Ice Cream has always been one of my guilty pleasures. There is just something about the creamy, cold, delicious goodness in ice cream. When I was 4 years old my dad started a dairy bar named The Kwik Draw. I have so many fond memories of that restaurant. I distinctly remember the first items we taste tested in the new restaurant as it was being built. We tried out the hot dog warmer complete with bun warmer, ummmm. And we tried out a brand of ice cream to see if it was the brand that my family wanted to use. The flavor was Pralines and Cream and it was delicious!! That indeed was the ice cream company we would go with.
The Kwik Draw had a bunch of different food items to choose from. We had our famous Double Decker or as some would call it The Country Boy. This was a double burger divided by a bun with all the fixins', complete with our homemade cole slaw on the burger. Every morning my dad would make our secret coney sauce, homemade chili, and cake for the hot fudge cake sundaes. My father along with my grandmother Elsie worked so hard. I did not. I got to just indulge in all that Kwik Draw had to offer. Mostly the 30+ flavors of ICE CREAM!!
We had all kinds of flavors. The classics, Chocolate Chip, Mint Chocolate Chip, Butter Pecan, Chocolate, Vanilla, Strawberry, etc. We also had the originals. Smurf, Superman, Bubblegum, Strawberry Cheesecake, Smores, and I could go on and on. We also had soft serve ice cream and yogurt. They were delicious as well, but I was all about the hard dipped ice cream on a cone of course!
My family sold the Kwik Draw when I was eleven. Mine and my older sisters hand prints are still in the concrete outside of the old building. We often gather around and talk of the good ole Kwik Draw days. Complete with my dad telling how he would call every night to see if any of us girls wanted anything. My older sister and mother always had reasonable request. Me on the other hand, I wanted a triple scoop cone of three different flavors, just like the one pictured above. My dad, not one to disappoint would make me my triple scoop cone and balance it as he drove all the way home to my little anxious hands.
My taste buds have changed over the years, but my love of ice cream remains. I think we all have that one comfort food and mine is indeed ice cream. Maybe it is the taste? Or maybe it is the rush of happy memories that accompany every bite. The sweet memories of my childhood. So yes I will diet, deprive myself of foods that I love, but there will always be a place for ice cream!
June
"You can't buy happiness. But you can buy ice cream and that's kind of the same thing."
~Anonymous
No comments:
Post a Comment