Wagon Creamery "Loaded Stackers"

The "Loaded Stackers" I noticed on my previous visit to Wagon Creamery were still on my mind so I made a special visit just to try one. Turns out they're on a printed menu now, not just on the display screen, though that may just be so that people don't have to turn sideways to see their choices while ordering, since it's now taped down right on the counter.

I was in the mood for something crunchy so the Crushed Waffle version looked right, though the Reese's Pieces was a tempting second choice. They only had Vanilla soft serve (no chocolate and no twist), and I went with hot fudge and chocolate jimmies. It turns out that it takes a lot of work to build - not a problem, it was a slow evening anyway. That's a big difference between this and the "untrademarked weather-themed soft-serve product" most places have - for a flurry, you just throw everything in and push the button and it's mixed. I didn't see any helpful tools for building the Stacker - the server just added ice cream, "stuff", more ice cream, more "stuff", carefully by hand. (This also suggests you could customize it a bunch, though I didn't ask - at very least the fixed menu helps avoid Analysis paralysis.)

That's a bunch of crunchy stuff - waffle cone bits, waffle cone ends, biscoff cookie, chocolate jimmies. From the top it's a nicely decorated ice cream, basically a sundae in a cup…

From the side, you can see that there's "stuff" all the way down. Looks like the hot fudge went in first, along the sides, but there are visibly crunch bits all the way down.

Working through it, it gets a little bit less packed after the top level, but only a little. At this point I realized this was basically the soft-serve version of something like Ben & Jerry's "Americone Dream" - or for the older readers, "Steve's" (in Harvard Square) Mixins - crunchy stuff thoroughly mixed in as if it were part of the flavor. (Mixins were even more labor intensive, because you started with a couple of scoops of hard ice cream and an undergrad "Scooper" with issues to work out - add your chosen mix-ins and a bunch of two-fisted violence and you had what was basically a custom flavor!)

There was still crunchy stuff at the very bottom. All in all it's a big dessert (the same 16oz drink cups we saw at Dribbles which are still great for photography!) but also a surprisingly satisfying for something based on soft-serve.