Some history about my obsession with this place...
June 2001 - I head to Hawaii with a couple friends over the summer. While most people indulge in ice cream when it's 70+ degrees outside, I think ice cream is a sweet thing that should be celebrated at any temperature, but even moreso in the hotter months. Being that we were in Hawaii mid-June, we dropped into the nearest place that sold ice cream - Mickey D's. However, it wasn't just any ordinary soft serve at this Mickey D's - it was a new kind of soft serve that came with different flavored syrups! AND, it wasn't just the boring plop of syrup on top of the ice cream (I HATE HATE that because then you only get the syrup for the first couple bites) - the machine dispensed swirls of syrupy goodness as it dispensed the ice cream as well so the syrup was literally swirled throughout the ice cream... you get ice cream + syrup in your first bite and the same flavor for the last bite too! "Mickey D's," I thought, "You genius, you." Needless to say, I had a soft serve cone almost every day there...
June 2001 (one week later) - I drop into the nearest McDonald's to my place to order the syrup-infused soft serve cone and what do I find... IT DOESN'T EXIST?? Was it some special one week deal?? Was it only to be found in Hawaii?? How could something so sweet be taken from me just like that???? I cried myself to sleep that night (okay, maybe I didn't cry, but my tummy sure grumbled like hell going through withdrawals)
Circa 2002 - On the way to Vegas, we make a pit stop at the McDonald's that looks like a train station (I'm guessing Barstow?)... AND THE ICE CREAM IS ON THE MENU!!! "YES! They brought it to California finally" I thought. Turns out, I thought wrong. Still no sign of that syrup-infused soft serve at any of the local Mickey D's near my home.
Summer 2003 - Family from out of town comes and visits, so we make the trip to obligatory trip to Disneyland and DCA (all of our first times to this park)... and alas, the cone is found for the third time at Catch-A-Flave.
And so the butter pecan-infused soft serve and I lived happily ever after.
That was a helluva long story, I know, but I can't tell you the joy I have over this place. This place, Tower of Terror, and Buzz Lightyear are the main reasons I have an annual pass. It would be blasphemous if you went to DCA without stopping by Catch-A-Flave. Blasphemous I tell you!! read more