NOTE: Our request for ice cream bloggers was so well received that all of the topics below were taken within 12 hours!! The response was so great that we decided to cover some topics twice so we could add a few more writers to the “payroll.” As of now, all of our writing positions have been filled, but our reader positions are always open! If you weren’t chosen to be a writer, remember that we’ll choose five comments at the end of July to receive a one month supply of Turkey Hill ice cream. Good luck!!!
July is right around the corner, which can only mean one thing – National Ice Cream Month! Each year on the Ice Cream Journal, we try to do something different to celebrate the greatest month of the year and this year we’ve decided to try something we’ve never done before.
We’ve decided to turn the blog over to the people who make it all worth while – OUR READERS – and let you do the writing. After all, everyone here at Turkey Hill loves reading all the comments you leave, so we’re pretty sure we’ll love to read the blog entries you create.
Here’s how it will work. Listed at the bottom of this entry are 14 topics for blog entries. If you’d like to write one, send an e-mail to icecreamjournal@gmail.com. Let us know which topic you’d like to write about, as well as two other topics you’d like to cover (just in case the topic you chose is already taken). After that, we’ll talk to you about how long the entry should be or answer any specific questions you might have.
Of course, you’ll be paid for becoming an official Turkey Hill blog writer. Each of our 14 blog entry writers will receive a one-month supply of Turkey Hill ice cream! And to reward our loyal readers and commenters, we’ll also give away FIVE one month supplies of ice cream to five commenters chosen at random from all the comments left on the Ice Cream Journal in July.
Below are the topics we’d like you to write about. Let us know with an e-mail to icecreamjournal@gmail.com which entry you’d like to write about (also make two backup choices). But hurry… these jobs won’t last long!
ENTRY #1
What’s your earliest ice cream memory or fondest ice cream memory from childhood? Describe that memory in detail. (Who was there, what ice cream did you eat, what were you doing, when was it?)
ENTRY #2
Which is better: chocolate ice cream or vanilla ice cream? Describe why you support one flavor over the other.
ENTRY #3
If you could only eat three flavors of ice cream for the rest of your life, which ones would you choose and why?
ENTRY #4
What makes Turkey Hill ice cream better than other brands of ice cream?
ENTRY #5
If you could have Ernie’s job for a day and were allowed to invent one new flavor of Turkey Hill ice cream, which flavor would you create? What would you name the flavor?
ENTRY #6
Write a poem about enjoying ice cream on a hot summer day.
ENTRY #7
What are your ice cream pet peeves? (Things friends or family members do with ice cream that bothers you.) What do you do (or what would you like to do) to stop them from doing those things?
ENTRY #8
If you could give five people in the world a free ice cream cone right now, who would you give one to and why?
ENTRY #9
Write an ode to Turkey Hill using the letters in “TURKEY HILL.” (Example: “T is for “tasty” because that’s what Turkey Hill’s ice cream is! U is for…”)
ENTRY #10
Instead of a lemonade stand, you decide to help raise money for charity by opening an ice cream stand in your community. What charity would you donate your proceeds to and why? What five flavors of ice cream would you sell? How would you promote your ice cream stand?
ENTRY #11
If Turkey Hill had a mascot (besides the Giant Cows), what would that mascot be? What would its name be? What would its personality be like?
ENTRY #12
From A to Z, write one or two words for each letter of the alphabet to describe ice cream. (Example: “A = Awesome, B = Big scoop, etc.”)
ENTRY #13
Write a 10 question interview for Turkey Hill’s “Einstein of Ice Cream,” Ernie Pinckney. (Ernie will answer the questions.)
ENTRY #14
Find the best looking photo of ice cream on the internet (include the photo or a link to it in your entry) and describe what makes the photo so tasty.
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If you’ve got a technical question about the ice cream making process or some other inquiry about the nuances of America’s favorite treat, chances are Ernie has the answer. He might not be able to answer all questions, but he’ll try his best and some may be featured on the Ice Cream Journal.
FYI, THERE IS A TYPO IN ENTRY #8. YOU WROTE “COME” INSTEAD OF “CONE”. SEE BELOW. THANKS!
ENTRY #8
If you could give five people in the world a free ice cream come right now, who would you give one to and why?
Good catch, Neil! We fixed it. You’re a good editor… would you like to be one of our writers?
I could take #2 or #9.
gee’s neil,u gonna be the spelling blogger….i’ll turn my spellcheck off…lol
Turkey Hill has the best ice cream of all the other makers combined. I have been eating ice cream for as long as i can rembember . I am now 73 years old so that is a lot of icecream. I started with Bryers because we lived near the plant in Phila. but switched to Turkey Hill once i tasted it . Jim Sweeney
entry # 1 #3 or # 4
entry # 1 # 3 # 4
I would choose #9..”ode to Turkey Hill,& #10 raising money for charity,using an icecream concession stand.
I’d really like to take a whirl with Entry # 12.
I am looking forward to launching a new career on the T.H. Blog, and hope I am selected for number 12.
So far the response has been great! 10 of the 14 topics have been claimed and we’re still looking for writers for topics 4, 8, 11 and 14!
Entries 3 and 4 sound good!
I would like to blog about entry #5 or entry #10
#8 0r #11
Gee, I’m not sure if you received my post; just to be sure, I’ll offer to take whatever topic has yet to be taken.
Am I easy or what?
Agreeable, pleasant, friendly, willing to please…..all componants of a Turkey Hill Ice Cream personality.
Ginni Stadler
Are there any blogs still available- I’d blog about anything related to Turkey hill Ice Cream.
hard to pick , I like all of them
I love your ice cream!
1, 6 and 8 would be great, but they all sound like fun!
YEAH! I am blogging about question #8!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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What a great idea! Sounds like a fun month ahead! Happy writing all!
I am having a hard time deciding on which blog I would write about. They are all great! I will have to think long and hard about these questions. So far my favoite would be 3, 8 and 10.
Looking forward to the blogs.
I look forward to participating in this great event. This is a great idea
Let’s go bloggers!!
I would like to write about #14 or #11. They sound like interesting topics. This blogging was such a great idea.
I would be honored to write on any of the topics—-especially, # 6,9,11,12
chocolate always
chocolate and soetimes i can’t read the code
chocolate can’t read code fix it
My very fondest memories of ice cream was every weekend we would go to visit my great-great grandmother – Her favorite ice cream to buy was Turkey Hill Vanilla Bean….I use to think she had the best ice cream and she was the only one that could make a ice cream cone taste so good, As soon as we arrived she would get out the ice cream scoop and start scooping. First she’d place the hershey’s chocolate syrup in the bottom of the cone then layer with turkey hill vanilla bean and then hershey’s syrup and so forth until I ended up with the biggest badest ice cream around
We would all just sit on the porch swing and watch the garden grow….I sure love those memories, now she just celebrated her 90th birthday and now that I am 28 I still find Turkey Hill Ice Cream in the freeze yet now she doesn’t make me a ice cream cone but the memories are still there !
I would love to take 8, 11 or 14. What a wonderful idea …way to go Turkey Hill.
I’ll read (and eat!); you write!
There were some interesting and some hard items on the list. My fondest ice cream memory as a child has to be that I had to go to see the doctor quite often because of a burn on my back from a car muffler, I was hit by a car when I was 4. Anyway we would always stop at an ice cream parlor on the way home. I loved that.
As for who would I give Ice cream, (Item #8), I guess first would be Osama Bin Ladin. As the number one American hater in the world, maybe the offer to sit down and enjoy a Turkey Hill ice cream cone would change his mind that we are not that bad. Next would probably be the leader of Iran, I do not want to attempt to try and spell his name. It is pretty much the same story. Could a people who would give you something sooooo good and tasty to enjoy with them be that horrible? Next the North Korean leader, then the head of the PLO and finally the president of the USA. If they all were sitting around eating Turkey Hill, may be that would be the start of Ice Cream Diplomacy.
Entry #3 is easy – Mint Chocolate Chip, Mint Chocolate Chip, Mint Chocolate Chip.
So bummed I missed out on the blogging, but am excited to read some user writings and would love to win a prize this month. I love Turkey Hill!
sure wish I could have gotten in soon enough to be chosen to blog about the great topics but guess that gives me more time to eat ice cream! So there is always a bright side – even when you lose.
Thanks for the offer Turkey Hill! I appreciate it but I’m a lousy writer. Since your request for ice cream bloggers was so well received… well let’s just say that I’ll leave the writing to the experts. Thanks again!
Neil P. Linden
That is a great offer. Too bad I was too late to apply. Oh, Well. I will just have to continue to eat my TH ice cream and enjoy each bite.
Too bad I was a day late. I’m still willing to try some more Turkey Hill Ice Cream, though.
maybe next time
Oh well, I missed it too. Maybe next time. We LOVE Turkey Hill Ice Cream cakes here. Due to his egg allergy, my son can’t eat Carvel ones, so it was quite exciting to find ones he could eat!
Sue the Bargain Hunter
suebh.blogspot.com
Looking forward to the next time and hopefully I can be a part of that group. Okay, now I have to go and eat my bowl of Turkey Hill banana split ice cream !!
Well, I have to say that I am a new convert to Turkey Hill ice cream, I love the peach ice tea, but was unaware of the perfection that existed. I found Nutty Neopolitan the other day at our local grocery store.(Dillons) It was love at first bite! My favorite thing about the flavor is that there is NO STRAWBERRY!! Any wise person knows that fruit and chocolate just don’t go together;) Anyway, the Vanilla Bean flavor in the trio tastes just like my grandma’s homemade vanilla, the Chocolate is rich and decadent at the same time being creamy, the Buttered Almond was the perfect marriage of crunchy and sweet. Thanks for creating such splendidness!!
It was my 6th birthday. My parents took the family and a few of my little friends up to Morrow Mountain in NC. Daddy brought the homemade icecream crank, where you added the salt and ice and cranked forever
It was vanilla ice cream, and it tasted so good, with the hotdogs and sodas.
Hey guys, I just wanted to say this was a super-fun, fantastic idea. Sorry I didn’t see it before today
I would have thrown my name in the hat, too. I love to write and I love ice cream… perfect combination!
Will settle for just reading this time.
Sorry I missed this deal, that’s what I get for going on vacation. I could write a good poem. Next time, I hope
#9 TURKEY HILL Ice cream
T-Terriffic because Turkey Hill ice cream is terrific eating anytime.
U-Utterly wonderful in flavor and texture in Turkey Hill ice cream.
R-Reality because Turkey Hill is the reality of real taste in ice cream.
K-Knowing- is knowing that you are eating the best Ice cream and frozen yogurt anywhere.
E-Excellent is for the excellent staff who work so hard to create Turkey Hill’s wonderful and delicious flavors.
Y-Yummy is for when I eat Turkey Hill’s Southern Lemon Pie frozen Yogurt, my taste buds say “Yummy!
H-Hungry and Happy is for when I come in from a busy hot day, I am hungry and Happy to sit down and eat large serving of Turkey Hill ice cream.
I-Ice Cream because what is Ice Cream unless it is Turkey Hill.
L-Looking because I am Looking forward to eating and savorying more of Turkey Hill Frozen desserts.
L-Lyrical because Turkey Hill frozen desserts makes me so Lyrical when I am eating my Turkey Hill desserts. (humming, patting my feet, and rocking side by side; yum, yum, yum!)
Too late for me to enter but not too late to eat some Turkey Hill Ice Cream!
Hi,
I am responding to my earliest recollection of ice cream, question #1. I never blogged before, so I hope that this is acceptable.
When I was a little girl back in the forties, we lived in what was then a rural area with farmland. There were no large grocery stores around, but there was a small family owned store where my parents shopped, and right inside the window,we could see where they made ice cream cones. The father who was much older, or so he appeared to me prepared very little ice cream cones, but his son made them bigger. When my big brother was home, he would take me to the store, and we would wait outside until the father was busy, then rush in to buy our ice cream from the son. Money was tight then, so we got the most we could from our quarter. White house was a favorite then, of course, there weren’t much of a variety then, not like the wonderful varieties there are from Turkey Hill. My Father always taught us the phrase back then: “You scream, I scream, we all scream for ICE CREAM. That little store is long gone, but not forgotten.
Sorry I won’t be writing – looking forward to reading the entries in July, though!
blogging take to much time away from eating TH ice cream
This Blog. is in reply to entry # 6 about a poem on a hot summer day.
You all heard the one you scream I scream.
But we that are over the hill can’t scream, so we have our own saying.
We who are over the hill settle for only the best and of coarse that is TURKEY HILL
Congrats to all the bloggers picked
PET PEEVES # 7
1. Stop leaving the left over residuals of melted ice cream in the bowl in the sink…I like to think everyone finishes their ice cream cones. STOP IT – I will post a sign over the sink, finish it or you won’t get anymore!
2. Ice Cream Cone Stand off – Do not lick my ice cream cone! If you want to try my flavor of Ice Cream, buy your own Turkey Hill.
Stop it – Run away…run far away keeping my ice cream intact of course!
3. Topple Over Syndrome – Do not place too many schoops on top of your cone, it may fall over and that is wasting valuable tasty ice cream. Stop it- I will invite an ice cream ruler, based on age, height and motor skills to determine the level of scoops people can handle
4. Do not over junk your Sundae..Turkey Hill is great alone, you do not need all of those other thousands of toppings to cover up the tasty flavor of Turkey Hill. Stop it – I will invite a clip to put on a side of a bowl that flashes when there is too much overload
#4 Just hearing the words Turkey Hill is a serene feeling. I’m sure it’s the background of the Turkey Hill family, so loving and caring. They put their love in their ice cream, so creamy and tasty, and there iced teas, full of flavor, you can feel it, and taste it. When visiting Lancaster County you can’t help but feel all good inside, just like eating Turkey Hill ice cream. You know you can trust them when they tell you what is in their ice cream. When I’m shopping and I see the Turkey Hill containers, I know its a small part of Lancaster and that makes me feel at home, the feeling I got when I was a little girl and got a bowl of ice cream, it was special.
#6 Oh the sweltering heat, it sure would be neat to have an ice cold Turkey Hill treat of chocolate ice cream or pomegranite iced tea, there is no better you see. It cools you, soothes you, and makes you dream of floating in a cool stream.
So here I relax and enjoy my Turkey Hill treat, which makes me chill right down to me feet!
#6
How do I lick thee? Let me count the ways..
How do I lick thee? Let me count the ways.
I lick thee to the depth, and breadth and height
My tongue can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the peaks and valleys of sweetest taste.
I lick thee to the level of emptied
Cone, or plate, or bowl, slurped scoop or spoon,
By summer’s dazzling heat, or silvery moon.
I lick thee with a passion that’s tempted
Every time a favorite flavor’s thought.
I lick thee with a love I can’t deny
No matter other desserts I have sought.
There are no brands on which one can rely,
Whether sampled, served at parties, or bought,
‘Cept Turkey Hill, the only one to buy.
We owned a Carvel Store many years ago. I always thought we had the best ice cream, that was until we tasted Turkey Hill !! So creamy and delicious we felt like we made it ourselves. Thanks for the memories!
I used to buy our birthday cakes at Carvel. Now that Turkey Hill ice cream cakes are sold in the supermarkets I purchase them. They are awesome! Better than Carvel and the kids can’t wait to blow out the candles so they can get their ice cream.
I have family in Florida and they still have to buy Carvel. Whenever there is a new flavor of Turkey Hill in the market I just have to call and tell them. It’s time for Turket Hill to go to Florida! They really miss getting Turket Hill ice cream.
I was attempting to get ice cream for our Sunday night ice cream fellowship time, and went to Price Rite, Walmart, and then on to our newly opened Shoprite which replaced Shaws which recently left the state of CT. I was shopping for large tubs of ice cream, and thought, I’ll check the Turkey Hill selection. I was thrilled to find that they had my absolutely favorite TH selection, Rocky Road so I promptly bought four of them. Although most of the stores in the area stock Turkey Hill, for some reason — I have contacted Turkey Hill as well as frozen food managers, they don’t seem to be able to get this. When I arrived home, my wife asked me… is it that different from Breyers, Edy’s, etc. and I replied… yes it is!! A happy purchaser of Turkey Hill, Rocky Road ice cream, hoping that Shop Rite will continue to stock it!!!!
My 3 flavors , I would eat for the rest of my life would be
1)Phillies Graham Slam
2)Eagles Touchdown Sundae
3)Fried Ice Cream(or Double Dunker, but I havn’t gotten to try it yet, so I don’t know, but it sounds delicious, & it’s Tukey Hill of course, so U know it’s gotta be good)
I’d choose these 3 cause they are the most awesome Hometown Turkey Hill flavors, & they represent 2 our Great hometown Teams.
#3 Could have been Flyers the Puck Stops here(vanillaICE w/cherry filled hockey pucks,& choc. coverd pretzel sticks, but they havn’t made it,
yet……)
God, I love Turkey Hill
I remember loving ice cream in the 40′s- 50′s that had the creamiest ice
cream. Turkey Hill reminds me of that ice cream I bought the coconut almond fudge
and loved it so much, I told all my coworkers about it. If you like Almond Joy candy
this is the ice cream for you. It is a candy bar in ice cream form.
I remember in college when I was a Penn State student living on campus @ University Park, we would stand in lines that went out the door to buy a delicious ice cream cone from our very own University Creamery (for those non-alums – Pennsylvania State University was Pennsylvania State College before that and was Pennsylvania Agricultural College even before that so Agricultural Sciences was & is what the college is known for across the country…they raise their own cows for this purpose so that’s why the freshest milk is used to make the ice cream, including “Joe Paterno Peach”, which is real “peachy”!). Well, standing in long lines for a cone doesn’t sound THAT strange on a hot day, but this was in FEBRUARY, the dead of winter, & we could SEE our breath as we licked the CONE!!!
ALSO – question for you – is Turkey Hill a real place? Are there turkeys roaming around? Did you ever consider making turkey- or cranberry-flavoured ice cream? (I don’t think this would be a very good idea either!)
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Thanks! it is useful to me!…
i am from pa i moved 6 years ago love turkey hill ice cream seen on tv turkey hill ice tea want to know were to get turkey hill ice cream its the best ever i live in daytona beach hope it is close to me love it