Jim's Ice Cream Barn (Salem NH)

This last day before they closed (What a shame, especially since across the street, Jay Gee's ice cream is staying open till December), I decided to squeeze some time in for a swirl at this so-called "barn", and have a try at their ice cream.  This doesn't look like a barn at all, but actually a building, despite calling this a "barn", where it's more like a yellow building with a wierd looking diagnal thing on it, from the ice cream entrance to another store on the upper floor.

Now, I would call this a "yellow house", so Jim could rename this to the "Jim's Yellow Ice Cream House", and this would be more of an appropriate thing, since it's a yellow house.  However, I do say that this yellow house fits in with the ice cream theme, and does makes an apperence.  The inside does have it's yellow chairs and tables, which quite interestly, matched the color of WeAllScreamForIceCream's ice cream, which his was a coffee cake ice cream.  My ice cream was a large sundae with three scoops of ice cream, with black magic cheesecake, dinosaur crunch, and peanut butter fudge.  The ice cream was good, though more like Jay Gee's, as it's not as good as Kimball's ice cream.  Speaking of flavers, they were out of half of them as they were taped off by blue tape.

The dinosaur crunch had a blue vanilla flaver in it, with chocolate crunch piece in it, while the peanut butter fudge was self explanitory.  The black magic cheesecake was a cheesecake based ice cream with cookie swirls in it.

Now, I also talked to Jim about the situation since Jay Gee's ice cream went in business actoss the street, and they said that it didn't effect him as of yet.  However, I feel that this may not be the case within a year or two, when new people that come into Salem, NH, and may more likely stop at Jay Gee's then Jim's ice cream barn at the place, simply because this would be the first thing they see as they drive up route 28, which is a more major road, and that this ice cream barn would be more hidden from view, unless they drive up this road that leads up to the barn.

Furthermore, some people may be swayed to try out the other ice cream place after they come out, because every time they leave Jim's ice cream barn, they can see Jay Gee's" ice cream on their way out.  Furthermore, because Jay Gee's across the street would continue to sell ice cream, Jim may change it's mind if Jim see's Jay Gee's ice cream continue to sell ice cream very well while his ice cream place is closed during October, November, and December.  That's three months's worth of lost potential.

Yup, that's Jay Gee's ice cream right from the view facing away from Jim's ice cream place, clearly visible just behind the gas station, potentially making Jim embarrest after he sees that ice cream place open while his ice cream closed in the fall.  I'm not sure why Jim decided to close this place down this early, but that was a really bad idea of doing so.  Maybe Jim may keep this place open till December next year once he realized that ice cream is still sellable during the winter months.

As far as Kimball's farm is concerned, Yes, one of the employees there tried to convince Peter and Mike Kimball to sell ice cream during the winter, but I say, keep buzzing Mike and Peter to continue ice cream service throughout the winter.  Maybe they will learn if Jay Gee's extended ice cream season is successful.

Jim's Ice Cream barn is open from April till September.