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CBC
12 hours ago
- Business
- CBC
Meet the Grammy behind Shaw's best-selling ice cream flavour
Meet the Grammy behind Shaw's most popular ice cream flavour 6 minutes ago Duration 3:57 When it comes to ice cream flavours, it turns out Grammy knows best. Shaw's Ice Cream is a family business, so when it comes to their most popular flavour creation, the three sisters who run the company looked to their Grammy's cupboard for inspiration. "So growing up, we would always visit our Grammy, and she'd have her homemade chocolate chip cookies, homemade peanut butter cookies, and these little brownies in the cupboard," said Kelly Heleniak, co-owner of Shaw's Ice Cream. "We thought, 'Hey, what if we throw together all of these ideas, and we have a flavour called Grammy's Cupboard?'" The blend of vanilla ice cream, peanut butter ripple, cookie dough and brownie pieces is the company's top-selling flavour, all credited to Grammy's inspiration. "I can't believe it; I'm just amazed," said Dorthy McLaughlin, the 92-year-old known as Grammy to her 14 grandchildren and 27 great-grandchildren. "I'm happy to be in this role." McLaughlin said she will often check the freezer section in grocery stores to see if her flavour is in stock. "There was a young guy filling up the shelves with ice cream, and I said to him, "Have you ever tried Grammy's Cupboard?" And then I told him I was the Grammy, because I always say I'm the Grammy," she said. On another occasion, McLaughlin was at Shaw's shop at 100 Kellogg Lane and was asked to take a photo with a fan of the flavour. "Grammy turned 92 this year, so it keeps her days interesting," said Heleniak. "I picked her up the other day because the local grocery store in Tillsonburg is carrying her flavour and wanted to bring in mass quantities. They had a whole door full of Grammy's, and I got a picture of her in front of the door. We posted it on our social media, and it just really snowballed." Shaw's Ice Cream was established in 1948. Heleniak and her sisters Kim McCutchen and Kristine Hayes took over the business in 2001 at a time when it was struggling and turned it into what is now local scoop shops in London and St. Thomas, a production facility in Tillsonburg, and ice cream that can be found in major grocery stores across the country.
The Guardian
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Sorry, but there's nothing as tasty as fried bacon
Could Barbara Stewart-Knox explain how, by stopping buying or eating meat, I would not be 'compromising on flavour' (Letters, 23 May)? I certainly would not like to buy expensive, additive-filled plant-based meat alternatives – and nothing tastes quite like roast chicken or fried LavenderNottingham Elon Musk's recent absence from Trump world (Whatever happened to Elon Musk? Tech boss drifts to margins of Trump world, 25 May) provides us with the latest example of the proverb: 'If you are invited to dine with hyenas, beware; you are likely to end up as the last course.'Christopher HouseHertford In the interview with Alan Alda ('My mother didn't try to stab my father until I was six': Alan Alda on childhood, marriage and 60 years of stardom, G2, 26 May), his wife, Arlene, is reported as saying that the secret of a long marriage is 'a short memory'. When the author Olivia Harrison was asked the secret of a long marriage, she replied: 'You don't get divorced.'Margaret CoupeBuxton, Derbyshire Tim Gossling (Letters, 23 May) suggests painting an errant tortoise's postcode on its back so it can be returned home. My grandfather, a policeman, painted 'Police' on the back of his tortoise so it was delivered to the nearest police station when it AffordTeignmouth, Devon Paul Copas (Letters, 26 May) regrets Lucy Mangan's failure to use the semicolon in her Digested week column. She more than makes up for that in her review of the Jane Austen documentary (26 May): five semicolons in one HollowsHyde, Cheshire Have an opinion on anything you've read in the Guardian today? Please email us your letter and it will be considered for publication in our letters section.
