Get Your Licks In

As global temperatures climb, Del Mar business have a solution: iced treats. Saffron and Rose carrying Persian ice cream recently opened, An’s Hatmakers offers gelato, Seaside Yogurt serves frozen yogurt and soon Häagen-Dazs will be ready to round out the number to four on Camino Del Mar between 12^th and 13^th Streets. Häagen-Dazs could have been called Reuben and Rose after the Polish immigrant ice cream maker, Reuben Mattus and his wife who started making vanilla, chocolate and coffee flavors in the Bronx, NY, in 1960 but opted instead for the “Scandinavian inspired” name of Häagen-Dazs. The brand has rolled through various controlling owners through the years including General Mills (still in charge of Häagen-Dazs outside the US). It is now a part of Dreyer’s Grand Ice Cream Co., an offshoot of Froneri, a company that, looking to the future of our warming planet, through mergers and acquisitions has busily scooped up ice cream makers world wide. Today those original three Häagen-Dazs ice cream flavor choices number more than 50. Stay cool. There are and will be plenty of places to get your licks in.