Big Dipper Ice Cream Factory

"Kristen Mulcahy and Meghan Carmody offer waffle cones full of cotton candy ice cream and black raspberry, respectively. Nice people like this behind the counter are what make coming to the Big Dipper especially fun. It is a genuine old-fashioned community ice cream parlor, NOT a big corporation pretending to be people-friendly."
Michael Stern






"The plentiful hunks of chocolate chip in this ice cream are extraordinarily soft. As the ice cream melts on your tongue, so do they!"
Michael Stern



"In some ways, Big Dipper is a theme eatery, the theme being ice cream. In addition to serving it, the place is festooned with ice cream memorabilia, including these vintage dippers and the old metal cans in which milk used to be delivered from dairy farms."
Michael Stern



"Yes, the ice cream is manufactured here, however the ambience is anything but factory-like. A sweeter sweet shop, you won't find."
Michael Stern



"The Cowmobile was parked out back the day I visited. Inside, on the wall, among 100s of reviewers' raves, ice cream awards, and personal notes of thanks to the Big Dipper is a photo of a bunch of local kids all dressed in formal wear going to their Senior Prom ... in the Cowmobile!"
Michael Stern



"At the Big Dipper, you specify exactly how much ice cream you want and are charged by weight (the ice cream's, not yours). In this photo a cone with a scant scoop of chocolate mousse is being measured."
Michael Stern