Earlier this week, I met a friend for lunch at a Thai place (my suggestion because I'd been there before and knew that it was within walking distance of his apartment). We had crab rangoons with real imitation crab and then because he is working on a show where he, as the props master, needs to create the "perfect ice cream sundae" decided we should find some ice cream... for research purposes. Surprisingly, there aren't a lot of places to get ice cream in Chicago! The results of a Google search for ice cream are about 99% Baskin Robbins and the last 1% of ice cream is like five miles away. We ended up at Jeni's Splendid Ice Cream, which is a mini-chain that actually started in Columbus, OH, but has rapidly expanded into the Windy City (and probably other places too). You can buy pints of their ice cream at Whole Foods for like nine bucks, but luckily, purchasing a scoop is not going to empty your wallet at quite the same velocity.
Jeni's is splendid though but neither of us actually got a sundae though, so I guess there is more research in our future.
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