Freeze Jag: Carousel Frozen Treats
Posted by Warren Rojas / Saturday, August 13th, 2011
August is historically the steamiest, stickiest, sweatiest month of the year–brilliant move, Founding Fathers, building the nation’s capital on a swamp–in these parts. We’ve tracked down 31 frozen treats (one a day for the rest of this month) to provide you with some temporary, and often insanely delicious, relief.
The place: Carousel Frozen Treats – 346 Waterloo St., Warrenton; 703-351-0004; www.carouselfrozentreats.com
The prescription: Twinkie split. Mushy bananas have never really been my style (More of a roasted or bruleed man). All of which has culminated in a lifelong aversion to traditional “splits.” Until I stumbled upon Carousel. They applied carnival/state fair ingenuity when designing their ice cream catalog and came up with the irresistible Twinkie split–half Hostess mainstay, half soft serve-fueled mayhem. The bifurcated snack cake–the banana flavored-cream filling FINALLY came in handy–is accompanied by the soft serve flavors of your choosing, drizzled with hot fudge, smothered in whipped cream, sandwiched between stacks of syrupy fruit (strawberries at one end, pineapple at the other) and topped with a bright, shiny cherry. After digging into the dense, sugary cake and creamy soft serve, you can almost delude yourself that the fruit is actually healthy (it’s not).
Given the wide variety of soft serve flavors–we were smitten by: butterscotch, fudge ripple (tres chocolaty), dreamsicle, coffee and cream, green apple (extra tart), cotton candy and root beer (nice and spicy)–there’s no end to the different ways one could dress the incredibly accepting Twinkie.
Too frou-frou for you? Carouel also does traditional banana splits, plus cones (regular and dipped), shakes, sundaes, shaved ice and “waterloos” (1/2 shake, 1/2 sundae).
–Warren
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Keep tabs on the month long Freeze Jag trek here.
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