By: Maeve Rice
With spring now here, that means ice cream season is too. McNicholas High School students share their favorite sweet spots.
In a recent survey, McNicholas students shared their favorite ice cream shops around Cincinnati. The most favorable selections were, Graeter’s, Aglamesis Bro’s, and Mount Washington Creamy Whip.
Each ice cream shop has a unique aspect which makes them even more beloved. Graeter’s was started back in 1870 as Louis Charles Graeter began selling ice cream out of two carts. Graeter’s ice cream is made using their “signature French Pot method,” as well as being made hand-crafted in 2.5-gallon batches. Aglamesis Bro’s was all the way from Sparta, Greece. The Aglamesis brothers came to Ohio and started their first ice cream shop, The Metropolitan, in Norwood 1908. Then the business was sold, but during the great depression was made as we know it today, Aglamesis Bro’s. Mount Washington Creamy Whip was founded in 1957 and continues to bring joy to the community. Similar to all three of the ice cream shops, Creamy Whip has an in-store bakery which has been passed on from generation to generation.
English department chair, Mrs. Angie Noble, reminisced upon past dates with her husband. “We like to go to the Aglamesis shop in Montgomery. A few storefronts down from Aglamesis is Wild Birds Unlimited, so we get our ice cream, walk down to Wild Birds, and we sit in their Adirondack chairs, eat our ice cream, talk, and enjoy the weather and the butterfly garden they have.”
Some honorable mentions include Rhinos, Dairy Queen, United Dairy Farms, and Old Milford Ice Cream parlor. Students and faculty shared other memories such as, going to get “ice cream after dances,” said senior Francie Goff. “Dropping my ice cream after I got it right outside the exit door,” said Payton Detzel. “Ava Wille and Whitley Sway picking me up at 10:30 to go to Rhinos and then driving Whitley home from 30 minutes away to beat her curfew of 11pm,” said senior Katie Noble.
Keep enjoying those frozen treats before they melt as the weather gets warmer.
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