If you ask my Dad for highlights of his visit to Regina several years ago when I was living there, I'm willing to bet that his answer will include reference to the Milky Way and the ice cream cone he had there. So I thought that since I was back I should pay them a visit. The Milky Way is only open in the summer. I guess there isn't much demand for an ice cream stand when it is 40 below before you calculate the windchill factor in February. But they do a roaring business in the summer.
Even on Saturday afternoon with the weather on the chilly side there were still people standing around waiting for their ice cream. I had a soft-serve twist of vanilla and the flavour of the day, grape. The grape was very grapey. Sort of like grape soda. Kind of cool. My favourite memory of the Milky Way was when pistachio was the flavour of the day. That was fantastic. The grape, while interesting, was no pistachio. Daphne had hoped that it would be sort of like something she referred to as frozen custard. Apparently they make it in the Midwestern United States. But it wasn't. It was just soft serve ice cream.
Milky Way Ice Cream. 910 Victoria Ave. Regina. 306-352-7920.
To clarify the frozen custard reference: the baseline for me is Ted Drewe's Custard in St. Louis, MO; followed by Koppp's in Milwaukee (and its grilled hamburgers are another topic altogether); then Ritters in Indianapolis; then back to Wisconsin for Culvers. This stuff is pure cream; and if served fresh (i.e. not packaged and frozen) it has a holding time of about 4 minutes (8 in the wintertime). Trust me, once you have it, there's no going back for soft serve. Ever.
Posted by: Daffodil | May 30, 2006 at 07:14 PM
this rocks i loveeeeeeeeeeeeeeee ice cream i wish you were open in the winter
Posted by: mikayah | April 16, 2009 at 08:26 PM