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[*] posted on 10-14-2011 at 07:17 AM


You always do these stories.....so well Pompano. Good reads for the a.m.

"church key".....okay...okay........you got me. What is a church key?


Now back to my Jolly Rogers Buccaneer Milkshake from Balboa Island, Newport Beach ......35 cents.




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[*] posted on 10-14-2011 at 07:35 AM


Cool post, Pompano
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[*] posted on 10-14-2011 at 07:38 AM
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Mitchman: What about the, now long gone, XXX Pussycat Theater on the Balboa Peninsula? (Disclaimer, I never had any personal experience of seeing a movie there during that time), later it became a cult cruiser hangout for midnight showings of the "Rocky Horror Picture Show".

Mcfez: Church key = can opener in Midwest speak.

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[*] posted on 10-15-2011 at 06:01 AM


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Mitchman: What about the, now long gone, XXX Pussycat Theater on the Balboa Peninsula? (Disclaimer, I never had any personal experience of seeing a movie there during that time), later it became a cult cruiser hangout for midnight showings of the "Rocky Horror Picture Show".

Mcfez: Church key = can opener in Midwest speak.

[Edited on 10-14-2011 by Gypsy Jan]


XXX Pussycat Theater on the Balboa Peninsula.......Mum would never take me there.....

Txs for the Church key info Jan




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[*] posted on 10-15-2011 at 07:20 AM


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.....since any ice cream I buy in the states starts to melt by the time I get to Ensenada...





Next time you go to the states, bring an ice chest. While you are grocery shopping, buy some dry ice, place ice cream in ice chest with dry ice on top of the ice cream packages......when you reach Ensenada, frozen ice cream!!!!


Do people REALLY like ice cream THAT much??:lol:
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[*] posted on 10-15-2011 at 07:22 AM


For me, I love Holanda and Thrifty...although my absolute favorite is......*drum roll*......The Yogoberry at macroplaza del mar...frozen yogurt is the absolute BEST, tastes good, lots of different flavors, pure yumminess!


I'm not a fan of the bars because I'm not a big chocolate fan...but show me a three musketeers ice cream cone and I'll gobble it up! In our freezer atm we have caramel/vanilla swirl...yummy yummy yummy!




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[*] posted on 10-15-2011 at 08:53 AM


I think the lead line on this topic left out Hollandia.
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[*] posted on 10-15-2011 at 10:34 AM
Freezer burn...


Any Ice Cream in the Ensenada Markets, even Thrifty, has a 1/3 inch of ice frosted over the container, and tastes like freezer burn.
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[*] posted on 10-15-2011 at 12:29 PM


The new calimax in sauzal seems to keep their ice cream pretty frost free, no ice on top or yucky tate, just creamy yumminess! Or maybe it depends on the brand?



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[*] posted on 10-15-2011 at 12:52 PM


I posted the original post on the magnum bar in 2008. To refresh your memory it was as follows:

"Mexican Ice Cream--Magnum Bars

A few weeks back traveling south I stopped at the large new modern Pemex gas station at Camalu. Setting behind the counter and definitely in charge was a lovely young lady by the name of Christina who had a smile as big as all Baja and as bright as the Mexican sun at mid day. In chatting in first Spanglish and later in English I discovered she had spent a number of years in Oxnard/ Ventura area and often vacationed in Pismo Beach.

She indicated they had just received a shipment of the new Holanda "Magnum ice cream bars" and suggested that I might enjoy one of them since the weather was a little on the warm side. Mrs. Miller and I also thought a great suggestion. I chose a "Classic bar" which was covered in a rich thick chocolate coating, my wife chose a "Devotion bar" which was also covered with a rich thick chocolate and nuts.

Later on in our travels we sampled the "Almendras bar" and a "Yoghurt Supremo." Once again both bars were lavishly covered with a very rich thick creamy chocolate and were equally delicious.

We made it a point to have a Magnum bar at every opportunity and with the passage of time have lost track of the actual number we consumed but our increased tightness of the waist band on our Levis indicate we had sampled almost too many.

The prices for the bars were from about $1.50 to $2.75 at Palomar in Santo Tomas, --as expected the ghost and prices of Senior Enrique Villareal aka "El bandito" lives on in his children and grand children..

I hold fast to the opinion that the Holanda Magnum bars are equal to or even better that the US produced "Dove Bar" but certainly inferior to the "Costco bar," however, Mrs Miller was not as impressed. She was under the opinion that I and she to a lessor degree were suffering from the "Dinty More syndrome; " made so famous many years ago by the pioneer Southern California diver Ron Prange which states ' The longer you are away from home, the farther you are away from home, the colder (-or hotter) you are, the wetter (-or dryer) you are, the hungrier you are the better Dinty More stew tastes.

Never-the-less I eagerly look forward to my next trip to the wilds of Baja in a few months and even more Magnum bars....After having a Dove bar yesterday I still consider the Magnum the better bar, but can't convince my wife. In order to settle the family dispute and create a degree of domestic tranquility please complete the survey ."
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I suspect many of you are suffering from the "Dinty More Syndrome."

I have purchsed the American produced Magnum bars and given them a realistic honest taste test..there is something missing...apparently does not have the butterfat content and the same thickness of coating as does the Mexican Magnum Bar.

So yesterday I stopped by Costco at 10:05 AM and has a mid morning Costco Bar, Close! but not a Magnum!

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[*] posted on 10-15-2011 at 02:30 PM


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.....since any ice cream I buy in the states starts to melt by the time I get to Ensenada...





Next time you go to the states, bring an ice chest. While you are grocery shopping, buy some dry ice, place ice cream in ice chest with dry ice on top of the ice cream packages......when you reach Ensenada, frozen ice cream!!!!


Do people REALLY like ice cream THAT much??:lol:





YES:bounce:




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[*] posted on 10-15-2011 at 03:06 PM


I would say none of the above, also in my mind Dairy Queen is NOT ice cream! If I had to eat store bought , Haagen Daas or Ben & Jerrys!

Better yet buy yourself an ice cream maker and do it yourself with fresh ingredients, like strawberries from San Quintin!
We just made a batch of orange cremesickle with oranges from the viscaino desert!

Get one of these:


http://www.amazon.com/Donvier-837409W-1-Quart-Cream-Maker/dp...




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[*] posted on 10-15-2011 at 03:20 PM


Church Key? Have an original "'church key". It's one of those combination can opener, tobacco plug cutter, pipe cleaner, and finger nail cleaner tools. +:D:D
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[*] posted on 10-15-2011 at 04:21 PM
New Calimax in Sauzal...


Is that place finally open?? I heard the fumes from the Pescaderia across the street preserve the flavor of Holandesa Ice Cream, which to me has a strange flavor to begin with, and now has a pleasant aroma of smoked marlin .
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The new calimax in sauzal seems to keep their ice cream pretty frost free, no ice on top or yucky tate, just creamy yumminess! Or maybe it depends on the brand?
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[*] posted on 10-15-2011 at 04:22 PM
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Frozen Yogurt at Macroplaza is easily $5 American for a small serving, I can't hardly afford to go there...
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For me, I love Holanda and Thrifty...although my absolute favorite is......*drum roll*......The Yogoberry at macroplaza del mar...frozen yogurt is the absolute BEST, tastes good, lots of different flavors, pure yumminess!


I'm not a fan of the bars because I'm not a big chocolate fan...but show me a three musketeers ice cream cone and I'll gobble it up! In our freezer atm we have caramel/vanilla swirl...yummy yummy yummy!
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[*] posted on 10-15-2011 at 06:57 PM


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I would say none of the above, also in my mind Dairy Queen is NOT ice cream! If I had to eat store bought , Haagen Daas or Ben & Jerrys!

Better yet buy yourself an ice cream maker and do it yourself with fresh ingredients, like strawberries from San Quintin!
We just made a batch of orange cremesickle with oranges from the viscaino desert!

Get one of these:


http://www.amazon.com/Donvier-837409W-1-Quart-Cream-Maker/dp...



How you keep the ice cream from getting rock hard...after a few hours in the freeze? Drove me nutz.....




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[*] posted on 10-15-2011 at 08:13 PM


McFez: we just leave the container in the fridge for about an hour to soften up before eating. Or better yet eat it at the perfect consistency all in one sitting as it comes out of the machine:light:



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[*] posted on 10-16-2011 at 10:58 AM


THRIFTY -DAIRY QUEEN? HOW ABOUT SAV-ON DRUGS?

Any old timers recall the huge five (5) cent Ice cream cones fom Sav-On drugs stores?

Gone but not forgotten...

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[*] posted on 10-18-2011 at 09:02 AM


DQ! Hands down the best ice cream! I'm really sad that they don't have the full menu that DQ offers in the states. I grew up on The Hunger buster and belt Buster burger. Independent Stores that is not Brazzers! Big differents there. Right before DQ opened here in La Paz I stopped in and they were having a meeting and the girl heading it up asked me if she could help and I said I couldn't wait for a Hunger Buster and she didn't even know what it was! Told me that DQ doesn't sell burgers! I had to school her!lol Sorry for rambling. My vote is DQ.
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[*] posted on 10-18-2011 at 09:19 AM


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THRIFTY -DAIRY QUEEN? HOW ABOUT SAV-ON DRUGS?

Wasn't Sav on, Thrifty?
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