August is historically the steamiest, stickiest, sweatiest month of the year–brilliant move, Founding Fathers, building the nation’s capital on a swamp–in these parts. We’ve tracked down 31 frozen treats (one a day for the rest of this month) to provide you with some temporary, and often insanely delicious, relief.
The place: Gruto’s – 141 W. Main St., Purcellville; 540-338-1983
The prescription: Triple Decker Belly Wrecker. Never mind that less is more nonsense. At Gruto’s, more is most definitely more. As in more soft serve. More toppings. And more public acclaim for ingesting heart-stopping amounts of each. All of which added up to my having to try their famous Triple Decker Belly Wrecker, a mountain of cold, creamy soft serve–vanilla, chocolate, twist and a rotating specialty flavor–interspersed with overlapping layers of confectionary bliss. I elected for a fiendishly chocolaty construct cobbling together a crunchtacular mix of crushed oreos (base level), candy coated m&m’s (middle tier) and crumbled peanut butter cups (top of the world, ma!).
Needless to say, I never reached the bottom of the Styrofoam cup. Which means I have LOTS of work to do if I wish to join the ranks of the 2011 Triple Decker Belly Wrecker club (check out the mounted plaques for the current crop of soft serve crushing royalty; confidence is distressingly low I’ll ever attain “Beast Buster” status). And precious little time to do it (staff counts down the days till “the end of soft serve” season on a chalkboard).
–Warren
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Keep tabs on the month long Freeze Jag trek here.