Mainely Custard — Attraction in Freeport

Basics Are Covered - Flavors Need Work When I first tried Mainely Custard vanilla and chocolate ice cream I told myself I found a gem. But as I tried their flavored ice creams I had a completely different view. Please let me explain.

The traditional flavors of vanilla and chocolate and coffee are very good. If you select one of these flavors with an add-in such as chocolate chips, toffee crunch or oreos, it's still a winner.

After trying 7-8 different flavors like raspberry, rum raisin, blackberry chip, strawberry, s'mores, etc. I felt these were not worth trying or having again. I thought there would be an art form to custard ice cream with using real add-in ingredients. Instead, the flavors tasted fake with cheap extract - not even quality extract. For example, when we tried the s'mores, we thought it would be chocolate ice cream with swirls of marshmallow and graham cracker. Instead, it was vanilla ice cream that tasted like generic brand marshmallows with a funky taste and there were these little white nuggets with some version of really fake tasting graham cracker flavor. Barely any chocolate chips for the Hershey bar flavor of a s'more. The strawberry tasted so fake and like cheap extract, we couldn't eat it. The rum raisin leaves a weird fake after taste in your mouth that doesn't go away. I won't elaborate on the other flavors because this is an entrepreneur business and we want to support them as best we can.

If the owner was willing to put better quality ingredients in their flavors, I would venture back to try them and support them. For now I...

Can I give Mainely Custard 10 stars please?? The last time I had real custard was when I lived in Mississippi. I live in Washington now and while visiting friends in town, they told me about this place. When I heard "custard," I was there! OMG I live for Blueberry ice cream, so I just had to try their blueberry custard. BEST I'VE EVER HAD! It was so good, we bought a pint to take home to friends and then we went back again the next day for another cone on our way out of town.

This is not the same as custard you might find at the grocery store - check the ingredients on the labels there. They often add oil or something else to attempt the same texture. Not even close to the same. This place is the real deal. And of course it's cute & had a nice line formed up because it's the best. Make sure you plan a stop here if you're visiting! And if you live here - go get a gym membership so you can come...

Not very impressed - the flavor of the day was listed on the roadside sign, however when we reached the front of the line the sign said "out of soft serve." Ok... so I asked for a hard custard strawberry with fudge in a kiddie size, which I was told only soft serve comes in Kiddie size - I said "well you are out of soft serve." Then the person working there said, "actually we have some soft serve from last night.".... what?

Anyways I ordered the hard custard in a small because I didn't want last night's ice cream, and only after I ordered did I realize the hard custard costs nearly DOUBLE the price of the soft serve custard. I don't get it.

The custard itself was ok - Culver's in Wisconsin is much better. I wouldn't come back here due to the inconsistent communication to what is available, the inconsistency in pricing, and the lack of custard consistency to the...