Purple Monkey Ice Cream
September 12, 2008
There’s a great ice cream shop in Croton on Hudson called The Blue Pig — they make their own ice cream in the store, which is only open seasonally. J. and I never call it by its real name, though, preferring instead to refer to it as The Pink Giraffe, The Red Gorilla, The Green Raccoon, or whatever other color/animal combination we feel like that day.
I was pretty amused when I noticed a new ice cream shop in Ossining across from the Landmark Diner on Route 9. It’s called The Purple Monkey. Really. It just opened last week and I took the boys in one afternoon for a treat. The Purple Monkey sells Gifford’s ice cream and Frogurt-brand frozen yogurt. A small cup of ice cream (one enormous scoop — too much for a child and plenty for an adult) was $2.69.
There are 10 seats in the shop, and the flavors range from the scary-looking Maine Lobster Tracks (which includes “lobster-colored” chocolate cups) to the usual vanilla, chocolate (G.’s favorite), and mint chocolate chip (A.’s choice).
My favorite part? An all-purple sprinkle option, to match the store’s namesake.
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Jodi | September 12, 2008 at 11:37 am
You know I love that you blogged about this!
I was hoping the frozen yogurt would be plain-flavored like Pinkberry, but it was not. — Dara
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Ranee @ Arabian Knits | September 12, 2008 at 12:59 pm
I went to a high school whose colors were purple and white. Our principal wore purple all the time, even off school hours, and would pay you something like $300 if you found him without purple on. He drove a purple truck, had purple suits, hats, ties, shirts, pants, socks, purple suede shoes and glittery, purple cowboy boots. Never had the misfortune to discover, but I assume he had purple underwear, too.
That is too much! Our high school colors were brown and gold, so our principal would have been considerably less flamboyant. — Dara
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Mae | September 13, 2008 at 10:54 pm
We were wondering if this was an outpost of the Blue Pig – I have dibs on the Orange Wombat!!
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