Carnation Ice Cream

I heard of Carnation Ice Cream and also seen it on Television when I was a kid in 1950's. I never seen it in a store when I was a kid in the 1950's. In fact, when I was a kid growing up in Michigan, I asked 2 owners of 2 Mom and Pop;s stores why they didn't carrried Carnation Ice Cream. They told me That Carnation Ice Cream was a local California Ice Cream. The only National Ice creams in my area were Sealtest and Borden's.

My guestions are;

Was it a National or Local Ice Cream brand.

Can You buy Carnation Ice Cream today?

You sure it wasn't Washington ???

Carnation Dairies in Carnation, Washington was independent many years ago ... the brand is now owned by Nestle and I doubt they use a drop of milk from the namesake town anymore. They do have research and training facilities in Carnation.

It wasn't just ice cream -- but the evaporated milk was (is) a mainstay of the brand.

They had Carnation brand of powdered Chocolate Malt flavoring too. Yum!

It seems to me that's the brand at Disneyland!

Carnation Egg Nog is the best!!

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Originally posted by Al-The Mayor-Bowen


They had Carnation brand of powdered Chocolate Malt flavoring too. Yum!

Oh Yes, they did! And it was very good!!!!!!!!

You can still buy Carnation Malted Milk powder.

I remember those chocolate malteds, we could buy them in the school cafeteria..so yummy.

Carnation ice cream is still available in Disneyland, but I haven't seen it anywhere else in So Cal in years and years.

My favorite ice cream sandwiches are Carnation brand. When I was a kid in So Cal in the 50's and 60's Carnation whole milk is the only brand I'd drink.

Does anyone know when Carnation or other Ice Cream Companies started selling packaged ice cream in Super Markets in Southen California? My wife says that you couldn't buy any pre-packaged ice cream in Super Markets until the 50s. The only kind you could buy had to be hand packed by an employee.

I remember Carnation ice cream when I was a kid in Beaumont, Texas in the 1950's. They had a store where you could sit at the bar and get ice cream and shakes and malts. It was a fun place to go for a kid.

I sometimes make my cooked custard ice creams with Carnation evaporated milk...

My Ice Cream Memory only reaches back to the early 1950's in SoCal. My folks would buy a quart of Foster Freeze for a Sunday treat now and then. The Save-On Drugs had an ice cream counter up front (like Thrifty Drugs did before "rite-aid"!). They served Carnation ice Cream. Single scoop for a nickel and double for a dime. English Toffee, Burgandy Cherry, or Peppermint stick were my favorites. I recall a chest freezer beside the 'cone scooping area' that was full of half-gallons of various flavor (factory packs). However in 1958 we had a Baskin Robins open up on Crenshaw at 138th St. The hand packed pints and quarts were in great demand. I do remember having a birthday party for which my mom got a 3 gallon tube of BR ice cream and my friends and I ate every bit of it ! At BR "Pink Grapefruit Ice" was my absolute favorite flavor ever !!

That's the very BR we'd drive down to from South Inglewood in the fifties and early sixties Al. What a small world. We were only 20 blocks north. I always ordered the pistachio or the peppermint stick. Nowadays it's the mocha coffee flavor and peanut butter chocolate, always in a bowl together. No more cones for me because I'm sporting something I couldn't manage to grow back in those long gone days..... a full beard.

I remember Carnation Ice Cream being in Phoenix, AZ, in the very early 1970's. My family moved there in 1971 when I was 4. You could buy half gallons in the stores, and also tour the Carnation factory. It was something you did on field trips in preschool or elementary school. The half gallons were cylindrical in shape, not rectangular boxes. Red and white colored.

As of 2003 I'd still be able buy Carnation ice cream sandwiches at Smart and Final warehouses in the big megapack for work.

Sounds like they were/are very much a west coast place. I remember their ice cream counter store in Fresno's Tower district very well. They were a bid deal through the 60's. I don't know anything about them now.

MikeS.

I grew up in the Bay Area and Carnation was one of the ice creams we ate. I think they had a plant in Oakland, but I'm not positive. I do remember in the town I grew up in (Fremont) there was a drive-up Carnation store.

You pulled up to the window and could buy ice cream and all your other dairy items, as well as liquor store type items like cigarettes and gum, etc.