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Hank's Frozen Custard
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Best ice cream and tacos? Nick visits Hank’s Frozen Custard to see if it’s the best around!
The best ice cream and tacos in Beaver County? Maybe all of Southwestern Pennsylvania? In Round 1, Episode 2 of Showdown, Nick heads to Hank’s Frozen Custard in New Brighton, a local favorite serving homemade custard for 50 years. From loyal fans to hands-on fun making a cookie dough flurry, Nick discovers why people say the quality hasn’t changed a bit.
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Hank's Frozen Custard
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The best ice cream and tacos in Beaver County? Maybe all of Southwestern Pennsylvania? In Round 1, Episode 2 of Showdown, Nick heads to Hank’s Frozen Custard in New Brighton, a local favorite serving homemade custard for 50 years. From loyal fans to hands-on fun making a cookie dough flurry, Nick discovers why people say the quality hasn’t changed a bit.
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It's always been enjoyable.
Hey, Pittsburgh.
We've traveled all the way up north to New Brighton to try some of your favorite ice cream shops.
And today we're at Hank's.
Custard is different than ice cream, right, because it has egg.
So what does the egg do to custard that sets it apart.
It makes it creamier and it has less air bubbles in it.
Hank's was the best.
Is the best.
Will always be the best.
So come here for your custard.
I always get the white House cherry cone.
What is that?
Well, it has real cherries in it.
It's very good.
They've been making it for 50 years.
All right, Trish, what is like the go to custard order here at Hank's?
It would definitely be the cookie dough flurry.
We sell a ton of them.
Okay.
That sounds really good.
Can you show me how to make it?
Absolutely.
All right.
I can tell you what to do here.
Spoonful of cookie dough.
Oh.
Theres cookie, Oh, look at the cookie dough.
Fun.
Oh, that looks great.
And just right in?
Right in there.
Right in.
Okay.
And then we're going to do a flat scoop.
Just so its flat.
Oh, nice.
That's so smooth too.
Yeah.
And it's made it fresh every day.
You know you want to maybe smack the cup, Okay.
so it settles down in there.
Yes.
Another scoop.
One more of these.
Oh one more okay.
And we're gonna flatten it over top.
Thats a lot of custard.
Okay.
And then one more scoop of cookie dough.
Okay.
Yes.
And that's it.
That is our cookie dough flurry.
That looks good.
Dig in.
Thank you.
Thumbs up?
So I actually just finished a cup.
Okay.
Yeah.
I just had the butter pecan.
It was so good.
Their ice cream is just so soft.
And it's just the best.
You have a ton of food options here as well.
You're serving great Mexican food over there.
That's really unique.
How did that start?
Originally started off with nickel burgers and then they just expanded the field.
And now we have a giant Mexican menu as well as an American menu.
The tacos are second to none in my opinion.
In Beaver County, you're not going to get better tacos.
You make these.
Yeah.
Fresh?
Yea we deep-fry them.
Thats so cool.
We want to do the meat so it covers the whole side so you get a bite of meat in every bite.
All right.
Guys, I made a taco.
Look at that.
All right.
That's why you need the foil.
That's so good, Trish.
My grandparents are from New Brighton.
So we always used to come when I was a kid.
And it's just so fun to come back here.
It's local.
Everyone loves it coming after the games getting ice cream with the team after always made the the winning to so much better.
Quality hasn't changed since I was a little kid.
Come on down to Hank's, get some custard and get a taco while you're at it.
They're amazing.
Yeah, tacos are very, very good.
So good.
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