While visiting a friend in Boston, she asked how hungry I was. We had finished brunch a few hours earlier but it wasn’t dinner time yet. Then she said, “I could use an ice cream about now. How about you?” Music to my ears! There’s a reason we are friends!
We didn’t want to pay to take the car out of the parking lot and then go back in again. We asked a local what was nearby. She said “Nothing really. But you can get Scoop n Scootery on Uber Eats.” She was obviously a fellow ice-cream-aholic if she knew that much about ice cream in the area.
And so we looked them up on our phone and spent about 10 minutes figuring out the options and making decisions. They offer a variety of interesting sundaes that look like they would feed 4 or more people. And they had an offering called the “Hungry.” This involves multiple steps:
1. Pick your ice cream (you’re going to get 20 ounces but you can have up to 2 flavors)
2. Pick your “tunnel” (a cylinder-shaped piece of cake; you can pick up to 2) and
3. Pick your toppings (up to 5).
Being a purist, I just got the ice cream. Plus it was hard to imagine just how much 20 oz. Was going to be. A Ben and Jerry’s pint is 16 ounces. But are we talking fluid ounces or weight? The photos on the website didn’t help judge the size.
The local who helped us initially answered questions throughout this process. She reassured me that “Turtle” was just like the candy with gooey caramel and pecans plus chocolate so that’s what I ordered.
We met the Uber Eats deliverer downstairs. He arrived on an electric bike with a thick brown paper bag stapled at the top. We rushed upstairs and consumed our tasty treat.
The vanilla ice cream was super creamy and the other ingredients were as delicious as promised. I actually couldn’t eat the whole thing (a rare occurrence) and so we put the remainder in the freezer for my friend to enjoy later.
Today reinforced one of my travel mottos: “Ask the locals.”