Frosty treats



The COWS crew understands
the joys of frosty treats.



Back-to-school time signals a sigh of relief from parents who have been juggling their children between camps, temporary child-care and obliging grandparents. This time of year also brings overnight temperature dips.



By day the mercury climbs back to the mid- to high-20s, but brace your little piggies for nippy mornings. Please don’t step outside in bare feet to collect your newspaper, and you may want to rethink those open-toed shoes.

Yes, it’s time to bid farewell to our summer of warmth and indulgence: barbecue dinners, drinks on the patio and the best of all…frosty treats.

Beyond the obvious―frozen daiquiris and iced frappuccinos―we will polish off the tubs of ice cream and boxes of popsicles. We will conjure up the restraint required to resist buying the marked-down frozen treats that the neighbourhood grocery store is clearing out.  

Even if your freezer isn’t stocked, in Atlantic Canada, you don’t need to travel far to find a dairy bar. We sidle on up to order floats, cones, milkshakes, sundaes, slushies and other refreshing sweets. Soon those dairy bars will board up their windows, restaurant dessert menus will shift to apple crumbles and pumpkin pie. Even the shops that stay open all year long will pare back their business hours and carry limited stock.

As we face months of denial and renewed fitness regimes, at least we can cherish memories of plentiful, delicious frosty treats, for they were

     AWESOME!