The Men From the Boys
I actually almost love summer in New Orleans. I get strong, skinny and tan. I know, there are like only five of us who actually like sitting out on the porch, laughing at the fact that sweatballs are still rolling down your back in the middle of the night. I know it’s about summer when I am saying, ‘yeah, but the air is moving’. Which is many degrees more tolerable than when it is not. I decided it’s official because for the first time since the storm I heard the creepy ice cream truck going thru Louisville yesterday and I am pretty much doing two/three showers a day and for the hardcore folks. . . it’s ICEE season!
I noticed a UPS guy was sippin on one today.
The ICEE is not always an easy thing to find, as true ICEE consumers in the third world know. The Circle K near Henry Clay is a pretty good bet, then there was the Sleazy Serve on Prytania near Upperline, and the another only blocks from there by Touro on my regular circuit. And you gotta have a circuit cuz the damn machines are always broke or out of your flavor. I am strictly coke with a splash of cherry, so already my chances of success are greatly diminished. If you live off the island, then good luck to ya because with the price of gas and the driving from one E-Serve to the next, an ICEE is gonna run you about seven bucks.
I love summer here too. August is my favorite month… or it was, until the events of last August. That kind of soured me a little.
Not a big fan of the Icee, though. Nor ice cream. Nor anything frozen, really. Frozen things just interfere with my enjoyment of the summer heat.
I’m a sno-ball man, through and through.
Hansen’s sno bliz on Tchoup probably around 4700 block is the best – try the lemonade flavor and you’ll find true happiness.
In a pinch, I’ll do an Icee, coke only please, at the 7-11 store near Perlis on Magazine.
that’s “hardkore,” thank you very much.
And what do you think it is with those machines that makes them break so darn often?
Back in the 70s, the only place to get an Icee was at the Time Saver, but there was literally one on every corner.
The old wax paper cups used to have little coupons on them (1, 2, 3, or 4 coupons, depending on the size), and you could collect them and win something or other. We used to ride our bikes around Algiers looking for Icee cups in the gutter so that we could scavenge the coupons.
The nice thing about the Time Saver in high school was that you could buy a half pint of Jack Daniels to go with your coke Icee. Now THAT’s a tasty treat.
i haven’t had an icee in years and years. when i was 4 or 5, i drank one and got sick (for an unrelated reason…but it stuck with me) and my dad (mr. craig giesecke) didn’t to pull over so i puked on myself. i haven’t had one since.
i live in texas now…land of the 7-11 slurpee. icee’s are hard to come by…
I grew up consuming many Icees in Mississippi. I was strictly a Coca-Cola Icee person. I never cared to get any other flavor. It brings back many fond memories of summers.
I sure am gonna miss snowballs on Harison Ave. in Lakeview……….
Mixed icees are the best. Coke and Cherry. I was never able to save up enough coupons for that Icee Bear beach towel.
I spent last April-September in NO, and although I never had an ICEE, I had pleanty of 32oz hurricanes or other delicious combinations from Fat Tuesday’s. It is a dangerous thing to pick one up upon entering Riverwalk, you end up walking out of the mall $300 poorer but feeling great!