History of Fro-Yo
Frozen Jose Mier on the Origins of Frozen Yogurt The ubiquity of frozen yogurt is such that hard to believe that it’s a relatively recent invention. Frozen Yogurt as we know it arrived on the scene around 1970 (although packaged yogurt with fruit hit the US in the late 1940s). The health food craze was …. Read More
My Old Kentucky Home Favorite: Bourbon Vanilla
Tispy Jose Mier Loves Making This If you’re a reader of Frozen Jose Mier’s blog posts you know that I look for uniqueness and variety in frozen desserts, especially ice creams. Okay, so sue me if I think vanilla is a bit too plain and uninteresting. I’ll grant you that it depends on which vanilla …. Read More
Chocolate Malt Ice Cream: Illinois’ Favorite
Getting Rich With Frozen Jose Mier Chocolate is hands down one of the worlds favorite ice cream flavors. I challenge you to find anyone that doesn’t love chocolate, or chocolate ice cream. But folks in Illinois take it a step further in their favorite flavor is chocolate malt ice cream. Legend has it that Walgreens, …. Read More
Florida’s Favorite Ice Cream: Orange Cream
Frozen Jose Mier Remembers Summer Flavors If you were to associate one fruit with the state of Florida which fruit with that be? That’s mostly in a rhetorical question since Florida is so famous for oranges. It’s no surprise then, that the favorite ice cream flavor of that state would be orange cream. Florida is …. Read More
Colorado Favorite with a Twist: Root Beer Float Ice Cream
Frozen Jose Mier Scoured the Internet for This Flavor Okay so I wanted to write about another state favorite ice cream flavor and as I found out Colorado loves root beer floats. The list that I looked at is the favorite ice cream flavors of the 50 states, but it dawns on me the root …. Read More
So Hot It’s Cool: Mexican Fried Ice Cream
From Frozen Jose Mier’s Homeland That’s right, somebody named Jose Mier has got to have some Mexican Heritage in him, and that’s certainly my case. My dad came to the United States from Mexico and created his own little empire in the ice cream business here in Sun Valley, CA. So it’s not a stretch …. Read More
Alabama’s Favorite (and a Jose Mier One, Too): Butter Pecan
Frozen Jose Mier Revisits A Southern Fave Frozen Jose Mier profiled a similar flavor some time ago. If you’re a regular reader you know that, but butter brickle is not butter pecan so indulge me as I sing the praises of this very popular ice cream Pecans abound in Alabama. Indeed, it’s the state nut …. Read More
North Dakota Loves Rhubarb Pie Ice Cream
Frozen Jose Mier Explores This Vegetable Masquerading as Fruit Most of the ice creams that we consume are fruit-flavored. Indeed Frozen Jose Mier has written about Cherry, huckleberry, berries and cream, etc. The exceptions are things like ube ice cream from Hawaii which makes use of a root and of course there’s chocolate and any …. Read More
Buckeye Fave: Chocolate Peanut Butter Ice Cream
Frozen Jose Mier Compares Versions Residents of Ohio are familiar with the desert tree known as the buckeye. These are round chocolate covered bits of peanut butter. So because the buckeye is so beloved in the Buckeye State it makes sense that this treat transfered into the state’s favorite ice cream. It’s kind of a …. Read More
Oregon: Berries and Cream Ice Cream
Frozen Jose Mier Gives a Thumbs Up What is the state of Oregon known for, other than the Ducks? Well, if you’ve ever been there in the summer months you know that there’s all kinds of varieties of fresh berries available. Raspberries, blueberries, huckleberries, marionberries and there’s probably a few that I have not mentioned. …. Read More