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?
There is a “real” blue moon ice cream from my hometown – the business is , well out of business now – but it was in Eaton, Ohio and it was “Shaver’s Ice Cream Factory — the very best blue moon ice cream ever — and yes it had little chunks of pineapple. I’d give a hundred bucks for just one scoop of that today.
BLUE MOON!!! It has been fun reading all these post and seeing all the different ideas of what it taste like. I grew up in Raleigh, NC and after college moved to northern MI and found an ice cream parlor that makes homemade blue moon. I fell in love with it. Still have no idea what it taste like, but good. If you are ever in Baldwin MI in the summer you have to try some at Jones. I think it is better than any other kind I have ever tried (Sorry House of Flavors, yours is still real good). Jones closes down for the winter so this year I bought some Blue Moon and plan to let it last all winter. Guess I will have some today with lunch.
I am Truly a blue moon ice cream fanatic!!! I Love it I love it I love it. I go to school in Ga but was born and raised in WI. When I come home I find myself eating blue moon all the time. There is a chain of ice cream shops called ‘The Chocolate Factory’ they serve the real thing its really great to see so many people in love with the same ice cream as me. When I go to school and talk about it people ask me if I am crazy because they never heard of it.
Number one Blue Moon Fanatic!!!
You know, I feel sorry for all of you who don’t have Blue Moon available. I guess I take it for granted.
I work for a company in Madison, WI called Chocolate Shoppe Ice Cream. I’m a delivery driver there and I can tell you that we make some AWESOME ice cream! For those of you lamenting about Annie’s Ice Cream in Lake Geneva, we are their supplier. We also supply ice cream stores in Minnesota, Illinois, and Iowa. We do have a web site: http://www.chocolateshoppeicecream.com
As for our Blue Moon, it rocks!!!
You know, I feel sorry for all of you who don’t have Blue Moon available. I guess I take it for granted.
I work for a company in Madison, WI called Chocolate Shoppe Ice Cream. I’m a delivery driver there and I can tell you that we make some AWESOME ice cream! For those of you lamenting about Annie’s Ice Cream in Lake Geneva, we are their supplier. We also supply ice cream stores in Minnesota, Illinois, and Iowa. We do have a web site: http://www.chocolateshoppeicecream.com
As for our Blue Moon, it rocks!!!
I haven’t had blue moon ice crean since I was 12.
There was an ice cream shop in MI. ( I live in OH)
I wish I knew where the hell i could find that ice cream.
Blue moon ice cream is flavored with benzaldehyde, the flavoring ester found in almond extract; just try opening up a bottle of almond extract and smelling it. That’s what blue moon ice cream is like.
I just came across this board as I was searching for a place that would ship Blue Moon ice cream to me here in Florida. I grew up in Milwaukee and Blue Moon has always been my favorite flavor. I haven’t had it in Florida, but every time I fly back to Milwaukee I always get a cone at the airport.
I first had Blue Moon in a small ice cream shop in a mall in Casper, Wyo. where I grew up. It has since closed. The only other place I have been able to find it, seeing as I’ve never been to Michigan, was a ice cream parlor in Key West, Florida right on the western docks by the place you board for the clipper ship tours.
I’m a serious Blue Moon fan,
but once I moved away from the Detroit area to Los Angeles, I’ve had to go cold turkey.
Whenever I do visit Detroit,
I usually indulge at least three times,
buying it at the local Meijers.
All I know is that it’s made by Stroh’s Ice Cream,
and is prohibitively expensive to ship to LA.
When people ask me what it tastes like,
all I can say is “blue vanilla” and leave them wondering.
rob
I LOVE blue moon icecream! i first had it 4 years ago when i was in the sixth grade and i fell in love right on the spot. and i am not even from michigan! the only place i have ever seen it sold at was a pizzeria in my local mall. unfortunately, it is only sold there sparatically so when it’s there i get really giddy. haha it’s like a cup of heaven.
Having blue moon ice cream at Notre Dame’s cafeteria where my family sometimes ate when my father was teaching there is one of my earliest childhood memories (early 70’s). One day I guess they got new management since they stopped serving it. Now I live in Texas and I haven’t seen it since. Thanks to Tim T I have a recipe at last!
I grew up south of Detroit and fell in love with blue moon ice cream when I was a small child. My father worked for a creamery delivering milk and making ice cream. we used to go to the creamery on Sunday’s and my dad would bring out bowls of ice cream. I always had blue moon! I could never describe the taste to anyone, but froot loops is close. I moved to Wyoming a few years ago and recently found blue moon at an ice cream parlor in Fort Collins, Colorado.
I live in California, but grew up in the 1970s with “Mooney’s” brand ice-cream and its Blue Moon flavor in the Genessee (Flint) and Tuscola County Michigan area…. Every summer when we go back, we have Mooney’s Blue Moon!
I have been asking all my relatives in Michigan to help me find Blue moon ice cream. It is the ONLY ice cream we ate when we were kids in the 70’s. Who would have thought all I needed to do was to punch in “bluemoon” on google! Now hopefully this “Mooney’s” in Mackinaw Island is still in business. I would love a taste of my childhood again! Thank goodness for this site!!!
Ben and Jerry are good but Bluemoon RULES!!!
I’m dying for some blue moon ice cream. The shave ice doesn’t do it for me over here. I haven’t had a blue moon ice cream cone in about 22 years… too long.
Roberta from Maui, Hawaii
The first time I had blue moon, i was in Governor Dodge, Wisconsin. It was the most delicious thing I had ever tasted. That was 2 years ago. Recently (last week) while looking at the ice creams at the grocery store, I found a gallon of blue ice cream. I looked at what it was called, and almost screamed in joy. It’s made by Scroeps which is based in Madison. I don’t know how far this brand spreads, but people in the Midwest, check your grocery store!!!
Okay…I am having a hard time finding “Blue Licorice” Ice Cream. Is it similar or the same as your Blue Moon stuff? I am wondering whatever happened to it…I am suffering from withdrawls up here in Canada! Would anyone be able to help me with this…even though the site says that nobody knows anything?! Take care and thanks a bunch!
For those of you in the Tampa, Florida area…
Sun Groves on 580 in Clearwtaer has Blue Moon with Clouds ice cream (Blue moon w/ a marshmellow ribbon).
Brite spot in Hurley Wisconsin has blue moon and it rocks
nobody at college (in beloit, wisconsin) believed me when i said that there was an ice cream flavor called blue moon. they all looked at me like i was a complete idiot. i was with people from colorado, canada, arizona, california, and illinois. they even called my mom in michigan to ask if i was lying, and then accused her of lying! there is blue moon at treat street in kalamazoo, michigan and at a drug store in portage, michigan on portage ave (unfortunately i don’t remember what it’s called) and at meijers.
Do any of you ever feel like a private joke to some elite group of flavor chemists out there? I mean, imagine creating this amazing flavor and then driving the population crazy while they attempt to define it. It’s a sick cruel world. I cant wait for June when I will be visiting Milwaukee and reunited with my favorite, though mystifying, creamy blue ice cream.
I grew up in Wis. & now live in Jacksonville, Florida. Not a scoop of Blue Moon to be found here. My teen agers are Blue Moon addicts after having it on vacations to Wisconsin. Why isn’t it distributed everywhere?!!?
For those of you still looking for Blue Moon icecream, the maker is Melody Farms. Melody Farms owns Mooney’s icecream AND Stroh’s Icecream. Their web address is http://www.melodyfarms.com. I don’t know if you can order from them, but maybe if enough of ya’ll from Florida and California ban together, they will distribute to your state. Good Luck..I’m going to Meijer’s now..I’ve kinda got a craving for it myself!
I remember a Mr Burkel having a blue moon ice cream at his lunch counter in the 1950’s in Sandusky Ohio. I remember it being the only flavor he made of the ice creams he served. I am sure it was not made from fruit loops.
I now live in Texas, but grew up in South western Pennsylvania. In the 50’s my family went every Sunday to Long’s Dairy near Altoona and my favorite was Blue Moon. I had it in othe parts of Pennsylvania during that time span, but none compared to that made by Long’s dairy. Wish Long’s was still in business, I would pay them for the recipe.
Blue moon has been around for a long time, probably well before the 1950s. My uncle was a pharmacist during the depression in Holland, Michigan, and he used to reminisce about serving it at his soda fountain counter. He also made a dynamite strawberry ice cream soda even when he was in his 70s. My dad always described it as “like tutti frutti, but dyed blue.” Both agreed that it used to have bits of fruit, pineapple and cherries and peaches chopped up fine and mixed in. I have tasted the Schoep’s version (mentioned by several people here) and agree it is very good, but I have no idea whether it is anything like the original. The flavor of the Schoep’s blue moon is similar to that of an essential oil flavoring used by bakers. The bakers call it “fiori di Sicilia” (Sicilian flowers) and it combines almond, vanilla, and citrus. Added in tiny amounts to baked goods like coffee cake or sweet rolls, or to dairy products like ice cream or whipped cream, this oil-based flavoring agent creates an indescribable sensation that depends heavily on the nose rather than the taste buds for recognition. (I believe this explains the suggestion that blue moon is ‘fruit loops’ flavored, since similar aromatic agents are used in various breakfast cereals.) Personally, I detect no chocolate flavor in Schoep’s blue moon.
Blue Curacao is a liqueur, rather than a fermented beverage, and it is made up using orange oil and blue coloring. Certainly mixing Blue Curacao with a good quality vanilla would come close to the desired flavor if you got the proportions right, though I think a little almond extract would also be needed.
For the black licorice seekers: the ‘licorice’ flavor in ice cream and liqueurs is usually derived from anise seed. Try adding some Anisette liqueur, or perhaps Greek Ouzo or Metaxa, or even Galliano to a plain vanilla ice cream. I think you will get the flavor you seek. I don’t know what color ‘black licorice’ ice cream was, but the color was surely artificial, just as it is in licorice candy.
i have been eating blue moon since about the day i was born. i honestly can’t think of anything better. and yeah you have to wonder about what exactly its flavor is, but that just adds to it. you cant really pin it down. personally i always thought it tasted like blue sugary clouds, but thats just me.
My husband and I grew up in a small town called Blanchardville, WI. We have a little shop @ Yellowstone State Park called the Dairy Shop that sells it. But now we are in North Carolina because my husband is in the military and I can’t find it anywhere either, not even at Basken Robbins, where their suppose to have all of these flavors. I’m pregnant with my first child and I want some so bad.
As i sit here and eat a pint of Blue Moon in Erie, Pa. We have several shops that carry it.
I cannot believe the sheer numbers of blue moon aficionados I have stumbled across!! I’m truly floating to think I may be able to experience this treat once again…. I would always order-up Blue Moon cones when we summered in the 50’s and early sixties at Epworth Heights, near Ludington, MI.. Once in the late 70’s, I found it in an obscure ice cream shoppe in Columbia, MO. I wonder which distributor shipped this? Regardless, it was the very same ice cream I had savored as a kid, and I was in seventh heaven to taste it once again. Recently, I had a dream about that Columbia, MO. experience, it was so profound. That’s why I did this Google search tonight, and I’m in good company! The version I am familiar with is creamy, no chunks of any sort, and undefinable–just irrestistable. I plan to email some of these manufacturers… I am SO happy that I can taste this once again, even if it means traveling to a shop in WI. or MI. No problem!
We have looked and looked on line for a place to order blue moon ice cream. No one will send it. We live in Des MOines, Iowa and love the flavor of Blue Moon. We had some in Bayfield, Wisconsin last summer. Please let us know where we can get it.
Thank You.
We recently opened an Ice Cream Parlor in Delaware County, PA and we sell Hershey’s Ice Cream. They have Blue Moon and also “Superman” which is a combination of Blue Moon and two other flavors. It’s ironic that last night I was putting my Hershey order together and was contemplating getting Blue Moon (which I’d never heard of), then I found this thread today while looking for a cone source. If any of you live near me, I’d be happy to get you some 🙂
BLUE MOON ICE CREAMMmmmm!!! I grew up on the shores of St Joseph, Michigan and loved Blue Moon Ice Cream as a kid. I joined the USAF 19 years ago, and hardly anyone in all my travels has heard of blue moon ice cream! It is truly a unique taste experience…I am now working on the Stealth fighter in New Mexico, and from time to time I just CRAVE that Blue Moon taste! I need to take LEAVE time from the military, go home to see my MOM, and have BLUE MOON ice cream, just like all those years ago as a kid!!
I live in Southeast Wisconsin, 10 miles from Lake Geneva. Blue moon is very common in ice cream shops around here but hard to find in stores. My wife loves it to no end. I did find it once at a grocery store but it lacked flavor. I forget the brand. I do know that Cedar Crest Ice Cream makes it. I have found it in gas stations or convenience stores. Take a look. You may get lucky.
I used to live in the UP (Iron Mountain area) and remember having Blue Moon ice cream at this little mini-golf place somehere in the area. I moved away in Grade 1 and have never seen it since.
Nobody had ever heard of it. Then I discovered this website…
I LOVE WHITEYS ICECREAM ALOT, IM EATING SOME RIGHT NOW AND I JUST LOVE IT. BLUE MOON SHMOON!!!
GO WHITEY’S!!! GO!!!
I remember Blue Moon ice cream from an ice cream parlor in Milford, Michigan, called Capes Ice Cream. They made their own ice cream and also shipped it to local stores. The Blue Moon ice cream I remember was a light blue color and had very small flecks of pineapple in it. I’m 43 now and I remember this from my very young (single-digit) years. Capes Ice Cream hasn’t been in business for at least a couple of decades but I have had Blue Moon from Stroh’s Ice Cream parlors, too. I sent Stroh’s an email from their website asking them to start distributing the Blue Moon ice cream in grocery stores. Maybe if enough people request it, they’ll get the point. 🙂
I love the Blue Moon myself. I remeber as a kid going to Meijers at the Purple Cow every Sunday and getting Blue Moon. You don’t see it in the south-east. Oh I miss Michigan.
I love the Blue Moon myself. I remeber as a kid going to Meijers at the Purple Cow every Sunday and getting Blue Moon. You don’t see it in the south-east. Oh I miss Michigan.
My uncle owned a dairy store and served Blue Moon in the downriver Detroit area circa 1960’s.
Love that stuff
I love Blue Moon!!!! I’m from Michigan, Detroit area, and always had to have that at Stroh’s Ice Cream parlor, and also had it at the House of Flavors in Ludington with my grandma. I’ve moved to Florida, and the only thing I’ve found close is called “Smurf” ice cream, similar taste, same color but it has marshmellows in it. Also I’ve seen it at Meijers in Michigan, I always have to get it when I go back. This is like some people are with Superman Ice Cream, it was so good, and it brings back childhood memories, but I love Blue Moon!
I have never laughed harder at the internet than today. I didn’t know that Blue Moon was a specialty to the area.. I thought everybody knew what it was. But, I just called a friend in West Virginia.. and by gum.. she’s never heard of it and thinks I’m a nut. Just happened upon this site accidentally, but now I’ve gotta go to House of Flavors here in Ludington and get some. I’ve got a really bad craving!! So if no one outside of the Midwest has heard of Blue Moon…do they have Superman out there too? Because doesn’t Superman have Blue Moon in it? I guess I could be wrong… (Oh yeah, and I read something about needing it to get through a pregnancy…I can relate, I did too!!)
I grew up in Cleveland, OH and I love Blue Moon. I thought it was a Cleveland thing… guess not! My husband thinks that it is a kids flavor, but I swear its much more sophisticated 😉
I live in the Tampa area and have found blue moon ice cream on Ana Maria Island. I don’t recall the name of the ice cream shop, but it is located on the north side of the island just east of the fishing pier that faces the sunshine skyway.
Stumbled onto this web site and can’t believe there are so many dedicated Blue Moon fans out there like myself. What a hoot!!!I too was born and raised in MI, Flint to be exact, and have some of my fondest childhood memories in the 60’s and 70’s going to “Herriman’s Dairy” and having Blue Moon in a cone on Sunday outings. In later years I moved north to Traverse City and the only place I could get it was at Meijer’s purple cow. Now unfortunately I reside in southern california and people think I’m a lunatic when I mention Blue Moon. Guess it’s time to go back to Traverse City……….
I grew up eating Blue Moon ice cream at the House of Flavors in Ludington Michigan. Every Sunday we would go to Burger Chef then to the park at Lake Michigan. When done there we would stop at House of Flavors for ice cream. Most of the family got Blue Moon. I never knew exactly what it was. I moved to Florida 23 years ago and haven’t had any since. I guess it’s time for a trip.
OH MY !!!!!! I make homemade ice cream in the summer months,and have people begging for it, and paying up to $25/gal.
I too, am a native Michigander, now living in Nashville, Tn., and the only people that know about Blue Moon ice cream are northern “transplants” now living in the south.
Need an ‘estimate’ on the amounts of ingredients to convert my vanilla to blue moon !!! Anybody got any ideas.
By the way, the person that wrote about Jones’ homemade ice cream is absolutely correct. The best Blue Moon is in Baldwin Michigan !!
I even called and spoke with one of the owners, and she said there is a “blue moon” flavoring ? Anybody know where to get it ?
I’d never heard of blue moon ice cream, but i’m really curious to taste it now! found this recipe on a recent search:
3 cups finely chopped pineapples
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup blue curacao, to taste
2 quarts good quality vanilla ice cream
1. In a large saucepan, combine fruit, sugar and curacao.
2. Bring to a boil over moderate heat, stirring until sugar dissolves.
3. Simmer for approximately five minutes.
4. Strain into a bowl, reserving pineapple solids.
5. Temper ice cream in the refrigerator until slightly softened.
6. Add pineapple and stir to combine completely.
7. Return to freezer for two hours; stir again.
8. Freeze until completely firm.
9. Ice cream will keep approximately one week.
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The only thing better than Blue Moon ice cream is Blue Moon ice cream cake from Gurnsey’s Dairy someplace near Northville, MI. There will definately be Blue Moon in Heaven. 🙂