We have Goodberry’s here in central NC. I can even get it right outside my section at the Hurricane’s games.
It started in Sauk City Wisconsin and has been expanding for years. I have an aunt that owns a few around Madison. I don’t see her often and there’s no free goodies for us. I’ll call her a distant aunt by marriage.
I was shocked (and pleasantly surprised) to find a Culver’s in San Antonio, TX. I think it’s their southernmost output at the moment. Now in 17 states according their website.
My favorite frozen custard is the vanilla frozen custard served at Rita’s Italian Ice.
My favorite growing up was Hank’s Frozen Custard, serving them every summer since 1952 just outside of Conneaut Lake, Pennsylvania.
Stopping there is a time warp - four flavors, the original Electro-Freeze machines, the serving girls with white skirts and aprons. Fun times.
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Yay for Ritter’s!!!
On Monday’s they held “Dog Night” and you could bring your puppy to the store, and they could see other puppies and eat their own ice cream (with a treat on it). It was awesome!
(Also seconding a shout out to Wisconsin based “Culver’s”…mmmm cheeeese.)
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Ahhh, Kopp’s and Leon’s. Too bad they’re in the middle of the country, and I’m on the edge now.
Although, the Milwaukee’s Frozen Custard, as mentioned by DudleyGarrett isn’t too shabby. I prefer it to Culver’s, but I find it to be not as good as Kopp’s or Leon’s. I’ll have to stop by The Dairy Godmother that villa mentions, although how bad is the parking near there?
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Not good, but not a disaster. It’s not in Old Town, its in DelRay (where all the cool kids live!) so the side streets almost always have a spot somewhere close.
The website has the Flavor of the Day list for the month there. I keep looking out for carrot cake again - cream cheese frosting flavored custard with chunks of carrot cake in it…
Ahhh… Ted Drewes. To get the full effect, you have to go down to Chippewa on a steaming hot night, stand in line with the rest of the pilgrims, and then savor your Concrete while leaning up against the fender of your car. That’s living!
Heh. For me, the quintessential Ted Drewes experience is going down to Chippewa on a freezing October night, not waiting in line at all, savoring your Concrete huddled with the other dozen loons around the corner out of the wind or around the heaters they now put out… and still bumping into someone you know but haven’t seen in years. 
Yep… live on the southside of Indianapolis. (Actually across the county line, in Johnson County where Ritter’s was founded.)
Oh wow, I’m on the west side.
::waves::
It took me a moment to parse this. What I meant is that I don’t know why frozen custard is not more widespread. I’ve never seen it anywhere but Wisconsin, and it’s delicious, so…what’s going on? Why not everywhere?
I agree. Near the part of the Detroit suburbs where I grew up, there is a nice little frozen custard stand that’s been in business for 60+ years. It was a tradition for my family to go there in the summer.
I still live in the midwest and Culver’s has pretty decent custard too. It’s nice to know that’s a fallback option if I feel like having custard but am in a new locale where I don’t know where the good local places are.
and this “frozen custard” of which you speak…is not French Vanilla Ice Cream why? (seeing as how the recipe for french vanilla ice cream is vanilla custard thrown in an ice cream freezer…)
Two big differences. Frozen custard has much less air added into it – typically only 10-20% of its volume is from air. Ice cream varies, but is always more than that, up to 50% volume from air.
FC also doesn’t get as cold as ice cream. It’s generally served as quickly as it’s made. That means it doesn’t get as icy as ice cream.
For a fair comparison, you might try making your own French vanilla, licking it right off the paddles as soon as it freezes.
We’ve recently gotten a couple Culver’s here and we have an (I think) independent place called Freddy’s that has frozen custard. It’s delicious but I looked up the nutritional info one time. Hooh boy.
I came in here to pimp Fritz’s Frozen Custard, but I see Lightray has already beaten me to it!
Ted Drewes really is everything great they say about it, but the ever present lines always put me off. It’s way faster to hit Fritz’s, and I secretly think their turtle sundae is superior to anybody else.
Freddy’s is a not-quite-national chain. They’re here in San Antonio too.
Ah, ok. I had some doubts about whether it was independent but I don’t recall ever seeing another one.