ice cream

News that Stop & Shop doesn't want to touch Ben & Jerry's Schweddy Balls is apparently spurring a mini-frenzy among the local Twitterati desperate for fudge-covered rum balls. So here's a (no doubt far from complete) list of local emporia where you can get your hands on some Schweddy Balls:

• Back Bay: Marlborough Market (via Penny Cherubino).
• Beverly: Henry's (Eileen).
• Charlestown: Johnny's Foodmaster (Cara).
• Chelsea: Market Basket (John-W).
• Chestnut Hill: Star Market (Amy Pas).
• Northboro: Wegmans (Christian Holt).
• South Boston: Tedeschi, W. Broadway and 7-Eleven, E. Broadway (Say-Mo and Molly).
• Porter Square: Shaw's (Mamajoan).

Boston Restaurant Talk reports Carvel, purveyor of soft ice cream and Fudgie the Whale, is going to make a second go at the Boston market where it slowly withered and died last time around.

Ed note: Post corrected to reflect that it's not the original Steve who is bringing back the Steve's name.

A guy who once scoped ice cream at the original Steve's in Davis Square has restarted Steve's and is planning a return to its original Somerville roots, but this time as a purveyor of small batches of artisanal ice cream.

We learned of the re-Steveization of Somerville from Megan, who reports on a party last night at Taza, Somerville's artisanal chocolate maker and a Steve's partner.

A summer opening is planned; alas, they didn't say exactly where in Somerville. Steve's current company bought back the name from whichever defunct entity was holding onto it after what became a national chain collapsed in the late 1990s, and it recently opened its first shop in Brooklyn:

If ice cream can be said to have a terroir, the new Steve's is definitely that of Brooklyn. The company, which began developing and testing new flavors last year, is creating partnerships with a number of the borough's artisanal producers: To date, Salvatore Bklyn is supplying the ricotta in Steve's strawberry ricotta ice cream, Kombucha Brooklyn's eponymous brew is the base for a kombucha sorbet, and Plowshares coffee stars in a coffee-cinnamon ice cream.

Ben and Jerry's and b.good face off, angrily no doubt, on Dunster Street between 4 and 6 p.m. Both'll have truck on the street giving out samples - ice cream for Ben and Jerry and milkshakes (milkshakes? That's what she said). And they'll be collecting donations for the Boston Back on My Feet, a homeless support group. Whichever company's truck collects the most donations will then claim Boston ice-cream-truck supremacy.