Blue Moon Ice Cream

  Posted on February 22, 2010  by Leslie Blythe  7 comments

I grew up in Goshen / Elkhart Indiana. I have many food memories. One of my favorite things was Blue Moon ice cream that I used to get at a diner called Ray’s near my mother’s interior design shop. This ice cream was to me, heaven in a cone.  It was too delicious to be able to describe properly.

We moved from Indiana to Los Angeles in 1975. I was fourteen and about to enter high school. Not a great time to move. I was in that very awkward teenage phase.  Now, I’m in an awkward middle-aged phase. Anyway, years later I went back to Ray’s (before it closed). I asked to speak to the manager. I told him that I have lived on the east and west coasts and searched everywhere for Blue Moon ice cream to no avail. I asked him what the flavor was. He told me that it was French vanilla colored blue. My heart sank!

Blue moon ice cream has a unique flavor and coloring that has been described as similar to cotton candy, fruit loops, or tropical sherbert. The color of blue moon ice cream can be referred to as robins egg blue or cerulean and is added through food coloring. The unique coloring also gave blue moon ice cream the nickname of “Smurf” ice cream. This sweet ice cream is popular in the mid-west, United States.

I would give anything to get my hands on some!