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8 Key Locations To Unlocking the Best Ice Cream In Connecticut

Ice cream is a food group in the summertime and don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

Gina Salvatore

Jul 09, 2018

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8 Key Locations To Unlocking the Best Ice Cream In Connecticut

Gina Salvatore

Main Street Creamery- Wethersfield, CT

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The Main Street Creamery is located in the historic section of Wethersfield and is a dream come true for ice cream lovers. Offering a plethora of flavors including dairy free and gluten free, you are bound to find something you will fall in love with! They also offer a monster sundae that has 12 scoops of ice cream, 6 toppings along with cookies and brownies! Find some friends and dig in!

UConn Dairy Bar- Storrs, CT

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This ice cream really is as local as it gets! As you park your car and look out to the fields right next to the Dairy Bar you will see the cows that help make this ice cream! Yes, you read that right, the UConn cows provide the milk for this ice cream! Made right on campus this rice, creamy ice cream comes in a variety of flavors. Each month the Dairy Bar has a sundae of the month and you'd be silly not to test it out!

Gumdrops and Lollipops- Niantic, CT

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If you're looking to travel back in time to the 50's this adorable Niantic ice cream shop is for you! Offering about 20 flavors of hard and soft ice cream with lots of delicious toppings to choose from! They also have a variety of sweet treats including cupcakes and candies to snack on as well!

Buttonwood Farms- Griswold, CT

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Ice cream next to a beautiful sunflower field?! Sign me up! With homemade ice cream that can't be beat, grab yourself a scoop of sunflower ice cream or even graham cracker!

Dunkin Donuts Park- Hartford, CT

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If you're looking for the All-American experience then head to Dunkin Donuts Park in Hartford to catch a Yard Goats game! Finish off your hamburger or pulled pork dinner with ice cream in the classic Yard Goats hat!

Milkcraft- West Hartford & Fairfield, CT

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Ice cream made with liquid nitrogen makes for the creamiest ice cream you'll find and pair it with a bubble cone or in-between a warm glazed donut and you'll have a sugar high for days!

Rich Farm- Oxford, CT

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Rich Farm has some of the most fun flavors around! From Cookie Monster to Razzmanian Devil there is something for everyone on this menu!

Mystic Drawbridge Ice Cream- Mystic, CT

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This adorable ice cream shop in the heart of downtown Mystic is right next to the historic drawbridge and if you are lucky enough you can watch it go up to let the boats through while you are enjoying a sweet treat! They have a variety of hard packed ice cream, milkshakes, smoothies and other sweet treats to get you through the summer heat, including this Mystic Mud with brownie chunks, chocolate candies and chocolate chunks!

Anticipating The End Of Your First Semester, As Told By April Ludgate

"I don't want to do things. I want to not do things."

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Everyone who is in college right now, or has ever been, knows the struggle of pulling in the strings at the last second. It seems impossible, and you have to do a LOT of things in order to assure your future for the next semester.

April Ludgate, historically, is a very annoyed person, and she doesn't hide it. Of all the times that I binged and re-binged "Parks and Rec," her attitude relates more and more to me.

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To The Cheerful Person On Their Rainy Days, You Are Valid

The world is not always sunshine and rainbows, and you do not have to be, either.

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Ask friends of mine to name a quality about me, and one a lot them will point out the fact that I am almost always smiling. I like to laugh and smile -- not to quote Buddy the Elf in April, but smiling is my favorite! It is probably my favorite go-to expression. However, what a lot of people do not see is that I have my down days. I have days when smiling and laughing is a real struggle, or when I have so much on my plate that going out of my way to behappy takes more effort than I have stored in me. Be it a symptom of college and growing up or a facet of life, I cannot always be content.

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8 Key Locations To Unlocking the Best Ice Cream In Connecticut

Ice cream is a food group in the summertime and don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

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Main Street Creamery- Wethersfield, CT

UConn Dairy Bar- Storrs, CT

Gumdrops and Lollipops- Niantic, CT

Buttonwood Farms- Griswold, CT

Dunkin Donuts Park- Hartford, CT

Milkcraft- West Hartford & Fairfield, CT

Rich Farm- Oxford, CT

Mystic Drawbridge Ice Cream- Mystic, CT

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"I don't want to do things. I want to not do things."

1. When you look at the syllabus and realize there are only three weeks of the semester left; even though the first day was LITERALLY yesterday.

2. You look at your grades and realize they probably aren't as high as they should be, which is a terrifying realization.

3. When you think to yourself at night, "tomorrow, I will wake up early and go to the library ALL day, and, hell, maybe after I'll go to the gym for a little bit, just to push myself that extra mile."

4. Tomorrow actually comes. The inevitable and overpowering sense of procrastination is too strong to overcome.

5. But you DO end up going to the library. Not all day though, but still, a while. But no, you do not go to the gym. Still, you made an effort, so you decide to treat yo' self.

6. When you realize you need to schedule a meeting with your adviser because you need to sign up for classes next semester. But you also realize that since you waited until the last minute, you're going to get stuck with all of the crappy classes.

7. When you low-key try to slip into conversation with your professors that you need extra credit because you're that desperate.

8. When it's already the third time you've seen your adviser in two days because you have no damn clue what you're doing and need all the help you can get.

9. When you apply for a job associated with your major even though you have no experience, but you just want to dive headfirst into the deep end of adulthood and get it over with.

The world is not always sunshine and rainbows, and you do not have to be, either.

It would be so much easier to just pay someone to do it for you

1. Figuring out when to start

2. Searching through list after list to get everything you need

3. Shopping for deals

4. Getting bins to put everything in

5. Figuring what you can’t live without

6. Going through clothes to find what you need

7. Finding out your siblings took something from you

8. Fighting with your parents.

9. Trying to plan things with your roommate

10. The fear of forgetting something

11. Move in day

Relatable moments from one of the best shows I have ever watched.

1. When you fail that midterm you studied so hard for.

2. When your crush finally texts back.

3. When payday comes around.

4. When you accidentally like someone's picture from 108 weeks ago.

5. When someone takes your unassigned assigned seat.

6. When your favorite character in your favorite TV series dies.

7. When that guy/girl you’ve been crushing on agrees to go on a date with you.

8. When you have so much to do, and such little motivation to do it.

9. When someone asks for your last fry.

10. When you try a new health-food craze.

11. When you get new clothing.

12. When you check your bank account.

13. When they're serving good food in the dining hall.

14. When someone tries to tell you what to do.

15. Or just your thoughts about life in general.

We all have that "I don't care" attitude.

1. Most students just take life day by day.

2. That means procrastinating, one day at a time.

3. College students don't mind dressing like crap sometimes.

4. In fact, dressing nice feels weird.

5. College students get so stressed that they contemplate dropping on a daily basis.

6. But most find another solution to deal with that stress.

7. And that solution can be pretty cheap. Anything over $5 is expensive.

8. One of the only things college students will spend money on is coffee.

9. College is just really expensive and you never forget how expensive it is.

10. But hey, we're getting a somewhat high-quality education, right?

11. We all really just want to pet dogs all day.

12. And eat pizza for every meal.

13. And stab the next person who asks us what we want to do with our life.

14. However, despite the stress and student loans, college is amazing and there's plenty of reasons to smile.

Thank you, April, for inspiring us with your wicked relatability.

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