The Mix with Robert Simonson

The Mix with Robert Simonson

A Guide to Wisconsin Frozen Custard

It's Summer. Don't Settle for Ice Cream. Eat Frozen Custard.

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Robert Simonson
May 30, 2023
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A beacon in the night atop Gilles’ Frozen Custard.

My mother had her places, businesses she was fiercely loyal to and returned to again and again until she passed. Most were related to her childhood growing up in the Milwaukee suburb of Wauwatosa and, in her mind, connected to an idea of Old Milwaukee ways. And many were interlaced with her German heri…

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