Freeze Jag: Moo Thru

Posted by Warren Rojas / Sunday, August 21st, 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: Moo Thru – 11402 James Madison Highway, Remington; 540-439-6455; www.moothru.com

The prescription: ice cream cookie sandwich. “What’s the specialty here?” a first timer sheepishly inquires at the window of Moo Thru’s 21st century barn (yep, that’s an XLERATOR hand dryer in the unisex restroom). “Everything’s good here, boss,” a grizzled old timer assures him, the overall-clad regular basically bouncing in line while waiting for his double scoop of ice cream (“Look!  They’ve got black raspberry!” he about squealed to his equally white-haired partner). Once I spotted the tray of big, chewy chocolate chip cookies, I knew I had to go meta: a chocolate chip cookie sandwich built around cookie dough ice cream. It was a melty treat par excellence, the twin cookies a testament to the exquisite pleasures of real butter, chocolate and sugar, while the homespun ice cream was milky, creamy and generously chunked with sugary cookie dough.

I have no idea when the bulb went off in dairy farmer cum Moo Thru founder Ken Smith’s head, but if his plan to capitalize on all the milk his Holsteins produce by churning it into home made ice cream and dishing it out to sun-parched locals isn’t proof that that whole “build it and they will come” hookum actually works, I don’t know what is.

–Warren

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Keep tabs on the month long Freeze Jag trek here.

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