Chris Griffith put out a challenge a week or so ago asking those interested to enter in the Carnival of Ice Cream - The Real Scoop...being a connoisseur of good ice cream I could not resist saying a resounding YES! I've been hemming and hawing all week trying to decide which is my favorite ice cream shop. It's a HARD decision and I could not limit it down to one. So I will blog on several:
My VERY favorite of all Ice Cream Shops is Sugar Bowl Ice Cream Parlor on 5th Avenue and Scottsdale Road in Downtown Scottsdale...The Sugar Bowl has been around since the 1950's and definitely takes one back to that time and era. My husband and I got stuck on this place when we lived there and we visited it often. The banana splits were (and probably still are) to die for...my husband liked the root beer floats.
Another fun place that we found in Kansas City, KS while visiting friends several years ago was Maggie Moo's. Maggie Moo'swas one of the first of the ‘mix-in' ice cream parlors. There were several around KS and we vowed to open a franchise someday. We have not seen one in years; our friends in KS tell us that theirs had gone under. In googling Maggie Moo just now I find that there is one ‘coming soon' to NV! Cold Stones is a good 2nd choice since we don't have Maggie Moo's here. We have one within walking distance of our house and enjoy the treat.
Good ol' Baskin Robbins is some good ice cream too. We have a drive-through one here in Las Vegas and if I'm ever in that area I always drive through and get one - single scoop, chocolate chip on a sugar cone!
The ice cream I miss the most is the one from Thrifty or Sav-on Drug Stores...a nickel would buy you a single scoop of a variety of choices. We use to pull the kids in their little red wagon to the one on the corner near us for a weekly treat (and sometimes in between)...what a deal 5 ice cream cones for a quarter!
If you have favorite ice cream spot I urge you to enter the contest. The deadline is August 27.
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