Coming from New Zealand an being married to an Italian, I'm a total Ice Cream snob. Only NZ Tip Top or Italian hand made Gelato passes these lips.

Crapolato!

Germ War wrote:Chicago must exist in some kind of magical palace, then, complete with elves and unicorns and other mythical making-ice-cream-taste-delicious creatures

well, it is in boystown

softserve is ok.

blizzards are killer.

the frozen custard over at scooter's (corner of belmont and... paulina?) is fantastic.

the best, though, are the milkshakes from suzie's (montrose just west of elston) -- huge, cheap, tasty.


http://www.nicegraphics.com/chow/suzies/shakes.jpg

The soft-serve, she is crap. Maybe is okay to get some at the Dairy Queen place but only with the red cherry candy shell that turns from the wet to the hard like magic trick. But overall, the soft-serve, she is crap.

I don't eat any of the ice cream too much. But when I do, I like her to be hard. So much the hard that she is to bend my spoon!

Cold Stone Creamery requires (or encourages very strongly) the act of SINGING after the staff is tipped.

Any place that exhibits this sort of behavior is an automatic CRAP.

I say this as someone who has eaten in a Johnny Rockets.

burun wrote:Cold Stone Creamery requires (or encourages very strongly) the act of SINGING after the staff is tipped.

Any place that exhibits this sort of behavior is an automatic CRAP.

I say this as someone who has eaten in a Johnny Rockets.

Just don't tip them
I have been there 20 times and have yet to see any sort of singing whatsoever

Yeah, I think by CSC encouraging the singing, they are discouraging tipping, thereby dissatisfying their staff and keeping them from forming an ice cream union.

Also - 3 cheers for another CRAP vote! There are real ice cream lovers out there!

Germ War wrote:Yeah, I think by CSC encouraging the singing, they are discouraging tipping, thereby dissatisfying their staff and keeping them from forming an ice cream union.

I've decided to go tonight and I'll tip them a buck and see what happens.
I wonder what exactally they sing. If I get to choose I'll make them sing of of those lil' kim songs about sucking cock.

Definitely not crap, though admittedly inferior to the real thing. And I'm glad it exists. I hate when people say they're "lactose intolerant," because it sounds so whiny/trendy, but the fact is that a lot of dairy foods don't make me feel so good, and ice cream is one of them, so I mostly avoid it. Frozen yogurt is usually okay, probably because of the live cultures, but I've learned that ice cream just isn't worth it. But I discovered this summer that whatever you want to call the stuff dispensed by Mr. Softee trucks has no negative effect on me, which leads me to believe that there is no dairy in that stuff. (Someone told me a lot of it is just air.) So I got kind of addicted to it this summer, to the extent that when the Mr. Softee guy saw me approaching his truck, he would immediately start making me a vanilla cone with rainbow sprinkles, which made me feel like I was about 8.

A related question: Can frozen yogurt be the equal of ice cream?