So Saturday we happened to arrive at Eddie's just as last year's ice cream eating champion was out-eating the competition yet again. Last year he ate five pounds of ice cream; I didn't catch the tally this year.

I did indulge in the next flavor on their list, coffee. I love coffee ice cream, but I'm still nursing so I've been avoiding caffeine. But coffee ice cream is one of those flavors that isn't too sweet, that has a nice edge to it, and Eddie's is a good, creamy specimen of this favored flavor. They also have coffee chip, which I'll have to try next.

One of the most impressive things at Eddie's are the huge bowls of freshly whipped cream that they pull out of the icebox when someone orders one of their big, messy sundaes. It's almost a perfect sphere, the round mound of whipped cream completing the circle of the colorful pyrex bowl.