#12, Main Street Sweet Shoppe, Deep River.

Adequate but not top notch…

In honor of national ice cream day, but seriously every day is national ice cream day, we took Marve and Sheldon (Cooper White) out for ice cream today. We traveled to our neighboring town Deep River, which is nicely located on the southern part of the Connecticut River.

We visited the Main Street Sweet Shoppe, which has the appearance of an old town ice cream shop in the center of Deep River. Excellent selection of hard ice cream and traditional soft serve ice milk. They have three brands of hard ice cream, Buck, Giffords and Ashbury. Have to admit I haven’t heard of Ashbury and am wondering if the kid misspoke.

Maureen had a generous serving of soft chocolate with chocolate sprinkles (are you detecting a trend here) and thought it almost tasted like traditional hard ice cream. I on the other hand had the old faithful chocolate milk shake, which was flavorful but lacked consistency in the viscosity of the shake…some parts very thin and watery, other parts too thick for the straw which only suggests to me it’s all in the preparation.

The Main Street Sweet shoppe gets props for the diversity of ice cream flavors and three species of this frozen dessert, but loses points for poor preparation. As my friend Cope MacClintock would say, adequate but not top notch.