Excerpt from McGrory’s column:
Grossman started elaborating on a lending incentive proposal until I said, “No, no. What ice cream tour?”
So he explained that wherever his campaign takes him across this great Commonwealth, he’ll wrap up his visit with a stop at the best local ice cream parlor he can find. He posts his plans on Facebook and Twitter beforehand. Sometimes people show up and eat ice cream and talk about what he would do as state treasurer.
I was admittedly skeptical about a politician coming up with an idea this good, so I asked for some form of proof.
“We were in New Bedford recently,” he said. “The Acushnet Dairy. Fantastic Heath Bar crunch.” …
Disclosure: I proudly serve as Steve’s Field Director.
Disclosure #2: I not-so-proudly anticipate gaining 20 lbs. this summer on the ice cream tour.
Disclosure #3: Thanks to Quincy’s Chandra A. for help with the puns.
Rancatore’s. Two stores, but I don’t think it can be defined as a “chain”.
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p>Callebaut milk chocolate is a good test of the “basics”. Candyland will likely be the cause of my death.
Bedford Farms. They have a second store in Concord, but the production is in Bedford.
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p>Moose Tracks and Milky Way are my favs.
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p>I get the feeling we’re making an ice cream run to somewhere tonight…
I’ll always worry that my mom will find out that I love my wife’s eggplant parmigiana better than hers.
doesn’t read BMG!
She doesn’t live in MA.
She’s not liberal.
She doesn’t blog or read blogs.
Family business for just over 100 years. Warren Shaw, the current owner, is a former Selectman and also has a talk show on WCAP, so he may be worth knowing for those reasons as well.
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p>Sounds like you all had time on your hands in the office this morning:)
Yum! 😛
If they only have something like 8 stores within 128?
in Lower Mills Dorchester, near Baker’s Chocolates (no relation to Charlie Baker).
See, the mint chocolate chip is pink… Pink because it’s peppermint, not spearmint and it’s the best mint chocolate chip around.
his nose is still brown.
That’s the chocolate “talking”…
The. Best. Ever. It’s a little old and dingy looking, and the mosquitos on a hot night are a bit much….but the icecream is pure bliss. And a shout out to the help! They’re great kids. So, I guess Mr. Grossman hasn’t made it to my neck of the woods yet, but I hope he stops in at Mac’s.
Downtown, Monkey’s Ice Cream. There are other places and they’re good too, but Monkey’s is a relatively new business, put together by three businesses in downtown going in on it together, and I love the owners, love their spirit and go-to-it attitude in downtown, and they have the coolest names for their sundaes and drinks. Nothing like “10 Little Monkeys Jumping on a Bed” to finish up your day with! (You’ll just have to come down to find out what that sundae is!)
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p>Plus Monkey’s supports sustainable gifts and local artists too!!
We used to go to Shaw’s in Dracut and Kimball’s in Westford back before it became a quasi-amusement park. Richardson’s on the North Shore has some good ice cream too. Locally I’m a fan of Christina’s.
…a day can be set aside for a Greater Lowell Ice Cream Tour, stops to include (in no particular order):
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p>Shaw Farm in Dracut
Monkey’s in Lowell
Mac’s and Meadowlands in Tewksbury
Kimball’s in Westford
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p>Memo to Steve and staff – don’t eat anything else that day!
The Globe was wasting his talents on the editorial desk.
Park Street Ice Cream, on the common. But don’t try to hold any sort of meeting there if the weather isn’t nice, because you can’t fit more than about eight people inside. The common, though, right across the street, is an excellent stopping place on beautiful days.
I don’t consider Brighams a chain, especially considering there are none left.
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p>Took my girlfriend downtown over spring break to Boston and promised her hot dogs and a raspberry lime rickey and couldn’t find one Brighams in Boston. I felt so old! The Washington Street location where my grandma, ma, and mock trial team took me to on various occasions was now gone! So was Mill Street where I’d go after my dentist appointments. Now all is left is Trapelo Road and the one in Arlington Heights.
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p>Cedar Hill Dairy Joy in Weston also has great fried clams
Bubbling Brook in Westwood has great soft serve, great raspberry lime rickeys, and excellent fried clams.
Captain Dusty’s in Manchester by the Sea.
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p>There is a great ice cream place in Rockport on the Neck, can’t remember the name
Hobbsies at the Salem Willows
Toscanini’s, Christina’s, and the dearly departed Herells in my hometown of Cambridge, Lizzy’s is only good cause I got an in with the manager and eat there for free.
Richardson’s in Middleton