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Ohio Certainly on Map as Ice Cream-Loving State

Ohio Certainly on Map as Ice Cream-Loving State

January 30, 2024 03:01pm

Fact Checked by Pat McLoone

As the weather heats up, so will the sale of ice cream. Whether you prefer soft serve, Mint Chip, or Cherry Garcia, everyone has a favorite.

And if you love ice cream, one of the best states to love it is Ohio, which nearly cracked the Top 10 of our ice cream-loving states chart.

BetOhio.com took a break from covering sports betting in Ohio to evaluate the states that most love ice cream.

To do so, we used Google Trends to determine the search volume for ice cream, as well as popular flavors of ice cream, in each state between April 21, 2022 and April 21, 2023. A point system was created, assigning a rating between 1 and 50 for overall ice cream searches, as well as searches for the top three flavors: chocolate, vanilla and strawberry.

After we added up the numbers, here are some results you won’t find on any Ohio betting apps:

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Most Ice Cream Crazy States

Rank, state	Overall search volume	Chocolate	Vanilla	Strawberry	Total
1 New Hampshire	50	46	32	45	173
2 Utah	40	45	47	26	158
3 Delaware	38	47	49	18	152
4 Connecticut	47	35	32	37	151
5 Maine	49	37	42	20	148
6 Massachusetts	48	41	21	32	142
T7 Maryland	37	28	34	39	138
T7 New Jersey	43	42	28	25	138
9 Michigan	41	36	25	29	131
10 South Carolina	42	25	15	48	130
11 Ohio	44	40	11	31	126
12 Pennsylvania	46	39	20	15	120
13 Indiana	35	23	21	26	105
14 Illinois	39	29	9	35	92
15 Rhode Island	45	13	29	4	91
16 New York	36	18	8	13	75

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Ohio Is Legit as Ice Cream State

You know how some states have distillery trails or golf trails, The Buckeye State actually has an Ohio Ice Cream Trail, which boasts of the state’s 2,200 dairy farms and hundreds of unique ice cream shops. The Ice Cream Trail highlights 20 of them and covers the entire state. (Apologies if any of them were victims of the pandemic. Check for opening day and hours at some locations.) Our survey may look at chocolate, vanilla, strawberry, but let’s get serious. When you have hundreds of flavors to choose from, take a chance.

Greaters, out of Cincinnati and best known for its Raspberry Chocolate Chip, might be the state’s biggest name as its ice creams can be found in supermarkets around the country, but Jeni’s, from Columbus, also has a profile that extends beyond the Buckeye State. So does Handel’s, which has ice cream stores in 11 states.

As for the other spots on our Ohio Ice Cream Adventure, we’re taking them in a more sensible driving order than the Ice Cream Trail map lays out, but you can really start anywhere. We’re starting in Sandusky at Taft’s. Try the farm fresh ice cream after you ride one of Cedar Point’s stomach-dropping roller coasters. You don’t need the ice cream to churn twice.

Head east to Cleveland, and there’s Sweet Moses Soda Fountain, Mason’s Creamery, Mitchell’s Homemade, and the Honey Hut, all offering their own unique flavors and concoctions. In nearby Northfield Center, there’s Rosati’s Frozen Custard, which offers around 150 more soft-serve flavors than your nearby Dairy Queen or Carvel.

Further east in Youngstown, Handel’s Homemade has been scooping creamy, cold treats for 75 years and claims to make its ice cream fresh daily. So, it’s not Baskin-Robbins.

Southwest in Canton, there’s Milk & Honey, which also makes its own chocolate, if you want a really homemade sundae. A bit further southwest in Wooster, there’s the Hartzler Family Dairy and its peanut butter Heifer Trails flavor. Next head south to Utica and Velvet Ice Cream. Instead of on a farm or in a shopping mall, Velvet is in a 200-year-old mill. Cool digs.

Still heading south, there’s Tom’s Ice Cream Bowl in Zanesville. The portions here are mighty so you might want to take a break (or a walk) before heading farther south to Athens and the original Whit’s Frozen Custard. Want to stay closer to Bexley to make the next stop a shorter drive? Whit’s has locations throughout Ohio.

In Bexley, there’s Johnson’s Real Ice Cream, home of the Fudgie Dessert, featuring cake from Resch’s Bakery in Columbus. That’s the next stop, where you can taste the aforementioned Jeni’s Splendid (assuming you didn’t already hit the Cleveland location),

Now we head west to Young’s Jersey Dairy in Yellow Springs, where you can burn some calories in the batting cage or amuse the children with mini-golf or a petting zoo after you stuff your faces.

Now we’re off to Cincinnati in the southwest corner of Ohio for a taste of Greater’s and the exotic flavors of Aglamesis Brothers.

The next leg is the longest drive of the tour, a solid two hours from Cincy to Celina, and the Lake City Creamery. Pear Riesling Sorbet as a palate cleanser before trying the Bananas Foster? Sounds worth the drive.

North to Delphos to The Creamery, a favorite for both soft-serve and traditional scoops. Then we head east for Dietsch Brothers in Findlay, where you can even get your ice cream in slices to go.

Twenty locations, and at least 15,000 calories. Please eat responsibly.

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Ohio Comes in 11th

Even with that impressive Ice Cream Trail, Ohio only came in 11^th in our survey.

As with some others states, an aversion to vanilla appears to have dropped the score. That took away from an impressive 44^th for overall search volume.

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Author

Howard Gensler

@DNTattle

Howard Gensler is a veteran journalist who’s worked at the Philadelphia Daily News, TV Guide and the Philadelphia Inquirer and is a founding editor of bettorsinsider.com.

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