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\nFirst stop, somewhere on the Mass Pike.<\/p>\n
Growing up in the fifties in Cincinnati, we had two ice cream brand choices. Sealtest and Graeters. Sealtest was, and still is, your typical off the grocery shelf, air-filled, ice cream. Graeters was Steve’s, Ben and Jerry’s, and Hagen Daez, long before those dense, mostly heavy cream desserts were marketed. As a young lad, I liked both, but I knew the expensive, family-owned ice cream was superior. Our favorite flavor – chocolate. Has anyone seen the movie Affliction?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" First stop, somewhere on the Mass Pike. Growing up in the fifties in Cincinnati, we had two ice cream brand choices. Sealtest and Graeters. Sealtest was, and still is, your typical off the grocery shelf, air-filled, ice cream. Graeters was … Continue reading
\nFifty years pass and one day I pick up The Globe and there is an article about Keith Lockhart, the conductor of the Boston Pops and a longtime Cincinnati resident. He still eats Graeters ice cream. He has it shipped to his house, packed in dry ice.
\nOn my drive here, somewhere near Cleveland, I get the bright idea that I’ll buy Graeters to surprise my mother. I call Diane, she hones in on the most convenient and open (Sunday evening) Graeters, text messages me directions and Viola! here <\/a>I am in Worthington, Ohio, parked at a local Graeters, which happens to be on the corner of High St. and W New England Ave. I bought five pints packed in a white Styrofoam cooler with enough dry ice to keep those memories rock hard for two days.
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