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    Pure Water

    4.3 (12 reviews)
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    Henry M.

    I was walking into Giorgio's restaurant this morning to pick up my national lasagna day lasagna when I turned to the right and spotted a sign that said Thrifty's Ice Cream. I was like Whaaaat?!? So I made a detour and walked over and noted that there was construction going on inside. Standing outside was the owner Jacob and inside sitting down was his mother, Alma. We got to taking...... he said that they are open even though they are doing some construction. He told me that they plan on serving milkshakes in the near future. I asked him how he managed to be selling Thrifty Ice Cream because Thrifty's is pretty much defunct now? He stated that he believes Monster energy drink bought them and that he was able to go through a lot of hoops to be able to franchise the Thrifty's Ice Cream brand from them. ANYWAYS he let me sample some of the flavors and I ended up getting my one scoop of childhood favorite "Rocky Road" and a scoop of Peacon Praline. Wifey also got 2 scoops. Total cost $16.64, getting to relive childhood memories $ Priceless! $ The flavors was just as I remembered them! Only the price has changed "I paid $.05 for one scoop $.10 for two and .15 for 3 in the late 60's to mid 70's can anyone else remember pay 5 cents for a scoop of ice cream!!? Boy how times have changed. Lol!!! AGAIN...ANYWAYS: if you're in the shopping center on Foxworthy, they are located between Zenato's family market and Giorgio's pizzeria right down the way from Mings Garden restaurant. They also sell filtered water.

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    Mumtaz P.

    It was so cool finding this throw back to my childhood. The prices were so cheap back in the day so we expected low prices - NOT so. We got 3 waffle cones with two scoops each. It was $30. The server was and gave samples. There is construction happening in 1/3 of the store so the ice cream case was backwards making it hard to read the flavors. They were when out of order and mislabeled. It's lacking of ambiance. It has an unfinished feel to it, even before the construction started.

    Triples, just like my bypasses!
    Glen N.

    I'm one of those dudes who says, "I remember when a triple at Thrifty's was 35 cents". Which means, of course, I play pickleball and sleeping hurts. So, for the last 50 years I have been eating Thrifty ice cream, especially when I was angry, or hungry, or happy, or any of the seven dwarves, really. And you can imagine how many things I wanted to kick when Rite Aids closed down and you could only find Thrifty ice-cream in the freezer department. Lucky for me, my algorithm knows I eat ice cream for dinner, so I got a notice on Facebook that a rando water store is selling Thrifty's ice cream by the scoop. I made the thumbs up emoji and the heart emoji and the diabetes emoji. Now, I could have bought pints of each of these flavors for the same price, but there's just something nostalgic about getting someone else's wrist hair in my ice cream. So, yes, I went down there, and got my ice cream, I got my ice cream, you can not have none, you can not have none... Oh, wait, I guess you can. The bad news is, it's $3.50 a scoop. A triple is $10.50. That is a 2900% increase. Someone Elon Musk on this. For that much money, you can go to Salt and Straw and get some deluxe ice cream, but, then again, do you really want rosewater, Beecher's cheese, and balsamic on your ice cream like it's the dessert round in Chopped? Maybe not.

    My son enjoying his cotton candy ice cream. He's been treasuring the box we got to go for the last week like it's gold.
    Monique P.

    My son really wanted to try the Thrifty Ice Cream of our youth and I randomly came across this place on yelp one day. He was so excited to try it and loved it so much and my black cherry scoop was just as good as I remembered it (if not better - since it didn't have the chunks of ice from the scoopers of my youth). The little grandma working there is the sweetest and my son asks to go back every day. Unfortunately we don't live super close by so we got a quart to go and he's been treasuring it like gold for the last week!

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    4.3 mi•Little Saigon, King and Story, East San Jose

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