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Quick Look: A Boat of Ice Cream at Collins Creamery in Enfield, CT
10.04.08 | Permalink | Comment?

They’re out in the country (well, as much in the country as you can be in Enfield), they have a ice cream loving cat, and they have an ice cream sampler that gets you 4 flavors or $4.95. Yes, please.

All four were very, very good, but two were remarkable. The maple walnut, on [...]
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Amazing Ice Cream at Dr. Mike’s in Bethel, CT
09.29.08 | Permalink | Comment?

The ice cream at Dr. Mike’s is amazingly good. Hyperbole words are deserved here - incredible, fantastic, maybe mind-blowing. If you are ever traveling along I-84 around the Danbury/Connecticut/New York state border, Bethel is a little bit off the beaten path but well worth the detour just for this ice cream.

This is the blueberry and [...]
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Sweet Cream Ice Cream in West Brattleboro, VT
07.14.08 | Permalink | Comment?

After our trip at Bub’s we were on the prowl for something sweet, and being so close to Vermont, and the ice cream stand at The Chelsea Royal Diner, we knew what we wanted.

That, in case you don’t know, is one of the plainest yet best flavors in all of ice cream-dom. Sweet Cream is [...]
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Cooling Down at Rita’s
07.07.08 | Permalink | Comment?

So the 4th of July weekend pretty much alternated between downpours of rain, and somewhat-hot temperatures and enough humidity to make everything sticky and lazy feeling outside. Not exactly festive. The solution!

For us, it was heading over to Rita’s in South Windsor, CT, admittedly, with a Buy-2-Get-1-Free coupon in hand. Will we be willing to [...]
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Ice Cream at Smyth’s in Enfield
07.03.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

Just down the street from The Country Diner is Smyth’s (prounounced just like Smith’s…we think), an unassuming looking ice cream stop with a big selection of scoops, cones, sundaes and shakes. Smyth’s is a great little oasis within the maze of strip malls, big box stores, and chain eateries that make up a lot of [...]