National Ice Cream Day July 21

Happy National Ice Cream Day 

Ronald Reagan designated July 15, 1984 as National Ice Cream Day.  Today we celebrate this special holiday on the third Sunday in July.  

Tim Horton's Cold Stone Creamery is giving away free ice cream at 2pm to the first 200 guests.

In the news...

CBC radio- Canada Agriculture Museum is hosting a big ice cream festival. 

Business Insider- believes the best flavour of ice cream  is Mint Chocolate Chip.  What do you think?  One of our judges would give that honour to Black Currant. 

Home County and Homemade Ice Cream

We visit Home County Music and Art Festival and try Homemade European Ice Cream.  Will it taste different from mass produced ice cream?  How will it rate?  Find out as Chris, Lynne and Jeff judge M&R Orchards Homemade ice cream.  


The Rating: 

	Chris	Lynne	Jeff
Taste	Irish Whiskey    4.5 Blue Sky           3.5 Chocolate          3 Avg                    3.7	Irish Whiskey    4.5 Blackcurrant      5 Chocolate          3.5 Avg                    4.3	Irish Whiskey      3 Vanilla                 3 Avg                       3
Appearance	4.5	4	4
Value	4	5	4
Customer Service	4	4	5
Ambiance	4	5	3
Total	20.2/25	22.3/25	19/25

Comments:

• Blackcurrant was delicious- tart on the tongue
• Whiskey Cream was smooth and mellow
• Blue Sky tasted like icing 
• Customer Services was high- vendor knew about product and answered questions about flavours
• Appearance of product was excellent- the small consisted of 3 small scoops of ice cream, very colourful 
• The special consisted of 2 scoops, whip cream and choice of sauce; however the sauce may have taken away from the flavours of the ice cream 
• Price of ice cream was excellent $3.50 for 3 scoops in a waffle cone

The Score: 

M&R is awarded 82.1% or 4 scoops out of 5.