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JANUARY Deja Moo, Ōamaru Let’s gloss over the wacky yet wonderful flavours such as multicoloured unicorn ice cream and get straight to the point: Deja Moo makes ice lollies for dogs. With pooch-preferred creations like seaweed and green-lipped mussel, they’re soy-based and healthy. So good, in fact, owner Shaun Osbourne regularly finds a local lolly-loving dog waiting patiently at his door. Crème de la ice crème: Hoomans can lock lips with sweeter flavours such as Pineapple Lumps.
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Patti’s & Cream, Dunedin Betty is a 1984 Bedford truck, food wagon and the fourwheeled brainchild of Olive Tabor, an ice cream-lover turned creator. Based in Dunedin, Olive specialises in hand-made boutique flavours such as candied pear and blue cheese, as well as ‘London Fog’, an Earl Grey and vanilla hybrid. Track down the truck or head to the new scoop shop on Eglinton Road.
Rush Munro, Hastings A Hastings icon, Frederick Rush Munro dished out his first ice cream in 1926 and opened the Heretaunga Gardens in 1931. His prized roses and ponds can still be enjoyed at Rush Munro’s IceCream Gardens. It’s an absolute must to come here when visiting Hastings, with the queue frequently spilling out onto the street. Crème de la ice crème: Traditional ice cream sundaes made and presented the oldfashioned way.
Crème de la ice crème: One online reviewer described Olive’s mint choc chip as ‘life changing’. LEFT: Ice cream © Louis Hansel • CENTRE: Patti’s & Cream, Dunedin © Hayden Parsons • RIGHT: Eating ice cream © Auckland Unlimited
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