On Saturday, after the going in to work and the weeding and the bike riding and the saving of kittens and cyclists and the futile running about (more on that later), we rightly decided we needed a treat. We thus found ourselves at Nielsen's Frozen Custard (3918 Highland Drive, Holladay).
I am only recently attuned to the delights of frozen custard: we didn't have any growing up in Maine - we had real ice cream, soft-serve and frozen yogurt, but no frozen custard. H, on the other hand, was well-versed in frozen custard, having grown up near an Abbott's in upstate New York.
What Nielsen's is known for - and they are well, well known - is their "concrete," a blend-in/Blizzard-ish mix of frozen custard and any number of toppings. The ordering process is posted on the wall: pick your size, regular or mini: H got regular, I got mini; choose your flavor custard: H got vanilla, I got chocolate; pick your flavoring and/or topping[s]: H got hot fudge, I got crushed Butterfinger candy. Then the whole mess is blended together, but without any milk so it's thick ... hence, concrete.
Our concretes were delicious - much better than the Iceberg milkshake I had - as frozen custard has a much richer, creamier mouth-feel than soft serve ice cream. Our only complaint was that it was SO hot out that they melted really quickly and so we had to eat them really quickly, with no time to savor. That's okay, though: now that we know what we're in for - yummy deliciousness - I expect we'll go back quite often.
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Oh, there is frozen custard in Maine. We pass a place every time we go to camp. Big sign right out front.
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I had no idea - there wasn't any around where I was (more's the pity).
ReplyDeleteThere's a custard place near Joe's. We've been a few times with he and Deb. Not sure of the route it's on, but it's on the way to Auburn. It was closed the day I met up with them this time, though.
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