Greater's has become a Cincinnati Icon.........What is your favorite flavor?.........
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It was a major topic when these 4 Classmates gathered to scout out Friday Evening's Rendezvous at Skyline.
Results Posted on the Reunion Weekend Page
Background:
Graeter'sis a regional chain of shops offering ice cream, baked goods, and candy which originated in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1870. Their premium, thick ice cream has been featured on Food Network, and has earned them many dedicated fans including Oprah Winfrey.
Graeter's ice cream is made in a French pot process. The ice cream mix is placed into a chilled, spinning French pot. As the liquid freezes, a worker scrapes down the sides of the pot with a blade. For flavors that include chocolate chips, liquid chocolate is poured into the pot, and freezes into a thin shell on top of the ice cream. A worker uses a blade to break up this shell and mix it into the ice cream, resulting in Graeter's' famous huge dark chocolate chips.
The New York Times ran an article a few years ago on the ice cream industry and said “...the ice cream most connoisseurs feel to be the best in the world, is Graeter’s of Cincinnati.” The same article pointed out that Graeter’s has far less butter fat than others. Mr. Graeter was quoted as saying “Butter fat just makes it greasy and is used to compensate for air content.” Graeter’s process makes a dense ice cream, with no air, that weighs twice as much as any other premium ice cream.
On her show in July, 2002, Oprah Winfrey said: "You haven't had ice cream till you've had Graeter's. The butter pecan is Stedman's favorite, and mine, too." The company was then overwhelmed with phone and internet orders.
Cincinnatians have long known that Graeters’s fresh baked-goods and hand dipped chocolate are also about the best on the planet. You haven’t lived until you’ve had their brownies, only available on Thursdays – the only day they are baked.
On Friday Night at Skyline, the Steering Committee is buying your desert from Graeters.
Select your favorite flavors and list Your Favorite, Your Runner Up and Your Third Place...........Win, Place and Show......1, 2 and 3.
