[Magdalen] Creme de la Creme.

[James David Walley]

My experience with Cold Stone Creamery is that, if you object to the added ingredients in B&J, you probably will like them even less. Cold Stone's claim to fame is that you "design your own" ice cream by picking flavorings and fillings/toppings (nuts, candies, etc.) that are hand-mixed into their base vanilla. The problem is, that base isn't very good -- it struck me that the wax and oil content is very high, more so than any standard store-bought variety I've encountered.  The result is that the customer-chosen flavorings and toppings utterly overwhelm the ice cream itself, to the point where it is merely the substance that holds all the "extras" together. There's also the problem that, in order to make it easier to mix (?), the ice cream seems kept at a relatively-warmer temperature, so you don't get the shock of cold that should be a part of eating ice cream in the first place.  There was a local company up here, Marble Slab Creamery, that took a similar approach with better results but, sadly, it wound up going out of business. 

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> On Dec 21, 2014, at 3:28 PM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Oh yes...Gifford's in Silver Spring, MD!  We used to go there frequently
> when we lived in Takoma Park.  I've also been to the dairy out at the U of
> MD, though not many times.
> Anyone have any experience with Coldstone Creamery?  I went to one in PA
> several years ago, and there's now one here in Charlottesville.  Vey
> pricey, IIRC.
> 
> On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 5:45 PM, Brian Reid <reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
> wrote:
> 
>> Gifford's Old-Fashioned Vanilla
>> Lappert's Vanilla Bean
>> 
>> There are two competing companies, both named Lappert's Ice Cream, one in
>> Hawaii and the other in San Francisco. Both of them make an excellent
>> Vanilla Bean ice cream, but I like the Hawaiian-made one better.
>> 
>> The Dairy Science departments of many US land-grant universities have an
>> associated ice cream store. The best of these, IMO, is the ice cream store
>> at the University of Maryland, though the dairy stores at Michigan State,
>> Penn State, University of Nebraska at Lincoln, and South Dakota State are
>> all wonderful. There may be others but I haven't been to them.
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Grace Cangialosi
> Ruckersville, VA
> 
> It's a good thing Mary didn't have to wait for a Doctrine of the
> Incarnation
> before she said "Yes" to God.