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| - LIKE GIMMICKS? THIS IS FOR YOU. LIKE ICE CREAM? STAY AWAY.
Noticed this new location opening recently. Saturday eve before Father's Day, drove by, saw the place packed, said Hmmm; stopped in.
Soon discovered the crowds were not eating, but WAITING. Took our place anyway. Asked at counter: How many scoops in a Large? - Two. Can I have two different flavors? - No. Wow: I could do better at the Casino brunch ... or pretty much any ice cream social.
The gimmick here is that they flash freeze their product in liquid nitrogen, which billows vast clouds of icy vapor out over the customers. Looks like a fog machine. Impressive but unnecessary, because every order has to be hand made. Also grossly inefficient: it accounts for the extreme wait times.
It also adds to the cost and accounts for the extreme high prices. Almost 10 bucks for a scoop of vanilla ice with mini chocolate chips?? Really? In the eating, mine was NOT creamy. It was rock hard. The "Madagascar Vanilla" flavor was faint to non-existent. Mini chocolate chips were Walmart House Brand quality.
Wife had espresso ice cream with fudge syrup. Her ice cream had good flavor, syrup had almost none. But hers WAS creamy ... so much so it melted within minutes, while mine busied itself staying rock-like.
So consistency is iffy.
There's almost nothing to recommend Creamistry except the nitrogen gimmick, and that wears thin real fast. Do you seriously want to keep your family waiting 20-30 minutes for a small tub of insanely expensive, relatively flavorless ice rock?
I didn't think so. Our area recently lost its two Baskin-Robbinses, but if there's still one near you, choose it instead. Or the ice cream aisle of your local supermarket.
Just not this place.
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