People come to get ice cream because they're celebrating something, or they come because they've had a really bad da and they need to make it better.

Either way, the end result is to spark joy, to bring that happiness.

We got an ice cream maker for our wedding and which is really great.

It's a lovely present, but I'm lactose intolerant, so I hemmed and hawedabout it, apparently too much.

And my wife said either return the ice cream maker or figure it out.

So I figured it out.

And at that time, this was 2013.

Craft ice cream was just kind of becoming a thing.

And it was beautifu flavors, really good sourcing, really good dairy.

But I couldn't eat any of it.

So that's what I wanted to create.

Anything with our name on it is lactose free, including all of the inclusions.

So all the things that go in the ice cream to flavor them, whether it's a fudge sauce or a caramel sauce or a crumble of any kind, all of that is also lactose free.

At our scoop shop, we do offer two dairy free scoops for folks who are either vega or have actual dairy allergies.

I had a full time job and my wife and I started this together.

We both had full time jobs, but we found a lot of resistance, not necessarily in the market, but in sourcing.

So talking to paper suppliers who insinuated that this is a fun hobby for me and wondering what my husband does.

So I got that a lot.

Just the first few years, an then I really learned to discern who was going to work with me and work for me on behalf of women owned company, be able to take direction from a woman and be told no by a woman.

So that was some hard waters to navigate.

But I think, you know, as we grew as we got a name for ourselves, you know, as always, you have to work twice as hard to get a half as far.

Once we got, you know, a bigger name, we were able to kind of pick and choose who we wanted to work with.

And, you know, afte leaving a corporate environment, I, you know, my wife and I started this company so we could work with the people we wanted to work with and not have to deal with the people that we were forced to deal with.

We always divide our flavors into fruit flavors, non-fruit flavors.

Flavors with chunks and chocolate versus vanilla flavors.

We offer samples of everything that we have in the case.

You're welcome to try anything you want.

Now, this is very, very good.

It's very rich like you.

Right?

And I'm like I can really taste the vanilla.

Absolutely.

Our mint ice cream is made with fresh mint leaves that we actually gro at our kitchen in Wilkinsburg.

Now Ive had mint ice cream befo this is very minty like, very fresh, often chewing like bubblegum.

Yes, yes, but it's not like toothpaste.

Mint.

Not toothpaste, but it's fresh.

The Italian rainbow cookie.

Have you ever heard of this?

Never heard of it.

Okay, so Italian rainbow cookies sometimes are called like tri draculaura.

They're three layers of an almond cake with jam in the middle and chocolate on the outside, and an almond base.

I'm going to take that one.

Okay?

If you like that one.

I like that one.

Yeah.

Good good good.

Oh, yeah.

Very rich.

This is very good though.

Yes.

Yeah.

I've never really been the biggest fan of chocolate, but sometimes chocolate doesn't have a lot of flavor.

This is a lot of flavor.

Yeah, yeah.

All of your ice cream.

Very, very flavorful and rich.

Thank you.

Yeah, I give that a nine ou of ten for chocolate ice cream.

That's great.

I'll take it.

And then what we always do is we'll pour half.

And part of the fun is just adding more.

Okay.

As you drink it dow and mix it with the ice cream.

And then we serve it, you know, with that and then the, the pop mixe with the ice cream, it gets like little frozen bits of root beer on to the ice cream.

And I just I think that's stellar.

Bring back so many memories where I'm like, I'm telling my mom is all that.

And that's part of you know, what we want to happen here is that element of play, the fun, the creativity.

And you know you're technically playing with your food.

And I think that's great.

Okay.

So thank you so much for having me.

Thank you.

Amazing.

The ice cream is very very very good.

And I highly recommend that you come to LA on ice cream.

Thank you so much for coming to our house and trying our ice cream.

And, yeah, we're we're always happy to have you come back.

Oh.

You bet.

Bring a friend.