It's Best in Summer

This is the best time of the year to enjoy a well-churned ice cream cone, especially if it’s from a local roadside ice cream stand. Somerset County, New Jersey doesn’t have too many of those, but a first-rate, long-established one can be found just a few miles past Bridgewater on Route 22 West – Polar Cub Ice Cream.

The place was so unexpectedly crowded on a recent, muggy-hot early July evening that, when we drove up to it, the parking lot was as full as a generously hand-packed quart of ice cream. An overflow of autos was lined up in the breakdown lane of Route 22.

It’s the first time that I’ve ever seen it that backed up but, as we all know, this continues to be an extraordinarily hot summer. It’s also the first time that Priscille and I turned back on account of that tie-up! If you haven’t yet been there, it’s worth your gas money to try it out.

When I was a kid up in the Bay State of New England, I can remember at least four high-volume roadside ice cream emporiums within home driving distance which made their own blends of that summer delight. Not wanting to miss out on any of those frozen specialties, we visited each one of them over the course of the season!

Don’t you wish that we could preserve some of this heat for winter use? Thanks for reading; stay cool; be engaged.

Photo:  Ice cream lovers line up at the Polar Cub Ice Cream stand on Route 22, a few miles west of the Bridgewater line