Boston people: ice cream

[redbird]

JP Licks now has both peach and cucumber ice cream. Last week, they only had the peach, and I'd given up on cucumber for this year, but I looked at the list of flavors at the Coolidge Corner store, and cucumber was on the board, right above peach.

So, I bought two pints of ice cream, and hurried home with them, since I'd forgotten to bring an insulated bag with me. That meant I just bought the pints, and hurried to catch a trolley, rather than also getting a dish of ice cream and eating it on the trolley platform, letting trains go by until I finished my ice cream. (I don't think there's a rule against eating ice cream on the green line, but I can't mask while eating ice cream, or anything else.)

I just looked at both the JP Licks website and the phone app, and neither of them mentions the cucumber ice cream; both do show the peach.

Comments

om nom nom

[rafiwinters]

Peach ice cream. Oh my goodness. My absolute favorite from Baskin Robbins when I was a kid in Pittsburgh. I envy you!

Re: om nom nom

[redbird]

JP Licks makes a few seasonal flavors, usually for a month at a time. They usually have cucumber in July and peach in August, depending on the local crop. Last year there were no local peaches, and JP Licks ran out of cucumber ice cream in about two weeks.

That's in addition to less seasonal specials, like the current spicy pineapple, "extreme chocolate," cookie³ (all dairy), coconut-based cookies and cream, and "peanut butter and honey cow paws" sorbet.

Re: om nom nom

[rafiwinters]

During the 30 years I lived in Boston, I had access to various JP Licks locations. Most recently we were in JP itself and used to walk up there on a warm summer evening for frozen treats.

Spicy pineapple, though?

Re: om nom nom

[redbird]

It has some sort of hot pepper, so I wouldn't like it.

I'm not in walking distance of any of the good ice cream places; the Lizzy's shop at Harvard Square is significantly further from us as the crow flies, and enough further by transit to make a difference to getting ice cream home on a hot day.

When it cools off, I'm going to try to get back to Tosci's, but that's less convenient than either of the other options. [omitting details about different transit construction and maintenance projects.]