Sour cream cranberry, lime or classic chocolate

Created: 06/10/2022, 3:00 p.m

Ice cream in a cone or cup is very popular with the people of Erding.

Giovanni Amagjekaj from Fantasya on the Long Line knows that too.

© Emily Venjakob

The ice cream parlors in Erding offer many varieties for every taste.

The ball costs 1.50 euros.

Erding – Even if summer is still showing its changeable side, a scoop of ice cream is always good – be it in a cup or in a cone.

We asked around in ice cream parlors in Erding which varieties they offer, how important sustainability is to them - and how the price has developed.

Whether sour cranberries, Greek yoghurt or tropical mango: the GelatOK on Spiegelgasse has many new varieties in its range this year.

These include coffee-flavored ice cream with different types of nuts or sgranocchio, which tastes like peanuts and is mixed with a kind of caramel brittle.

In addition, owner Diogo Bez Fontana Mottini relies on traditional varieties such as chocolate, vanilla or stracciatella.

A hit is still the Erding ice cream – vanilla with cherries and almond flavoring.

A scoop of ice cream, which you can buy in a cone or cup from street vendors, costs 1.50 euros.

“Our cups are made from biodegradable materials and the spoons are made from recycled material,” Mottini points out.

The Café Krönauer on Langenzeile has now switched to paper for the cups, says employee Fritz Kreischer.

However, wooden spoons are not yet available because the wood changes the taste of the ice cream.

In addition to many fruity varieties, "we still rely on the traditional varieties, i.e. chocolate or vanilla," says Kreischer.

They have 20 to 30 varieties on offer.

Here, too, the price – 1.50 euros for the ball – has not changed since last year.

There are also milkshakes, ice cream cafés and chocolate in street sales.

You can look forward to a new variety in the Green Leaf Café on Kleiner Platz: lime.

Especially ice cream fans who eat vegan or suffer from lactose intolerance get their money's worth here: "We only have vegan ice cream here, no dairy products," explains managing director Lukas Rieder.

Banana-flavored yoghurt, peanut ice cream and Engelblau, which tastes like cotton candy, are some of the special varieties at Café Vabenissimo on Dorfener Straße.

“But there will certainly be more new varieties in the summer.

So far we don't know which ones, because our boss usually creates the new flavors spontaneously," says Gisela Reuther.

Here, too, attention is paid to sustainability.

Cups, spoons and straws have been replaced with alternatives made of wood and paper.

You also pay 1.50 euros for a ball at Vabenissimo, two years ago the price was 1.30 euros.

The reason for the increase is that ingredients such as milk or sugar have become more expensive.

The Fantasya ice cream parlor on Langezeile offers another alternative to plastic spoons.

Here you can eat the spoons, as managing director Giovanni Amagjekaj explains: “They are made of a kind of cocoa paste.

In addition, our cups, from small to large – including the spaghetti ice cream cups – are all made of paper.” At Fantasya, strawberries and currants, mango, watermelon and raspberry chocolate are currently the hits with guests.

EMILY VENJAKOB