Blue Bunny Ice Cream Parlor

115 Central Avenue NW, Le Mars, IA - (712) 546-4522

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Posted By Michael Stern on June 17, 2011 11:09 AM

In 1994, Le Mars was proclaimed the Ice Cream Capital of the World because Wells’ Dairy, makers of Blue Bunny brand ice cream, produces more ice cream than any other single company. Founded in 1913, Wells’ Dairy today boasts of being the largest family-owned dairy in the U.S. If you visit Le Mars, you can tour a new downtown museum and visitors center that features a facsimile of the ice cream production line and a video presentation that tells the whole history of ice cream from ancient times to the present.

If the video inspires appetite, we highly recommend a seat on a booth at the Blue Bunny Ice Cream Parlor, where you can enjoy cups full of Mocha Almond Fudge and Toffee Temptation as well as expertly-made chocolate sodas and sundaes.

Recently moved to a new downtown location, but still boasting its vintage marble bar and sundae sculpture, the ice cream parlor is now located in a building that started in 1875 as a hardware and agricultural tools company. The menu is huge, including cones and cups, malts and shakes, sundaes and sodas, floats and phosphates, banana splits and slices of ice cream cake. We are especially smitten with a sundae known as The Avalanche, a gloss on the classic turtle made with vanilla ice cream, hot chocolate syrup and hot caramel syrup, plus crumbled Oreo cookies and whipped cream.

The women who concoct these extravagant sweets are a super-friendly lot who seem genuinely to enjoy the looks of ecstasy that their work inspires. “It’s so much fun to work here,” one of them confided in us. “Ice cream is always such a happy thing.”

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Posted By Mimi Tenkate on April 29, 2011 11:58 PM

The thing to try here is a little something called the Raspberry Bon Petite, heaven in a fluted ice cream bowl. I do not need a menu here. This is what I order. What, exactly, is this wonder, you ask? Well, let me explain:
start at the bottom with a bit of key lime cream pie: unbelievable! Add two nice squares of chocolate-coated vanilla ice cream. Surround it all with real whipped cream and top it with raspberry syrup. Ah, can you taste it?

Figure in a very reasonable cost and old ice cream parlor atmosphere, and you will know why this place is a must stop during every Le Mars, Iowa visit!

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