179 G A R Highway
Swansea, MA 02777
(508) 324-0742
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Date: 7/28/2007
After Mom and I came from seeing the movie Hairspray, we were looking for a cool treat. We attempted to visit Simcock Farm in Swansea, but the lines were extremely long and we didn't feel like waiting around (Simcock is sometimes slow on the service). As we were heading up to Eskimo King, we came across Mister Peepers'. Although we'd been here before, and weren't that crazy about it, we decided that it would suit our ice cream needs for the time being.
We parked in the back and walked around to the front to go inside. Mister Peepers' is a very small home-like building on a busy street corner. Although I never see it packed, I do usually see cars parked along both sides of the tiny house. When Mom and I walked in we were facing a large freezer that housed their specialty ice cream cakes and other cool delights like sundaes and bars. Since we were just there for a soft serve cone, I asked the staffer what the flavors were. She pointed to a sign on the door that advertised about eight different soft serve flavors.
There were two girls working there, and the one that was serving us was quite polite. The other girl was busy moving boxes of stuff around the tiny work area. I ordered a medium mocha cappuccino cone, while Mom ordered a small coffee and cream cup. Both were served up extremely fast, partly because all it was was vanilla ice cream with a "flavor shot" swirled around the edges. It wasn't really coffee or cappuccino ice cream. Although I didn't notice the individual prices, the total came to $5.36 for both treats.
The ice cream was good. It was cool, smooth, creamy, and just what we were looking for on a hot day. My cone had hints of mocha cappuccino, but you could tell it was just plain vanilla ice cream with a kick. Mom's "coffee" cup tasted like a rich vanilla ice cream with a heavy coffee swirl. She said it actually tasted too much like coffee syrup. Although both were delicious, neither knocked us over with the taste. We love ice cream, and it certainly served its purpose in cooling us off. However, we've had better.
We'd been to Mister Peepers' before, and I also visited this place with my sister. On our first visit we ordered two large swirl cones. They tasted so much like frosting that Mom and I both got sick afterwards from the nauseating sweetness. My sister, who loves all things frosting, thought it was the most delicious thing she's ever tasted.
Although they have shakes, sundaes, cones, cups, and other treats, their main advertisement is their ice cream cakes. I'd like to give them a try, but I'm a little skeptical. I love ice cream as much as the next person, but there is such a thing as "too sweet," and Mister Peepers' seems to hit that nail right on the head. I wish I could have given it a higher rating, but like I said, to us it wasn't anything special.