What People Are Saying About Glen's Frozen Custard
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The Scene – Sometimes the local little league team is there after a game, the players jumping up and down while they wait for their cones. On weekends, the families and couples on dates stop by for a sundae or a shake. It's been a tradition for decades. – – Frozen Treats – The three huge Electro-freez machines plop real frozen custard (only the family knows the recipe) into cups and cones. Not hard-frozen, it's more like Dairy Queen without the air pump, thick and rich. Two of the machines are dedicated to vanilla and chocolate, the third rotates flavors…
05/23/07
Best Frozen Treat in America!
by byronwv
I was one of the many Little Leaguers who went to Glen's for frozen custard after the games in the early 1960's. Today I live hundreds of miles away in a different state, and I travel back and forth across America on business frequently. In all my travels I have never found anything that is better than Glen's frozen custard. Never. It simply is the best, and anytime I am anywhere near Pittsburgh I drive to Glen's and enjoy. My only criticism is that the owners never franchised this business so as to give all of America the benefit of this frozen piece of heaven. My favorite: chocolate. My mother's dying request (I kid you not): a peach frozen custard from Glen's.
04/08/06
Love the Custard
by pghfoodnazi
I wasn't exactly sure what real frozen custard was before I went to Glenn's. It simply looked like soft serve ice cream. The taste and texture, however, was something much more wonderful. Soft, creamy, smooth and thick with a rich flavor are more words than I would have ever imagined using to describe vanilla in my life. None of the air and icy grittiness one is accustomed to in a DQ-style soft serve.
Spring is here, and soon I will be heading back to Glenn's after a long custard-free winter.
- Pros: ample parking, fast service
07/29/02
worth the trip!
by chipper
Just about 20 minutes up Route 28 a couple miles off the Cheswick exit(watch out for Chessie, the purple elephant on the left and just up over the rise as you come into Springdale sits Glen's Custard. I'm almost 40 and I can't remember a time when there wasn't a Glen's. In recent years they've added healthier choices like frozen yogurt and they do a gourmet hard ice cream. But stay with the classic custard---whatever flavor works for ya. My personal favorite: Maple walnut sundae with butterscotch custard. Be creative. Then grab a dozen glenwiches(yummy vanilla between 2 crispy chocolate cookies.) Hands down the best ice cream sandwich you will ever have. Then loosen your belt and head back to The Burgh fully enGlenned and knowing one day you WILL be back. (Trust me, it calls your name and they ship anywhere!)
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