Regina Horn holds a sample cup of ice cream for her dog, Boogerman Horn, to eat at the Chattanooga Market’s Ice Cream Social Day, a fundraiser for the Chambliss Children’s Center, on Sunday in Chattanooga. Participants gave a $5 donation to sample five varieties of ice cream.VENDORS• Baskin-Robbins• Blue Bell• The Ice Cream Show• Mayfield• Milk & Honey• Nana’s Frozen CustardCREAM OF THE CROP• Best Pure Flavor: Nana’s Frozen Custard “Orange Dream”• Best Flavor with Inclusion: Milk & Honey, blueberry-buttermilk
Mint-green and milky-orange blobs of melted ice cream were starting to accumulate on the floor around Duane Olcsvary’s giant ice cream truck.
Families and farmers alike swarmed to a row of frozen treat vendors Sunday at the Chattanooga Market’s eighth annual ice cream social, and the afternoon humidity made the 1-ounce scoops even sweeter.
“Compared to the other vendors, we have nothing to complain about,” Olcsvary said while tapping the roof’s air-conditioner. “We’ve got 12,000 BTUs right here. We’re good.”
Olcsvary, the owner of Nana’s Frozen Custard in Hixson, takes pride in his repurposed 1982 Chevrolet B-30 shop truck.