The Painted Cone

After dinner at a nearby restaurant, we decided to swing by here for a little dessert and to find out exactly what The Painted Cone was. Turns out, it’s half ice cream shoppe, and half paint your own pottery studio.
The ice cream flavors were fairly standard, nothing like Buffalo Chicken Wing Ice Cream or anything off the wall like that. I got a small chocolate peanut butter in a sugar cone. Now, I won’t call myself a purveyor of frozen desserts, but one bite, and I knew, something was wrong. The ice cream was way too soft and grainy. Have you ever taken the freezer burn off ice cream and tried to eat it because you just wanted it so badly? Well, imagine taking that ice cream out of the freezer, and letting it sit out for about 20 minutes, and then putting that one a cone. Presto, you’ve got what I had. My friend got a different ice cream flavor and it was about the same consistency.
I don’t know how to make ice cream, but that’s not what I imagine. The flavor was decent, but the consistency wasn’t right. Maybe it was just that day?
The pottery shop seems fun and a pretty good idea albeit an odd combination. Ice cream and pottery painting? Don’t you need one hand for your cone? Anyway, I didn’t get to paint anything, but it looked like it would be a fun activity for a kid’s birthday party or something.
As for the store itself, the walls were covered in plaques that had pithy sayings; the kinds of things that you would find at a street fair. Some of them were very clever though although none of those come to mind immediately.