Timmy O's Frozen Custard

(This venue is closed.) You'll know it's not ice cream with your very first lick.

Except for "French" flavors, ice cream lacks the egg yolk that distinguishes frozen custard. Custard also contains more butterfat and less air, so it's smoother and denser than ice cream, and it's typically served at a somewhat higher temperature, so it's more likely to tantalize your taste buds than simply numb them. Timmy O's serves a particularly eggy, rich rendition, in vanilla, chocolate, and a custard of the day — above, that's a small cone of vanilla chocolate chip ($2).

What Timmy's calls a Mexican sundae (regular; $3.95), in a nod to the neighborhood, is a tin roof sundae for most of the country. In another time and place, the key ingredient, red-skinned Spanish peanuts, may have reminded someone of a rusty tin roof, but no one knows for sure. Tucked almost out of sight, whole Spanish peanuts rest here on a foundation of chocolate and vanilla frozen custard drizzled with chocolate syrup; they're snowed under by whipped cream dressed with crushed peanuts and the ever-present cherry.

Timmy O's Frozen Custard
49-07 104th St., Corona, Queens
516-242-1843

Comments

[Alex Green]

TIMMY O's! <3

[Polecat]

I recently had a killer concrete of banana, vanilla and chocolate swirl, with mini-gobs of cookie dough and crushed oreo mixed in. Timmy held the container upside down for several seconds, by way of demonstrating how this sinfully delicious treat got its' name, just before serving it to me.
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[Joe]

Not to be too pedantic but ice cream has two meanings. In the sense you are using it ice cream means "philadelphia-style" or "american-style" ice cream, which is heavy on the heavy cream and has no eggs.

The other, more common, definition of ice cream is any of a range of frozen, whipped desserts composed primarily of milk and cream. Ben and Jerry's and Haagen Dazs market their custards (both are made with egg yolks) as ice cream, for example.

[Dave Cook]

Perhaps my wording was too blithe, but I did mention French ice cream and egg yolk in the same (electronic) breath. Ben and Jerry's and Haagen Dazs do contain egg, as you note. If not by their marketing, how would one correctly categorize them as frozen custard or French ice cream?