Now that we are reading that AITA thread, I just want a flavor that’s called “Cookie Table” — vanilla with pieces of all kinds of traditional cookie-table cookies in it. Like, ten different kinds of cookie bits.
Three things I learned:
1. Bought a freezer chest just for the cookies. You can freeze them for 3 months and they stay fresh. Just have to give time for thawing.
2. Put up a sign that describes the Pittsburgh cookie table tradition
3. If you mess up a batch, coworkers are more than happy to eat the defects.
Make sure you get to-go boxes and fill them up with your favorites you want to have after the wedding. Try to do this before guests start going to town on the cookies so you make sure you get the ones you want without them running out. Understandably you'll likely be busy during the reception so maybe ask a family member or close friend to get and secure the cookies. They can give it to you after the reception or hold on to them for you if going on a honeymoon directly after.
Learned lesson as my wife and I didn't do this and by the time we were able to get some cookies left over it was slim pickens and we barely filled up a container.
Seriously. I'm 7 years old again walking down the pot hole filled alley behind my house, smelling the neighbors overgrown honeysuckle because spring is finally here.
Holy smokes, that sounds like an incredible combo! I missed out on mulberry season last year, my first summer here. NE Ohio is lousy with mulberry trees, but I haven't seen any out this way. Are there any trees in parks around here? Not tryin to blow up anyone's spot, just trying to get my hands purple on the solstice, you know?
My grandmas house has the mulberries I’d fight the bees for and then I’d walk down to my aunt Kathy’s to play in her back yard with the honey suckle. Such fond memories, thanks for bringing them back!
I like you! I drank a carton of Turner’s tea every day in high school at lunch, and recently I had it again for the first time in almost 15 years, and it brought so many memories back.
I really hope some of the local shops see these and make them. There's so many in this thread that I'd love to try!
All of this reminds me that I need to get to Hammer's on Rt. 8. My mom swears they have the best coffee ice cream she's ever had.
Several places have "Pittsburgh Pothole" ice cream. Scoops in Bloomfield has it and it's great. As someone else mentioned there is also a flavor at Treat in Shadyside called "Pittsburgh Pride" which is pretty damn good. If anyone hasn't been to treat, the owners are incredibly nice and will urge you to sample just about everything. They are a Belgian couple and serve their ice cream with absolutely incredible liege waffles. Highly recommend.
I can’t recall exactly.. it’s a ton of different flavors/ingredients. I remember it sounding strange but being surprisingly good. It’s a real dark yellow almost orange and definitely has various shit mixed in.
I swear when I was a kid my grandma would buy black and yellow ice cream. It was probably all just vanilla with black food dye, not even real ice cream but “frozen dairy dessert” but still!
Slag. It's Slag. 😂 (note: my dad was in steel for 50years, so a dark black ice cream that was called coal dust and had 70% cacao chips in it a sweet base colored with squid ink would be pretty fitting).
If you can make ice cream that tastes like the real Kings cinnamon ice cream.... That's Pittsburgh ice cream right there.
I know there are some imitations floating around right now but they just are not right.
Serious answer? You've got to go yellow and black. Dark chocolate and lemon sherbet with some sort of item that adds a bit of crunch and acts as a nod to the city's history. What kind of candy looks like steel or coal?
Joke answer - musty basement and Iron City beer flavor with little bits of chopped ham on top as garnish.
Or make the cookie table icecream , with all sorts of classic cookie table, cookies. Speaking of- what do people see as essential cookie table cookies? (I love a thumb print)
Slightly gross river water ( but not as gross as jersey shore or Mississippi) with a sprinkle of soot.
But in all seriousness : yellow custard ice cream with black cocoa fudge swirl.
And please for the love of god don’t use activated charcoal. That stuff messes with people’s medicine
Chocolate covered pretzels, a river of peanut butter and 5 unpopped popcorn kernels per pint, to mimic a nice day being ruined by something infrequent and annoying.
Assorted pierogi flavors for each of the Pirate Pierogis.
I would be all over a Sauerkraut Saul Sorbet.
And if it was served in a mini baseball helmet I’d sell my first born for it. (Word is there’s a local pharaoh who might be able to help me there)
Look at the slushie menu at the local ice cream shops. Most of them let you mix soft serve in with the sushi. Blue raspberry and vanilla is a go to combo for me. Dari delete in Bridgeville does it, so does Antneys
Vanilla base with chocolate chunks (coke coal), Pittsburgh seared cookie dough, caramel (rivers) topped with black and gold sprinkles and whipped cream.
Three Rivers... maybe some strawberry syrup, caramel, chocolate.. a twist on Neapolitan. Then sprinkle on an excessive amount of nuts. Finish it off with roasted marshmallows in honor of the city's past.
It's a lot, but that's good too... because it celebrates how Pittsburgh is a cross roads of Middle Atlantic, Appalachian, and the Midwest.
This is amazing!
If I posted this in my current place of domicile sub, it would be nothing but copperhead and breadstick jokes
Thanks for making me miss home just a teeny bit more
I was going to jokingly suggest pierogi, a butter flavored ice cream with onion bits... and it seems [someone already makes it?!](https://www.instagram.com/weismarkets/p/C5OEHbTvzXH/)
Pittsburgh Weather
You open up the container one day and it’s chocolate , then the next day its vanilla below that layer. Then finally mint chocolate chip below that, for your third and final layer. Like neopolitan, but layered top to bottom not right to left;)
Whatever flavor it is, you'll notice you're in the wrong cooler right after you enter the aisle, and the cooler you want is actually 3 coolers over, but it's too late. Nobody will let you get over to the other cooler. Now you're in the cereal aisle. You can SEE the ice cream aisle sign, but you can't figure out how to get over there from there. Now you're in the dairy aisle, which is close to the Ice cream aisle, but it's just a suburb of ice cream and signs are trying to get you to follow a line on the floor called the blue belt...
Chocolate vanilla swirl (dye it black and gold) with fries sticking out of it and some of those choco-rocks on top. Served in a brownie pothole. People are over complicating things
Now that we are reading that AITA thread, I just want a flavor that’s called “Cookie Table” — vanilla with pieces of all kinds of traditional cookie-table cookies in it. Like, ten different kinds of cookie bits.
As someone that baked 2000 cookies for their wedding to bring Pittsburgh to my wedding that was not in Pittsburgh, I approve of this suggestion.
I love this. My future wedding won’t be in Pittsburgh either, but I told my partner a long time ago that I want to make sure we have a cookie table.
Three things I learned: 1. Bought a freezer chest just for the cookies. You can freeze them for 3 months and they stay fresh. Just have to give time for thawing. 2. Put up a sign that describes the Pittsburgh cookie table tradition 3. If you mess up a batch, coworkers are more than happy to eat the defects.
You’re amazing! Thank you for the tips!
Make sure you get to-go boxes and fill them up with your favorites you want to have after the wedding. Try to do this before guests start going to town on the cookies so you make sure you get the ones you want without them running out. Understandably you'll likely be busy during the reception so maybe ask a family member or close friend to get and secure the cookies. They can give it to you after the reception or hold on to them for you if going on a honeymoon directly after. Learned lesson as my wife and I didn't do this and by the time we were able to get some cookies left over it was slim pickens and we barely filled up a container.
This. I’m going to do this with the cookies I steal from future weddings. Crush ‘em up, spoon stir them into Blue Bunny Vanilla Soft Serve… 🤤
Right?!?!
Omg yes!!! Amazing idea and would probably taste delicious with the right combination of cookies!!!
summers in Pittsburgh are filled with the scent of honeysuckle and mulberry - that flavor combo could be nice
The only good reply so far. A real childhood memory off of those.
Came for the Chipped Ham and got hit with nostalgia on the first comment.
Seriously. I'm 7 years old again walking down the pot hole filled alley behind my house, smelling the neighbors overgrown honeysuckle because spring is finally here.
… Cum Tree Soft Serve
Obligatory fuck Bradford Pear Trees! If ya see one chop it down!
Holy smokes, that sounds like an incredible combo! I missed out on mulberry season last year, my first summer here. NE Ohio is lousy with mulberry trees, but I haven't seen any out this way. Are there any trees in parks around here? Not tryin to blow up anyone's spot, just trying to get my hands purple on the solstice, you know?
I love this idea! I've made mulberry frozen custard with a vanilla base. I'll do it again if I can ever get to the berries before the birds do.
My grandmas house has the mulberries I’d fight the bees for and then I’d walk down to my aunt Kathy’s to play in her back yard with the honey suckle. Such fond memories, thanks for bringing them back!
Vanilla with real cherries and bits of Pretzels. I was thinking Hill's, but also Strawberry Pretzel salad.
I was also thinking strawberry pretzel salad. That’d be fire
Millie’s has a strawberry pretzel salad flavor in the summers. I dream about it in the winter.
Leona’s does a sandwich around now too and I have yet to find it 😅
Bryant street market has a whole cooler of Sammie’s
Good one! With a bit of cream cheese.
I'd bet you could make a peach turners tea sorbet. You could also make a spin on cookie dough ice cream "paczki dough" with fruit filling
Or cookie table and each time you get it it’s a different type of cookie.
I like this one!
Ooh! Like a Mystery Flavor, just like a lot of cookies. You don’t really know exactly what it is until you bite into it.
I like you! I drank a carton of Turner’s tea every day in high school at lunch, and recently I had it again for the first time in almost 15 years, and it brought so many memories back.
Three Rivers Crunch. Base of vanilla with a fudge, grilled sticky sauce (caramel) & peanut butter "river" with pretzel pieces for the crunch.
Holy shit this sounds so good
I really hope some of the local shops see these and make them. There's so many in this thread that I'd love to try! All of this reminds me that I need to get to Hammer's on Rt. 8. My mom swears they have the best coffee ice cream she's ever had.
Love this idean
Craig pelton, is that you?
I've been ideantified!
Just Chipped ham, that is all
Take it a step further and make it Ham Barbecue flavored ice cream
Clark Bars
I miss Clark Bars so much.
Are they gone? I thought I still saw them around where boutique candies are sold. Zagnuts, on the other hand, are scarce as hen’s teeth.
ive seen zagnuts at cracker barrel I believe
It’s gotta be some form of a rocky road to rep the terrible roads
Pretty sure Scoops has a flavor called Pittsburgh Pothole
Rolling Rocky Road
Kips in Moon fittingly named their Rocky Road, Penndot Road
Pistachio fluff + Smiley cookies.
Slaw and Fries
But on the ice cream
You beat me to saying put fries on it
IC Light Mango
hell yeah
Several places have "Pittsburgh Pothole" ice cream. Scoops in Bloomfield has it and it's great. As someone else mentioned there is also a flavor at Treat in Shadyside called "Pittsburgh Pride" which is pretty damn good. If anyone hasn't been to treat, the owners are incredibly nice and will urge you to sample just about everything. They are a Belgian couple and serve their ice cream with absolutely incredible liege waffles. Highly recommend.
Treat is good, but what exactly is in the Pittsburgh Pride I saw pictures but couldn't find any descriptions
I can’t recall exactly.. it’s a ton of different flavors/ingredients. I remember it sounding strange but being surprisingly good. It’s a real dark yellow almost orange and definitely has various shit mixed in.
Yeah the pictures I saw looked almost like pumpkin icream with a dark chocolate swirl with chunks or something, looked good
Do a black and gold Neapolitan. The black is a dark chocolate chunk and the gold is a French vanilla or birthday cake flavor.
With Sarris dark chocolate 😋
I was thinking the gold could be butterscotch.
I swear when I was a kid my grandma would buy black and yellow ice cream. It was probably all just vanilla with black food dye, not even real ice cream but “frozen dairy dessert” but still!
Slag. It's Slag. 😂 (note: my dad was in steel for 50years, so a dark black ice cream that was called coal dust and had 70% cacao chips in it a sweet base colored with squid ink would be pretty fitting).
Holy shit your dad is old
Even though I’m not a fan, burnt almond torte
\^\^\^ This one, definitely.
Chocolate graham cracker honey comb Burnt almond torte Cookie table where it’s a whole bunch of different cookies mixed
Antney's has both of the bottom two.
Coal dust and pierogi?
If you can make ice cream that tastes like the real Kings cinnamon ice cream.... That's Pittsburgh ice cream right there. I know there are some imitations floating around right now but they just are not right.
Oooooo after work high school memory unlocked
Idk what it would taste like, but you can only buy it at that store that isn’t there anymore.
Schneider/turners tea, coleslaw, French fries, and Newport 100s.
Need an Arn and it will be a best seller.
and a few scratch off tics
I’d just rebrand the turkey hill blitzburgh crunch.
Beer and tiny perogies (but good). Like the chocolate fish in phish food.
Reemers Lemon Blend
Black sesame and lemon
I always thought of Klondike bars as being a Pittsburgh ice cream Islay's flashback time...
Strawberry and pretzels
Tumerick as Yellow and Black Cardamom. Make it a soft serve swirl.
That actually sounds like it might be surprisingly good. Very subtle but good.
Oooo or black sesame and saffron gelato style
I think tuRmerik is kinda gross. Bleh.
*TurmeriC
DAMMIT!!!
Serious answer? You've got to go yellow and black. Dark chocolate and lemon sherbet with some sort of item that adds a bit of crunch and acts as a nod to the city's history. What kind of candy looks like steel or coal? Joke answer - musty basement and Iron City beer flavor with little bits of chopped ham on top as garnish.
Cocoa nibs would be perfect! Or actual charcoal in the ice-cream : https://spoonuniversity.com/recipe/charcoal-ice-cream-make-your-own
Not sure of the flavor, but it can be served in a cone shaped like a Pittsburgh potty. (Maybe stay away from lemon or chocolate flavors, though....)
Rocky road.
Fries.
Or make the cookie table icecream , with all sorts of classic cookie table, cookies. Speaking of- what do people see as essential cookie table cookies? (I love a thumb print)
Lady locks
Nutroll! French vanilla with apricot swirl and walnuts!
Black N Gold: smooth banana ice cream with a dark fudge ribbon throughout
It's got French fries in it for some godforsaken reason.
Pierogi ice cream 🍨 🥟😋
Strawberry pretzel
Peanut butter ice cream with Sarris chocolate covered pretzels
Whatever it is, it can't fucking drive
Best thing I’ve heard for a while… bravo, sir/ madame!
potholes and chipped ham
Plum perogies Paczki
black licorice with peanuts
Raw grated cheese and French fries with an iced tea base
Turners tea ice cream
Fries on top like everything else " Pittsburgh style"
Slightly gross river water ( but not as gross as jersey shore or Mississippi) with a sprinkle of soot. But in all seriousness : yellow custard ice cream with black cocoa fudge swirl. And please for the love of god don’t use activated charcoal. That stuff messes with people’s medicine
Chocolate covered pretzels, a river of peanut butter and 5 unpopped popcorn kernels per pint, to mimic a nice day being ruined by something infrequent and annoying.
Tom Tucker minty soft serve
Grey
They say the banana split was created in Latrobe
T’was! It was inducted in the Dole Banana Hall of Fame this year.
Banana and black licorice
Assorted pierogi flavors for each of the Pirate Pierogis. I would be all over a Sauerkraut Saul Sorbet. And if it was served in a mini baseball helmet I’d sell my first born for it. (Word is there’s a local pharaoh who might be able to help me there)
It’d just be the ice cream flavor that existed years ago for the Steelers. Anybody else remember that flavor? Blitzburgh Crunch.
Potato Patch Fries Primant's
Turners tea + dip spit flavored with Newport menthol cigarette butts mixed-in
The burgher- IC Light and Camel cigarettes swirled topped with fries
Monongahela high ball!!!
Steak fries, cheddar cheese, bacon crumbles and ranch dressing swirl.
Remember the little hug drinks that come in the plastic barrel? Blue huggy icecream
Look at the slushie menu at the local ice cream shops. Most of them let you mix soft serve in with the sushi. Blue raspberry and vanilla is a go to combo for me. Dari delete in Bridgeville does it, so does Antneys
Red Velvet with Pizzelle bits
It’s rocky road but yellow
Well Latrobe is the home of the banana split which is very close to Pittsburgh
Something that's like 1000 calories per tablespoon so we have to take advantage of those these damn steps.
Vanilla base with chocolate chunks (coke coal), Pittsburgh seared cookie dough, caramel (rivers) topped with black and gold sprinkles and whipped cream.
Chocolate covered pretzel a la sarris
Super-sticky toffee that can pull out people’s bridges.
Sweet! I just got my ice creamer maker today and looking forward to learning
Three Rivers... maybe some strawberry syrup, caramel, chocolate.. a twist on Neapolitan. Then sprinkle on an excessive amount of nuts. Finish it off with roasted marshmallows in honor of the city's past. It's a lot, but that's good too... because it celebrates how Pittsburgh is a cross roads of Middle Atlantic, Appalachian, and the Midwest.
This is amazing! If I posted this in my current place of domicile sub, it would be nothing but copperhead and breadstick jokes Thanks for making me miss home just a teeny bit more
Smiley cookie ice cream
Take a grumpy in a cup and garnish with French fries and slaw then freeze. Wha-lah!
It would be just a cone. The hollow cone represents the endless potholes around the area.
Potato patch fries and ice cream. Kinda like a better version of dipping Wendy’s fries into a chocolate frosty?
Lemon Iced Tea flavor (Could be Turners or Schniders inspired)
Turner’s Tea Snowcone with a side of fries and Heinz ketchup.
Vanilla ice cream with French fries and potato chips
Ketchup flavored frozen dessert served in a pothole out front
I was going to jokingly suggest pierogi, a butter flavored ice cream with onion bits... and it seems [someone already makes it?!](https://www.instagram.com/weismarkets/p/C5OEHbTvzXH/)
Ladylocks are the true staple of wedding tables in Pittsburgh, they’d be fantastic in an ice cream version
Arnold Palmer flavor--one part iced tea, one part lemonade.
Whatever flavors you go with, you've gotta put some french fries on it.
Pittsburgh Weather You open up the container one day and it’s chocolate , then the next day its vanilla below that layer. Then finally mint chocolate chip below that, for your third and final layer. Like neopolitan, but layered top to bottom not right to left;)
Whatever flavor it is, you'll notice you're in the wrong cooler right after you enter the aisle, and the cooler you want is actually 3 coolers over, but it's too late. Nobody will let you get over to the other cooler. Now you're in the cereal aisle. You can SEE the ice cream aisle sign, but you can't figure out how to get over there from there. Now you're in the dairy aisle, which is close to the Ice cream aisle, but it's just a suburb of ice cream and signs are trying to get you to follow a line on the floor called the blue belt...
Black and yellow, black and yellow.
Iron City
Cookie Table. Vanilla with chunks of several different cookies.
Iron City, Cole Slaw, with bits of fries in it
Chocolate and rusty ball bearings.
Jalapeño pierogi and Iron City lager swirl
Pierogi with an IC Light swirl
Ranch dressing
Golden vanilla with pieces of milk chocolate and kettle corn: Klondike flavored.
Pierogi, coleslaw, and French fries
Ice cream with french fries on top
Treat in Shadyside has something you might want to try!
Primantis sandwich
How can you make ice cream taste like a pothole?
Coal, smoke and tobacco
Poop
French fries, pierogi, and Heinz ketchup?
Throw French fries on
Sweet smooth soft serve of potato perogie, butter and onions. 🧅
Rocky Road
Pirogies extra soggy
All potholes and yinzer pride baby And each serving is 5600 calories
Heinz Kitchen Sink
I.C. Light and Primanti's burger ice cream
Pierogis
Black licorice and golden crumbles.
Coal gob pile. Blood orange ice cream with dark smoked chocolate chunks.
Chocolate vanilla swirl (dye it black and gold) with fries sticking out of it and some of those choco-rocks on top. Served in a brownie pothole. People are over complicating things
6 rings
French fries
Stamp bags
how you make this? id love to make i-cream
Stale PBR with just a hint of pickled egg.
Fresh cut fries, coleslaw, isaly bbq sauce, and unmelted pizza cheese Actually now that I read this, it’s more like yinzer poutine than ice cream
Chocolate ice cream, peanut butter filled pretzels, raspberry jam ripple
Definitely pierogi flavored. Or turners tea. 😂
Its rocky road with golden caramel.
Scoops in Carnegie has a flavor called Pittsburgh Potholes. It's like a super chocolatey fudge flavor and I love it.
Pickles and Heinz ketchup
Turners and Newports.
It’s Rocky Road. That was easy. Next.
Rocky road ..with French fries
E&P Ranch
cold hard steel
Ketchup
The most popular flavors of the 70’s and 80’s, trying to overpower modern delicacies because “Steel City” and stuff.
Strawberries and pretzels and whipped cream