Today is National Frozen Foods Day. Make sure you let your employer know you need to dip out of work early to celebrate this prestigious and revered day of days. I guess.
So, as way to kick off today’s Fodder post, I can recall my favorite frozen dessert was a raspberry frozen yogurt from the Creamery near Aderhold Hall. That was years ago, but try as I might to find another dessert to rival it, I’ve never found one. I’ve tried store brands, soft-serve varieties, and all of them fall short. It still stands as my favorite frozen treat, and I’ve been disappointed for 40 years after. Reminder: call therapist today.
Anyway, what’s your favorite frozen dessert and where was it from? Was it because of the taste or because of a more nostalgic reason?
My favorite ice cream was just sitting near the ice cream buckets in Bolton so my buddies and I could watch the coeds bend over as they scooped ice cream into their bowls
Ahh the days!
Any time I get an ice cream at a Dairy Queen, I think of walking to the DQ in Sylvester on a hot summer day for a chocolate/hot fudge sundae in an MLB helmet cup.
A Hot Fudge Sundae from the Guilford Dairy at Friendly Shopping Center! In a glass dish with an iced tea spoon.
I love me some ice cream, but THEN lactose intolerant hit. Haven’t had ice cream in about 4 years.
Driving back and forth to Athens during the hot early 90s summers, I always stopped at the Hardee’s in Monticello to get the peach milkshake. I haven’t compared it to Chik Fil A’s because I don’t want the diabeetus
CFA shakes are the bomb. I still think a DQ shake beats it.
Marianna FL – Southern Craft Creamery Ice Cream – Salty Caramel or Salted Dark Chocolate
Apalachicola, FL – Old Time Soda Fountain – Chocolate Milk Shake
Bologna, Italy – Cremeria Santo Stefano – anything
You are welcome.
Bruster’s butter pecan in a waffle cone.
Orange sherbet at Baskin Robins where I grew up. My mom would take me. Don’t eat it anymore, pure nostalgia. I also remember more often than not the neighborhood kids would come in and ask for samples. They’d get about five apiece then the lady would run them out.
When I was a kid, we would make homemade ice cream with a hand crank. As a kid, when it got hard to turn the crank, I knew it was done. We would generally do either peach or banana. Sentimentally, that’s my favorite. These days, some Bruster’s mint chocolate chip would be my go-to if I was in the mood.
Same. For some reason is was always either peach or banana. I wonder why.
Tutti Fruitti ice cream at Leopold’s in Savannah.
Rocky Road with peanuts, not almonds
Hot fudge sundae from Farrell’s in the Perimiter Mall as a kid. Grom gelato in Milan. Grapenut ice cream hot fudge sundae on Cape Cod.
Whoa…That’s a blast from the past! I had completely forgotten about Farrell’s. Truth on the HFS…
It used to be a serious Saturday all day drive through the “country” to get to PM from Athens. Farrell’s was the reward for a 7 -10 year old boy to suffer the trip to the mall.
Forgive the lack of nostalgia, but Snickers ice cream bars are amazing!
I will also say this. A Mickey ice cream bar at a theme park is chicken soup for the soul.
We were on a cruise and our server brought our youngest a Mickey bar with chocolate syrup and sprinkles at dessert after dinner. I asked her where my Mickey bar was just to kid around. She then brought me one and one every night after with my ordered dessert.
The best “gourmet” ice cream I’ve had is the No Way Jose at Beaches and Cream at the Beach Club resort at Disney World. It’s decadent … the only word I can use to describe it. Beaches and Cream is the only burger and ice cream place I’m aware of where you need to have a reservation to get a table.
The ice cream we would get when visiting The Land in Epcot was divine. I always wondered if they made it back there with all the plants, then I realized there were no cows in the attraction.
I do wonder if Nestle and/or Breyer’s has a creamery close to WDW to serve the resort. Everything is so fresh.
For the price, I’d expect it to be hand churned at the table straight from the cow.
DQ dipped cone
This is the way.
My 9 year old agrees with you.
I worked at a DQ on Peachtree Industrial Blvd in high school. My buddy worked at a Baskin-Robbins in Sandy Springs. The funny thing is I liked his ice cream better than mine (especially chocolate almond) and he liked my soft serve better. Doesn’t seem like either one is as good as they used to be.
Replacing actual sugar with likely high fructose corn syrup. It killed everything sweet…3 Musketeers aren’t the same as they used to be, or anything chocolate. Ditto Coca Cola.
Yep. I don’t know if it as actually responsible for the diabetes explosion as some claim, but from a flavor standpoint it sucks.
Baskin Robbin’s has a raspberry and cashew ice cream labeled baseball nut is very good.
For nostalgia, I liked the old Shoney’s hot fudge sundae.
Shoney’s HFS for the win!
Edisto Dairy chocolate ice cream I had as a child while we visited friends in Columbia, SC. Blue Bell milk chocolate is the closest to what I remember. The most refreshing (or palate cleansing for the genteel) is a DQ Coke Freeze, a Coke float blended, after a fried catfish supper at the joint down the street.
Forgot to add Graeter’s ice cream out of Cincinnati. Because that is Kroger’s HQ they offer it in stores throughout the country. Best? No…more of a cult following. Same for Blue Bell out of Texas…more cult than actually best.
I don’t get the the attraction of Blue Bell apart from the fact that it comes in half gallon tubs. Publix brand also comes in half gallons and is cheaper and better, imo.
Frozen Food Day? Does that include peas? The year-old pork roast I forgot was in the bottom of my freezer?
NYT Vanilla Ice Cream Recipe
Yield:About 1½ pints
Ingredients
2 cups heavy cream
1 cup whole milk
⅔ cup granulated sugar
⅛ teaspoon fine sea salt
6 large egg yolks (Note: I use 4 to make it less eggy)
1 tsp vanilla extract
Preparation
Step 1
In a small pot, simmer heavy cream, milk, sugar and salt until sugar completely dissolves, about 5 minutes. Remove pot from heat. In a separate bowl, whisk yolks. Whisking constantly, slowly whisk about a third of the hot cream into the yolks, then whisk the yolk mixture back into the pot with the cream. Return pot to medium-low heat and gently cook until mixture is thick enough to coat the back of a spoon (about 170 degrees on an instant-read thermometer).
Step 2
Strain through a fine-mesh sieve into a bowl. (Note: I skip the straining step)
Cool mixture to room temperature. Add vanilla. Cover and chill at least 4 hours or overnight. Churn in an ice cream machine according to manufacturers’ instructions. Serve directly from the machine for soft serve, or store in freezer until needed.
Old grocery store at the Georgia / Florida line between Calvary, Ga and Havana fl. Honey Dew ice cream in a waffle cone. YUM, YUM.
My Mom and Dad are from NE Ohio (Canton specifically). We would go up routinely to visit the grandparents and extended family. We would go to the Pro Football Hall of Fame almost every visit. You could walk from the Hall of Fame into a park to the McKinley Monument and then to Taggarts Ice Cream on Fulton Ave. Best hot fudge sundae that I have ever had.