I scream, you scream

It’s sweltering out. The only relief is ice cream. And these days, the only ice cream for me is Marble Slab Creamery. It’s a franchise started in Texas and it’s making its way through Canada.

They make each batch of ice cream and the waffle cones fresh in the store every day. The shtick is you choose one flavour and one “mixin” (crumbled chocolate bars, fruit, nuts, cookie dough etc.), then the hard-working, underpaid kids behind the counter mix them together by hand.

This involves strenously folding the ice cream and topping together on a frozen slab of marble with ice cream scoops in each hand. That falls into my “you could not pay me enough to do that for 8 hours” category.

A big cone with one topping is $5. It’s not a bargain but it’s one of those summer splurges that’s worth it.

My favourite is birthday cake ice cream - it tastes like angel food cake - with sprinkles or cherries. I forgot to take a picture until I was halfway done my cone.

Steph got banana ice cream with Skor bits (”Tastes like banana bread.”), Katherine got plain birthday cake (”So yummy!”), and Catherine got banana ice cream with strawberries (”Yum!”).

How good is Marble Slab? Steph was driving and got Katherine to hold her cone for two seconds while she backed the car out. Well, next thing you know, perfectly sweet Steph is yelling, “Stop licking my cone, b**ch!” But in a good way, you know?

We were four happy girls, savouring our Marble Slab ice cream, sitting on the edge of the beautiful wading pool at the Alberta legislature at dusk. It doesn’t get any better.

Marble Slab Creamery, click here for locations in Canada.
Looks like only B.C., Alberta and Ontario so far.