The Soft-Served History of Carvel Ice Cream
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- čas přidán 21. 07. 2024
- Weird History Food is going to give you a frosty treat this summer with History of Carvel Ice Cream. Founded by a Greek Immigrant, Tom Carvel, he is considered to be the creator of soft-serve ice cream. If you grew up on the East Coast, you know who Fudgie the Whale, Cookie Puss, and a host of other ice cream cake characters are. Get to this video before it melts, and explore the history of Carvel's.
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Growing up in Canada, I never got to taste a Carvel cake, but grew up with the commercials. When they'd come on, all the kids would fall silent and hold our breath for a moment...They were an impossible dream for us Canuck kids.
When I moved to Maine in my 20's, I finally got one for my birthday, and I was giddy as a schoolkid. I sent a picture to my brother, back home in Canada, and I swear he didn't speak to me for a good 6 months.
I never saw one on Maine but I grew up rural area. I just remember the 30ROCK episode with the black card
I finally tried Carvel in Canada in the mid 90s. In Mississauga, Ontario there was one franchise. Didn't last too long but ya i watched the commercials on Buffalo tv in the 80s.
Let’s appreciate that Athanasios, whose name is Greek for ‘immortal,’ was told he had tuberculosis but didn’t die. Legend.
Calling John Green! @vlogbrothers, yet another way TB shaped the world.
If you were a kid growing up and did not have Cookie Puss as your B-day cake, your party was immediately lame and no one wanted to come back....we had a Carvel in my hometown right next to a movie theater, it was a sad day when they both closed...thanks Target.
We still have carvel near by and the cakes are everywhere in supermarkets
You know what weird history I want? I want a video on the history of this narrator. I love this guy and I want to know more
I love these types of narrators, reminds me of Grunge Guy and WatchMojo Lady who did start showing her face.
The Narrator is Tom Blank.
If you’ve never had a Fudgie the Whale cake, you missed out big time! Those things were _awesome!_
I would love to have had one, but unfortunately...
Yeah really great times and also in this video around 11:11 that cake design seems way offensive to people today and sure it wouldn't be allowed now seems like it's either the 70's and 80's along with that black card permits really Lindsay Lohan ruined that among the notorious antics she went through.
@@AverageCZcamsr76 Yeah so true though those designs and the history of this business really was something that can't be duplicated today and also for some of those designs like in !!:11 and that black card offer that Lindsay Lohan ruined it was some great times.
they referenced this is Venture Bros, during the treaty signing summit, they had a fudgie the whale cake 'have a whale of a summit'
Maybe Tom wasn't wrong about McDonald's. Their ice cream machines are always broken XD
Was thinking the same thing
It's a family joke every year that we "threaten" my mom with a Fudgie the Whale cake. Also, Patton Oswalt has a great standup set about Tom Carvel
Don't forget mentions of them on the Howard Stern Show! Does Fred still give his mom a Cookie Puss on Mother's Day?
In my 74-year, coast-to-coast and border-to-border quest for the best, Carvel vanilla soft-serve is, hands down, my preferred ice cream as the basis for chocolate ice cream sodas and chocolate malted milks.
I want to give them another chance and try them again.
What’s an iconic place. I guess I got unlucky at a scuba shop at an airport.
Yes I grew up seeing the Carvel cakes in the freezer and always begging my mom or grandmother to get me one
They are nice though one of those designs I noticed would never be OK! or made today since that looks like something out of black face around the 11:11-14 mark since if you had that kind of cake and shown it now I'd really worry about being killed or having that cake thrown in your face.
My wife and I still get a carvel cake for our birthdays 🎉and we’re 62!
Way to make me crave a soft serve ice cream at 8:30 on a Sunday morning lol 😂 🍦
My dad worked in the carvel factory up in New York back in the late 60s early 70s. He said old man carvel was meaner than hell. He’d visit the factory and fire people on a dime. Any time he’d see a cake in the grocery store he’d mention how much of an asshole he was.
I kinda get that vibe off him.
Yeah cause celebrities can’t afford to buy their own ice cream, it would have been so much better to hold a game and have people win the cards.
They probably hoped that the celebs would help promote the product, only people ought to know celebs and most people can't be trusted with such things
Another awesome Weird History Sunday! It's cool to learn more about Carvel. If you can, I would to see another video about icecream and/or birthday cakes!
Thank you Mr Carvel.For Making My Childhood Memorable.
As someone from Texas, this is the first time that I have ever heard of Carvel Ice Cream
So do the jokes about Carvel in shows like the Simpsons or Family Guy go right over your head?
On our 1 year wedding anniversary. I actually baked and decorated our cake into the Simpsons version of the whale cake😂.
“To a Whale of A Wife”.
It was amazing.
@leelalo6625-you like to live dangerously, don't you? 🤣
My favourite CZcams narrator
He's better than the Watch mojo girl they use
@@OhSoNastyNah.
@@OhSoNastyI don’t even watch the videos with the other narrator. She just doesn’t give off the same vibes.
Same it feels like watching a legit show on cable TV
@@MiyakoPisces4.0You're in the minority.
My dad hated Tom Carvel’s voice on the commercials. Don’t know why, but it drove him nuts. Also, don’t know if it’s an urban legend or not, but they said if you signed up for the “Carvel birthday club” they would send your information to the Selective Service to make sure you were registered for the draft.
The selective services rarely arrest people for failure to register ever since the after math of Vietnam so there's so there's no very little reason to register anymore unless you really intend to join and serve the military
I'm fascinated by that final clip of The Parent Trap from "Dinsey" released in 2998! Maybe a lifetime's supply of Carvel ice cream preserved Lindsay Lohan for 900 years??
Just poking fun - I've made many a typo like that myself... I love these videos so much!
Awe.... "Sundae School". How sweet! 👌😉🍨🍦😋😁
I never really heard of Carvel until recently. When Joey Diaz brought it up in one of his bits.
“It’s fudgy the whale oh what a tale” 😂😂😂
I grew up in bucks county Pennsylvania and I have so many good memories of birthdays with fudgie the whale and cookie puss and all of the other fun characters. My wife grew up in Maine and that's where we live now and they didn't have carvela up here. So I have regaled her over the last decade with tales of this place and now I can show her exactly what it's all about. Thank you! Have a great week!
Bucks Co here! My sis and I have one for our bday every year as July babies!
@@kaylafarley167 sweet! I still remember the one that used to be in Quakertown.
Carvel is such a nostalgic hit in the gut 😊😊😊😊😊😊
The story of Carvel is such a wild ride! TBH, it does seem suspicious that Tom Carvel passed away just one day after he sold the company. I feel like there should have been an investigation right away. That secretary seems super shady. Another restaurant history that is a wild ride is Jack In The Box, from being a spin off of Oscar's Drive In, to the Ralston Purina buyout in 1968, to the obscure animated mascots in the 70s, all the craziness of the 80s era, the 1993 E Coli Outbreak, and the modern ads, Jack In The Box has a long and interesting past.
There was a DJ on the old WNEW-AM in New York who, whenever a Carvel commercial would play, would say just before "And now, the winner of the Peabody Award for Diction...Tom Carvel!" Cracked my father up every time he heard that. All the same, I do miss Flying Saucers...last time I had one was probably 30 years ago...
I grew up with Tom Carvel's raspy, recorded-in-a-broom-closet voice.
Now, I got WFH's Tom the narrator.
Less rasp, more sass. 🤘
A+ video!
Very cool history of Carvel!
Lived in NJ for many years and absolutely loved Carvel! You really couldn't find better soft serve elsewhere and the Banana Barge was awesome!
There was one of the little Carvel stands in a parking lot near my grandma’s house in Marine Park (on Nostrand Avenue at the end of Ave P). Now it’s a Yeshiva (I think there may have been condos there first.)
I made make my mom get me a Fudgie the Whale cake for my birthday every year when we lived in New Jersey. When I went back to Jersey for my high school reunion (aged 38) I made my parents find a Carvel so I could get Fudgie again. My mom always teased me and said Fudgie is for kids but I just ignored her!
Anyone here after the boys?
Growing up in Connecticut, Carvel was a childhood staple.
Shout out to you for adding a scene from Legion, this is why I am a subscriber, love this channel.
I ate a Carvel's Ice Cream Cake once, it was so delicious! The history of Carvel's is so interesting, yet the chain is sadly overlooked because of bigger competitors. Speaking of which, I can't wait for a Dairy Queen episode, given the interesting history behind the Texas locations, which had their own western-themed mascots: The Fun Bunch, with Funfighter Mcdoom being their villain.
Car-vel (ahhhh) Ice Cream.
I'm from Westchester county New York.
Carvel ice cream was always a great treat. They called their banana split the Banana Barge.
I never knew any of this history, it was a great treat! 😀
Yo! Where is Cookie Puss at? 🍦
There was a Carvel store in Framingham Ma. Great stuff!
“The Parent Trap” remake was indeed released in the year “2998”. I remember them referencing it as a recent movie in Futurama.
What a nice walk down memory lane❤
I have fond childhood memories of biking with my friend to the local Carvel for ice cream. I loved their ice cream cakes! I wish I had a Carvel nearby today.
3:35 Douglas St. Martin (Doug E. Doug) used an extension chord to put his apartment's electricity to his parent's electricity on the tv series Where I Live (1993).
Oh the memories!!! I'm from Virginia and my dad used to take us to get ice cream; sometimes when it was snowing!!! Carvel was the best; they just don't make them like that...Deeeeeeelicious!!!
I grew up in northern NJ, & there was a Carvel in my town, but also a Friendly’s a few blocks away. I remember my family taking me to Friendly’s more, probably because we could sit down & eat a meal as well as ice cream. I got to have Carvel (usually ice cream cake) every now & then, though, & it was awesome, especially the chocolate “Crunchies” between layers.
"To a whale of a Wife"
I'm from the west coast and I've seen Carvel ice cream cakes in stores, and got to try them twice. They're so good, and probably my favorite ice cream cake
I remember as a kid in the 70's going to Carvel with my dad. We would alternate between Carvel and Dairy Queen. It's funny because I was talking with my friend r about this a few days ago and looked at where the nearest Carvel is. It's over an hour away. At least Dairy Queen is nearby.
Get thee to Baskin Robbins! Real cake and 31 flavors to choose from
@@greywater3186 Also an hour away. I'm not a fan of hard ice cream. I prefer the soft serve.
On the Memorial Day weekend of 1934 in Hartsdale, New York, Greek immigrant Tom Carvel sold his partly melted ice cream after his ice cream truck had a flat tire and just like that, his soft serve ice cream business was born.
How about a video about Friendly’s? Baskin Robbins? I love your videos.
I remember having Carvel cakes when I was younger because of my maternal grandparents. They’re really good. Though I’ve never had the one shaped like a whale.
Maybe Weird History Food should consider doing the history of Tillamook ice cream next.
I have never heard of Carvels before.
Good narration
The controversies are more creamy than the ice cream that they make
Now all I want is a Carvel football cake. So so good with all those choc crunchy pieces.
Hmm yummers
"To A Whale of A Wife"
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Thanks for this! 🍦 #WeirdHistory #IceCream #CarvelIceCream
With the ice cream cakes look SO GOOD! It sucks there aren't any in Canada 😞.
Thank you weird history.
Love carvel ice cream 😊esp the cakes !! Mmm good
I had never heard of Carvel until The Food That Built America. Dairy Queen is the big ice cream chain where I am.
I remember growing up to Carvel ice cream. How funny. I don’t think they’re around much anymore.
It wasn’t until about 10 years ago these became available in grocery stores here in GA. They are ok. Very expensive. For the price, I’d rather make a chocolate wafer icebox cake.
I've lived in georgia my entire life and never seen a carvels or a whale cake in the grocery stores.
Two mentions of CT in this one, migrating here and In a cutaway a Hamden CT van
We dont have Carvel in Texas so I've only heard of them from a old Family Guy joke
Future video topic suggestion: Friendly's ice cream - specifically their Yule logs/Jubilee logs.
Can't think of Carvel without thinking of Patton Oswalt's bit about Tom Carvel, who "had a voice like Tom Waits gargling hot asphalt".
Carvel is awesome, do a video on TCBY or Mr. Softie please!
I got a Carvel "Hug Me Bear" ice cream cake when I turned 7. Still the yummiest cake I ever had!
I was a Little Miss Half Pint for my local area when I was four!
Every birthday from age 8 till 16 my grandparents would get me a Carvel cake memories
Do Yarnell’s Ice Cream next!
Stroh's Ice Cream from Detroit, that came in the aftermath of Prohibition
good video
Yeah if you can find a McDonald's with a working ice cream machine. 🤔🤣
I want to try out Cookie Puss.😀👍🍦
Our closest Carvels closed years ago, but some grocery stores carry their cakes.
Met sweet cravings of my tooth buds,
Thrashed ice cream cake on my face muds!
There used to be one in Woodland Hills in the San Fernando Valley in the 1970’s.
My parents got this for my little sis and I for our bday every year since we're July babies ❤
My friends parents owned a carvel when I was 8 or 9. We would ride our bikes there on saturdays and have a milkshakes. So much free ice cream… twas a young boys dream
Homelander 😏😏
Could you guys do a history review of Dairy Queen?
Carvel is so good.
10:54 You mean one double cheeseburger and "Sorry, our ice cream machine is designed to break every 3 seconds and require a Taylor technician, who takes 3-6 weeks to arrive" later.
One of the few things i miss, from New York.
soft serve machines are still pretty expensive
Do a video on Cold Stone Creamery.
Love that Patton Oswald got a shoutout
Fudgy The Whale 🐋 looks delicious for me to eat.😀👍🍦
kinda want a cookiepuss now that thing is cute as hell
Braums!! I grew up with them
Do Umpqua ice cream or the popular Northwest Tillamook ice cream
Please do cold stone
A brand from another era
HECK YEAH!!! FUDGY THE WHALE!!! 🙌🏾
If Carvel's soft serve machines had made it into McDonald's, maybe they'd work more than 40% of the time?
The Lohans should design an apology cake for Carvel.
You scream, I scream, we all scream for ice cream.
I'm from the Midwest so I've never heard of Carvel. We always had Baskin Robbins in town but my mom would have never considered an ice cream cake - all cakes at our house were ALWAYS homemade. Sigh. 😌