Okay, I have been extremely baffled by the continuous popularity of this entry’s comment thread.
What the hell is Blue Moon ice cream? I had never heard of it before this thread.
Who makes said ice cream, and whereâ€â€for the love of peteâ€â€do you get it?
This is one source for a blue moon ice cream. I believe there are others that are possibly more local to California.
“Jay Blossom, owner of IceCreamSource.com, agrees, pointing to one of his top sellers, Blue Moon: a Froot Loops-flavored melange that is a favorite of Wisconsin natives. He says former residents of the state can’t seem to live without the bright blue pints, and many are willing to pony up $59.94 to have six pints shipped to places as faraway as California and Florida.”
Blue Moon ice cream is a very weird thing. It does smell just like Froot Loops, but it doesn’t really taste like them. The best versions are very creamy and rich, but taste “overflavored,” as if somebody dumped a whole lot of flavoring in of many types.
A friend theorizes that the taste of Blue Moon is actually the taste of concentrated blue food coloring! I hope not.
I’m actually a former resident of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula but, I too, am a Blue Moon fanatic. I currently reside in Raliegh, North Carolina but haven’t found it around here yet. Is there a recipe for Blue Moon floating around the internet somewhere??
i am an alaskan born wisconsonite (all of my family is in wisconson save my parents, youngest brother, and me.) and look forward to blue moon ice cream on the verry rare occations that i get to come to wisconson again, the $10 a pint, 6 pint minimum is just too high for me, but i think all of you might be interested in the following link:
http://www.recipezaar.com/recipe/getrecipe.zsp?id=65455
i have just recently found this so i havent tested it yet, but there is that chance its the real thing…
Ann Arbor opened a new chocolate shop that has blue moon ice cream.. I have no idea what the flavor is but enjoy it immensely. I wonder if finding out the flavor or how it is made would ruin the enjoyment factor….
OOOOOOOOh my god!!! I am the biggest blue moon ice cream freak ever!!! Some of my family members live in Michigan and i went to go visit the over the summer!!! While i was on my vacation i had 8 pints of blue moon, and i was only there 2 weeks!! Its soooo good but i live on the west coast and can not find it any where!! If any one know where i can find some pppplllllllllllllleeeaase give me an email!!
THANKS,
BlueBree
okay look. i live in northern illinois and go to wisconsin often. there is a place in lake geneva that has it called annies ice cream parlor. its the real thing i promise. all the ones i found on recipezaar are NOT the real thing. the real thing doesnt have pineapple chunks in it! i spent all day looking for recipes and have had to come to grips with the fact that the real thing isn’t on the net, and some of it has alcohol added in it, making it not the real thing anymore because they wouldn’t have it in shops if it had liquor in it.
okay look. i live in northern illinois and go to wisconsin often. there is a place in lake geneva that has it called annies ice cream parlor. its the real thing i promise. all the ones i found on recipezaar are NOT the real thing. the real thing doesnt have pineapple chunks in it! i spent all day looking for recipes and have had to come to grips with the fact that the real thing isn’t on the net, and some of it has alcohol added in it, making it not the real thing anymore because they wouldn’t have it in shops if it had liquor in it.
WOW! I have searched for anyone that knows anything about Blue Moon Ice Cream. I grew up on it in Michigan and have moved all over the country and only once found it……..in the 80’s, in Iowa. I bought a 5 gallon container thinking I would never see it again and I was right. The place that had it never made it again! I too have seen many imposters, including some kind of bubble gum thing and a blue raspberry wanna-be. Is this truly just an upper mid-west flavor? I would really like to know the “secret ingredients” and have it available throughout the country. Krispy Kreme Doughnuts have made it to the west coast, I think it’s time for “The Moon”!
Blue Moon ice cream is great… I grew up in MI but now live in ME and cannot find it anywhere out here… I do miss some of the great things from home that you just can’t find here and that is one of them!
I can remember blue moon ice cream from back in the 70’s when I was a young kid. I grew up in Central Indiana and we had it there. I did not have to go to Wisconsin to get it. Then in the 80’s this ice cream shop closed. A bunch of us at work got on the subject one day of Blue moon and how everyone loved it. It does have a funky taste but it is a good one. Then shortly after I got married in the early 90’s my husband and I stumbled on some more at a different ice cream shop in town. Sad thing was this place was only open seasonally and it was in a place you really did not want to be after night fell!!! This place eventually closed to, luckily it wasn’t until I gave birth to our first born. I could not have made it thru pregnancy with out bluemoon ice cream. Well we moved to Kentucky and on one of our visits back up north we were in a Mejiers (help me out on the spelling!!) and in the food court they had hand dipped ice cream and they had blue moon!!! So me, my husband, then 4 year old son, sister-in-law and nephews all indulged. Before we headed back to Ky the next day we all went back again!!!!! Well we don’t have a Mejiers anywhere really close but there is one about an hour and a half away and sure enough they have it too at their food court all the way here in Kentucky. So if you have a Meijers anywhere around you check it out!!! best way I can describe the taste from my taste buds point of view is that it is a little bit like a cotton candy flavor with some of a almond extract taste to it. It is a love hate thing. You either love it so much you will never forget about it or it just is not something you like at all. Seems like there is no in between.
Harry’s (uncle Harry’s?) ice cream shop in Addison Illinois sells Blue Moon Ice Cream. I first ate it in Lake Geneva, WI. I think it has a lemony-vanilla buttercream flavor. In fact, I had some today!! Uncle Harry’s # 630-629-2356
Oh MY goodness…I have been looking for and trying to transport Blue Moom ever since I moved away from “home” in the mid 80’s! LOOOOOOOVE IT!!!!! But I can’t seem to be able to get it out of the state of MI. My first attempt was, of course, to drive a gallon from SW MI to NE VA, in a cooler, in the dead of winter, eating what was soft along the way, my last attempt was shipping on dry ice and I’ve tried everything in between with no complete success. I SO miss the “tastes like Blue” stuff!
I just came back from the midwest, and now that I’m here in NY I can’t find blue moon ice cream anywhere! I am just miserable…please leave information if any of you know how to get it shipped. Thank you!
Ashby’s Ice Cream (which is a chain, at least in Omaha, NE, I don’t know how wide they spread) sells a blue moon ice cream that’s actually laced with pop rocks for some reason, although I’ve heard they’re dropping the pop rocks from it.
I’m from Oconomowoc, WI and grew up with Blue Moon as a treat after soccer games and tennis matches! My family moved to Mass. 11 years ago, and now I live in London! I look forward to Blue Moon (and Cheese Curds!) on the few occassions I return to WI. HELP ME! Can I find it in Enlgand? … It is a comfort to know I am not alone as a Blue Moon freak addict!
Desperately Seeking Blue Moon
I am eating some right now. It is the best flavor in the entire world. I don’t know what’s in it, but it sure is good! If I could get my hands on a recipe, I would mass produce it.
I just ate some blue moon ice cream. I agree smells like fruit loops…and kinda tastes like them. I live in Northern Wisconsin and can buy it at my local store. The company is Schoep’s Ice Cream. Hope this helps you fanatics out!
I know a Blue Moon addict down here in Tampa who is crazy about it too. Her name is Mildred. She’s looking for something closer to Tampa than Ft Myers. She needs help 😉
I was born in Iron Mountain MI but moved to Milwaukee when I was 2. Every summer we went back to the UP for vacation ( my dad was an addicted fly fisherman). Every day we would go to the Summit Dairy in Kingsford to get our fix of Blue Moon. I have lived in PA since I was 8 and only got the icreadible blue stuff when we went on vacation back to MI, or in my travels for work. I have found it at most (but not all) Mejiers. (For example, the one in Marion OH did not have it, but the one on the east side of Columbus did. We have had several local ice cream shops in the Pittsburgh area that have been carrying it, but the supplier changed the “recipe” the last time around, filling it with some kind of chucks of hard candy and changing the color and flavor somewhat. A clear case of sacrilege if there ever was one! Found a version of it years ago that was more like a sherbert than ice cream…wouldn’t want it again.
I am a owner of ashby’s ice cream in omaha ne. we have a blue moon ice cream with pop rock vanilla ice cream and colored blue. call 402 391-4466
I’m in Madison Wisconsin and I just had some Blue Moon ice cream made by Cedar Crest; visit them at http://www.cedarcresticecream.com . I first had Blue Moon at a place called the Chocolate Shoppe that was in Beloit WI, but it closed many years ago. Strangely enough I used to have a scoop of Blue Moon next to a scoop of Black Licorice ice cream. Sounds disgusting but I guarantee you will love it! Here is another strange but delicious taste combination. Eat chocolate ice cream and then a soda cracker at the same time. I don’t know why but it tastes great!!
Wow. I grew up in Milwaukee, WI, and have live in Madison for the past ten years. I’ve also spent a great deal of time in Northern Wisconsin. While it isn’t my favorite flavor, I have seen Blue Moon ice cream in all those places, in many different brands. It always tasted like Froot Loops to me. However, I had no idea that it was just a regional thing.
Ahhh! Blue Moon ice cream. It appears that everyone thinks it originated in Wisconsin.
I grew up in Somerset County Pennsylvania and remember Blue Moon ice cream as a child in the 50s.
It was bright blue and had cherries and nuts in it and it was a mingling of flavors that included pinapple and cherry and really is a mixed fruit flavor.
Had not seen it since then till 1978 in Columbus Ohio. At that time the Superior dairy out of Canton made it just for small ice cream shops and did not package it for sale in stores.
I was just back there and the ice cream shop that was there them is no longer.
However, the very best ice cream has to be teaberry! Far as I know, can be found only in Somerset County Pennsylvania. (Teaberries are from the wintergreen plant)
I don’t know if this was answered already. (I read through most of these posts and didn’t see it.) Blue Moon is colored blue, but the flavor is a mix of lemon and orange. I’m stunned to find so many fans of it! I used to dream about it when I was pregnant with my son. I live in Michigan and you can find it almost anywhere around here.
When I was a kid, it DID have pineapple in it, by the way. (1970’s) I was heartbroken when they stopped putting it in. Sometimes I’ll get a pineapple sundae using blue moon ice cream. Mmmmm…
Blue Moon is my all-time favorite!! In fact I am going to lunch and will be enjoying a large dip of Blue Moon from Maucky’s Ice Cream in Frankton, IN. I grew up in Anderson, IN and Bert T. Owens always carried it, then several years past until another small ice-cream shop in Anderson carried it. Then a few years ago, Maucky’s opened and to my joy, they carry it!! What does it taste like? Blue Moon! Who cares what’s in it, it tastes awesome! It makes a great shake as well!
please don’t shoot me all you blue moon fans. i stumbled across this site in search of blue licorice ice cream. used to buy it in winnipeg, a long time ago, and can’t find it anywhere. anyone heard of it, is it the same as blue moon? recipes?
Please help, as a small child while living in San Jose, Ca., on San Carlos St. there was an ice cream parlor, which had black licorice ice cream. I want to find it again, anybody knowing where I may find some please let me know. I think about it and I drool.
i’ll bet that 95% of you people are over-weight.
gluttonous pigs…….
I have been looking for blue moon for 20 years. I used to eat it at the Silver lake Drive In at Perry NY when I was a kid. Am in Florida now and haven’t seen it since.
Thank God, I ive in west Michigan where every ice cream shop seems to have Blue Moon. It was the only flavor I would eat when I was 3, 39 yrs. ago. The flavor is heavy with vanilla, nutmeg and custard.
I am a Wisconsite and grew up eating Blue Moon icecream–and, no, I am not a glutonous pig, Danny Q. I have tried to find the recipe without success–the ingredients are very elusive. If you are in LaCrosse, Wisconsin and have a hankering for Blue Moon, I highly recommend stopping in at The Pearl (an old-fashioned soda fountain) in downtown LaCrosse. Enjoy!
I am 57 and first had Blue Moon in Pentwater Mich 50 years ago. I have loved in ever since. I am lucky to have a place in SW Mich. so now I share it with the grandkids who also love it. A Blue Moon shake is unbelievable!!!!
Have no Idea what is in it and maybe that is for the best. Hope it stays a midwest thing.
Over here! I am an over-weight gluttonous pig : )
And I like blue moon.
So what Jonny Q?
Born in Grand Rapids MI. Some friends from detroit shipped me some a few years ago. Now I have three kids who live in Arizona and like it too! heh heh heh
Hey you guys I work at a ice cream/ resturant called the House of Flavors located in Ludington,Michigan. Our ice cream factory which is located right next to our building. The West Bay Ice Cream Co. and/or House of Flavors ships the blue moon ice cream to only a few locations but you can by large containers of blue moon ice cream only in Ludington Michigan at the House of Flavors!!!
Can ANYONE tell me where I can find Black Licorice Ice Cream in Tacoma,WA..Or even tiger tiger (black licorice and orange)ice cream..Or is it just a Canadian thing?
I love Blue Moon ice cream. It is the best. I live just north of Detroit, Michigan. I can usually find Blue Moon in the Stroh’s Ice Cream Shops. I know that there is one in St. Clair Shores Michigan. I would be lost without my Blue Moon. I wish that Stroh’s would sell it with their other ice cream in the supermarkets.
I work at a new old fashioned Ice Cream Parlor in Forest Lake, MN. We have Blue moon ice cream and it is one of the favorites. And even better, a pint of our ice cream is only $2.66
Ahhh, Blue Moon Ice Cream–a fond childhood memory of mine! And it seems, short of mail order, as though for now it will remain a memory to my tastebuds as I can’t seem to find Blue Moon anywhere local. I live in Minneapolis, MN, have a second home in Winter Haven,FL but hail from Stevens Point, WI where Blue Moon was abundant and readily available at the corner ice cream store–The Town Clown. I am jonesing big time for the elusive and indescribable flavor of Blue Moon. Can anyone help me?
Phil
BLUE MOON ICE CREAM, WAS SOLD BACK IN THE 50,’S AT AN ISALYS ICECREAM STORE,IT DID HAVE PINEAPPLE IN IT, AND NUTS AND WAS BLUE. IT WAS VERY , VERY GOOD I WAS DISSAPOINTED WHEN ISALYS WENT OUT OF BUISNESS, IN CANTON. MEL.
I remember Blue Moon ice cream from a little ice cream shop in Aurora Illinois called the I Scream Parlor. I like Blue Moon but I absolutely LOVED the black licorice ice cream there, even as a little kid! I have never seen it since. Anyone know where I can find black licorice ice cream????
Wow, I remember Blue Moon. But my absolute favorite was the Black Licorice Ice Cream, We had an ice cream shop/restaraunt called the Guernsey Cow in SE Pennsylania. It was owned by the Amish. It used to be a ‘Sunday Drive’ destination back in the 60’s. Sure do miss it and I’m trying to find where Black Licorice ice cream can still be found
where can i find black licorice ice cream to buy through the mail?I live in West Virginia.HELP ME!
Go BLUE MOON…especially if there is a gumball in the bottom!
My mom has an internet cafe called Blue moon and she serves hand-dipped blue moon ice cream. It is the best and it is located in Milton, WI. Which is about 5 miles east of Janesville, WI. Everyone should go there and try some!!
I just got done eating a Blue Moon Ice Cream cone and happened upon this message board of blue moon while trying to find out what the hell they use for that one-of-a-kind flavor! I grew up on blue moon here in Milwaukee, WI buying it from all places, KMART!!! They always had bluemoon. Most don’t sell ice-cream anymore, but bluemoon at Kmart was like choc/vanilla. There have been wannabes with the added junk like pop rocks, etc, but nothing beats just the normal, smooth sky blue moon, sometimes with a gumball in the bottom. The Chocolate Factory now carries it, not sure if those are across the states or not. I’m going to do a little digging and see if I can find any more info. I’m reallu surprised to learn that Blue Moon is a mid-west thing (namely MI and WI) just like custard..GO LEON’S!!!!!
I live in florida and i am looking for a place to find some blue moon icecream. I have had it in Michigan but i can’t fin it anywhere down south. Where can i get some so i don’t have to pay 10 a pint for it.
Blue Moon ice cream: Is a product of the Blue-Fly Cocktail of the 1950’s. The blue fly cocktail consisted of 1 ounce of Blue Curacau, 1 ounce of White Creme de Cacao, and heavy cream.
Whoever got the idea to freeze it made blue-moon ice cream. The cream turns a very pale green, or blue-moon color.
People will tell you that it has a fruit loop taste. Actually, Blue Curacao is made from fermented oranges, and as I understand it gets its blue coloring from the fermentation process. White Creme de Cacao is Chocolate flavored liquor, and when mixed with the Blue Curaco, and Cream takes on an orangey almond flavoring.
Nowadays there probably is no real blue moon ice cream anymore. Mostly companies add blue dye, and orange swirl, and even almond flavoring to make it up. Sometimes you will find it with pinapple pieces mixed in.
I make it at home for guests. Follow this recipe exactly.
1/2 gallon of premium vanilla ice cream (premium)
2 ounces of Blue Curacao
2 ounces of White Creme de Cacao
Do not add any more alcohol. If you do when you freeze it you will have Blue Moon Soup. It will not setup properly. Blend it in a blender with the ice cream just turning liquid, and then get in frosted glass, or frosted glass bowls fast, and into the freezer damn quick. The freezing has to setup fast or the alcohol will seperate.
Serve in the cold glass right out of the freezer.
It will be better than sex – trust me…..
Tim T.
BLUE MOON ICE CREAM’S FLAVOR IS BURNT ALMOND. DON’T BELIEVE THAT ‘LEMON AND ORANGE’ HORSESHIT UP THERE. I AM FROM MICHIGAN – I KNOW THESE THINGS.
Obviously the people from Michigan lack in reading comprehention skills… Try reading it again…. Orangy-Almond taste. I guess it could be described as burnt almond.. Depends where you get it nowadays.
If anyone has any other recipies on this I would appreciate it, or old time stories I spent six months researching this. I would like to add to my research. I know that Blue-Moon ice cream originated in the midwest, and the closest I can peg it down is western PA. But I have a hunch it is from Wisconsin, or upstate Michigan. Anything would be a help….