Tim, thanks for the generous GAW. The ice cream theme is very informative and fun!
Not an entry for me since I was a recent recipient of your generosity; thanks for the canoe!
That my friend is an exceptional prize!
I'm in, thanks for the opportunity!
Favorite ice cream... Moose Tracks
Good luck to all.
I would like to enter on behalf of
redsparrow
; like James, my current favorite ice cream flavor is Moose Tracks, although I can't make up my mind among regular vanilla-based Moose Tracks, Mint Moose Tracks, and Chocolate Moose Tracks. I tend to alternate among those 3.
I could also relate to someone's (
mitch13
?) post about vanilla ice cream with chocolate Nestle's Quik on it. When I was a kid, I think that was after-supper dessert about 5 days a week (and during the summer, when we ate lunch at home, my Dad scooped out single-dip vanilla ice cream cones for us for after-lunch dessert almost every day).
I just returned from a 2-week vacation in Cedarville, MI in the Upper Peninsula. Here are photos of some of their ice cream options.
More than a century ago, there was a hotel called the Bon Air on Cedarville's Lake Huron waterfront. That hotel was allegedly the inventor of an ice cream sundae called a Jersey Mud, according to this little historical marker.
Just a short walk from the marker is the Ice Cream Shoppe which still offers Jersey Muds.
Here's part of their menu:
There's also an "ice cream" place across from the school a few blocks away. It's called the Hilltop Drive-Thru, and as the sign indicates, their main menu items are soft serve ice cream and hot dogs of various kinds.
Although it's called a drive-thru (cars order and pick up behind the building), they also serve to walk-up traffic:
They apparently developed a sundae to compete with a Jersey Mud, as this Star Wars themed sign suggests:
Some ice cream aficionados may scoff at soft-serve ice cream, but I have many fine memories of special occasion soft-serve cones from Kirk's Curley Cones near Gun Lake when I was growing up, and more fond memories of my daughter going with me to church softball games once a week and getting soft-serve cones from the concession stand after each game.
(But even I have my reservations about the product advertised on this sign on one end of the Hilltop Drive-Thru, that seems to indicate one can pick up a soft serve hot dog!)
Despite all these tempting Cedarville ice cream options, I mostly made my own sundaes in our cottage, putting a scoop or two of Chocolate Malt Cedar Crest ice cream on a chocolate chip cookie and drizzling some Hershey's Dark Chocolate syrup on top!
Best wishes to all the GAW participants!
- GT
) too complicated, not my stuff.
Is in Hungary in the 50s? What is that huge motorcycle ? CZ, Ural?
Great history Rachel 
