14% Butterfat? Oh Hells Yeah.
We’re talking about real ice cream here kids. No Slenderita in sight at the University of Maryland Dairy. This is one of our favorite places to get ice cream. We like our ice cream here at The Dad Report. The trouble is the hours of operation make it tough to frequent. Open only Monday through Friday from 10am to 4pm. That’s a tough pull for most working adults.
If you can make it, its definitely worth the effort. Washington Times writer Karen Goff just wrote a nice article on “The Dairy”. I’m really pleased she did because the place is so unknown outside the school. I hope more people will make the effort to go. My favorite flavor is Fear the Turtle. Oooohhhh, white chocolate with caramel and pecan goodness. It is hard to explain how good it is so I won’t try except to say this is creamy ice cream with tons of flavor. Erin always goes for the super flavorful lime sorbet. (I know, sorbet in a great ice cream place) Austen usually tries a different ice cream flavor each time. ALL of it is great.
The Dairy is located right off of Route 1, next to the UMD Visitors Center. There is a small parking lot right there, but pay attention to those 30 minute meters or that $3 ice cream will quickly become extremely expensive.
I had no idea about this place. I am so thrilled to know now because I am always on the search for good ice cream places and maryland really doesn’t have them. In Ohio (where I spent my high school years) there is a little ice cream goddess named Graeters that is seriously the BEST ice cream known to man kind that must be tasted in Ohio, because I heard they had a chain now in Kentucky and it is not good. But in Ohio it’s amazing. Just try the black raspberry chip and your life will change. My husband dreams of this ice cream now, and i have a feeling it might be why he is always so excited about visiting my parents.
Tiffany, you might want to check out Moorenkos in Silver Spring, down by Mayorga. We haven’t been in quite a while. I even heard that it was slipping. But, when we went last it was great, again high butterfat.
Also, in 5 locations locally is Giffords. Originally from Silver Spring (and coming back soon) Giffords is great, we had some last night at Rockville Town Center.
Please report back what you think of The Dairy at UMD. Don’t forget, their hours are nearly anti-customer.
oh i will report back and thank you for the added suggestions! i can not wait to take back all this information to andrew.