Ice Cream Festivals

@kgwat70 (13387)
United States
March 14, 2007 6:38am CST
Our city usually has a ice cream festival every year in a nice park in Wilmington. They have all sorts of flavored ice cream as well as a huge variety of ice cream treats. It is held once a year in July since that is our warmer month and usually lots of people attend. Do you have ice cream festivals where you are? Do you attend? I just found out this morning they are cancelling this year because of the counties expenses being too high. Lots of kids will be disappointed.
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• Singapore
14 Mar 07
Wow, this is interesting! I don't think we have that in Singapore *yet*. Maybe this will be the new kid of the block. :P But yes, I think I would love attending one to try all the ice-creams. Haha ;-)
@kgwat70 (13387)
• United States
15 Mar 07
I certainly hope that other places will have these kinds of festivals as I am sure many people would want to eat ice cream. Could be a bad thing if we eat too much ice cream. LOL
• Singapore
22 Mar 07
I can taste the ice-cream already. :P
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@villageanne (8553)
• United States
21 Mar 07
I have never heard of an ice cream festival. We have the Woodchopping Festival in our town. people come from all over the world to particiapte it in. In a nearby town there is the Railroad Festival and the Strawberry Festival. It seems each town has their own special festival. Ice cream festival sounds fun.
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@kgwat70 (13387)
• United States
23 Mar 07
I am amazed that my state seems to be one of the few that have ice cream festivals and I know many people will be sad not having it this year. We will have to find other ways to eat ice cream, like at the various culture festivals we have here.
• Canada
14 Mar 07
I wish we had ice cream festivals in our city. When I used to stay with my Dad in the summertime we had a strawberry festival. Oh boy, all those yummy treats were the GREATEST!! I loved them. I miss those strawberry festivals.
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@kgwat70 (13387)
• United States
15 Mar 07
I was surprised to see from the responses given so far, there are very few ice cream festivals being held since ice cream is a favorite dessert of almost everyone.
• United States
14 Mar 07
I don't think we have one around here but Wilmington is only an hour from my house. Thanks for the tip. My kids LOOOOVE ice cream so maybe we'll check it out in July-- sounds like a great, summery thing to do!
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@kgwat70 (13387)
• United States
15 Mar 07
Unfortunately, they cancelled the festival this year because of the counties finances being too high. They also cancelled some of the other big events that they hold yearly. :-(
@healer (1779)
• India
14 Mar 07
WOW!! I wish here too we have ice cream festival hehehe. I can't resist ice cream even tough i am getting old, my friends say that lets keep that ice cream for Kids but heheh i always go for it when we hang out. I think people enjoy a lot at that festival young or old, and guessing that your place is special for ice creams. I want to attend those festivals, and i'll try to if i become rich with a good husband.
@kgwat70 (13387)
• United States
15 Mar 07
Ice cream is a dessert and food for people of all ages and races, not just for the kids. I love getting water ice during the summer as well as having ice cream. It has been cancelled for this year and hope they will bring it back the following year or maybe someone will start one of their own.
@mdarma (868)
• Singapore
15 Mar 07
kgwat, you make me excited and my mouth is watering, I love ice cream. Once when I was in switzaland, we were taken to a park, in this park I saw a stall selling ice cream, the evening was chill, I just got myself a cone and they placed 3 differnt flavoured scoops on the cone. I ate it even when I was shivering. It was great. I know how the childrens will miss it, let us hope something will happen and the festival will continue.
@kgwat70 (13387)
• United States
23 Mar 07
I am sure people will find other ways to eat ice cream this summer though not having the festival really has dampered peoples spirits. They are working on ways to fix the counties budget but that will not be til next year. I love ice cream as well and hope they find a way to have it.
• United States
15 Mar 07
Another great post, and I gave you a + for it. It was so interesting. I have never heard of this. I have lived in many states, and never heard of it, so I never went. If I had, I would have loved to go. Too bad your's was cancelled.
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@wmg2006 (5381)
• United States
15 Mar 07
No we have a market street festival. With vendors and lots of food. When I lived in Florida they alway had a shrimp festival that I loved to attend. I could really enjoy an icecream festival.
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@14missy (3183)
• Australia
15 Mar 07
I'm sure lots of adults will be disappointed as well. Ice cream seems to be one thing that both adults and kids enjoy. We never sem to get an icecream just for the kids when we go out as a family. Whay should they have all the fun? haha.
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• Philippines
15 Mar 07
No we don't have ice cream festivals..That would be quite fun to go to..Do hope I can go to one.
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@CRiley27 (983)
• United States
14 Mar 07
We do have an ice cream festival here in NJ. Every summer in Toms River (Ocean County) It gets packed with people. But it's alot of fun, the kids have a blast!
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@kgwat70 (13387)
• United States
15 Mar 07
That sounds like fun too. I have never been there but any ice cream festival I think would be fun and all the ice cream would be very tasty.
• United States
14 Mar 07
Ice Cream festival in Florida? lol. I don't think that would work very well,lol. Even when we were in Jersey I never had seen an ice cream festival. We had ice an sculpture festival but no ice cream. Darn shame too as I really love the ice cream!
@kgwat70 (13387)
• United States
15 Mar 07
A ice cream festival in florida probably would not work too well since the ice cream would melt quickly, unless it is held indoors like in a stadium or something similar.
• India
15 Mar 07
yummy, I never had that one. Just imagine having a ice cream festival. We never have one. But we have very famous ice cream parlour, which has innovative types of ice creams and it is a craze to treat anyone who has to celebrate is going there and giving ice creams. And gadbad is one ice cream which has become very famous. It is very tasty with lots of fruits, nuts and with three flavored ice creams.
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@selvi4184 (101)
• India
15 Mar 07
I like to eat icecream a lot. In our country (India) we dont have such kind of festivals for icecream. Really its interesting to hear about such kind of festivals. Enjoy it, but really i am missing it. All icecream lovers will be happy in our country, if we celebrate such kind of festivals...
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@jhartana (1084)
• Australia
15 Mar 07
I don't think there is ice cream festival here in Melbourne. However there are many ice cream retailers here...and they are so yummy...it's gelati ice cream actually if you know it. I love eating it so much :)
• United States
14 Mar 07
Oh, I wish they had one. I don't think they do or I would have heard about it. Around here we have a grapefruit festival and a date festival up north in Coachella Valley. But, no ice cream festival that I know of. I will definitely look for one in the So-Cal area. I'm sure LA has one, I'll just have to find it.
@greengal (4286)
• United States
14 Mar 07
Oh wowwww an Ice cream festival..this couldn't just get any better! I wish I could go to one, I would have the time of my life for sure..hehe! :) Yumm yummmm....ice cream...I'm drolling all over my keyboard..lol
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• United States
14 Mar 07
how i wish we can have an ice cream festival here in the Philippines cause it's really warm and sometimes humid in our country ! people love ice cream very much and more on smoothies , milkshakes and our famous HALO-HALO ( ice shaves with milk & sugar then assorted tropical fruits , nuts and ice cream on top ! )
@one5415 (380)
• Canada
15 Mar 07
wow...ice cream festival!!! I never heard it, but it`s so funny and very interesting.I like to eat ice cream so much,especially in summer ^^~
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@AskAlly (3625)
• Canada
14 Mar 07
I would love to have an icecream festival or at least attend one. I was ready to jump all over this one untill you said it was cancelled. We could have had an icecream date lol.
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