How to tell New Hampshire from Vermont.
My only addition is that it seems to be a requirement for Vermont ice cream stands to be located at the farm - the cow farm, where the maure is piled out back of the barn**. Making the ice cream taste very different from what one expects. The standard joke when riding the bike in Vermont, upon smelling manure, is that an ice cream stand is coming up. The only exception is Ben and Jerry's - that must be how they got to be so big!
Here in NH, there is no such requirement, so ice cream stands are located a proper distance from the source and tastes a heck of a lot better!
Thanks to Bruce for the link.
** I'm not ragging on farms here, just the placement of ice cream stands!
The ice cream thing is funny, because perhaps the top ice cream place in this region has its main and original branch right at the original farm. You can go see the cows in the barn behind. Never noticed a lot of smell, but it's not always pristine air either. The others are around the corner from me and in Plymouth by the waterfront. No cows there! Oddly, I have not been to the one around the corner in the almost 5 years we have lived here. Been to Plymouth a few times, maybe even to Whitman once. Have to hit one of them this month because in May they have ginger ice cream, which is arguably the best flavor of all.
Posted by: Jay | May 10, 2010 at 08:23 PM