Blog-tember
Wednesday, Sept. 21: If you were a flavor of ice cream, which flavor would you be? Why?
When I read this, I thought, “I never made it to Benson’s Ice Cream in West Boxford this year.”
Growing up, my family often went to Benson’s for a treat. It’s the only place I know that has Reverse Chip ice cream, chocolate ice cream with white chips.
I fondly remember going with my nephew Scott, when he was in high school. He ordered a triple chocolate chip in a waffle cone. The kid serving the ice cream was twice his size and questioned him on his choice of a triple. I think it was close to a half gallon of ice cream on that cone.
Scott was determined to eat all that ice cream. He was shivering. I had a blanket in the car, which I put around him. He started spitting out the chocolate chips saying something about them not tasting good anymore.
We lost Scott a couple of years ago. We all miss him, terribly. But I remember him fondly, trying to eat that ice cream.
C
