I missed ice cream! Not only because I'm lactose intolerant, but because there is no such thing as real hard ice cream in Ottawa.
Back home when we want ice cream, we don't run to the freezer or DQ, we drive to the nearest ice cream shack which looks like a backyard shed with a window and a couple kids trapped inside, located on the side of the road (any road), and order up a tasty GIANT scoop of local dairy brand fancy ice cream in a dish (or cone). If you're "in the know", you'll know exactly which shack gives the biggest scoops for the cheapest price (the one near my dad's on Mountain Rd).
I have two convincing arguments for ice cream in the case of ice cream vs. gelato. Not only does milk taste richer, creamier and just better in NB (is it the cows or what we feed them?), but hard ice cream comes in multiple elaborate chunky flavors. Gelato does not.
There are three main dairy farmer brands in NB. While Ottawa has Nelsen and that other brand that starts with an L, NB has Baxter, Scotsburn, and Northumberland Dairy. Both Northumberland and Scotsburn manufacture many ice cream flavors.
If you've live in NB, you've had plenty o' opportunity to test out the dozens of flavors including Hoof Prints, Bubble Gum, Cotton Candy and Death By Chocolate. My personal long time favorite, Peanut Butter Fudge Crunch is manufactured by Scotsburn and features a rich authentic PB ice cream base, ribbons of fudgey hard chocolate sauce, large solid chunks of solid dark chocolate and impossible to locate other than in mysterious taste, graham cracker chunks. The enveloping PB taste is by far the main reason I add this to my eat-while-at-home list.
I could go on with the delicious description, but here's a couple pictures instead. It's too bad we don't yet have taste-o-vision.
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