Krunch Kote on an Ice Cream Cone

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[Krunch Kote](http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/NDAwWDUzMw==/$(KGrHqJHJDgF!vcb-YzlBQ,P9NvThQ~~60_1.JPG)
Krunch Kote

It’s a mixture of sprinkles, finely-chopped nuts and what seems to be like chopped up waffle cone.

On Tuesday after I voted in the special election, where I had worked very hard to get my city’s ballot issue to pass (it did!) I treated myself to an ice cream with crunch coat.

I posted about it to Facebook and half of the people who responded said “I love that stuff, it’s my jam!!” and half the people said “WTF is crunch coat?”

I had been surprised to find out the day before that crunch coat was a regional thing in Ohio (my friend’s husband from Alabama had never heard of it, and the discussion had prompted me to get the cone on Tuesday). We also think it was a mainly-Dairy-Queen thing but we know for sure it’s available in at least the two independent ice cream stands in the area.

Anyway, the people on FB who were confused by Crunch Coat are people I grew up with. And the people I polled later in the day also grew up here. So I don’t really know how the treat passed them by.

Even my own brother says he’s familiar with it but never had it. He’s not the adventurous sort.

Have you ever had Krunch Kote/Crunch Coat/Twinkle Coat?

And did you know it was so…rare?

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Grew up in 1960s Pittsburgh - never heard of it.

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Oh yeah. The local ice cream place had it. I don’t remember the spelling, but it was crunch coat.

One of my best friends worked there because her family owned it. I pitched in on occasion and learned that while I was impossibly bad at making a cone, I could crunch coat or dip ones other people had made like a CHAMP!

ETA: Gah, from SE Ohio.

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I’m cheap. I don’t add toppings to my ice cream. The ice cream is good enough by itself.

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Before I answer the poll, I need to know which states are in the Midwest.

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I see. I figure people who are from the Midwest just know/feel/assume that they are? :slight_smile:

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Says a person who has clearly never had a vanilla soft serve with krunch kote!

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You don’t have a spot for: From Ohio, see it everywhere, never had it.

Dennis

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From Kentucky, and I’ve had a lot of dipped cones from Dairy Queen and never heard/seen it.

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That’d be “From Ohio … heard of it” no?

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Clevelander, and this is the first I’ve heard of it, but it sounds like it’d be good.

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Had it growing up in southern WI, but we called it Twinkle Coat. Apparently my memory did not make that name up like I thought it might have:

I still get one every summer just for the nostalgia. So good! So hard to choose between that and “chocolate” dipped!

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Chicago, never heard of it.

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I’m giving you the task of finding some and trying it, then :slight_smile: I can tell you for sure it’s at the Dairy Queen in Twinsburg, Danny’s in Macedonia and Rosatti’s in Northfield Center. I bet you can find it at your nearest DQ.

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I’m from Montreal, Canada. I’ve seen a coating similar to the one you describe, on local ice cream cones here, but I didn’t know the name of it.

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That’s strange. I can get it at my local DQ.

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Same here. Dipped cones, “jimmies”, but nothing like the OP is describing.

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I never thought to utter these words, but Ohio is obviously superior. Krunch Kote establishes this as a fact.

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O-h-krunch-kote!

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From Seattle and never heard of it. Mr.H is from Chicago, and when I asked if he’d heard of it, he wrinkled his forehead and said he didn’t know if he had or not. Whatever that means. :smiley: Sounds yummy, though!