommend anything else there)
Pittsburgh: Meat and Potatoes (can’t stop thinking about last night’s meal-so tasty!)
The only frozen custard I know of was Ted Drewes in St. Louis, which is kind of a local icon. I’ve never been to a Culver’s. It just looks like fast food from the outside, nothing special. Sonic also came in here recently. But I don’t routinely go to fast food restaurants; we tend to go to diners if we want a casual meal.
The frozen custard I’ve had looks and is served like soft serve (comes out of the same kind of dispenser, a la Dairy Queen), but has a slightly different texture and tastes better. I have no idea if this is “authentic,” but it did come from one of those really old looking joints which seem to be from a different era.
Yes, if you look at custard coming out of the machine, it comes out much slower, and is much denser. Ask my kids. They used to giggle helplessly watching it come out of the machine when they were little (because mama the machine was p**ping haha!)
Custard Corner in Endicott, NY, but that was a lot of years ago. I don’t think we have seen frozen custard in the Seattle area.
Anyone else a fan of hot dogs? I loved getting those mini hot dogs at Famous Lunch in Troy, NY. They are about 2" long and I would eat 10 of them, steamed bun, mustard, a rich brown meat sauce and white onions.
I used to travel to Chicago about once/year and would always get at least one traditional Chicago dog, Gold Coast if I remember correctly.
One of the reasons to travel on business is the wife is pretty demanding about going to decent restaurants. I’m just as happy getting fried chicken and cole slaw at a roadside stand. I once bought a lemon meringue pie and ate it in the car for lunch.
All this talk of hot dogs got me jonesing for a real, German bratwurst. The kind you get at the bratwurst stand outside the train station in Bremerhaven. Omg. Nothing like it. And the pommes frites in the paper cone. Sigh…
Not a fan of soft serve, but when I lived in St Louis, I liked Ted Drewes (hugely popular soft serve place there). Moved to Cincinnati for a year after St Louis and one of the best things about Cincinnati was Graeter’s ice cream. I had not eaten it in years–last summer, I discovered that a natural foods store near our vacation place (in MA) carried it. The owner was from Cincinnati.
Growing up in NYC in the 70s, there were many wonderful neighborhood Jewish delis where a kid with a dollar in his pocket could get a wonderful Hebrew National frankfurter (grilled, not boiled) with mustard and sauerkraut, or a knish or latke, and wash it down with a coke.
Frozen custard twist on a sugar cone. Absolute heaven. Where I grew up in upstate NY it is fairly common. I have not found good soft serve in the South.
Favorite chain is Bonefish. I used to enjoy other chain food but as i get less young, the extra salt really bothers me. A McDonald’s filet of fish used to be my guilty pleasure but I can’t eat them any more.
A regional chain that I like is Larry’s Giant Subs. The use minimally processed meat and buy their bread from an Italian bakery in upstate NY.
@bookworm - Rizzo’s, wow! That was my local pizza place growing up (although it was actually in the next town over); had many a team dinner there in high school!! Yep, great pizza…
Frozen custard…Jimmy Cone in Damascus, MD. Standing outside inline on a Saturday night is part of the charm. We always go there after visiting the PYO farm nearby.
We don’t have that many chains here. Cheesecake Factory has been here since the early 90s. Sharks I haven’t eaten in…South Beverly has more chains. We don’t have any blacktop restaurants because they aren’t allowed.
We, well my parents, had MR rizzo come to our house to cook for my sister’s party. He set the ovens so high, they burned out. He had to use my neighbor’s ovens. Everyone at the party just wanted to meet the man who made the thinnest crust, great sauce, and also great hoagies.
My assistant constantly mocks my expense reports with $5.53 checks from In-N-Out and receipts from whatever hole in the wall Mexican diner or dim sum place I’ve found. Also, I can neither confirm nor deny once volunteering for a client visit due to its proximity to a barbecue shack I had always wanted to try.
And @CountingDown, Jimmy Cone! Thanks for reminding me it is time for my first trip of the season. I’m always half expecting James Dean to pull up in a convertible while I’m there. Or for a John Mellencamp video to break out. Not quite sure which.