Is This America’s Best Ice Cream?
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The best ice cream in America? It’s also the hardest ice cream in America, and it comes from St. Louis. It’s so good that people have been lining up to buy it at Ted Drewes ever since the tiny family-run roadside stand opened in 1929.
One spoonful of the thick frozen vanilla custard, and you’ll understand why. This ice cream tastes, well, old-fashioned. It has a smooth richness that makes it taste like the ice cream of your childhood. Even after months in the freezer, it softens from brick-hardness to the smooth creaminess of freshly churned country ice cream.
What’s the secret? The Drewes aren’t talking. But they are sending: For $68.31, you can get six quarts of custard, packed in dry ice, delivered the next day to your door. At that price, this is one memory worth keeping to yourself.
Ted Drewes
6726 Chippewa St.
St. Louis, Mo. 63109
(314) 481-2652. MasterCard, Visa
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