Carvel [split from San Franscisco board]

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[jfood]

One should not compare or use DQ in the same breath as Carvel. The latter is so far superior than DQ that I would drive a couple of miles further for their much more better s'cream.

[Carrie 218]

Or the Beard Papa mania!

[rworange]

No comparison. Beard Papa is an upstart pretender. Carvel's has legs. It is an institution ... for heaven's sake, we are talking Fudgie the Whale. Respect must be paid.

[ExtraCheese]

Respect to Beard Papa and Krispy Creme, chains that are commited to producing the highest quality product that can be prepared by any min wage automaton.

[chaddict]

I don't know. Canned milk (Beard Papa's) doesn't seem so high quality. Maybe it was sweetened condensed or somehow necessary to the recipe?

[Gary Soup]

You may like Carvel's legs, but Berkshire Hathaway apparently likes some part of Dairy Queen's body.

[ChowFun_derek]

Carvel is the East Coast rendition of 'Dairy queen" slightly better perhaps..but still a pale reflection of REAL soft custard.

[fine wino]

Do they do soft serve? I just remember Carvel for their yucky ice cream cakes. Very similar to Baskin Robbins (if they have those out here) and in my opinion, nothing to get excited about.

[ChowFun_derek]

Yes, soft serve is what they do...like Dairy Queen...

[merkin]

Yucky? Cookie Puss and Fudgie the Whale? C'mon, they're frosted in somethng called 'whip', what could be bad about that?

[fine wino]

FUNNY! I couldn't remember the names of the cakes...but I could hear Tom Carvel's voice in my head. Still gives me chills.
As for the "yucky" comment, I have admited to being an ice cream purist on this board before. :-)

[foodiegrl]

Tom Carvel actually invented the soft-serve machine.

Regardless of what the brand does today, I owe him a huge debt of gratitude!

[Gary Soup]

Dairy Queen is the East Coast rendition of Dairy Queen.

[rworange]

Yeah. Exactly. Dairy Queen ain't no Carvel.

I'm off for my Carvel cone to see if the memory matches the craving. Probably just plain today for the pure experience. A dip later up the line.

[DC Gal]

THANK YOU! As I read that I wondered where on the east coast Chow_Funderek might live. In every east coast town I know, there is a DQ. Just recently, Carvel has begun to join the
DQ's in the east coast strip malls.

They're both about on par with each other in my opinion. I go to DQ if I want a Blizzard type treat stuffed full of candy or cookie dough or something like that. I go to Carvel for something more simple like the twist cone with sprinkles. I'd say the actual ice cream product at Carvel is a step or two above that at DQ, but there is just something classic about DQ that takes me back to every beach trip I went on as a kid.