Baskin-Robbins Goodness
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
I am silly excited about the fact that Baskin-Robbins is joining us this week! When I was in high school, the owners of a Baskin-Robbins store close to us was a home school family, and my mom tutored their two children in English. In exchange for her time, my sister and I learned how to decorate cakes, Baskin-Robbins style, and for each of our seven birthdays that year we were made a special cake just for us! There is nothing quite like an ice cream cake to celebrate another year!
Baskin-Robbins is not only celebrating National Ice Cream Month with us, but they are hosting Lick-A-Thon events, at participating Baskin-Robbins stores, on July 17th. Ice cream lovers everywhere can challenge friends, family or community members to a “lick race” to see who can lick a scoop of OREO Cookies ‘n Cream ice cream (my childhood favorite) the fastest and become the ultimate Lick Champion. It’s a great way to celebrate America’s love of ice cream during National Ice Cream Month, don't you think?
The fine folks at Baskin-Robbins headquarters, and my local Baskin- Robbins, have graciously offered to make Julia's birthday cake for her rescheduled birthday party on Sunday! Being that I will be at the BlogHer conference all weekend, that is quite a load off my shoulders... And, quite the treat!
Would you like to win some Baskin-Robbins gift checks? There will be 10 winners who will each win $4 - Just enough for a special ice cream treat at Baskin-Robbins!
- Leave a comment here, anytime through Sunday, with your fondest childhood memory involving ice cream. This will earn you one entry.
- For an optional second entry, post your memories on your blog, with a link to this giveaway, and leave me the url to your post.
Remember you can also leave one piece of ice cream trivia per day, for more chances to win some Baskin-Robbins goodness!
July 15, 2008 10:56 PM
Sometime when I was little I remember my mom letting us have cold pizza and ice cream for breakfast. then she would tell us stories of when she worked in the cafateria in college and would eat lots of ice cream instead of doing the dishes.
July 16, 2008 5:42 AM
My father loved ice cream and we had it often when growing up. But my faovrite memories are from when my son, niece and nephew were little. The year before my father passed away, we would go to my his house every Sunday and swim in his pool. When it was time for the kids to get out of the pool, he would announce "Who wants ice cream?" By far my facorite ice cream memories!
July 16, 2008 6:50 AM
Oddly, my earliest memory about ice cream involves taking medicine. I had be perscribed something in a capsule that was difficult for my 6-year-old throat to swallow. (The rest of me was the same age, so I might not have been trying too hard.) Mom would open the capsule and sprinkle the dose on ice cream--fudge ripple in a sugar cone. Eaten while watching Howdy Doody after school.
I still love fudge ripple. In a sugar cone. Howdy Doody, not so much.
July 16, 2008 7:32 AM
oh i want to win! i am craving ice cream right now and it is only 10 31 am! as a kid, i have so many happy memories of ice cream in the summer as a tasty treat. soft serve twist with chocolate sprinkles at the shore in the summer. even now when i order that (which i still do everytime) it takes me back to the smell of coppertone and the boardwalk with sand between my toes!
July 16, 2008 8:42 AM
Yummy! It is hard for me to pick a single favorite ice cream memory, but the one that stands out the most today are the many times we made homemade ice cream. I would mix up the ingredients (we usually went for vanilla with crushed Butterfinger candy bars!) and my Dad and brothers would take turns churning it. The sun would be hot and it was so hard to wait until it got firm, but it would taste so good. Boy, does that give me cravings... even at 10:30 in the morning. :-D
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July 16, 2008 9:03 AM
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July 16, 2008 9:04 AM
My grandpa taught me how to make homemade vanilla ice cream in his old-fashioned ice cream maker! The best memories I have of him were sitting on his lap licking the yummy ice cream we made....together. Sigh.
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July 16, 2008 9:16 AM
I remember as a child how we always ate ice cream as we watched the fireworks on July 4th.
July 16, 2008 9:40 AM
It was fun to be reminded about fun ice cream memories! -Beth
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July 16, 2008 9:43 AM
When I was a kid the Baskin Robbins in our town was run by a husband/wife team and they brought their daughter (about my age) to work w/ them. Going for ice cream meant I got to play with a friend too, and that one shop was always more than happy to let me have an extra cup to save my bubble gum in when I ate bubble gum ice cream :)
July 16, 2008 9:43 AM
I added my annecdote to my blog post here: http://broadhorizonsschool.blogspot.com/2008/07/i-scream-you-scream.html
July 16, 2008 9:52 AM
My mom always bought us ice cream birthday cakes and I loved them!
July 16, 2008 10:10 AM
As a kid, my mom would drive us through the McDonald's drive through and order a vanilla soft-serve cone---but only as a special treat. The swirly sweetness was so delicious, and we were always quick to devour the cone before it melted and dripped all over our hands.
July 16, 2008 10:53 AM
The sound of the ice cream machine making the homemade ice cream. The salt and ice just couldn't work fast enough.
July 16, 2008 11:06 AM
My mom has a blown up old B&W of me with my first ice cream. I'm wearing nothing but a diaper and I am completely covered in creamy goodness!
July 16, 2008 11:53 AM
Going to Grandpa Joe's yard and visiting with him then when we were all about to leave he would dig thru his pockets and hand each of us five kids a quarter to go to Thrify's to get an ice cream cone! I will never forget those fun times!
Sara
marriedrosesatyahoodotcom
July 16, 2008 12:27 PM
I grew up in a place where its super hot at Christmas time and my most cherished childhood memories involving ice cream are sitting around the pool with my siblings, after a long, satisfying day of church and presents and family fun, and gobbling down big bowls of my mom's homemade vanilla and mint chip ice cream - oh, those were the days!
belinda_streak(at)hotmail(dot)com
July 16, 2008 12:55 PM
My family used to make snow ice cream! My sister and I would go outside with a big roaster and fill it with the cleanest snow we could find. Then, Mom would add vanilla, cream and eggs to the snow. I think she added a few other ingredients, but I can't remember them. Nothing tasted as good as snow ice cream!
Thanks, Cindi
jchoppes[at]hotmail[dot]com
July 16, 2008 2:27 PM
Not sure if it is a trial market but the local Baskin Robbins now has soft serve. My wife and I love it! OK, she loves it more than I do; I still prefer to be able to bite my ice cream.
July 16, 2008 4:20 PM
I'm still a sort of a child, but I have a very interesting story. Well first of all every Saturday we play soccer, and while we do this some people from church also play football. Any way, we do these at the same time on Saturday, at the same place. So after we are done with soccer we sometimes watch the football game going on. This is always fun, because we always cheer for our favorite team. So after football, the coach of the team that we were cheering for had to pick up somebody at a ice cream shop. (the captain takes all of the soccer players home after we are done playing.) So when we got there, he said "i'm not buying anybody anything" :) thankfully he gave in and came up to us waiting in the car and said "it's fan appreciation day, you all get free ice cream!" this was the best day for me! Fun memories too!
July 16, 2008 9:10 PM
We didn't get to go out and buy ice cream very often when I was growing up, but every once in a while on a friday night my dad would take up all out to Baskin Robbins, which was a huge treat. I loved getting the bubble gum ice cream because once the ice cream was all done I still got to continue to enjoy it!
My other special memory is of my Grandpa who loved ice cream and would have it every night. When I went to Grandpa's house I always knew I could as much ice cream as I wanted cause he bought it by the tub!
July 16, 2008 9:10 PM
We didn't get to go out and buy ice cream very often when I was growing up, but every once in a while on a friday night my dad would take up all out to Baskin Robbins, which was a huge treat. I loved getting the bubble gum ice cream because once the ice cream was all done I still got to continue to enjoy it!
My other special memory is of my Grandpa who loved ice cream and would have it every night. When I went to Grandpa's house I always knew I could as much ice cream as I wanted cause he bought it by the tub!
July 16, 2008 9:14 PM
I remember stopping at a local Ice Cream parlor with my parents and sister when I was little. We ordered a big sundae with 12 scoops of ice cream and all kinds of topppings. (The scoops were very big). My father thought that we would never finish it but we did!
July 16, 2008 9:20 PM
I remember going with my parents and brothers to Mr. Dippy's, the local ice cream joint, after a long day of swimming and summer fun. I would always get mint chocolate chip ice cream with jimmies in a pretzel cone. Sadly, Mr. Dippy's closed and I moved out of state, but it was wonderful while it lasted - licking ice cream in the twilight at a picnic table in a quaint little town.
July 17, 2008 7:29 AM
I remember sneaking ice cream early on a Sunday morning from an unopened box in the freezer. I would carefully scrape the top so it would still look flat, and of course nobody wondered why the box was 1/3 empty when they opened it for the first time.
July 17, 2008 9:44 AM
You can read about My favorite childhood memory blogged here:
http://kristiniac.blogspot.com/2008/07/iceream-good-posture-and-more.html
July 17, 2008 9:46 AM
Oh I see I get 2 chances if I post here and then blog, LOL
My favorite Childhood Memory of Icecream, was when I was 15 years old living in Newport, Maine, and our landlord had opened up Coaches Ice Cream , which to this day I believe it is still there! We got to sample each new flavor because we lived right across the street from the Ice Cream shop, it was pretty cool cause how many kids can say hey I lived right across the way from a chance at ice cream every day?
July 17, 2008 11:36 AM
My grandpa had an ice cream maker. When a bunch of the grandkids came to visit, he'd whip it out and make some. One time he made French Vanilla. It was the worst flavor, ever! All of the kids were complaining of the taste, except for me. I was smart enough to know that I would be gramps's favorite grandkid for the night if I praised it and not put it down. None of us kids have ever tried French Vanilla again.
July 17, 2008 12:36 PM
I remember the fun we had going to the Ice Creamery for a HUGE hot fudge sundae. It was so big and so delicious! I just wish that we had one here where I live to take my kids to!
Stephanie
www.burtsfamilyblog.blogspot.com
July 17, 2008 7:30 PM
My mom would give my brother and I a dish of ice cream. We would mix it up until it was the texture of custard and then eat it. Can't stand it like that now but LOVED mushy ice cream when I was a kid.
July 17, 2008 7:37 PM
I remember walking about a mile to the ice cream store with my two older brothers, in the middle of summer. I would always get a lemon Italian ice, and I always got so sticky on the walk back!
July 18, 2008 8:17 AM
My grandfathre used to have a butcher shop and would bring home icecream - I used to think he sold icecream and meat! But I think he just got the icecream at the store on his way home!
July 18, 2008 9:58 AM
We used to go to Baskin Robbins at least every other week in the summer. I ALWAYS got the rainbow sherbet.
July 18, 2008 8:18 PM
When I was a kid, my family used to take bike rides to our local ice cream place - actually they had custard, and it was called "Custard's Last Stand", lol. I clearly remember their rainbow-colored decor and exactly what every member of my family would order. I have very fond memories of those ice cream jaunts! :)
July 19, 2008 5:09 AM
My first recollection of ice cream was when I had my tonsils removed when I was 5 years old. Ice cream was about the only thing I could eat and I remember that it was strawberry flavored.
July 19, 2008 5:20 AM
Sitting around the camp fire telling ghost stories with my family.
July 19, 2008 7:00 AM
One of my fondest memories is that of my grandfather sitting an turning the crank on the old ice cream churn at every summer family picnic. That was some of the best ice cream I ever had. He was a great guy and I miss him very much!
July 19, 2008 7:28 AM
I guess I'm showing my age but I remember when men landed on the moon and Baskin & Robbins had an ice cream flavor called Lunar Cheesecake. It was my favorite flavor,
July 19, 2008 7:50 AM
When my brothers and I were kids, my grandma would take us to the local ice cream shop. We'd sit up at the counter and eat ice cream cones and enjoy the ac. That was the best part of summer and my best ice cream memory!
July 19, 2008 8:02 AM
When I was a kid one of the few treats we got on a regular basis was ice cream and my dad never failed to stay "you scream, I scream we all scream of ice cream" before giving us each a bowl of the special treat.
July 19, 2008 8:02 AM
always remember tne sound of the ice cream truck coming to the neighborhood
July 19, 2008 8:07 AM
My Dad (when he was inspired) would take us (and there were 6 of us!) to a run down, beat up little ice cream shop for their specialty, it was a slushie with soft vanilla ice cream in the center. The brain freeze was rampant between all of us when we went!
July 19, 2008 8:36 AM
My favorite memory of ice cream doesn't really involve ice cream. We always had a very large garden every year. My sister was convinced that turnips were ice cream. She would go outside, pull up a turnip and clean it up and say she was eating "ice cream".
July 19, 2008 8:39 AM
Grape Ice Cream! I grew up in a small Kansas town that had all kinds of activities around the town square. One highlight was the yearly Ice Cream Social with all the ice cream you could eat - all flavors. One year I sampled Grape Ice Cream and it was delicious.
For years, I've tried to find a recipe to recreate this fabulous taste treat, but no luck. It was purple like Welch's grape juice. Every time I think about it, I smile and start searching the internet. Some day, I will have my second taste of Grape Ice Cream.
July 19, 2008 8:43 AM
I wrote about my favorite memory and left your link at:
http://sonyasparks.blogspot.com
Thanks for the extra chance.
July 19, 2008 8:52 AM
When I was in the fourth grade I had to get a physical to go away to a camp for a couple of weeks. I was not around doctors very much and I was totally resisting the idea of a physical until they told me the doctor would buy me an ice cream cone after the exam. Then I couldn't wait to get there and the ice cream was great.
July 19, 2008 9:00 AM
I love the memory of my day buying my 3 sisters and me each an ice cream cone. He'd buy 3 vanilla and 1 chocolate, and he would sit there grinning as we all fought for the chocolate one every time. cdziuba@aol.com
July 19, 2008 9:11 AM
Summer time and ice cream just go together and I remember during summer on many hot evenings we would take a walk ( my mom and three sisters) to our local ice cream stand about 3 blocks away and we were only allowed to get a cone, no sundaes (too expensive for 4 kids) and of course one of my younger sisters would ultimately drop her ice cream off the cone onto the ground and begin a whining process that lasted until my mom would give in to her and get her another one, ah fond memories of the good ole days..
July 19, 2008 9:26 AM
My fondest memories involving ice cream was special occasions when my Dad would make homemade ice cream. My brother and I would help pour in the rock salt while he churned the ice cream maker. We usually did this on Easter and Father's Day.
July 19, 2008 9:53 AM
earliest is collecting change for a cone ant the corner store-- and it was a drugstore- guess I am officially old
July 19, 2008 10:18 AM
I remember only getting soft serve ice cream at special events--like fireworks or little in-town parades. Otherwise we went to this little corner place, a Stroh's ice cream shop if I remember correctly, and I'd get to have my all-time favorite flavor: Blue Moon. I mean, I don't like it so much now, but I ate so much of it as a kid it has to qualify as 'all-time' favorite.
July 19, 2008 10:41 AM
I remember Baskin and Robbins Ice Cream, whom I never heard of before, opening up two blocks away from my house while I was attending high school. Every week I went there and ordered a triple scoop sugar cone. Each week I ordered three different flavors. I couldn't believe all of the flavors that they offered. I just wanted try them ALL!!!
July 19, 2008 11:11 AM
For my birthday every year, my parents got me a Baskin-Robbins ice cream cake. I looked forward to that all year long!!! - ruppbc@yahoo.com
July 19, 2008 11:14 AM
My parents woould have a big party every 4th of July and make home made peach ice cream. Mom would prepare the recipe and Dad would crank the ice cream maker. I can still remember the wonderful taste. Thanks for bringing back fond memories.
July 19, 2008 11:22 AM
I REMEMBER THE MISTER SOFTIE AND FREEZER FRESH TURCKS COMING DOWN MY BLOCK!
JESSE
charlieboy42@verizon.net
July 19, 2008 11:52 AM
So many great memories - the "big" ice cream truck coming by late at night (goodies for the adults); there was an ice cream shop right across the street from high school, we stopped there several times a week even in winter; my mom would make fried chicken and my dad would make home made ice cream and the treat was to eat them together-one bite of chicken then a bite of ice cream. So delicious.
willitara@gmail.com
July 19, 2008 12:00 PM
My fondest childhood ice cream memory involves our yearly vacation from New York to the outer banks of North Carolina. The first day of the drive we would stop at my uncle's house near Washington D.C. The halfway point to his house from ours was near Williamsport, PA. We would always take a pitstop at Sunset Ice Cream in Williamsport. They had delicious ice cream and TONS of different flavors as well as a player piano in the ice cream parlor. As we got closer to the store, my parents would ask all of us kids what flavor(s) we wanted to get this time.
July 19, 2008 12:12 PM
My favorite summer memory is the whole family loading up in the car for a trip to get banana splits.
July 19, 2008 12:24 PM
My favorite childhood memory was when an ice-cream shop moved into my area. It was called Barnhills, and it was decorated like an old style ice cream parlor. They even had a piano player that played lively tunes on an old upright piano against the wall. My dad would let me order whatever I wanted (which was unusual!), and I always got something different each time we went. Such great memories!
July 19, 2008 12:54 PM
I can recall going to the Baskin-Robbins with my parents and cousins and being told that we could pick out our own flavor. My cousins loved Chocolate Chip Mint, but I chose Bubble Gum Ice Cream. It was a frozen treat with a gum remembrance!
July 19, 2008 1:35 PM
When I was a kid, Ice Cream was considered a treat. Once in a while my brother would drive us to Baskin Robbins and my favorite one was the margarita ice...I think that is where my love for margaritas was born...I have many fond memories of BR.
July 19, 2008 1:51 PM
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July 19, 2008 2:03 PM
Going with the family out on saturday nights for a cone.
July 19, 2008 2:45 PM
whenever i think ice cream i think of my grandfather. Everytime he used to visit he'd always say "You know I sure would like some ice cream how about you princess?" Well how could you say no to a sweet talking man like that. I loved grandpa dearly and I can still see him asking the ice cream man for something special for his princess.
July 19, 2008 3:36 PM
When I was young I can remember me and my cousins sitting around the table at my Grannies house eating ice cream cones, but before every lick we would say "ice cream yummy" then dot each others nose with our ice cream cone(gross I know). Well one day this turned into an all out ice cream fight in my Grannies kitchen, when my granny came around the corner we all got into big trouble. Were all in our 30's now with kids of our own. And still today when we get together you might still hear "ice cream yummy" come out of someones mouth and then a dot on the nose of your not carefull.
July 19, 2008 3:47 PM
Every Sunday after church, my Dad would take us out for ice cream. Great times we had!
July 19, 2008 3:51 PM
going to farrell's for my birthday
July 19, 2008 4:22 PM
The best was when my mom set up a make your own sundae spread when I had a sleepover for my birthday. Best idea ever! We had a blast.
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July 19, 2008 4:44 PM
I remember Saturday nights our family would go to our local ice cream store and try the newest flavor
July 19, 2008 5:52 PM
My fondest ice cream memory has to do with summers at my Grandma's house. Every summer we made homemade vanilla ice cream the old fashioned way — with a wooden ice cream churn. My sister and I each took a turn turning the handle and adding salt and ice.
I fondly remember getting tastes of salt mixed in with the ice cream; tasting the creamy rich vanilla — so cold that it gave me “brain freezes”. Yes. we’d make other flavors, but nothing was as good as vanilla.
July 19, 2008 6:23 PM
My fondest memory involves an old crank handle wooden ice cream maker. Every 4th of July our family would make ice cream together. Sometimes plain vanilla, sometimes strawberry. We would all take turns cranking the ice cream on the back porch as we sat in a circle chatting about life. When it was ready, it was extra sweet because each of us had contributed our "strength" to making it.
Thank you for this opportunity!
July 19, 2008 6:46 PM
Growing up in San Diego, we only visited my grandparents in Arkansas just once a year...every summer. My greatest memories of visiting them on their farm was that there was guaranteed to be a variety of flavors of ice cream in the freezer. My grandfather and I shared the same sweettooth for this yummy cold delight! He passed away two years ago, and still every time I have a scoop I think of him, hot summers on the farm and laughter.
July 19, 2008 6:52 PM
On Sundays, as a family we would go to Thrifty Drug Store where they served great cylinder shaped scoops of ice cream. I believe they were .5-.10 cents/scoop. Anyway, my parents would encourage us to be good for the treat as if we made enough stars on our chart we were entitled to a double - I carried this on with my kids and they had great memories too!
July 19, 2008 7:24 PM
When I was little my grandfather had this old time ice cream shop, like you would see from the 50's. This was in the mid 1980's. I loved going into that shop. Everything was served in real glass dishes with silverware, it was so much fun.
July 19, 2008 7:55 PM
When I was a child we had a huge two story ICE CREAM PALACE in the city and it was magical! We went a couple of times in the summer and had yummy ice cream served in chilled glass dishes. And at the counter to pay as we were leaving there was a huge display of those miniature stripper pole candies in flavors like rootbeer, grape, cotton candy, licorice....and they were only a nickel each. I still dream about that place.
July 19, 2008 8:05 PM
My Dad used to take me to the "Double D" ice cream place on hot summer nights. I loved the hot fudge sundaes, extra hot fudge :-)!! I miss my Dad so much!
My father's sister, my beloved aunt, treated me to some unbelieveably awesome ice cream in Sag Harbor. The best cone I ever had was there at the Ice Cream Club--it was a blueberry cheesecake ice cream that was totally out of this world! When I think of ice cream I think of my aunt and my Dad.
I even remember sneaking out to Baskin Robbins during my college days with an old friend, and that was a blast ;-)!!
July 19, 2008 8:18 PM
My favorite memory is . . . sitting on my granpa's knee while he sang "I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream." I still say that when ever I want ice cream. Thansk for the giveaway.
July 19, 2008 8:39 PM
One of my best childhood memories of icecream was making it myself :)
July 19, 2008 8:50 PM
My daddy loved his rootbeer floats. It was his special treat when I was little!
July 19, 2008 8:58 PM
My favorite ice cream memory was every July 4th the family would get together and my Grandpa would make homemade banana ice cream with his hand crank ice cream maker. It was so delicious and had chunks of banana in it. Banana is still my favorite ice cream flavor!
July 19, 2008 9:04 PM
The icecream truck bell was my favorite sound
July 19, 2008 9:17 PM
My favorite memory is my mom making banana splits with whipped cream, usually on a Sunday evening.
It was so good and we looked forward to it.
July 19, 2008 9:18 PM
I remember my Uncle coming over on a breezy summer Saturday evening and making homemade ice cream out on the porch- and this was long ago when ice cream makers didn't just make the ice cream by themselves! He sat for over an hour faithfully churning the cream and adding rock salt-
He's gone now, but memories of him and his gentle kindness to me as a child will last me forever :)
froggypartyof2@aol.com
July 19, 2008 9:37 PM
I lost both of my parents between 2002 and 2005, so sometimes when I least expect it, it is the small precious memories that pop up in my mind.
Since you are asking for an ice cream memory, my Dad used to buy a half gallon of ice cream, maraschino cherries and chocolate syrup. He'd set everything out on the table and let us make our own sundaes.
This was such a big deal to us kids, and to this day, I keep a jar of maraschino cherries in my refrigerator as a special "memory" snack.
July 20, 2008 12:34 AM
Ice cream was considered only a summer time treat and we could hardly wait for the season to begin.
July 20, 2008 1:34 AM
i remember making ice cream by putting the bag of ingredients in a bag in a coffee can filled with salt and ice. Most of time the ice cream came out tasting salty because i didn't close the bag all the way, but it was still a lot of fun!
July 20, 2008 2:37 AM
I remember when I was about 4 I was hit in the eye with a baseball bat and my dad took me to the doctor which was a real rarity for him to do. I was ok save for a huge black eye but it hurt a lot. Anyhow, then my dad took me for an ice cream cone and somehow that ice cream cone made it all better. I'll never forget that day.
doot65{at}comcast{dot]net
July 20, 2008 3:48 AM
There was (and still is) a dairy farm that made homemade ice creamm near my childhood home. My dad would take all of us kids every singel Sunday out for icecream there...sit outside on the benches and have a blast. I do this with my kids now, as often as we can...same great place.
THANKS :)
fenway07@msn.com
July 20, 2008 4:34 AM
My favorite is just eating ice cream on the front porch with my brothers and sisters. Usually ahd ice cream once a week back then as a treat.
July 20, 2008 5:27 AM
My fondest memory is my parents making homemade icecream in a handcrank ice cream maker. garrettsambo@aol.com
July 20, 2008 6:35 AM
My fondest memory of ice cream as a child is that every birthday until I turned 13, I got an icecream cake from Baskin Robbins. It was a round cake with 8 cones on it with different flavors:)
jceko77@yahoo.com
July 20, 2008 6:55 AM
My grandma had an ice cream maker, and I use to help her make homemade ice cream with the big chunky salt. It was so fun and tasty.
July 20, 2008 7:02 AM
When I was a little girl we visited TN and went to a theme park (I forget the name, but it closed now). My Aunt gave me money to get myself an ice cream cone. They told me I could keep my money because I was the cutest thing they had ever seen. I felt like a princess all day!!!
July 20, 2008 9:11 AM
My fondest ice cream memory is helping my grandfather turn the old hand-crank ice cream maker as a young girl. Every summer when we would be at my grandparents house for our summer visit, we made homemade ice cream and I would help my grandpa turn the crank until it was too hard for me to turn any more.
July 20, 2008 9:45 AM
my parents used to take us to this place where they made the icecream&the cows were outside&you could pet them and they would eat your icecream sometimes! ahdrad2932@msn.com
July 20, 2008 11:50 AM
My Sister and I waited all day for the "ice cream man" to bring his truck down our street. We were 7 & 10, and ice cream was a real treat, as our house didn't have air-conditioning yet. I asked for a "double-dip" cone, and as I began to walk towards my house, the ice cream metled just enough to fall out of the cone and onto the pavement! I'll never forget how the "ice cream man" handled my situation. He called me over to the truck, and handed me another double-dip cone...with plenty of napkins! I was thrilled!
July 20, 2008 1:12 PM
I can't remember how old I was but it was the first time we made homemade ice cream...it was such fun and I would like to share that experience with my children
July 20, 2008 1:20 PM
I can remember riding bikes with my friends all the way across town after our baseball games to the ice cream parlor where we would order bubblegum ice cream and pick out each and every piece of gum to chew after the ice cream was gone.
July 20, 2008 1:34 PM
Oh yes, I used to love it when my mom would take the icecream after putting it in a bowl for me and then...stir it up to make it "mush cream" for me. That truly was a fond memory of mine.
July 20, 2008 1:52 PM
I just loved always anticipating ice cream cake for my birthday!
July 20, 2008 2:19 PM
Mama's story (she is now 96) describing one particular Sunday during WWII when the Ice Cream Man came thru the neighborhood and my cousin's Dad had enough money for his children's treat but Mother did not......she always had the "homemade ice cream maker going on the back porch" to help us not feel "left out"
July 20, 2008 2:25 PM
On weekends, my brother and I always had a list of chores to do. On occasion, we would finish everything on the list and be rewarded with a trip to the drive-in for a chocolate and vanilla twist ice cream cone. No ice cream could ever compare to that cone we worked so hard for. Even today, the same cone from the same drive-in just doesn't taste the same.
July 20, 2008 2:44 PM
Making homemade root beer floats with my sister. They were so good!
July 20, 2008 3:11 PM
There are 9 of us kids so ice cream was always a speacail treat.
July 20, 2008 3:19 PM
My fondest memories of ice cream are when my mom sometimes picked me up from school and took me to get an ice cream cone. vidomich(at)yahoo(dot)com
July 20, 2008 3:24 PM
My dad was a huge ice cream fanatic and probably a couple nights per week he would ask "Do you girls want ice cream?" which really meant that HE was in the mood for ice cream, and we would drive to the little shop in a nearby town. That's always a happy memory.
July 20, 2008 5:52 PM
It is about 8 5degrees now at 8:30 at night, so ice cream sounds good now. My best memory is going to Kimball's Farm in NH along the backroads for about an hour to get good ice cream
July 20, 2008 6:03 PM
My aunt and uncle had an old-fashioned ice cream maker - the one with the crank on the side. We would make homemade vanilla ice cream and eat it right out of the bucket when we were finished. It was so refreshing on a hot AZ day!
Carolyn
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July 20, 2008 6:17 PM
my dad used to make his famous homemade ice cream when we were kids, that was awesome!
July 20, 2008 6:23 PM
"Albert's Ice Cream", a real old-fashioned ice cream parlor was on the corner of the street where we lived when I was little. In summertime, while my parents were at work, my Grandpa and Grandma watched me - spoiling me by allowing me to buy ice cream every day at lunch. My girlfriend, Judy, and I would climb up on the high stools spinning ourselves around and around, enjoying coffee ice cream (a Rhode Island favorite) and peanut butter crackers EVERY DAY!! We both got rather chubby that summer.
July 20, 2008 6:59 PM
My fondest ice cream memory would be making homemade ice cream with our extended family on the 4th of July every year. I don't know which us kids looked forward to more, the ice cream of fireworks ^_^ Thanks for the yummy giveaway!
July 20, 2008 7:06 PM
Its weird, but I really don't have any good good memories of my favorite ice-cream times. Growing up as a child in a very large place for kids that were either not wanted, or their parents couldn't afford to raise them, or abuse issues, or whatever the cause may be. I'am sure at one time or other we must have had ice-cream, but I don't remember. I do remember when I was in the hospital, (which was quite often) for corrective surgery, I remember having ice-cream that came in those little paper cups so I would have to say that is my best memory.
Thank you
July 20, 2008 7:13 PM
My favorite ice cream memories is when I was growing up, we would always get together with extended family on Thanksgiving. Always after dinner, we would make homemade ice cream. Oh, so good!!!
July 20, 2008 8:12 PM
My first job was in an ice cream parlor and my dad would pick me up. I always had to have a pineapple sundae ready for him!
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July 20, 2008 8:24 PM
After my parents divorced when I was little and it was my dad's weekend with me and my brother, we would always go for icecream and I always ordered Mint Chocolate Chip.
July 20, 2008 8:29 PM
My mom and I had a special standing date once a week to have ice cream. That was our Mother-Daughter time and very precious to me. I now have the same standing date with my daughter.
July 20, 2008 8:55 PM
I remember fondly having ice cream cake at my tenth birthday party.
July 20, 2008 10:09 PM
Ooooh... my fondest childhood memory involving ice cream!
(Where have I been all week?! I wish I'd have checked over here earlier this week. I've had your 'button' in my sidebar for at least a couple weeks. So, why didn't I come?!?!?!?)
My mouth is watering as I scan my brain for memories of ice cream -- there are sooooo many... homemade ice cream (using the old hand crank kind), peanut butter and chocolate at B.R. in Indianapolis... I think the store we frequented was on 38th Street or so, trips to the Tastee Freeze with my aunt and uncle in Oklahoma -- need I go on?
Now that I've walked down memory lane, I'm afraid I may have missed the deadline for entering.
Oh well, I'll try not to drool all over the keyboard. :)
Thanks for the fun giveaway.
I blogged about it here.
roseinthemorning[at]comcast[dot]net
July 20, 2008 11:31 PM
Hope this works it is 11:30 pm pacific time.
My favorite icecream memory is when I was a little girl and I would visit my grandma she always bought ice cream cones, the cake cones. Then we would scoop the ice cream, and have an ice cream cone at her house whenever we wanted. I need to start doing that w/ my kids, it was fun.
July 22, 2008 1:53 PM
Eating ice cream at a friend's house and then coming to my house begging for ice cream, trying to get even more (and completely acting innocent about just having indulged elsewhere).