Time "Tasted" Comfort

Certain foods transport us back to childhood. Mom's recipe for spaghetti and meatballs or Grandma's nut roll cookies become more than just food � they comfort us and remind us of a time when our biggest worry was whether or not we would pass our math test tomorrow. For Emily, Strickland's Frozen Custard is the ultimate childhood comfort food. When Emily was six years old, her family moved away from Akron, Ohio. Even though they would miss their family and friends there, she and her two brothers protested most loudly, saying, but "no more Strickland's?!?" They tried to figure out ways to ship it to their new home in Indiana. Emily's mother bought an ice cream maker in a vain attempt to reproduce the flavor and consistency of Strickland's. They planned visits back to Akron during the summers, so they'd be sure to stock up on their favorite dessert before heading back home. Flash forward to 1994, when Emily met Rob. Before long, Rob revealed that his favorite dessert was vanilla ice cream (not "plain," but vanilla) and Emily told plenty of stories about Strickland's. For ten years, however, Rob was denied a taste of the cool treat. Finally, it was time to pull Murray into the Strickland's parking lot, and on a hot Midwestern summer day, (90 degrees, no less), Rob had his first cone of Strickland's Frozen Custard � vanilla, of course. As soon as he tasted it, Rob agreed that Em was right, Strickland's is the best frozen custard around. The bad news about Strickland's is that you can get it only in Ohio from May to October. The good news is that Ohio is less than a 40-hour drive from almost anywhere in the lower 48 states.

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