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?
Blue Moon is my favorite ice cream and the only two places I can get is in Meijers on Carpenter rd., Ann Arbor, Mi or at Captn Frosty’s in Pinckney. I wish I could find it in a stroh’s ice cream container instead of having to get it from Meijer’s ice cream place or Captn Frosty’s. I actually heard that blue moon was lemon/blue raspberry. BLUE MOON IS THE BEST!
I grow up eating blue moon ice cream I can’t wait to taste again we would buy at a ice cream shop in beloit wi next to the dairy queen they are gone now everytime I past by the old location I day dream I now live in chicago and I Looking under every rock to find it please help me
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We have blue moon where I work, and we all are trying to guess the flavor. I think it is a dull pinapple flavor with almond flavor. Can anyone confirm this?
Best Blue Moon ice cream (in my opinion) is at Tyler’s Ice Cream Shoppe just outside of Anna Maria Island Florida. My husband is a Blue Moon lover and brings it back to Indiana 2X a year from Florida. Would love to get a recipe for it. The Blue Moon we have does not have pineapple in it!
I am a total blue moon freak. I used to get some every summer in ludington. As of last summer (2004) They had it listed as just a nutmeg flavored icecream. I recently found a Kilwins candy store near me(chicago suburbs) that sells it. I about died and went to heaven. I am so happy not to be the only aditc out there!
It is almond flavor. Wanna try (sorry, have to figure out your own coloring). Take some almond extract and mix it up into your vanilla icecream.
I’m another Michigander from the 50’s that now lives in Florida and has an “episode” every summer dreaming about this blue stuff. There was a TV program not long ago — Food channel or Al R. talking about a similar concoction. They did say that there are places to order it–you just have to pay the big $$, because of the minimum order. If anyone has that info–please share it with the rest of us poor devils! I am deperate enough to pay whatever it takes. If I can order Godiva on line, I certainly should be able to order Blue Moon without too much trouble…?
I visit my brother in MN every year. Two years ago I found Blue Moon ice cream at the Mall of America. Kemps made it and I haven’t gotten it from them since. Even though I keep trying. Went to MI to see my dad this trip and found Blue Moon at Country Dairy in New Era. It tasted good, but not quite the real thing. They told me it was an almond flavoring they used. Tasted too almondy. I live in CO now so will try the Ft. Collins’ site. I really have to have the “real” thing. May try to make some. Thanks.
ah i’m relieved to find so many others with the same unhealthy obsession with blue moon as me. most people dont even believe me when i try to describe the yummy goodness that is blue moon. i grew up on blue moon ice cream during the summer in new buffalo,mi at a place called oink’s. does anyone know where to find it in the chicago suburbs?? coldstone has a pooey variation of it this month but i want the real thing!!
I live in Ohio and am totally cuckoo for Blue Moon ice cream. However, I’m moving to Phoenix in a few months and reading these posts, I’m concerned I won’t be able to get my Blue Moon there!!!!! That will surely kill me! Does anyone currently live in Phoenix or nearby suburbs know if any of the local ice cream shops sell Blue Moon?
I too am yearning for a cone of blue moon ice cream. While on rare trips to the Michigan I sometimes manage to indulge in that ever elusive
treat. I usta be a Yooper and did my early growing up in the U.P in the late forties, early fifties. Blue moon, at least among the kids I
knew, was probably the most popular flavor. We
got ours from a dairy near my grandparents’ house
in Kingsford,Mi. I also recall getting black licorice ice cream, which I have not seen anywhere else. B Moon’s flavor is unique and difficult to describe, and while the Strohs version is similar its not as good as what I had back then. Also,it seems too blue! I’ve never tasted Froot Loops but I cringe to think its flavor is like that of beloved BMIC. While the building the dairy was in is still there,it has changed hands over the years a number of times and I guess its receipes are lost to the ages. What a pity!
from Phoenix, AZ
COME ONE, COME ALL. I HAVE FOUND IT!!!
If you have a Cold Stone Creamery any where near you, try their new flavor called Fruity Cereal. I swear it is Blue Moon!!!
Finally, a national chain has saved us!!!
Took Suzanne’s advice and went to Cold Stone today. It’s been nearly 30 years since I’ve had Blue Moon, but that “Fruity Cereal” doesn’t quite taste the way I remember it when my father used to buy it for me at an ice cream store near 5-points in Janesville; now I live in Washington State.
Blue Moon ice cream:
I’m sure that this flavor is produced in more than one location, but I do know that it IS produced in a small tourist town named Ludington Michigan.
House of Flavors Ice Cream
House of Flavors Restaurant
(231) 845-5785
(231) 845-7369
(231) 845-7360
402 W Ludington Ave
Ludington, MI 49431
Formerly known as, “Park Dairy” Hose of Flavors has a restaurant as well as an ice cream factory.
The restaurant doesn’t publicize the flavorings in Blue moon, but I HAPPEN to know a couple people that work in the factory. Blue moon’s flavor: Cloves.
Don’t beleive me? Taste it again.
Blue Moon ice cream:
I’m sure that this flavor is produced in more than one location, but I do know that it IS produced in a small tourist town named Ludington Michigan.
House of Flavors Ice Cream
House of Flavors Restaurant
(231) 845-5785
(231) 845-7369
(231) 845-7360
402 W Ludington Ave
Ludington, MI 49431
Formerly known as, “Park Dairy” Hose of Flavors has a restaurant as well as an ice cream factory.
The restaurant doesn’t publicize the flavorings in Blue moon, but I HAPPEN to know a couple people that work in the factory. Blue moon’s flavor: Cloves.
Don’t beleive me? Taste it again.
I just returned to Massachusetts from my annual vacation in Northeast WI. I am a former Yooper and have loved Blue Moon since I was little. The Ice Cream Station on North US2 in Iron Mountain has Blue Moon with sugar cookie dough. It was delicious and I can’t wait until I have it again next summer. Flavors remind me of a mix of almond and Fruit Loops, color is like blue cotton candy. I think this could be a big hit with the rest of the country if only the correct recipe would be distributed. Go to the UP heh and try some!
do not under any circumstances eat the cold stone fruit loops ice cream with the expectation that it will taste like blue moon. it is nothing like blue moon, it should not even be mentioned in the same breath. the great american bagel in oak lawn has real blue moon, so does peterson’s ice cream in oak park.
We moved to Florida from Michigan four years ago, and the only place that we’ve found Blue Moon is at Mama Lo’s on Anna Maria Island (north of Sarasota and west of Bradenton).
Wow, this is so weird. I was a kid and went to Detroit with my parents on a business trip and I remember my mom and I shopping all day, then going to restaurant’s like Pizzeria Uno and Bagel Nosh amd the Blue Moon Ice Cream. I wanted to bring that stuff home with me but back in the early 80’s you tasted it and went home….Well today, I had this bright idea to look it up in Google and here I am! As for the young lady who said New Yorkers don’t deserve it….that’s not very nice! We deserve it just as much as everyone else does, more than once in a blue moon. Well anyway, I’m gonna order some of the stuff…I remember there was no specific taste, nothing to describe it, just really good! There’s an old fashioned ice cream palor by me and they make something called “Smurf” ice cream. It looks like Blue Moon about tastes like too sweet bubble gum! “Long rule the Blue Moon!”
P.S. from my note of 7/13….I just returned today from vs a friend near Brandon,Fl. I too took Susan’s advice and went to Cold Stone Creamery and sure enough, they had a blue flavor called ‘fruity cereal’ which while it had a hint of the flavor of blue moon I had in the U.P. of Mich., it fell far short of of the mark. To my surprise, they also had blk licorice but it too was not nearly as good. The Kingsford-Iron Mt.area really had the very best.
The next best I’ve had since childhood, was a few years back
at an ice cream shop in a small town north of
Lexington,Mi.(can’t remember the name).The Food Network channel did have a show that included the mention of BM ice cream which could be ordered, I think it was called the Chocolate Shop in Madison, Wi.? I think they have a web site but they too described the flavor a froot loop-like ick! Oh well, on with the quest! Good luck.
You can find the REAL Blue Moon ice cream at:
WISHES ETC
5101 WASHINGTON STREET, GURNEE, IL 60031
Phone: (847) 263-7197
It’s GOOD STUFF and this is the only place in Northern Illinos I’ve found it in years!
Sherman’s Dairy in South Haven, Mich has the BEST of any ice cream flavors, not just Blue Moon. Never really liked blue moon but it is fun to watch children eat it and see them turn in to little blue smurfs (face, hands, cloths, etc).
I’ve lived in Chicago my entire adult life, while spending summers in southwest MI. I KNEW of two places in Chicago that served Blue Moon (without pineapple and not mixed with any other flavors), however both establishments have since shut their doors. They were Kaleidoscoops in Lincoln Park on N. Clark and Swiss Gourmet Ice Cream Parlor across the street from the Webster Place Movie Theatres. Kaleidoscoops has changed owners and no longer serves the good stuff (as of last night). I think that there is another place on Southport in Lakeview, across from the Music Box, that might sell it… I’ll go check it out! Please let me know if you find it in Chicago and I’ll do the same. Godspeed.
p.s.
There is a Sherman’s Creamery in Michigan City, IN. at the Light-House Outlet Mall that serves it up during the summer time only… otherwise, they try to pawn-off the red, white, and blue mix that has BM in it… sorry Hun that’s not the same.
Blue Moon has been my favorite ice cream since the late 60’s. It is still one of my favorite ice creams- but have found many other wonderful flavors too. The Real Blue Moon ice cream is made b y the Madison Wis. Company The Chocolate Shoppe Ice Cream. I use to get my fix in lake geneva Wis. but no longer have to go that far for my blue moon – I now sell the real Blue Moon Ice Cream in my Ice Cream Shoppe In Shabbona Illinois – Wisted’s Chocolate Shoppe Ice Cream & Sandwiches! We sell only Chocolate Shoppe Ice cream and always HAVE BLUE MOON IN STOCK plus 32 other interesting flavors.
Where’s Shabbona – well it is on US Route 30 East of Route 39 or West of Aurora IL about 30 Miles. Stop in and Have Some BLUE MOON today. hrs 11 am til 9 pm for more information email me at twisted60@netscape.net
I grew up in Michigan and had the pleasure of eating Blue Moon at both Jone’s in Baldwin (where I grew up) and at House of Flavors in Ludington (where we visited the beach just about every day during the summer). We moved to Florida almost 3 years ago and can’t find it anywhere. I made the mistake of getting my daughter hooked on the stuff before we moved here and she has been asking for it ever since. I think I am going to go to my local Albertson’s today and put in a special order request to see if they can get some in. If I succeed, I will be the mother of the year!!!
I know that KaleidoScoops – Ice Cream & More stores have it. They have about 100 stores around the country and the product is great!
I grew up in Escanaba, Michigan, in the Upper Peninsula, and used to get Blue Moon ice cream at the Bancroft dairy on Ludington Street. I now live in Long Beach, California, and want to know where to find it here. Does anyone have any info?
Thanks eh!
Forget Blue Moon ice cream, where the heck can I get Michigan Black Bear ice cream? Is it sold anywhere in the southeastern portion of Michigan besides Port Huron?
I read somewhere once the flavor in Blue Moon is pineapple.. food for thought… : )
Most of the Blue Moon ice cream sold in various places just isn’t like the old fashion Blue Moon that I remember from the 50’s. It is too smooth and a little too sweet. The Blue Moon ice cream that I used to get as a kid at Thompkins Ice Cream in Rockford IL contained chunks of fresh fruit. I know there were peaches in it and I remember being told that it also had honey dew melon in it, which is why it had a blue coloring and why it was only available during the summer.
I had no idea when I started looking for Blue Moon ice cream on the Internet that I would find so much written about the subject. I was basically looking for a recipe. Both Bunny and Schoeps ice creams from Wisconsin carry a Blue Moon line that is sold in grocery stores but they are poor imitations of the real thing from my childhood.
There is real blue moon and newer fake blue moon.
real was found in 6-04 at the dairy king in beulah, michigan. I was told it had ginger in it.
My dad owned and operated Shaver’s Ice Cream Factory in Eaton, Ohio for 25 years. I observed him on many occasions making Blue Moon (and many other flavors including Bubblegum etc.) There was one farmer who would drive his tractor over almost daily during the summer to get a large Blue Moon shake /no straws please. And a gentleman in Florida would have a gallon of Blue Moon packed in dry ice and shipped to him by Greyhound Bus every so often just to treat his friends and prove that there was indeed a flavor called Blue Moon.
Two of the Best Blue Moon Places….. Jone’s Ice Cream Shop Main Street in Baldwin Michigan 49304, totally hand made!! And Tastee Freeze on Bristol Street in Elkhart Indiana 46514 I am not sure who makes it but it is GREAT. It used to be good at Bonnie Doon’s in Mishawaka Indiana, but I haven’t been there in years. Good luck with your tasting!!
Blue moon ice cream
the “secret” ingredient is PUMPKIN!!
I grew up in Royal Oak, Mich. Back in the 60’s and 70’s we would get the famous Blue Moon ice cream. I have never been able to describe the flavor. I moved to Florida in ’79 and haven’t had it much since then. I do remember getting it at Meijer Thrifty Acres on a trip there in 1980’s (yes, they really had it!!)But also at an ice cream shoppe in Marlette, Michigan on M-25. This was our 1/2 way stop to the cottage. We are going to Michigan in 2 weeks with our kids for the first time. Can’t wait to see the blue stuff all over their faces..Also, going to Kerby’s, and Franklin Cider Mill!! Can’t wait!! I understand that this flavor was mostly a midwestern thing and not shipped very far for obvious reasons…
I live in MI so blue moon isn’t that difficult for me to find. What is more difficult to find and is even better than blue moon is “play-dough” ice cream (it’s blue moon with chunks of brightly-colored cookie dough). I really want to make some without doing it the cheater way – buying blue moon and adding cookie dough. So, what I want to know is where I can buy the blue moon mix or concentrate or whatever it is so I can make it at home and add-in my own brightly-colored homemade cookie dough.
Does anyone know where I can get such a thing?
Moxie’s Ice Cream at 1344 Spring Avenue in Wynantskill, NY (outside Troy and Albany) makes their own homemade ice cream with 14% butter fat. They have BLUE MOON ice cream. They are open Mother’s Day until the end of August. Try their blue moon!
I have loved Blue Moon ever since I was a kid, it is my absolute favorite ice cream. Outside of Michigan, no one I know has heard of it. I agree that the best Blue Moon is at Jones’ in Baldwin. We used to go up to Baldwin almost every weekend in the summer, and my dad always said “You can’t go to Baldwin without stopping at Jones'”.
I don’t know if it is any good or not, but here is a link to a Blue Moon Sampler you can order. Oh, if only I had the money for it!!
http://www.wisconsinmade.com/wiscmade/product.asp?dept%5Fid=26&pf%5Fid=2159
I have been craving the real Blue Moon since 60’s/70’s childhood visits to my grandmother’s house near Ludington, MI where we too ate at the House of Flavors. We also used to stop at a corner bus stop ice cream shop in Grand Haven MI, which was on the way to and from northern IL where I grew up. It was a ritual stop that was never missed! Blue Moon was the only flavor I’d eat back then. Here in northern IL, I hadn’t been able to find the same flavor, but I’ll have to check out the shop in Gurnee, IL. The ones from Meijer’s and Schoep’s just aren’t quite the same to me. I’d sure love to see the flavor move into the mainstream in our local grocers so I could have it all the time, no matter where we move!
Hi My name is Jon i was wondering in Kalamazoo MI where i could buy Bluemoon ice cream or the name of some stores i could buy it at? i have searched a lot of stores and cant find it and its very hard enough for me to find it.
I am a former Wisconsinite, transplanted to Illinois, and I now live in Minnesota. I grew up with and LOVE LOVE LOVE everything about Blue Moon Ice Cream!
For those that are interested…I was once told by the proprietor of the (now-closed?) Strand Cafe in Lemont, IL that the mysterious flavor of Blue Moon is actually cardamom. The Strand featured Blue Moon and it was fantastic but I don’t remember if it was handmade or not. He claimed that Blue Moon was dreamed up and enjoyed by Scandanavian immigrants to northern Wisconsin. Apparently, cardamom is used in a lot of Scandanavian baking – sweets and such – and these folks were looking for an ice cream vehicle for the flavor they loved in their baked treats. He said this explained the extreme regional character of the ice cream…it only travelled so far as the immigrant populations travelled. Most people outside of Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan, and northern Illinois have never even heard of Blue Moon.
I was suspicious of this story for over a decade until I went to the Blueberry Festival in Ely, MN. I bought a dry packet of spices that you combined with a few other ingredients to make a cold Blueberry Cardamom Soup. The packet identified it as a Scandanavian delicacy. I made up a batch of the soup a few weeks later and I couldn’t believe how much it tasted like Blue Moon Ice Cream! Not an exact match you understand…but close enough that you noticed the similarity.
So maybe the guy was right and Blue Moon really is some sort of Scandinavian fruit(blueberry?) and cardamom ice cream concoction. It’s incredibly good and addictive and I encourage the uninitiated to seek it out. It’s so unique…my favorite ice cream far and away.
The Kemps Ice Cream stand in Camp Snoopy at the Mall of America sometimes carries Blue Moon if you should happen to find yourself there.
I am from Iron Mountain, Michigan in the Upper Peninsula. Every summer we would get hard packed blue moon at the ice cream place on US-2. In the winter, yes winter, they had *soft serve* blue moon once a week in the junior high cafeteria.
In college at Northern Michigan University they also had soft-serve blue moon. I can remember often trudgeing through the snow in both junior high and college eating blue moon ice cream. In retrospect it seams kind of crazy eating blue ice cream in the middle of shoulder high snow.
Far more people got blue moon then chocolate. I am not sure but I think the college might even have had a machine dedicated to just that flavor every day.
People have described it as froot loops, but for the life of me I don’t think it tasted like anything. It didn’t taste like fruit, candy or anything I remember. I just thought it was the way blue was suppose to taste like. And I miss it.
Growing up in MI after little legue games we all piled into the station wagon and drove to Miller Brothers, aka The Big Red Barn, to have the infamous “Blue Moon” ice cream cone. All the while in High School Miller Bro’s was on the corner and famous for its packed house at lunch time. Now the last Miller Bro’s still stands on Dickenson and S. River Rd. in downtown Mt. Clemens, MI. 44 yrs old and everytime I go back home a blue moon ice cream cone from Miller Bro’s. is a requirement. I always thought it was a pineapple flavor.
BLUE MOON!!!!!!!! My sis flew in from Vegas and we are going to drive an hour and a half to Coral Springs Florida because someone says that Kilwins Ice cream shop has Blue Moon. We are from MI, and LOVED the stuff! Haven’t had it in almost 30 years! Hate to break it to some of you – but there is no pineapple in Blue Moon!!! Maybe there are two different kinds of ice cream named blue moon, but the one I remember has nothing to do with fruit – only a creamy sugary flavor. Can’t wait till tomorrow – hope it is the same as when we were kids! I will let you Floridians know tomorrow!
~~~~Blue Mooooon you saw me standing alone
~~~~without a cup in my hand
~~~~without a cone of my own
OK so my sister and I ventured to Kilwin’s in Coral Springs, FL today to find our beloved Blue Moon Ice Cream and…..
It was there!!! and it was perfect!!!!
No pineapple, fruitloopy, cherry flavor
Just
Rich, creamy, custardy, blue cloudy goodness!!!
So now I can sing
~~~~ Blue Mooooonnnnnn
~~~~ Now I’m no longer alone
~~~~ I have a cup in my hand
~~~~ I have a cone all my own
~~~~Blue Mooooon you saw me standing alone
~~~~without a cup in my hand
~~~~without a cone of my own
OK so my sister and I ventured to Kilwin’s in Coral Springs, FL today to find our beloved Blue Moon Ice Cream and…..
It was there!!! and it was perfect!!!!
Rich, creamy, blue cloudy goodness!!!
So now I can sing
~~~~ Blue Mooooonnnnnn
~~~~ Now I’m no longer alone
~~~~ I have a cup in my hand
~~~~ I have a cone all my own
I used to live in Harper Woods, MI and I used to buy Blue Moon ice cream by Melody Farms all the time. I can’t find it at the Meijer in Ann Arbor on Carpenter Road. Where are you finding it?
Can someone, anyone, please help me find Blue Moon ice cream! It’s the only ice cream I desire.
Thanks.
Can someone, anyone, please help me find Blue Moon ice cream! It’s the only ice cream I desire. I live in Ann Arbor, MI.