Come On Summer!

Participating in the ABC Along can be very rewarding.  Preparations must be made in order to do a good job of bringing the current letter of the alphabet to the reading public (that means you).  A participant might as well have fun getting into the process of gathering information, taking pictures and researching all the different aspects of the chosen subject.  To this end, I threw myself into the letter "I" with great gusto.  One must do what one must do…

I Scream, You Scream…. We all scream for ICE CREAM!!

Isn't Ice Cream the perfect summer treat?  It can be made into so many cool, refreshing and delicious drinks and deserts.  You can eat it on a stick, in a cone, in a dish or glass, with pie, or dropped into a mug of root beer.  Oh my, how I love a good root beer float!

"I" is for ICE CREAM

Ice cream is one of my favorite foods and it's just a sin that ice cream is so bad for you (but only if you eat too much) and so expensive!  While I could eat it daily, I try not to. However, during the heat of summer it's my favorite way to cool off and I do indulge from time to time.  Every neighborhood I grew up in had a local spot (or two) where kids and families could gather for malts, shakes, sodas or sundaes.   Remember the ice cream man who came around in a truck that played a tune?  I still hear him in my neighborhood from time to time.

There were several ice cream parlours around SLC, but sadly, they are all now gone.  Our treats now come from hard pack ice cream from the grocery or soft ice cream cones (and shakes) from the local drive in.  They have all sorts of toppings and swirls, which Smith loves, but my favorite is plain ol' vanilla. Once in awhile we'll have an ice cream sandwich.  They are an easy to eat treat and always welcome on longass drives.  (Service stations always have a case full of ice cream treats.)

For a variety of reasons, ice cream is a rare treat today, which made the research for this post even more fun.  I have never eaten so much ice cream in such a short period of time. Oh grrl, it was SO GOOD! 

Comments

[Ali]

*gasp*

ICE-CREAM SAMMICH! WANT!

We don't get those in England...

[Kelly]

oh the icecream man, he's non existant here but I remember the call of the ice cream man very well from home. We had our first official ice cream run on tuesday night Yippee! :)

[Laurie]

More difficult research! YUM.

[Lynn]

You don't have any ice cream shops?! Seriously? Heavens, what a deprivation! I have three or four within a couple of miles, plus I know the location of many across the state, just the way I know where the LYSes are.

Hmm. That may explain the expansion I've noticed recently south of my chin.

[Carole]

I've never been a big ice cream eater, I can take it or leave it. But I have lots of memories of the ice cream truck coming by. I also remember walking to the corner store with my grandmother and she would also buy me a "nutty buddy". I'm not sure I have a favorite flavor but I do like black raspberry, pistachio and frozen pudding.

[Manise]

Are those cherries in that there ice-cream of yours?? Oh YUM! Ice-cream is a great way to cool off.

[norma]

I have not loved ice cream for most of my life. I know! I must be weird or something! I adore really GOOD homemade strawberry, and like Hagen Dazs strawberry. I love some of the Ben & Jerry's Flavors, and for vanilla, my choice is a brand of vanilla bean whose name escapes me right now. But lately, I have been eating more of it, and I have a new favorite: Starbucks Coffee Chunk (I'm not sure if this is the official name of the flavor, but that's what it is -- coffee ice cream with huge chunks of dark chocolate in it). OMG. is that good.

[maryse]

i don't have a huge sweet tooth, but i do like ice cream.

[Joan]

We still have an ice cream man with a truck in the summer and two shops within walking distance. I love ice cream but I might as well plaster it on my hips. However, I do indulge in Skinny Cow ice cream sandwiches occasionally which don't have as many calories.

[Nora]

Mmm. Ice cream. Pure chocolate is my weapon of choice.

Here in Milwaukee, we have frozen custard, which is a soft ice cream with even more calories than the regular stuff - it's made with extra cream and involves eggs, somehow (don't question). Heaven in a cone.

[Kelly]

I too love icecream. It's the only bad thing in my diet that I can't give up. I do usually have a little everyday and more on espeacially bad days.

[CindyCindy]

I feel almost spoiled here. We have ice cream and custard. We have frozen custard "concretes". They are custard that is frozen hard and filled with candy (Reese's PB, Heath bars, anything). They're called concretes because you can turn them upside down and they don't spill. Oh, and I loves me vanilla, but my favorite is Moose Tracks. That's vanilla with a ribbon of peanuts and hot fudge. Do you have Maggie Moos? They make ice cream cones to order and mash the ice cream on marble tops. Now, I want some. You stinker;-) Have a terrific weekend.

[Knitnana]

I loves me ice cream sammiches!!!
Great post!
(((hugs)))

[Wool Winder]

The research is the best part! Great minds think alike. :)

[Amy Boogie]

I used to love ice scream. I think out of any of the dairy or sugar treats (double whammy for me), ice cream is the one that I miss the most.

[deb]

This is great Margene! Yesterday it was martinis on my mid before breakfast; today it's ice cream. Thanks!

[paula]

We actually have a Maggie Moos in this area-about 40 miles from my house. I once got Mayfield Turtle Tracks for my birthday. Pecans and chocolate turtles with caramel inside.

[Alison]

Mmmmm, ice cream. I have a small electric ice cream freezer and love making my own in the summer. Blueberry sorbet or ice cream is my favorite since we have blueberry bushes that produce very well every year.

[Hillary]

I love ice cream so much and was planning on doing it for my I too. Great minds and all that. I hope you won't be offended. How sad that you have no ice cream parlors in SLC. We have quite a few which is good because I adore the stuff.

[Cindy in Happy Valley]

Maybe you outta make a trip here. Our famous (no kidding) Creamery ice cream is truly incredible. They say it's about 4 hours from cow to cone.

You can have it FedExed too!

If you're really dedicated you can take the ice cream short course....like Ben & Jerry.

[Marcia Cooke]

When I was growing up, we spent summers at the shore on Long Island Sound. Across the street from our cottage was a little variety store that was actually kind of creepy. Dark, cluttered, dirty, but oh, man, did they ever have good ice cream! A double cone was all of a quarter in those days! Your post brought me right back there!

[Stacey aka The Loom Whisperer]

MMMM! Ice cream sandwich! YUMMY! I find it safest not to keep any ice cream in the house at all.

[Carrie]

I miss the days when you could get a triple scoop at Thrifty's for 45 cents. (I also miss the days when there was a cent sign on keyboards.)

[Vicki]

Yum Yum Yum!! Great photos. What a wonderful "I." Tasty, too.

[Chris]

LOL! Ah, the suffering one must do for the blog... ;) See, you need to visit the Twin Cities sometime - we still have plenty o' ice cream parlors, with the ice creams all locally made.

[Darla - Detroit]

Ok, just visiting (haven't had time for a while), and when I saw "ice cream", it immediately brought me back to my growing up years...mom used to make waffles (from scratch, doncha know) and, while warm, would put a slice of vanilla ice cream between two and we would have WARM ice cream sandwiches!! MMmmmmm, the ice cream would slowly melt and drip down your arm if you weren't fast enough! Just YUMMY!!!

[Opal]

Oh! I adore root beer floats. When I was a kid I used to call them floating root beers. It made perfect sense to me then!

[Cheryl S.]

Fat Boys! Yum!

My parents met when my dad was an "ice cream man". He knew that one of his regular customers on his route(my aunt) had a very cute older sister, so he talked my aunt into having her older sister come out for some ice cream so he could meet her.

And I worked at Farrell's Ice Cream parlor for 5 years - through high school and college.

[Teyani]

great I post :-)

[aliceq]

We still have an ice cream man! At least we did last summer. What with the price of gas now, I wonder if we will this summer.

[elizabeth]

Oooh, have you ever had a float with Buffalo Rock gingerale and vanilla ice cream? It's great!

[Laura]

Mmmmm.... Ice Cream! Yay! Fun photos and great "I" post!

Have a lovely warm weekend - perfect for Indulging in whatever happy treats you like! XOXOX

[Amy]

...okay! Time to go get some ice cream. :)

[claudia]

I don't even love ice cream, yet I'm tempted. The power of suggestion....

[marti]

well if that doesn't encourage summer i don't know what will!

[Imbrium]

I've never been a fan of root beer, but I used to make Diet Coke floats...mmmm. I love how the soda freezes to the outside of the ice cream, and I love drinking the creamy Diet Coke after the ice cream is gone. Nom nom nom.

Okay, now I have to get ice cream and Diet Coke on the way home.

[Suzanne]

Yum, Ice Cream! I will admit to an ice cream sandwich every day (unless I feel really lousy, then I can't even look at them). It has been worked into any diet I have been on as an adult. I can be good all day as long as I get to have that after dinner.

Great post. Makes me want to go out to one of the local ice cream shops. I may make that my dinner tomorrow night.

[Jennifer]

We still have the ice cream truck in our neighborhood! Of course he mostly sells popsicles.

[Heather]

Oh those ice cream sandwiches are mighty tasty, aren't they??

[Heather Joins The Round]

Mmmmmmmm, ice cream is hard to resist.

[Barb]

Yum yum!

[Alarming Female]

I love me some FatBoys!

[kathleen]

yum!! is that vanilla swiss almond!

[Pat K]

Growing up in Detroit, the best ice cream treat was to go to Alinosi's Ice Cream Parlor on a summer evening. A big pistachio and chocolate sundae with the works and a big glass of ice cold water with it. Nobody makes pistachio ice cream as good as that.

[Tina]

Have you tried Farr's? I know of Farr's ice cream in north Ogden. It's yummy!!

[Ruth]

I need to do some of that research ....

[Knitting Mistress]

My #1 favorite food! If I had to choose just one thing to eat to sustain life, it would have to be icecream. A creamy coffee flavor is definately my fave. Followed by cookies and cream, and a dulce de leche if there's enough protein handy to keep the blood sugar from going out of this world! :)

[minnie]

my son and husband eat ice cream every day, so i'm always on the hunt for it to be on sale. my favorites are the ones iwht lots of stuff in them, like ben & jerry's, or i'll go to stone cold creamery and get yummies there.

however, i recently discovered that the big box store has started carrying their own brand of chocolate-coffee ice cream bars for $2.50 a box of 12! oh dear, it hink i'm in trouble!

[Lucia]

I love ice cream! Even thought of using it for my I. I'm glad I didn't, as now I can share yours.

[Sarah]

I nearly made my I for ice cream, too. I do enjoy the stuff. I'm still catching up on the ABC-Along.