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Roslindale Square gets another ice-cream option
By adamg on Wed, 07/03/2013 - 11:28am
The Roslindale House of Pizza on Washington Street is now advertising soft-serve ice-cream, potentially saving people north of Adams Park from the walk all the way up to Jimmies for some soft ice cream. People with a yen for the hard stuff, however, will still have to trek to Jimmies or Select Cafe.
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Rozzie ice cream only costs a yen?
I have a yen to spen' on some ice cream, where do I sign up?!
ETA---seriously though thanks to Adam and his witty stuff to help me expand my lame vocabulary.
Actually, if you want cheap ice cream
The place on American Legion Highway next to the Wendy's (Tasty Freeze?) is open again and selling small cones for something like $1.50.
But is it any good?
i actually will be in Roslindale sometime next week--will try to check out at least one of these fine establishments.
No, not really
Jimmies or Select Cafe are your Roslindale Square go-to places for ice cream. No clue about Roslindale House of Pizza - haven't actually tried their ice cream.
Don't be a grinch
I am Jimmies-owner Donna Cabral's #1 fan and it's my current go-to when I'm in the square too. But your post does a disservice to Boston's best ice-cream-shack-in-the-middle-of-nowhere.
First off, it's the Frosty Freeze. And second, it's very good for what it is - not an ice cream emporium, but a summer stand.
No tables, no seats. Go up to the window and order. It has the various pre-packaged novelties that many young kids love (eg Liberty pops, Sponge-bob-sicles etc). Personally not my thing even when I was a young'un. But they also have several nice hard ice cream flavors, very generous soft serves with a crazy number of dips/options, freezes and even gelato.
Admittedly, they are not selling de-luxe quality stuff like JP Licks or Tosci's, but their prices are very affordable and they are local family owned and run. The young ladies who staff the place are always friendly and seem to enjoy themselves.
When our daughter was going to the school just down the street, there were few things that pleased my thrifty yankee soul more than to walk over to the Frosty after school and give her and her friends each a dollar or two to get themselves something. Not many places around these days where you can treat a whole mini-van's worth of kids (and grown ups) for a tenner or two.
You are right, sir
It is very good as a stand where you've been driving around for awhile and are in dire need of something cold. And, yes, the prices can't be beat and the girls who work there are very nice (also, at least the last time we were there, a few days ago, they actually had a couple of tiny chairs for kids of the Mary Lou Who size).
Our kidlet is past the gumball-embedded ice-cream-stick stage, so I've judged them solely on the soft serve, which, while it does come with a variety of options, is notable mainly because it is cold and so cheap, not because of taste. It doesn't taste bad, it just tastes, well, cold. And I was answering a question about whether the ice cream was good :-).
Then you should try the ice cream...
...and not the soft serve or the novelty pops, which are only ever titularly "ice cream" ;P
(Purely as a public service, I just swung by the Frosty after dropping the spousal unit off at Forest Hills. Had a bowl of coconut ice cream with chocolate sauce. Cost me 3 bucks - maybe 1/2- 2/3rds what I would have paid at a 'real' ice cream place. It wasn't Tosci's but it was waaay better than 'just cold'.
Btw, I dig the new seating. They even have a cafe umbrella and a small table, and a bench for the grownups - ooh lala, it's like we're in Paris!
Certainly, I'm unlikely to make a special trip just to go to the Frosty. But it's one of those places worth knowing about - a serendipitous pleasure in the strangely remote green center of Boston.)
oh my, but won't this have "youth" "walking down their streets"?
Someone get rozzie rezzies the vapors, because another ice cream joint means youth will just be tromping all over the streets of rozzie to get to it!
Oh, dear
I'm afraid you have Roslindale mixed up with that neighborhood on the other side of the parkway.
baby boom
from what I've noticed roslindale is now almost exclusively inhabited by people within the ages of 0 and 5.
Exactly
Then 50% of those parents of 5 yo leave Roslindale when they find out that they didn't get a school assignment anywhere near their home and they leave for Westwood, Dedham, Milton, Newton, etc...
I'm sure the BPS reform led by... someone (to be named later) under the expert leadership of our mayor (mayor to be named later also) will fix this though. For the under 1 set.
This Rozzie mom of a 5 year
This Rozzie mom of a 5 year old (and big fan of Jimmie's) is having her cake and eating it, too, by staying in the house we love and homeschooling. After kind of a bum deal in the lottery, but married to our friends and neighborhood, it's a total win-win.
anything but the mattahunt
with the new assignment system it's not so bad - however - there is one school no one wants to end up at. MCAS prep factories (aka charters) are NOT appealing to the yuppies. they can pay for test prep if their kid is in danger of not getting into latin. I don't know why half the mayoral candidates keep talking this nonsense up - maybe it's just for the old farts who are somehow against the BTU because unions are bad and the kids should be in school 24/7 and not anywhere near their lawn.
Baaagin soft serve at Maaaaket Baasket
For $0.99 the kid sized cone at Maaaaaket Baasket is the shit if its a deluxe store (eg Burlington). Eating a cone while food shopping is almost as painless as shopping after a couple drinks or other.