Thrifty Chocolate Chip Ice Cream. Got at local Kroger for $4.99 on sale. Who remembers going into Rite-Aid and ordering scoop or cone with single or double? Go to was two scoops cup with Chocolate Chip and Mint and Chip. Tastes exactly like I remember. Nostalgia! What was your go-to order?
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Thrifty is one of the best ice cream brands ever
The ice cream itself is nothing to write home about, but it tastes like nostalgia!
This one and thrifty chocolate chip cookie dough are so damn good.
Thrifty rainbow sherbet was always my favorite 😁 and mint chip but not together!
This brand isn’t sold where I live now, but the chocolate malted krunch was my favorite when I was a kid.
I’m so old I remember going into Thrify for a scoop. Chocolate Malted Crunch was the GOAT!
Their caramel cookie crunch is bomb too, on sale at Ralph’s for 3.99 rn
Yes, this was the first ice cream I ever remember trying! When I was a kid in the ’80s this was my family’s go-to spot for the ice cream counter — and it was actually called Thrifty. I loved the strawberry cheesecake, mint-n-chip, black cherry, maybe rainbow sherbet in the summer. I think Umpqua, a Northwest brand, has the most similar style/texture — for these flavors in particular.
Then we all got into frozen yogurt in the late 80s and seemed to move on — anyone remember Penguin’s? (Maybe it was just a SoCal thing.)
When I was in my 20s I moved near a Rite Aid, and rediscovered the ice cream — a few of my favorites at that time were Chocolate Malted Crunch, Pistachio, Mocha Almond Fudge and there was this one I liked most of all that had pieces of macaroon (the coconut kind, not the French macarons) in it. Maybe it was a coconut base, maybe something else, maybe it had caramel. Am I dreaming all of this? I can’t find it on their flavor page or online. Does anyone remember this flavor or what it was called? Am I thinking of another brand? I would have been getting it in the early 2000s before I moved out of state.
After that, I don’t think I had any Thrifty Ice Cream till maybe five years ago or so till I walked into a Rite Aid and they had a full case of flavors. Unfortunately, they are all closed now here. I see info online about how the ice cream is being sold at some Krogers, Albertsons, Safeways, etc. but I have not seen it at any place I go to. Has anyone in the Portland area seen it?
This is one of my favorites!!!
I like how the chocolate chips are smaller and plenty in every bite