Which do you like best? I've been eating ice cream every day this summer. Coldstone is awesome too, but I wasn't sure if that was a popular place.
Carvel has the best. Unfortunately the one by us closed a few years ago. At least you can get Carvel cakes at grocery stores.
Ben and Jerry's. Have to give my support to the local guys just over the lake. Plus I loves me some Chunky Monkey.
I love Ben and Jerry's!! I only like carvel for their soft serve, I don't like their scoop flavors. When I was younger I was obsessed with the pistachio though lol.
Häagen-Dazs and Breyers are rather good...I just like French Vanilla and Butter Pecan for the most part...
My favorite is something more local. Silas and Maddy's. They great pretty creative with their product. For instance, they have a variation of Cookie Dough that includes oreos and sugar cookies and they color it blue to make...COOKIE MONSTER!!! I like Baskin Robbins and Coldstone too though
I liked Ben & Jerry's when they had Chubby Hubby...still good but just pissed they discontinued that flavor. I'm lucky to live right down the street from Fosselman's so all my ice cream needs are covered by one of the best places I've ever been to. It's the first place I saw and tried the Salty Caramel flavor before it started popping up everywhere. One thing I say is ice cream is good from just about anywhere...my favorite pastime as a kid was getting it from Rite-Aid (or whatever it was back then...Save-On?). Ironically, Cold Stone is one of my least favorite Ice Cream spots...I wouldn't turn it down but I've noticed their flavor has something weird about it that I just don't like compared to most other places I've been.
Friendlys - i think there's a Friendlys in daytona beach, fl i used go in there all the time, when i was living in fl but i'm a big fan of wendy's chocolate flosty
Even though Dairy Queen is basically the McDonalds of ice cream joints, and the two DQ locations nearest me are seedy (one's had its fair share of armed robberies and is in dire need of renovations, the other's Yelp reviews paint the Manager in a less-than-favorable-light) I can't turn down an earthquake sundae(this diabetes-fodder item that isn't officially on their menu anymore with hot fudge, brownies,and just a little ice cream in the bottom) .
Basken Robbins strawberry cheesecake is amazing and cold stone is great because you could get apple pie ice cream there. On a side note, whenever I go to my families cottage here in michigan I go to grindstone city and I get a large apple pie ice creme in a quart for like $3. It's awesome. And sometimes they have blueberry cheese cake too.
I honestly don't have a favorite when it comes to the chains, as long as they serve real ice cream and not frozen yogurt. I like the local mom and pop ice cream stands. When I lived in upstate NY every town regardless of size had at least one. I miss them now that I live in NC - it's mostly chains here, but none of the ones you listed. Actually it's kind of hard to find real ice cream here. Those self serve frozen yogurt places are everywhere. My wife likes really hard ice cream (which terrifies me) and we haven't found a single place serving hard ice cream.
