Sanders ice cream shops used to be all over the Detroit area. Ice cream
sundaes, shades of green, and I’m pretty sure a diner-style counter are
about all I specifically remember of the shops [they all closed in the
mid-80s], but Sanders ice cream and Devil’s Food Buttercream Layer Cakes
[popularly known as “bumpy cakes” because the buttercream frosting was
waved on top of the cake like the rumble strips on the side of a road]
were a fixture of our young birthdays.
Sanders is apparently a division of Morley Candy now [another Detroit
thing], and Crain’s Detroit Business
that they are trying to take it national. They’ve been
topping, etc. out to Michigan expatriates for a little while now, but
apparently you will actually be able to walk into a store in Phoenix and
get this stuff now — which I never realized, as a very young Sanders
consumer, you couldn’t do.
Melody Farms [yet another Detroit thing]
makes Sanders ice
cream now. Although I greatly enjoyed the Bumpy Cake ice cream [it
contains chunks of Devil’s Food cake and the ice cream tastes just like
the buttercream icing] when I first tried it about a year ago, I want to
know when the
ice cream is coming back. Yeah,
thing, and yeah, Sanders made an ice cream that tasted like Vernors.
Right now the only place you can get it anymore is at Britain’s 31 Weirdest
Flavors Ice Cream Parlor, on Klickitat Street, in Heaven, scooped by
Jesus or his authorized agent Dean Smoller. You can also get the
Friendly’s Hawaiian Punch Sherbet there. I can only find
other person on the ‘net who knows what I’m talking about. Danielle,
I will make sure Jesus or Dean restocks the Peanut Butter Cups.
