Das' Creamery — Restaurant in Mount Olive

God .. I died last night and woke up with a smudge of heavenly bliss on my cheek this morning. A whisper of Dalton Abbey Chocolate ice cream from Das Creamery, which I wiped with my finger, gave it a lick, and the taste sensation made my sensory glands orgasm all over again.

I thought I knew ice cream. I've traveled to many continents, all over the world matter-of-fact , just to sample a few luscious scoops. My Greenwich Village neighbor, Professor Petrocelli, who I grew up with, thanks to the efforts of a slumlord taking over his NYC building, gave up his rent stabilized NYC apartment and has been relegated to the backwoods of New Jersey. When John invited me out to Budd Lake for the weekend and said, tonight we're going to be in ice cream bliss, I thought the fresh air and squirrels was chipping away at his brain. "You're not going to try to convince me that 'Cliffs' is any better than any other commercial blend", I said. He replied: "Cliffs is sour apples compared to this place!".

We traveled to a pretty deserted, non distinct, strip mall in Budd Lake. This was the home of the greatest ice cream ever, I don't think so. What I experienced, well, that's a different story: It was Ice Cream Nirvana.

I love Chocolate ice cream. But most ice cream, especially chocolate, is a bland concoction, so we smother it in hot fudge. The server at Dos ... a lovely smiling asian gal in a baseball cap, gave me a sample stick of Dalton Abby chocolate ... Immediately I was overcome. I felt like I was sucking on a crack pipe for the first time (officer: Not that I know what that is like). .. If I was to describe it, take the best chocolate ice cream, cover it in the finest hot fudge, toffee and other secret ingredients and thats what it tasted like ... it needed no coverings .. On it's own, Dalton Abby is a POWERHOUSE of flavor .... They also had a special Indian flavor, the closest comparison, although not a good comparison, is like the richest egg nog you will ever had ... but it tastes totally different ... Incredible !!! I really have to go back. I'm glad this place is hidden. In NYC, there'd be lines 5 blocks long. I mean, in NYC, they line up for overpriced, chalky tasting gelato because its a hair better tasting than Turkey Hill ice cream .. Das Ice Cream is beyond anything I've ever experienced ....

Okay, I'm back in NYC. I already made plans to visit NJ and my friend the Professor again. He thinks I'm missing him, naw ... it's Das Creamery I'm missing. This place is going to catch on and it's going to be insanity. Thank God they're located in a place where only crickets thread, off Route 46 ... But I took note, there is a NYC bus that will let me off about 100 feet from Das Creamery ... but what will I do, 'besides getting fat' while I wait several hours for the return bus .... "Ride a pony."

DO NOT ... DO NOT!!! WARNING .. Go to Das Creamory if you're easily addicted to rich, creamy, and awfully delicious ice cream concoctions. You will be...

Best Ice Cream EVER ! I've been to them all. Coast to coast. From Carvel, Baskin Robbins, Hagan Daz, to NYC's Serendipity, as well as ice creameries in Italy, England .. the Orient, you name it. .... I really thought I knew what good ice cream was. Over 1/2 century, I've consumed enough cow milk to keep my arteries stone hard and well preserved centuries after I've passed.

The creamery richness in Das Ice Cream concoctions, the flavor, the fact you're still thinking about their ice cream hours after consuming it and your dreaming about the next time you go back ... Puts this place high up there in the addiction category. I hope Gov. Christy doesn't find this place. He'll surely wipe out their inventory.

There is no stock formula ice cream here. After this, I guarantee, you will lose your taste for store bought ice cream. So, last night when I stopped by for the third time this week for some of their delicious Dalton Abby chocolate and Sage Maple ice cream, I had to ask the owner .. "Where did you find these recipes?" Well, here's their secret. There's a father/ daughter team working together here. The daughter graduated from one of the country's top culinary institutions (no ....she's no run of the mill ice cream maker ... what you have here located in this hidden strip mall, in of all places, Budd Lake, is one of the top creative, culinary, tour-de-force, desert makers on the east coast, maybe throughout the country. And from my perspective, there isn't an ice cream maker at this point in time that can top her ice cream creations. Her dad, on the other hand, is the ultimate ice cream consumer. He has a discerning taste for fine, rich flavors. Every batch of ice cream has to pass his approval before a new flavor is introduced.

I also spoke to one of their part time employees. A one time ice cream and cake maker who used to work at Cliffs. She said, Cliffs has had the local ice cream market for years, and she reminded me of what I said to her. After you consume your ice cream purchase from Cliffs, you forget about it. You're satisfied. Nothing memorable. When you finish one of Das Creamery's creations, you're thinking about how delicious it was hours later."

Matter of fact, I'm thinking about going there after lunch ... it's 9AM in the...

First of all the ice cream was disgusting! Orange with pineapple and coconut sounds good but it's really not! And there were chunks of something in it! Second my little cousin who is 12 got her ice cream took one bite and a huge bug landed in it!!! We were inside the store mind you! Not outside! So my dad takes the ice cream and explains to the father "the kid took one bite and a bug landed in it do you think she can have a new one? She only took one bite" the guy tells me dad "I'm not responsible for the bugs it's not my bug next time put a lid on it" and starts laughing. Apparently he thought this was funny! How is the kid suppose to eat her ice cream with a lid on it? We're on vacation to bud lake from south jersey. My dad said "I guess that's how you do things here where I'm from if I'm in a store and a bug lands in my food they replace it" the daughter then almost flies over the counter at my dad screaming for him to shut the ** up! And cursing him out and screaming at him! Real nice with little kids in the store! Then the guy calls the cops on my dad saying he made racist comments at him! I can understand how he could misinterpret this as a racist thing because he didn't know we're on vacation but after what his daughter just did I couldn't believe it! They he proceeded to come over and take our pictures and pictures of our cars. When the cop shows up he has a friend of his tell the cop that we told him "go back to his own country" (never said) that we threw the ice cream at him (really? I don't see ice cream on him or anywhere else it's still sitting in the cup on the counter) that we were sitting outside when the bug landed in it (check the camera we were sitting inside at the table) and that he threw us out (once again check the camera we walked outside when we felt threatened by his daughter!) also he tells the cops his daughter isn't even there! Really cause when the cops showed up I watched you make her go in the office and shut the door!!! Oh look there she is! I guess the cops better at hide and seek than she is! Never going there! Vacation ruined! Please stay away from this place! The owners a joke the daughters a thug and the...