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With Steve Grossman as Treasurer, all your worries will melt away.

June 18, 2010 By matt-in-boston

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.  

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  1. jasiu says

    June 18, 2010 at 12:41 pm

    Rancatore’s. Two stores, but I don’t think it can be defined as a “chain”.

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    p>

    Where is your ice cream made?

    All our ice cream is home made in a small batch freezer at our factory behind our Lexington store.

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    p>Callebaut milk chocolate is a good test of the “basics”. Candyland will likely be the cause of my death.

    • jasiu says

      June 18, 2010 at 4:45 pm

      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…

  2. stomv says

    June 18, 2010 at 1:07 pm

    I’ll always worry that my mom will find out that I love my wife’s eggplant parmigiana better than hers.

    • kate says

      June 18, 2010 at 5:27 pm

      doesn’t read BMG!

      • stomv says

        June 18, 2010 at 8:55 pm

        She doesn’t live in MA.
        She’s not liberal.
        She doesn’t blog or read blogs.

  3. christopher says

    June 18, 2010 at 2:21 pm

    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:)

    • kathy says

      June 18, 2010 at 6:53 pm

      Yum! đŸ˜›

  4. mike_cote says

    June 18, 2010 at 3:17 pm

    If they only have something like 8 stores within 128?

  5. mike_cote says

    June 18, 2010 at 3:20 pm

    in Lower Mills Dorchester, near Baker’s Chocolates (no relation to Charlie Baker).

  6. dhammer says

    June 18, 2010 at 3:30 pm

    See, the mint chocolate chip is pink…  Pink because it’s peppermint, not spearmint and it’s the best mint chocolate chip around.

  7. bob-gardner says

    June 18, 2010 at 3:52 pm

    his nose is still brown.

    • justice4all says

      June 18, 2010 at 4:33 pm

      That’s the chocolate “talking”…

  8. justice4all says

    June 18, 2010 at 4:32 pm

    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.  

  9. lynne says

    June 18, 2010 at 5:09 pm

    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!!

  10. kathy says

    June 18, 2010 at 7:09 pm

    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.  

  11. christopher says

    June 18, 2010 at 10:25 pm

    …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!

  12. truebluelou2 says

    June 19, 2010 at 2:05 pm

    The Globe was wasting his talents on the editorial desk.

  13. dcsohl says

    June 21, 2010 at 4:47 pm

    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.

    • jconway says

      June 28, 2010 at 3:33 am

      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>Soft Serve:

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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>Hard Ice Cream:

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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

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