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    DJ M.

    There are very few ways to enter my home town of Johnstown, Pa. and entering Bedford County and driving up over the Pleasantville mountain is the most convenient and direct route for us. The Cow is located on this same route 56 and they have been there since I was a very young girl, so we are talking many moons ago. They started as a roadside soft serve ice cream stand and they have added on and grown to become so much more than soft serve ice cream. You could always get some of the creamiest, dense and best tasting soft serve in the way of a cone, a sundae or a milkshake. This ice cream is real, nothing plastic or artificial tasting about it. Today, you name it, they have it in the way of ice cream treats, smoothies, yogurts, dipped or swirled and the varieties of flavors are so numerous compared to the chocolate or vanilla choices that we had as kids. Their huge windows are plastered with pictures of all the treats they offer that you could spend an hour deciding which treat to have and then in what flavor. Attached to this ice cream building is another building which has a lengthy menu of burgers, hot dogs, rib eye sandwiches, fish sandwiches or fish and chips, chicken, fried shrimp, fries, fried veggies, salads and so much more. Their food is tasty and much better than you can get at a fast food chain. Dining is to go or eat at one of the outside tables and if you do grab a burger and fries first, for heavens sake leave room for ice cream. This last time that we did not drive by I had a vanilla orange swirl, the ice cream is beyond rich and creamy and the orange swirl made it taste better than any orange creamsicle I have had. They have many flavor combinations for the swirl cones and I am so glad that I asked for a small because she built me a filled cone with a six inch top. Holy Cow, well honey I may as well just have smeared that right on my hips, but it felt so good going down.

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    Randy L.

    i came expecting to pet the cow. the cow was nowhere to be seen. will not come back. they do not have a cow. we want the cow. i wonder what the cows name is. we want the cow. if i had the option i would name him steven. that is a good name for the cow. lord praise the cow

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    1 month ago

    Had a hamburger meal was good. The soft serve ice cream is delicious. Had the black raspberry.

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    4 months ago

    Food was excellent. Service was even better! My grandson Julian and I had a great time chowing down on the cream!

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    3 years ago

    Prices are comparable for the convenience and food is hot and very good quality . Definitely love going every summer .

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    Good food great atmosphere but it would be nice if you didn't have to wait 45 minutes for you order.

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    They started as a roadside soft serve ice cream stand and they have added on and grown to become so much more than soft serve ice cream.

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    The Igloo Soft Freeze

    The Igloo Soft Freeze

    4.3(6 reviews)
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    Go to the other location. We came here looking for the igloo, not realizing there are two…read morelocations, and were sorely disappointed. We're from out of town so we weren't able to drive other to the other location instead. Soft and hard ice cream. A few different soft flavors, Perry's hard ice cream, and all your traditional accoutrements (like dips and sprinkles). They make their own waffle cones, so those were quite good. There's a drive-thru too, which I'm sure is especially nice for rainy days. The pretzel cone sounded good as a unique alternative and the tea-berry soft serve was quite good from the taste that I had. I think our total (for two waffle cones) was ~$10 and the soft serve twist had much less chocolate than vanilla in it.

    I'll make this short and sweet…read more.. The Igloo is really quite unique in they make their own waffle cones and ice cream sandwiches using either a chocolate cake, vanilla, oreo cookies or graham crackers, you choose the filling. If you do not want to fill an in house made waffle cone, they also have sugar cones, pretzel cones, chocolate chip cones and the traditional baked cake cones. They have thirty seven flavors to make a flurry, twenty nine plus to make a shake, twenty two varieties of sundaes, not including the banana split or the brownie boat split and what's an upsplit? They make smoothies, slushies, lattes, mochas, sno cones, ice cream sodas and ice cream floats. They will dip your cone in chocolate, peanut butter, blue raspberry, root beer or banana and then fill it with a nice selection of soft serve or homemade hand dipped ice cream in over thirty flavors. They also offer several lactose free hand dipped ice creams. For the frozen yogurt fans they offer a handful of flavors to choose from. The give a little more than The Cow does and charge a little less. http://www.yelp.com/biz/the-cow-alum-bank Both places serve the real deal and both are very good, the Cow offers food and the Igloo does not. The Igloo has two locations, one located in Everett and one in New Paris, really no more than a fifteen minute drive between the two of them. They are open seven days per week, including holidays, March thru October. I had just eaten a large lunch and even had a people bag, but I felt it was my Yelp duty to stop and try their flavor of the day, which was a homemade hand dipped orange and pineapple ice cream, so fruity and creamy with chunks of pineapple throughout. I had to bite the ice cream to eat it because it was so chunky. Delicious stuff, my teeth hurt!

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    Chocolate dip twist in a homemade chocolate-dipped waffle cone with nuts

    The Cow - juicebars - Updated September 2026

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