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News Articles: ice cream

Chocolate and vanilla swirl waffle cone from Big Softie in Summerhill. (Provided by Big Softie)

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  • Food

Soft serve ice cream in Atlanta: 5 places to get the best swirls

Regardless of whether you’re Team Carvel or Team Dairy Queen (or Team Zesto, if you’re an Atlantan,) check out these five ice cream and dessert shops around Atlanta serving stellar soft serve.

August 02, 2024
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  • Beth McKibben
Dickey Farms employees look at peaches on a conveyor belt at Dickey Farms on Wednesday, July 3, 2024, in Musella, Georgia. Dickey Farms is the oldest, continuously operating peach packinghouse in Georgia and offers tours and sells homemade goods and produce in their shop. KATIE TUCKER/THE TELEGRAPH

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  • News

127-year-old peach farm is 40 minutes from Macon. Ice cream motivates many to make the trip

Forty minutes west of Macon in Musella, there’s an open-air peach packaging building with muggy air, a slightly sweet smell and an abundance of local produce. Dickey Farms has been growing peaches for 127 years. The farm began in 1897 with the planting of its first peach trees by the great-great-grandfather of Lee Dickey, who is the farm’s current vice president.

July 10, 2024
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  • Ava Chatlosh

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  • Food

Custard shop that survived COVID and car crashes finds sweet success on Instagram

Jamal Jawad's shop was stymied when cars kept running into his business in Dearborn, Mich. But the entrepreneur persevered and he now has three stores and a partnership with the Detroit Pistons.

August 14, 2023
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  • Neda Ulaby
The SolDias ice cream stores in the Dallas-Fort Worth area noticed some customers were downsizing their orders this summer. The chain is exploring ways to cut costs to keep prices in reach.

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  • Economy

These are some of the ways inflation is changing Americans' spending habits

From Walmart to the neighborhood supermarket, retailers across the country are having to adjust as Americans watch their pennies in the face of high inflation.

August 21, 2022
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  • Scott Horsley
Sixteen out of the 17 flavors of Big Olaf ice cream samples tested came back positive for listeria, according to the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services.

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  • Business

Florida ice cream company Big Olaf recalls its products following a listeria outbreak

An outbreak in Big Olaf ice cream products that has sickened nearly two dozen people in 10 states forced the brand to recall all of its flavors and products, the Food and Drug Administration says.

July 16, 2022
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  • Shauneen Miranda
Limited-edition macaroni and cheese ice cream is now available while supplies last.

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  • Food

Mac & Cheese Is The Ice Cream You Never Thought You'd Need And Now It's Hard To Get

Macaroni & cheese ice cream is here, and not everyone thinks it's a good idea. "We are living in the last days," comedian Josh Pray says.

July 15, 2021
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  • Josie Fischels
With the U.S. Capitol as a backdrop, tourists wait in line to get ice cream from a food truck on the National Mall in Washington.

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  • Race

An Ice Cream Truck Jingle's Racist History Has Caught Up To It

Good Humor ice cream asked the Wu-Tang Clan's RZA to come up with a new jingle to replace "Turkey in the Straw," a ubiquitous ice-cream truck song with a racist past.

August 14, 2020
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  • Natalie Escobar

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