Comments on: Flavors

By: Barbara Speer DeCarlo

Barbara Speer DeCarlo — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 23:34:14 +0000

I was a waitress at The Cow in the late 60s, so I was there for the Moon Dust ice cream–not one of my favorites. I remember once, when Pep forgot to put any flavoring in the ice cream, we sold it anyway as Purple Nothing. Even though we told customers that it had no flavor, they bought it anyway. That’s how good their ice cream was!
Lots of good memories working there. . .

By: guernseycow

guernseycow — Wed, 11 May 2011 15:12:18 +0000

Hi Jamie, thanks for stopping by! Here’s a profile on Willie: http://theguernseycow.com/2008/01/30/profile-willie-minor/

By: jamie p. mcvickar

jamie p. mcvickar — Wed, 11 May 2011 15:04:35 +0000

And here I thought I was the only one in the world who not only loved the Butter Brickle, but has yet to find anything even close to being as good as one could find at The Cow. I have had it other places and without fail get my hopes up and without fail am disappointed.

By the way, my sister, Judy McVickar, who waittressed at the Cow for awhile would love to know what happened to some of the regulars, particularly Willie, if anyone has any info. I’ll make sure she sees this in case she wants to add any details or in case anyone posts an answer.

By: Brian F

Brian F — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 13:15:13 +0000

As a life-long resident of Exton, I too have fond memories of the Guernsey Cow. My grandparents would take my brothers and I there for ice cream every time they came to visit. For years I have wondered what the ingredients (underlying flavors) were in Blue Moon. Today’s Blue Moon is described as much sweeter than what I remember of the Cow’s, which 35 years later I recall as creamy, smooth, and almost like a banana flavor. Does anyone know?

By: Lori Ridinton

Lori Ridinton — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 21:40:45 +0000

I grew up in West Goshen off of Boot Road in the 60′s and 70′s. One of my Dad’s golf buddies from Whitford was Larry Polite. We could never drive thru Exton without dropping into the Cow. My Father always would get 2 scoops on a sugar cone, that became a family tradition, Chocolate and Orange sherbet. We would often see neighbors in there! The Charlie Hauck family!

By: guernseycow

guernseycow — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 12:47:25 +0000

Lisa, I vaguely recall Mandarin Orange flavor and I think we’re left to specialty shops or making it on our own to try to get those flavors that have long gone by.

By: guernseycow

guernseycow — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 12:45:57 +0000

thanks for sharing your memories, Lisa. Yes, Butter Brickle is a hard-to-find flavor and even harder to find it done right!

By: Lisa A. Compton

Lisa A. Compton — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 03:14:21 +0000

I was searching for something when to my utter amazement the link to this website came up in the Google search results.

I couldn’t believe The Guernsey Cow actually had a website — albeit posthumously.

When I was 8-9 years old and in foster care with a local Exton family on Shoen Road, we would go to The Guernsey Cow every weekend for ice cream. It was always a huge treat.

My favorite flavor was Butter Brickle. The closest thing I’ve ever found to Butter Brickle is a flavor called butter crunch, which Dairy Queen used to have back in the day when they still sold ice cream (Dairy Queen stopped selling ice cream in the late 1970′s when they switched to ice milk.)

I remember one particular day when we walking out of The Guernsey Cow lickiing our ice cream cones on our way to the car and someone pulling into The Guernsey Cow almost hit us with their car. My foster father was so angry that he through his ice cream cone at the car that almost hit us and his cone splattered all over the rear window of the car. We kids, my foster brother and I, were laughing so hard and our foster father was plenty angry. It still makes me laugh now when I think about it. Gosh, in this day and age he’d be arrested and charged with terrorism for throwing an ice cream cone at a car that almost hit him.

It’s sad how times have changed.

By: Lisa Tucker

Lisa Tucker — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 22:17:34 +0000

I used to go to the Guernsey cow when I was little. You had a flavor called Manderin Orange. That was the best flavor I have ever tasted. Can you tell me if I can get that anywhere? I have never been able to find it again.

Thank You,

Lisa Tucker

By: guernseycow

guernseycow — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 23:27:33 +0000

Thanks, Susan! As far as I know, Black Licorice was made with a combination of road tar and sugar — at least that’s what it looked like! Glad you liked it so much.