What I love was their ice cream...
Especially, the True Night flavor.
It's a vanilla, raspberry, and dark chocolate concoction, and in a waffle cone, it's hard to beat.
Funny thing about ice cream, I credit it for keeping me alive as a child. My mom bought gallon tubs of the stuff because every day I would come home have a huge bowl of whatever kind she chose. I remember eating a lot of vanilla, chocolate, and Neapolitan--that kind used to freak me out a little...why did they not swirl the flavors? Too big a question for a small mind.
I know it's not true, but I say that ice cream kept me alive as a child because I was the skinniest kid I knew. I could not gain weight to save my life. My first drivers license said I weighed 103 lbs. I didn't hit 130 lbs for ten years after that. I think eating so much ice cream provided me the necessary nutrition I needed to grow.
Fast forward many decades (and many lbs...), and there's no way I could eat a daily bowl of ice cream now. I think I gain weight just looking at pictures of ice cream.
My son, whose pictures as a child are almost indistinguishable of pictures of me at the same age, has followed in my footsteps by enjoying a bowl of ice cream almost on a daily basis. Unlike me, he's not a daily-eater (don't think we can afford it...). As I write this, I'm thinking about scooping up some of the cold deliciousness when I'm done. I'm grateful for many things in my life...
Ice cream is one of them.
