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Three Times The Fun With Blue Bell's Ice Cream Tours
Believe it our not, summer is quickly winding down. We’ve only got a few weeks left to gorge ourselves on hot dogs, hamburgers, and ice cream—then we’ll start dieting for the 2010 beach season, we promise. If Ben and Jerry’s isn’t in your neck of the woods, chances are you might be closer to one of the factories that produces Blue Bell Ice Cream. Empty cartons of their flavors can usually be found on coffee tables throughout the southeast.
The creamery opened its doors in 1907, and has been going strong ever since it named itself after the Texas bluebell wildflower. Expect more exciting facts like this when you take a tour of where the ice cream is made. They’re churning out the sweet flavors at three locations: Brenham, Texas, Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, and Sylacauga, Alabama.
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Scottsdale Has An Ice Cream Parlor That's Worth The Flight
A couple weeks ago we found ourselves in the Valley of the Sun, looking to check out the best that the area has to offer. With temperatures during our stay already approaching 100 degrees, we were eager to find something tasty to help us cool down. Thankfully we learned about Sweet Republic Ice Cream in Scottsdale, but don't expect us to claim that we discovered it because it’s a huge hit on Yelp, with local foodies and Twitter; the place even just made Bon Appetit's list of ten best ice cream shops.
The ice cream parlor is located in a nothing-special strip mall about a 15-minute drive outside the hustle and bustle of Scottsdale’s shopping mecca. Everything here is made fresh daily and in small batches, so when it’s gone, it’s gone. We’re still a little miffed that we missed out on their Peanut Butter Chip. However, we did enjoy the delicious Brownie Swirl with a side of Cookie Monster. Both flavors were exactly what you’d expect and more, and had great flavor and texture—the dessert spoke for itself—and we quickly found out that this wasn’t your local scoop shop.
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NYC Gets a Big Gay Ice Cream Truck
The food trucks are continuing their wholesale takeover of the NYC restaurant scene at full speed. The latest entry: the cheekily named Big Gay Ice Cream Truck, which will be rolling through the Village, Chelsea and Brooklyn soon.
Owner/ice cream connoisseur Doug Quint told Serious Eats about his decision to go with such an open name:
"Let's face it, ice cream trucks are kind of queer, and a middle-aged white man driving one is pretty suspect. That's not to say that I'm a rolling hotbed of perversion. Hardly the case. It's all in the name of silly."
All joking aside, the Big Gay Ice Cream Truck will be giving New York's mobile dessert scene a fancy-pants makeover with inventive flavors like Nutella, olive oil and sea salt, and bacon. Yes, that's bacon and ice cream together in one glorious food.
The Big Gay Ice Cream Truck takes off next week. We'll be the ones chasing it down the street.
Related Stories:
· The Big Gay Ice Cream Truck [Official Site]
· The Big Gay Ice Cream Truck, Launching Soon in NYC [Serious Eats]
· NYC's Food Trucks All Converge in One Place This Weekend [Jaunted]
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LA's Newest Twittering Truck Provides Ice Cream, Architectural Conceit
Depending on where you fall on the spectrum of hipster foodie-ism, Twittering food trucks are either awesome innovations or eyeroll inducing fads. Tech site CNET recently did a writeup of how this new trend is sweeping LA and NYC, with trucks that provide everything from Korean food to music samplers.
Cool Haus, an ice cream sandwich truck, is one of the newest entrants into the LA mobile food market. Its approach to differentiating itself from other food trucks - and from other ice cream trucks - is exquisitely hipsterific. The @coolhaus Twitter page describes it as: "All natural ice cream sandwiches designed and imagined by Architects. Look out for the COOLHAUS truck roaming the streets of LA this summer!"
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Mark Your Calendar For The Ice Cream Event of the Year
Casual ice cream connoisseurs may get revved up about Ben & Jerry's Free Cone Day, but real ice cream fanatics know the frozen dairy event of the year comes a little later in spring, at the Jimmy Fund Scooper Bowl in Boston.
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Ben & Jerry's Free Cone Day is Back
We don't know where you are at right now but we are sitting in front of our computers on yet another oppressively hot day in Los Angeles and we aren't fortunate enough to have air-conditioning. Which is why Ben and Jerry's free ice cream cone deal has us counting down the hours until we can escape our internet captors.
As a way to thank our customers for their support and to celebrate 31 years of scooping the chunkiest, funkiest ice cream, frozen yogurt and sorbet, Ben & Jerry’s scoop shops are happily giving it away!
Around the world, Scoop Shops are opening their doors from noon to 8:00 pm, to serve up a free scoop of your favorite flavor. Please check with your local Scoop Shop for more info!
And seriously, we suggest checking Ben & Jerry's website before you make your ice cream run as some shops are not participating in free ice cream cone day. Lame.
Related Stories:
· Ice Cream coverage [Jaunted]
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Adventures of Link: Ice Cream Dreams
Still stuck at your desk, huh? You deserve an ice cream cone, the kind that Baskin-Robbins is scooping for 31 cents until 10 pm tonight.
The original store opened in Glendale, California in 1945 and was called Snowbird. Though there are plenty of shops in the US these days, there are also tons of them worldwide. (Japan alone has more than 850.)
We don't normally go for chains 'round here, but, hey, cheap ice cream. And aren't you sick of Pinkberry by now?
Related Stories:
· Baskin-Robbins History [Official Site]
· There Are Now Multiple B-R Stores in Glendale [Google Maps]
· Ice Cream coverage [Jaunted]
· Italy, Land of Gelato, coverage [Jaunted]
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New NYC Restaurant: Yolato
Done with Tasti-D and over Pinkberry? Us too. Step up for the next NYC cold-yogurt-contender: Yolato, which opens its latest location just south of Grand Central today. Yolato is yogurt gelato, claiming to be healthier than regular gelato, with a smooth, creamy texture, despite having less fat and less cholesterol than the good stuff. Of course they have a zillion flavors--OK, over 100--and they make Yolato sorbet, crepes and cakes, too.
This new store promises to be bigger than all the others, with the same brightly colored displays and shelves laden with fresh fruit. Is it just us or does the store sign--above--remind you of an 80s throwback? The best part about tomorrow's opening: free stuff. There will be boatloads of free samples as well as a drawing for a free bright orange Vespa. We'll eat any newfangled fro-yo for a chance at that!
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· Yolato [Official Site]
· Gratis Alert [Eater]
· New New York Restaurants coverage [Jaunted]
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Pinkberry Update: Expert Weighs In On Powdery Substance
After we put out the call to have our burning questions about the secret ingredient in the dessert dished by L.A. and N.Y.C. chain Pinkberry, one expert shared his thoughts with us.
A Jaunted reader, who would rather remain anonymous, used to be in the frozen yogurt business himself in the 1970s, an experience he described as, "Fun, but we ate all the profits behind the counter... I tried the Pinkberry and loved it actually, hence my extreme disappointment when I learned..."
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Jaunted Takes the Pinkberry Challenge
On Monday, Jaunted wrote about the mysterious substance known as Pinkberry, the coastal dessert craze that convinced Nicole Richie it was okay to eat again. Last night, one intrepid editor decided to taste it for herself...
The line isn't out the door of New York's West 32nd Street branch of Pinkberry yet, nor are there stretch limos double-parked outside on the Koreatown block. Still, there's a buzz of activity outside the glass-fronted store, and the girl who walks in behind me sends her friend to guard the last tiny, mod round table. The door to the shop is open because it's eight hundred degrees inside the store. This must be part of the health benefits, right? Because I think I just lost five pounds. While I wait I peruse $64 juicers with accompanying glasses, salt and pepper shakers whose feet stick together and, of course, the myriad toppings at the counter.
But this is all frosting; how does it taste?
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What Is In Pinkberry?
As far as fads go, we'll call it cooler than POGs but not as dangerous as slap bracelets. The Los Angeles dessert chain Pinkberry gained favor with stars like Paris Hilton, Kate Bosworth and Jake Gyllenhaal who enjoy this low-calorie frozen treat in plain or green tea flavors, piled with fruit, granola or chocolate chips. But what is in a Pinkberry? California health officials have ruled the chain can no longer call that fat-free frosty stuff "frozen yogurt," since it doesn't contain enough active cultures to qualify. Additionally, Pinkberry's signature dish is not made in factories, but made fresh in stores with some kind of mystery ingredient -- which sounds like a bonus to us, but is considered a liability according to state legislation.
The faux yogurt question doesn't look like it will slow down Pinkberry's expansion at all; after building 17 franchises in LA, the chain jumped to New York City where it has been drawing long lines since the dead of winter. Even a mouse problem at its Upper East Side location couldn't keep the socialites and hipsters away. Your move, Tasti-D-Lite.
Know what the Pinkberry mystery ingredient is? Let us know here.
Related Stories:
· Pinkberry [Official Site]
· Pinkberry Story [LA Times]
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East Village Ice Cream Factory
Now open in time for summer more cold weather is East Village Ice Cream, a small storefront on Avenue B between 13th and 14th Streets--that's smack dab on our favorite block for WiFi. This brand new shop serves a small assortment of simple, homemade flavors (think coffee, strawberry, and chocolate chip) and emphasizes fresh, natural ingredients. The strawberry ice cream (above) is made with fresh strawberries and brown sugar.
The owner recently went into business for himself after working with one of New York's favorite ice cream destinations. The creamery shall not be named--he asked us not to--but there's a good chance you've heard of it, and possibly even drooled over it. Come Spring, when Alphabet Scoop opens back up, East Village Ice Cream will have some competition. But as for yourself...you could do worse than to split your time between the two.
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· New York's Best Block For WiFi [Jaunted]
