Yesterday to celebrate finishing my last exam* I stopped by the Reading Terminal Market to buy some local butter and beeswax candles. While I was at the fair food farmstand, I noticed an ice cream brand I’d never heard of before: Chilly Philly Ice Cream. I got the Vanilla flavor, and its excellent. An additional plus, the container is not plastic. Seem to be cardboard, I’ll test it out in the composter and see what’s left to figure out if its truly cardboard. From Chilly Philly’s website:
We are a married couple who have lived and worked in Philadelphia for over 25 years. Our children are students in the Philadelphia school system. We believe in this city, which is the reason why we started Chilly Philly Ice Cream. Why ice cream? You may have read that in the past few years, a number of ice cream companies have left the area, vacating a tradition that made Philadelphia the ice cream capital of the country*, and leaving a number of people without jobs. We would like to fill the gap that these companies have left. Our ice cream is the best Philadelphia style ice cream that Philadelphia has to offer. Our butterfat content and overrun (the amount of air added to the mix) are not too high and not too low. They approach what Baby Bear would have called "just right," or what Aristotle would have called the "golden mean." But now Philadelphians can enjoy the same great ice cream that famous Greek philosophers would have enjoyed if ice cream were invented back then.
There is another important distinction about our ice cream. Unlike most other ice creams on the market, Chilly Philly uses a slow cooking process which, we believe, creates a superior texture and flavor for our product, without the extra fats.
*Will I pass? Will I fail? Will I have to retake? I hate school!






Congrats on finishing your finals!
Comment by arduous — December 15, 2007 @ 8:30 pm
Thank you
Comment by Beany — December 16, 2007 @ 9:37 am