Remember the way ice cream used to taste? Remember running on hot asphalt in flip-flops after a tinkling ice cream truck? Recall the chill of that freezing chocolate against your lips, the stickiness on your fingers, the melting sweetness against your tongue. Ice cream is the ultimate comfort food, the treat of childhood, birthdays and break-ups. The Comfy Cow updates the feelings and flavors of ice cream with equal parts panache and taste.
Homemade Ice Cream and Pie Kitchen is celebrating Quarter Day this Saturday, June 18. From noon to 5 p.m. at all Pie Kitchen locations, customers can buy a one-scoop ice cream cone for 25 cents.
This local dessert shop offers 32 flavors of ice cream, from the basic (vanilla, chocolate and strawberry) to the more creative (Gorilla Banana Tracks, Smurf and Red Raspberry Fudge).
Before moving to Louisville, I thought that Cold Stone or perhaps Blue Bell (I am a Texas girl, after all) had the market cornered on being the “World’s Best Ice Cream.” However, even before I officially made the move to Louisville, I had discovered the local favorite, Graeter’s. It was recommended that I first try the Black Raspberry Chip flavor. It is creamy, not overly raspberry-y, and has enormous (yes, enormous) chunks of chocolate embedded within.
In 1984, President Ronald Reagan declared July "National Ice Cream Month", and the third Sunday in July "National Ice Cream Day." Little did he know the effects of that proclamation a generation later.
The Lyndon Area Business Association is known best for connecting the business owners of Lyndon with each other, and keeping commerce in the neighborhood flowing smoothly. But three times a year, they team with The Red Cross to sponsor the Community Blood Drive, an act which reaches far beyond the borders of Lyndon.
