Ice Cream Spinoff

[RedAngie]

Do you remember local brands that are now defunct?

We used to buy Sealtest, Dolly Madison, and Abbott’s, among others. My grandparent’s store sold hand dipped Abbott’s.

A&P sold Ann Page plus their premium brand, Crestmont.

My father liked “ice milk.” I haven’t seen that in maybe 40+ years.

 

[CdnCarrie]

Blue Boy

 

[easyas123]

Richmond's ice cream in South Jersey....
And, it's not a brand per se, rather a location. Cream Valley Dairy. Fun memories from being a kid -

 

[Micca]

Sealtest sounds familar, I don't remember the others. We also had ice milk in the house when I was growing up. As a kid I wouldn't have noticed much difference, in retrospect it was probably awful.

 

[fla4fun]

We had a Sealtest milkman that delivered our milk, cottage cheese and ice cream. He was also a member of the local volunteer rescue squad. I remember when my grandmother fell and broke her hip, he was on duty and rode with her to the hospital.

 

[Pea-n-Me]

I remember Sealtest, and I liked ice milk. I can’t think of any others myself, though. Hood is a big one around here but still operational. “Hoodsies” are the little cups with vanilla and chocolate ice cream that you eat with a wooden spoon that comes with it.

 

[BayouQueen]

Knudsen Dairy here in California used to make ice cream that was delicious. Now they are owned by Kraft -- still do the cottage cheese and sour cream, but no ice cream.

 

[Moliphino]

I remember Sealtest, and I liked ice milk. I can’t think of any others myself, though. Hood is a big one around here but still operational. “Hoodsies” are the little cups with vanilla and chocolate ice cream that you eat with a wooden spoon that comes with it.

Added the missing S, not to be confused with sweatshirts with hoods. No matter what brand it may actually be, if I get a little ice cream cup with a wooden spoon it's a Hoodsie cup.

 

[amcnj]

I recall all the ones you mentioned, aside from the premium A&P brand, Crestmont. I can think of two local ones where I grew up, T&W (Terwilliger and Wakefield) and a milk store chain called Garden State Farms that also made ice cream. Though now I am trying to remember if the ice cream brand name differed from the store name. I think their donuts had a different brand name, so it’s possible the ice cream did too.

 

[ronandannette]

Not that anyone else here would probably know it, but there was a local producer called Foothills Creamery that was awesome! About 10 years ago though they stopped producing for retailers and now only supply commercial accounts. Every once in a while I run into an ice cream shop or restaurant advertising they serve Foothills and yep - it's still great.

 

[tvguy]

Well, yes, but not without controversy.
Crystal Dairy Products were big here for 100 years.
Hood Dairy bought them in 2007 and converted their facilities to make non dairy coffee creamer.
Hood Dairy bought the plants and the brand name, but none of the Crystal recipes.
Foster Farms Dairy about 6 months later bought the rights to use the Crystal name and slapped it on it's dairy products.
People say Crystal is still around. Yes, the NAME is, but all you have to do is look at the ingredients to see they aren't using the Crystal recipes. The first ingredient on Crystal Ice Cream was always cream, on Foster Farms made Crystal branded products it is milk.
And Crystal Egg Nog was the best because they didn't buy "egg nog base" to make their Egg nog, they made it from scratch in house. And it was the only Egg Nog I have seen with Buttermilk in it.

 

[AppleDumpling]

We had Sealtest all the time. On Long Island, there was also Dairy Barn, a drive-through convenience store that had their own brand of milk and ice cream.

My father liked “ice milk.” I haven’t seen that in maybe 40+ years.

It still exists, but now is marketed as “low-fat” ice cream. Used to be, you could only call it ice cream if the fat content was a certain percentage.

“Hoodies” are the little cups with vanilla and chocolate ice cream that you eat with a wooden spoon that comes with it.

No matter what brand it may actually be, if I get a little ice cream cup with a wooden spoon it's a Hoodsie cup.

I’ve had Hoodsies, but they weren’t sold around here when I was growing up. Instead we had “Dixie cups” which were the same (choc/vanilla ice cream with the wooden spoon, not to be confused with Dixie paper cups for drinking.) Not sure about the brand, but we also use the term Dixie cup as a generic reference to any ice cream cup of that type. As a kid, I ate them often, both at home and from the school cafeteria.

 

[RedAngie]

People in South Jersey might remember The Cowtail Bar in Cherry Hill. It was a sit down restaurant that specialized in ice cream. I think they had a take out window too.

Eventually they opened a convenience store that sold their made-on-premises ice cream, and had a petting zoo for the kiddies. It was also a working dairy farm.

Alas, in the early 90s the owners sold the land and there is a strip mall there now.

 

[ncc1701]

People in South Jersey might remember The Cowtail Bar in Cherry Hill. It was a sit down restaurant that specialized in ice cream. I think they had a take out window too.

Eventually they opened a convenience store that sold their made-on-premises ice cream, and had a petting zoo for the kiddies. It was also a working dairy farm.

Alas, in the early 90s the owners sold the land and there is a strip mall there now.

We went there occasionally but mostly went to Green Valley Farm in Haddon Township . Building has been renovated and has had several different restaurants over the years. Had a class trip there in Grade School.

 

[leebee]

I remember Sealtest and Ann Page.

We still buy Hood's ice cream, and when I see them I'll sometimes buy Hoodsie cups. One of my favorites that they made was Sunshine Cups, which were sherbet in paper cups with foil caps. Usually the sherbet was orange or raspberry, but sometimes it was lemon, and if you were REALLY lucky, you could find 3-flavor! The cups were slightly wider at the top than at the bottom, so you could squeeze the sherbet up and eat it that way (as I hate the wooden spoons or popsicle sticks. There's a thread here somewhere about "regular" things that you can't stand; I listed popsicle sticks are on there.)

 

[amcnj]

Another local place that was popular when I was a kid was called Van Dyks. They had some good seasonal flavors like cantaloupe. Then maybe in the 1980’s it was sold to Welsh Farms (a milk store chain) and the ice cream was not as good. Eventually it became privately held again and currently seems better again.

Another good place for homemade ice cream is Royal Crown in Hammonton, NJ. Aside from seasonal items like blueberry, strawberry and pumpkin (in both custard and hard ice cream variations) they occasionally had some interesting ones like Butterscotch Krimpets and Peanut Butter Tandycakes. They had one called White House Cherry Vanilla that I liked. I passed there every day commuting and it was difficult to resist stopping. Fortunately they were closed from the end of September/early October until sometime in May!

 

[Dan Murphy]

Sealtest, Big Oaks Dairy, Prince Castle.

Prince Castle used square ice cream scoops with the ice cream in cubes rather than balls.





How's this for an over priced 5 scoop banana split?

 

[Carol_]

We used to get factory seconds pints after school from our local Ben &Jerry’s shop. Half price, sometimes weird flavors. We really lucked out when we got the “overfilled” pints.

 

[Maxaroni-1]

@amcnj Loved T&W. loved their chocolate chip mint and coffee ice cream. also love Van Dyes. We got their banana ice cream a lot. Our neighbors would get their peppermint stick ice cream. I grew up in Ridgewood and my grandparents lived in Glen Rock. We’d go down Ackerman to go to my grandparents and we’d sometimes stop at Van Dyks as a treat.

I have been on the boards for years but couldn’t reset my password after forgetting it.

 

[marthachick]

Superior Dairies All-Jersey Farm was local to us. The milkman would deliver milk to insulated boxes on your porch. They had an ice cream factory with a small shop where you could buy ice cream and sit and eat it. My uncle was a milk man for them and once he took us back to the production floor and we got to watch them make ice cream. We felt so important. My parents still have the insulated milk box.