![]() Even though it was the worst, I would still eat Sundae Shoppe any day. Purple Cow was also pretty good with the most prominent vanilla flavor of the ice cream. Dean's had a nice, soft cookie part of the ice cream sandwich and a nice ice cream. Usually I am a pretty harsh taste tester, but I don’t have much to complain about this time. That paired with a totally flavorless ice cream made it completely forgettable.Īllen: They were all so good. Spartan had a weirdly stale-feeling cookie part. Purple Cow was bigger and messier, and I just feel like a good ice cream sandwich experience should end with sticky hands and kids’ faces smeared with ice cream. I want a really vanilla-y ice cream flavor, and Purple Cow had the strongest, with Dean's as a close second. Gamble: I liked both Dean's and Purple Cow. But if I was offered Spartan, I wouldn’t turn it down. It wasn’t exactly bad, but it wasn’t as good as the other ones. Spartan's ice cream was the blandest ice cream. It just depends on whether you’re in the mood for a little treat or a bigger treat. Dean's had a slightly nicer vanilla flavor, but Purple Cow was bigger. Dean's and Purple Cow are practically a tie. All the rest were regular sized.Įrin Dietzer, education reporter: This was very close for me. The purchaser missed the notice on the front of the Dean's Country Fresh box announcing it was full of mini ice cream sandwiches. In order of best to last, staff ranked Dean's Country Fresh with 22 points ($4.29 at Family Fare for 16 minis), Purple Cow with 20 points (Meijer's ice cream brand, costing $2.99 at Meijer for 12), Sundae Shoppe with 10 points (costing $8.99 at Aldi for a variety pack including 12 ice cream sandwiches, 8 sundae cones and 12 ice cream bars) and Spartan brand with 8 points ($2.99 at Family Fare for 12). There were clear winners and losers, though, so here are the final results. "I don’t buy a lot of junk food when I go grocery shopping, but I may have to add ice cream sandwiches to future shopping lists." "They were all delicious," said Jake Allen, county reporter. The staff ranked them from best to last, and those rankings were given numbers that were added up to find a winner by points - although, to be fair, they felt it was hard to mess up an ice cream sandwich. "Ice cream sandwiches are great, and now I want to go take a nap and not do any work at all for the rest of the day," said Audra Gamble, cops/courts reporter, after trying all four brands. ![]() Here at The Sentinel, staff celebrated by trying various brands of ice cream sandwiches in a blind taste test: Dean's Country Fresh, Purple Cow, Spartan and Sundae Shoppe. "Watching someone eating ice cream and handing them something that is nourishing them is emotional and spiritual to me.Summer is officially here, which for those of us focused on food means one thing: ice cream season. The parlor is open Tuesday through Friday 1 to 9 p.m. She plans on holding a flea market and yard sale the last Saturday of every month and having the farm stand functioning from April to November. She also just got in a soft serve machine and it will be up and running in the coming week. She is also using a lot of locally sourced produce, foods and Mount Crawford Creamery's cream in making the ice cream.Ī local business from Bridgewater called Smiley's Ice Cream is making the ice cream for Kincaid's store. The excitement of plunging into a new business and meeting new people is what is getting Kincaid by. Kincaid said she quit her job at a lab out of Augusta Health two weeks ago. Kincaid has no previous restaurant experience but has hired a trained barista to help show her the ropes of slinging coffee and other caffeinated drinks. Kincaid said she only invested about $3,000 in redoing the building with the help from her husband. Originally, the purple cow was an ice cream and hamburger place in the 1960s, then it then stood as a used car lot for years. In 2005, the spot also housed an ice cream shop called Purple Cow Ice Cream Corral. The building has been empty since 2006 or 2007, Kincaid said, because many feared the rundown building would require too much maintenance. "So I like to say I have both ends of the cow now." "I live at the end of the road," she said. The cow head even has it's own road named for it - Purple Cow Road.įor Kincaid, she loves that she's part of the amusement attraction now. The plaster of paris purple cow head, originated at the Monticello Dairy and was hoisted up a 15-foot pole in 1963, according to The News Leader archives.
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