Mint Chip

This summer I have one goal. If I achieve this one thing, I will be satisfied that the summer was not wasted. I am going to try every flavor of ice cream Eddie's Sweet Shop, which is about a 30 minute walk from my home in Forest Hills, makes. I will push my borrowed Graco tank-stroller to Metropolitan Avenue 18 times this summer, come blazing heat, summer thunderstorms, biting insects.

I know, 18? That's hardly a challenge. But it'll be fun. I started at the top of the list and will work my way down so all I have to keep track of is what I had last (plus the store's hours; I've already trekked there twice only to find they're closed on Mondays and before 1).

This visit I had mint chip, mint ice cream with chocolate chips, a good classic flavor combo. The ice cream was bright neon green (none of that classy white mint ice cream at Eddie's) and had brittle (from being frozen) mini chips. Good mint flavor but not Altoids-painful, and not at odds with the creaminess of Eddie's ice cream. They serve their scoops, which are $2.25 for a single, in those metal ice cream cups that make the ice cream seem even colder, especially since I'm usually melting from the walk there.