A couple of days ago while driving home from Langley I spotted a van on 64th Avenue with Marble Slab Creamery on it advertising their ice cream. We wondered where they were. Wonder no more because in today's mail we got a coupon for their location which is in the new shopping plaza behind Wal-Mart on 24th Avenue and 160th Street. Almost across the parking lot from the Future Shop.
The coupons promoted were buy an ice cream cone and get the second one free. $3 off an ice cream cake. And buy a quart of ice cream at regular price and get the second one for half price.
We were in the area and went in to give it a try seeing as how its a nice sunny day. First thing is 4 people in line in front of us and only one clerk serving customers, so we waited several minutes to be served. I did see another women peeking out from the back room a couple of times. She finally came out to assist just as we were paying and getting ready to leave. By this time several customers were behind us, everyone taking advantage of the BOGO coupon on a nice day.
First off its kind of hard to figure this place out. They have a menu and they have prices but its difficult to figure out exactly how much an ice cream cone is. Basically you choose one of their concoctions which is ice cream mixed with other stuff like walnuts, strawberries, chocolate chips, marshmallows. Must be over 50 ingredients to be mixed in with the ice cream. The clerk scoops up ice cream, puts it on a scale to weigh it, and then returns to the marble slab to mix in the fixings, and puts it in a waffle cone. By now the ice cream is getting kind of soft and melting. I chose a Snickerdoodle - vanilla ice cream with Snickers and caramel. Kerry chose strawberries and cream. When all was said and done at the cash register the total was $6.77. And that's with a BOGO! Wowsers! $6.77 for 2 ice creams, I can see it, but to come in without a coupon and spend that much each on one ice cream cone - no way. The ice cream really isn't that great anyway.
About an hour later Kerry had a stomach ache.
The ice cream cakes were nearly $30 each. The quart of ice cream was $8.95. To buy 2 with the coupon would be nearly $14, comparable to buying Haagen Daz ice cream.
Bad idea to come here if you have nut allergies. The ingredients are mixed on a marble slab that is scraped down inbetween cones, but to my eye it would be plausible that some leftover ingredients from a previous ice cream order may still linger on the marble slab.
So, I'd say if you have a coupon for a BOGO head on in and try it. Otherwise skip this creamery. There are better ice cream places around.
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