Humphy Slocombe has amazing ice cream. Secret Breakfast wasn’t my favorite though I can’t remember what was as it’s been six years since I dragged the family there to try some.
If you are in SFla (Palm Beach County) the place to go for ice cream is Sloans. Not only is their ice cream yummy but their bathrooms are out of this world.
http://www.sloansicecream.com/sloans-ice-cream-nominated-for-best-bathroom/
Living in a seaside summer tourist town we have lots of local options for homemade ice cream: Kates, Four Seasons Local Scoop, Sundae School. I only indulge about twice a summer, always coffee ice cream in a cup, one scoop. On the very rare occasion (every few years) on a hot summer night I’ll have a coffee hot fudge sundae for dinner. Ice cream is very expensive around here. One scoop in a regular cone or cup goes for around $4. Sundaes are $6-7. Floats about the same. One of my favorite things to do with the kids (when they were young obv) on a hot day was surprise them with ice cream for dinner! I prefer Gelato and have one every night on vacation each year when we go to Isla Mujeres.
My Mom is a DQ nut, she goes all the time. She had a special thing she did when all her grandchildren were little (three different families, all local). Once each summer, she’d pick a family and show up exactly at bedtime and take the kids out of bed and out to DQ. IT was her special thing. The kids waited all summer for their surprise turn. These are memories they will treasure forever
During summers, one mom from regular carpool had her 2 sons at same camp as my I son. On a Friday, she decid d to take them to local ice cream store. My son, age 5, said he liked chocolate, but they had 5 variations. She liked chocolate too, so patiently let him and her, test each variety. They discussed each sample. She told me she fell in like with my son from this arduous experience.
I still recall the original,Stevie’s near cm ridge, Ma.
My first job was at Baskin Robbins. It was pretty tasty!
I’ve moved up since then. We have friends who are professional gelato makers and they are fabulous. 100% natural, all flavors from natural things (not powders or essences), no guar gum!, raw milk (it pasteurizes during the process) and just incredible tasty creations! Salted caramel, chocolate Azteca, peppermint stracciatella, cucumber sorbetto on a hot day, etc., etc.
@hrh19, I love Izzy’s in St. Paul – something I miss from MN!
I have a container of Tillamook Oregon Blueberry Patch in my freezer that is making me feel better, though.
Talenti raspberry chocolate chip. Yummmmm
I like to drink my ice cream. Milk shakes make my heart race. If they have Chambord and Kahlua in them, all the better.
I blame all of you–and thank all of you–for today’s lunch: one scoop Salt and Straw vanilla with salted caramel ribbons, in a waffle cone, with hot fudge (which they use to line the cone before adding the ice cream). It was great.
@dmd77- yum. I made my H wait in line at Salt and Straw when we went to a wedding in Portland a few summers ago.
I want to add that I don’t go “out” to ice cream when I’m in town. I reserve my eating ice cream out for holidays or when my D comes to town. At home ice cream is purchased at the grocery store. @Overtheedge - I bought both Talenti Sea salt caramel and the coffee choc chip. I loved both
@nottelling I have not had the McConnells summer cobbler. I checked for it at Gelson’s today but they didn’t have that flavor. I’m going to check Von’s but I might have to take a trip to the actual ice cream parlor. It was 8.50 a pint. Ridiculous now expensive ice cream has gotten.
My H last night was shocked and happy to find ice cream in the freezer last night. The salted caramel is calling my name.
Tillamook, Haagen Daz, Ben & Jerry’s. No bits of chocolate and I don’t like the “slow churned”…both of which my DH doesn’t seem to process when he goes to the store. We nearly always have ice cream in the house and eat it at least three times a week.
“No bits of chocolate and I don’t like the “slow churned”…both of which my DH doesn’t seem to process when he goes to the store.”
Maybe he does process it. Maybe he wants all the ice cream to himself and doesn’t want to share. >:)
I am with ChoatieMom. Not so much a fan of ice cream by itself - but put it in a milkshake, I’m there.
Here in Chicagoland, we have Oberweis Dairy - a local chain that has, oh, I don’t know, a few dozen stores. They primarily sell ice cream (like a Baskin-Robbins) but you can also get milk deliveries in glass bottles from there.
In St. Louis, Ted Drewes Frozen Custard was the big deal.
^^^Concretes, right? I lived in St. Louis for a few years and couldn’t understand why people would stand in long lines for those things.
Yeah, me neither. I thought they were overrated but it’s a STL “thing.”
Oberweis also has delicious cottage cheese - I still miss it.
I am curious - who makes their own ice cream? I made a mint julep ice cream for a Kentucky Derby party one time which was pretty popular. Anyone else? Any tried and true favorite recipes?
I usually buy whatever is on sale hoping to get something my whole family will like. After reading this thread I went shopping. I walked down the frozen food aisle to the La Premiere Section and bought myself pints of Haagen-Daz’s Sweet Cream Coffee Caramel, and Ben and Jerry’s Mint Chocolate Cookie. I’m saving them for Fathers Day.
My dad once had a weekend job driving a Howard Johnson’s ice cream truck. He took me with him one time and we drove to the plant in Cambridge, MA. There were hundreds of HoJo trucks on level after level of their parking garage. White trucks with the orange HoJo logo on the side. My father wore a white uniform with the orange logo on his chest and his ice cream cap. He picked out his ice cream, packed it in his truck, and off we went to a beach in Boston. I recall that most items sold for a quarter.
My kid at college found an ice cream maker in the suite she moved into this summer. She has been experimenting with msking ice cream this summer. Texts me flavor names every few days.
Not mentioned yet, but I think Blue Bunny is the best regular supermarket brand. Beats Turkey Hill, Breyers, Edy’s, and the rest. Also like Klondike bars. Still, nothing compares to the good stuff at the scoop shops. Lucky to have a Herrell’s about 20 minutes away. Chocolate Pudding is a fave, along with Mudpie, Coffee Crumb Cake…When I’m headed nearby, I will bring a cooler and get a few quarts. I come home “carrying a kidney”.