Orleagian Snowballs

It’s never open… We’ve gone by three times and it’s always closed. So we went down the street to Hokulia Shaved Ice.

This place is pretty awesome! Small cute little shop in decateur that serves refreshing desserts. You can choose to have a snowball by itself with a wide variety of syrup flavors or get a mix where you get layers of ice and ice cream flavors of your choosing. I ended up getting the «princess» size (small) which consisted of ice, chocolate ice cream in the middle and another layer of ice topped with condensed milk. Sounds pretty awesome right? Well it was!!! But just a solid mess. The Styrofoam cup came out literally dripping and all the condensed milk sliding onto the counter.
Aside from that… great refreshing dessert especially on a hot summer day! Put a smile on my face.

If you thought you could never find an awesome snow cone in an Exxon parking lot, you thought wrong! Between L5P and VaHi is this possibly overlooked spot. My favorite flavor is Peach-​like the good Atlantan that I am. A gummy bear will be placed somewhere under all the sugary goodness. CASH ONLY! Free parking spaces available. Perfect treat for all those hot Georgia months. Enjoy! Instagram-@girleatatlanta

Orleagian is my favorite place to get a New Orleans style sno-​ball in Atlanta!
I must say the location is a little random (they’re posted up in an Exxon parking lot on the corner of Ponce de Leon and Briarcliff @ Moreland Ave.) but what’s not to love? Although most people enjoy eating ice cream on a hot summer day it never seems to quench my thirst. For me, the sno-​ball is the truly refreshing way to beat the heat.
Side note: The sno-​ball is not to be confused with the snow cone. Every snow cone I’ve ever tasted has been hard and crunchy. A true sno-​ball is sweetened shaved ice with the texture of powdered snow. While you can easily suck all of the flavoring out of a snow cone, the sno-​ball creation process helps ensure that the syrup and powdered ice are indivisible.
Anyway, Orleagian offers dozens of classic flavors with or without a drizzle of condensed milk. My personal favorite is a topless, electric blue bubblegum with extra gummy bears (tablespoons of ‘em). Don’t be surprised if you see New Orleans Saints paraphernalia on cars in the parking lot. If there are more than 3 – 4 people in line I can almost guarantee you that at least one of them will be from south Louisiana. That lets you know what Orleagian offers is the real deal.
I highly recommend it.

Insane Low Price!!! So Juicy!!! I’m Sure The Ice Fell From Heaven!!! This is for Serious SnowCone Lovers only!!! If their Snowcones were a building they would be The Eiffel Tower… Perfect!!!

I just moved to Atlanta about a week ago, I stumbled across this place a couple of days ago, I walked in, saw the New Orleans theme immediately, I was instantly greeted, looked at the menu and I ordered a tiger’s blood (strawberry piña colada) snowball with vanilla ice cream in the middle and marshmallow on top, it was sooooo good, I will be definitely going back

I normally would give Orleagian Snowballs a 5 star rating. But last week, I took 2 children to celebrate the last day of school by having a snowball. They only had 1 person working and there seemed to be a consistent 10 person line. We love the place and were patient but when we asked for 2 flavors in 1 snowball, we were told that that doubles the price. So a $ 2.75 snow cone became $ 5.50. I would like to suggest that they put that on their price sign. It would also be a good idea to be aware of high traffic dates –like the last day of school and try and have 2 people working.

I am a snow cone freak and this snow ball was good!!! I was visiting Atlanta and just walking around between Little 5 Points & The Virginia Highlands and found this stand. It was one of those times I knew someone was looking down on me! (Said the agnostic, humanistic Jew) It made my walk back to Little 5 Points to buy 2 more fake white leather studded vests really worth it!!!

It was a hot day in Atlanta and I needed something to cool me off. I didn’t want to get the standard issue fro-​yo or smoothie — so, a Unilocal search was underway and all signs pointed to Oreleagian. So, I pulled up to the Exxon gas station and saw the green hut with a line.
After reading the Unilocal reviews, I had to order the Tiger’s blood with condensed milk. YUM!!! Super sweet, but the flavor was great unlike anything I had before. The gummi bear hidden in the middle was a great surprise too! All in all, I will definitely be back to try more flavors. Best $ 1.75 I have spent in awhile.

This place is awesome!!! Their flavors are fantastic and their customer service is awesome.

Why can’t you be closer!!! I would literally go here everyday if unloved inside the perimeter… so good… you have to try them…
Tigers blood with sweetened condensed milk… omg so good!

I’m not sure these snowballs are made for me – I have a tendency to snarf down as much as I can, thereby inducing the utterly painful brainfreeze, and a sensitive tooth precludes my usual brainfreeze-​avoidance technique of shoveling cold items under my tongue instead of atop it. My last visit found me rubbing both my head and the roof of my mouth not once, not twice, but three times from the headaches, and jumping in alarm from the ice hitting my tooth.
Still, despite the simplicity of their product (ice and flavored sugar syrup), these snowballs urge me to come back because 1. they grabbed a few handfuls of snow and brought it out so my dog could enjoy, and 2. my pregnant wife pretty much insists to come here. In fact, I don’t think I’ve ever been here without seeing at least two pregnant women enjoying the frozen treats.
The power of ice compels you.

Man, I’ve been meaning to write a review for this place. I found out about it because my husband and his family loved it, and they missed it when it moved a few years ago. When we drove by it randomly in its new location, they insisted that I get one.
I’ve never been a huge snow cone person, but I’d never had a New Orleans style snowball.
They have lots of fruity and sugary flavors you can mix and match (or choose combos from their menu), including wedding cake, peach, mango and a mixed berry one with an awkward stormy name (Hurricane or something) that makes you wonder if it’s too soon to name it that, but then you just go with it.
It comes in tall styrophome cups, and it’s parked in a gas station parking lot along a busy road and you can eat at wooden picnic tables. But the people that work there have always been very friendly to us, and they even remembered my family when they went up and said hi.
And every snowball comes with a surprise little Gummy Bear somewhere in the sweet frozen goodness.
Absolutely amazing frozen treat that everyone must try at least once!

Take it from a girl who does NOT like snoballs (i.e. flavored sugar on sharp pieces of ice), this place is AMAZING! I washed my car on a day I really should have been indoors, sitting in front of my AC vents, so I had no choice but to stop in here to stop my skin from melting during Atlanta’s first «I decided to kill you all, via humidity» spell this spring. I had very low expectations, because I tend to stay away from sugar and ice as the sole ingredients in any product (is there anything else, besides snoballs?), and I was reformed after my first bite. First, I was impressed to find that my tongue was not immediately bleeding from the shards of ice, because different than every other snoball I for some reason have had in my life, this ice was mushy– almost… creamy? It was soft on my tongue. Next, the syrup tasted natural! I don’t know if it was actually natural (in fact, I’m pretty sure it wasn’t), but it TASTED natural, and that’s what counts (sometimes). I got the mango flavor, and it tasted like a mango melting on my tongue. I am now a reformed snoballist– but only when it comes to Orleagian.

A little piece of the 504 in the 404. Tigers blood with condensed milk. That’s my favorite. The loyalty card is great also. Catch a snoball when its hot outside. I’ll BE BACK! The owners are cool and interact with customers. An inexpensive way to cool down in the Summer

Probably the best Snowball I’ve had since Sno-​E SnoBalls in Hollygrove closed. Authentic in taste and shape (they have mastered the cone shaped tops that NOLA folks are accustomed to). Great prices and service. My only wish is that they be a little more generous with the syrup. ;-) Otherwise, you’re guaranteed to get an awesome snowball on a hot day at Orleagian!

my boyfriend and i stopped here after hiking around the nature trail at Stone Mountain. It was a nice way to cool ourselves down before we caught our flight home.
he asked the vendor to surprise him with something refreshing: i ended up getting a mango and peach snow cone, while my boyfriend got a peach, mango and pineapple one. they were both fantastic. the gummy bear added a nice pop of flavor. we would definitely visit again!!!

Nothing made my hot drive home after work at Emory better than stopping by for a snowball from this place. These guys have a great product which I think is partly due to the nice consistency they get with the shaved ice — indeed hard to achieve.
However, the reason why this place becomes memorable is because of the service. The folks that run this place really enjoy doing what they do and, moreover, really enjoy getting to know their patrons. Coming back to the south after a while, I forgot that sometimes people like to be nice — just to be nice!
If I were you I would go with the tiger’s blood and stay away from the mango. I like how they put a gummi bear in each cup (but it would be better if they added some more). Unfortunately after august they go to part time and then close up for the cold (relatively speaking) months.
Now the true questions remains: Snowballs or King of Pops???

A very nice treat during a hot day in the Atl. Visiting the little stand made me uniquely happy, like a little kid going up to the ice cream truck with crumpled dollars looking for the biggest ice cream that was affordable.
I gave the man my crumpled money and he gave me the biggest raspberry Orleagian snow cone I’d ever had. Thanks, man. You made my day.

…sweltering hot say in Atlanta
…Having to scrounge at the bottom of my purse for $ 1.75 in change
…repeatedly having to turn down the «car wash man» at the gas station
…trying to figure out where to park in the small lot… *frustration ensues*
… finding a gummi bear at the bottom of your pink lemonade snowball… priceless! :)