Jay Gee's Ice Cream

Another place where WeAllScreamForIceCream has never mentiened about it yet, it's a place located off Route 93, just a couple of exits north of route 495.  Could this potentially rival Kimball Farm?  Well, certainly, history of this place is very similer to that of Kimballs, except that this place was only around since 1982, unlike Kimballs, which was around since 1939.

Certainly, this place has a very similer concept as Kimballs, as this, like Kimballs is an entertainment place with the central attraction being the ice cream stand.  Like Kimballs, I can just go here just for a late night ice cream, or perhaps spend a day here having fun.  Speaking of ice cream, this place serves a mammoth sundae called the Mt. Washington sundae.  I didn't have it today, but I will challenge that sundae later on.  I do believe that the mammoth sundae could rival that of the Ziggy Piggy ice cream that was eaten at Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure.

There ARE similarities once you go out back to where the activities are.  There's the mini golf course,  there are the batting cages, and there is the arcades.  The mini golf course, however, is only 18 holes, compared to 36 course played at Kimballs, in which it's actually two 18-hole course blended together.

Now for something that's very different then the one at Kimballs.  The arcade place is quite a bit more updated, and they have a cool bumper cars located in the arcade room.  Basically, it's a little like bumper boats, but instead of water, you are riding on a concrete floor, and is driven by pulling the lever forward or backwards.  I'm sure that if Kimball sees it, they would finally update the arcade place and add the bumper cars in it.  On the outside, they also have go-cart tracks, one of which it's a normal drive along tracks, and the other one, is the slick track, which is smaller, but you slide all over the place.  The wait is long, though, so be prepared to wait in line for some time before taking a drive on the tracks.  The things that Jay Gee's doesn't have, however, is a country store, a grill shack, and a driving range/pitch and putt course, as well as animal adventures.  But on the other hand, it has limited space, and a Salem location has opened up, so who knows what expansion Salem will have.

Now, getting back to the ice cream.  This place has 57 hard-scooped flavers, one sherbet, which is watermelon, 3 no-sugar ice creams, and 8 rotating seasonal flavers.  Currently, three of them, eggnog, pumpkin, and apple crisp, is currently in use.  I ordered the brownie sundae this time, with pumpkin and apple crisp ice cream.  This sundae LOOKS big, but as I bite in to it, I noticed that this thing is like 50 percent cool whip.

Not only that, I was FIGHTING the cool whip before it melted off and fell all over.  As I finally reached the ice cream, after eating a pound of cool whip, I noticed a wierd orange ice cream.  I was like, hmmmm, is this apple crisp or pumpkin.  It must be pumpkin, since the second ice cream had a bit of a crunch in it.  So I don't remember the pumpkin being THAT orange.  But the taste wasn't that bad, like it wasn't like just ice colored water.

But comparing this place, there are things I like Kimballs better, as I can go there for lunch and even buy some stuff at the country store.  However, this place does has more fast-pased entertainment, and more variety of flavers of ice cream.  Thankfully, Kimballs and Jay Gee's is about a half an hour apart, so if you are traveling up from I-495, then you can stop by at Kimballs for a hamburger before heading up here.  Otherwise, you may have to stop at a burger place or order out something.  Let's hope that they do allow people to bring outside food into the premise.  Maybe in the future, they can start adding luncheon foods to the place.  But Jay Gee's ice cream could possibly compete with Kimballs.