At last, our four 2007 feature flavors for the Mayfield Select line have been chosen! Although I’m not allowed tip you off on the winners just yet, it was again a difficult decision, but we believe you’ll like our choices when they debut in March.

Almost 700 consumers, employees and visitors tried each flavor that made itself into the round of 12, and gave them a score of 1-10. There were a few suprises, but that happens every year. Of course it’s impossible for you to taste them now, but based on their names what marks would you have given them? Your choices are:

1. Coconut Crème Pie
2. Chocolate Caramel Toffee Cheesecake
3. Key Lime Pie
4. Chocolate Cream Pie
5. German Chocolate Cake
6. Double Cone Crunch
7. Boston Cream Pie
8. Baked Apple Pie
9. Peanut Butteriffic
10. Coconut Cake
11. Olde Savannah Caramel
12. Apple Brown Betty

If you didn’t get a chance to taste these contenders in September when we sampled them at our Athens and Braselton Visitors Centers, make plans to do it next year. Eating free ice cream is a great way to spend a day!

Alan

Us Mayfield Moms get to meet a lot of people as we are out in the grocery stores sampling the yummy Mayfield ice cream flavors. This summer, during Flavor Decision ’06, we were able to categorize the samplers we met – what are you?

The categories for our samplers are:  

The three second quickies 

The smackers and MMMMMs 

The lets not be hasty, I think I need another cup. 

Now the quickies know after just a little taste of each.  The smackers will MMM after each little bite and when they get to the one they like it is a louder MMMMM (and that is usually for the Blueberry but not always).  The let's not be hasty group take their time and say MMMM it's so hard. I've narrowed it down to these two, let me see maybe I need another cup to be sure and then we get them to choose.

I am from Scotland and don’t have the typical Southern accent you here down in Atlanta so I usually get asked where I’m from and I tell them Scottie had me come all the way from Scotland so you could sample Mayfield Ice cream.  You would not believe how many people I have met in the stores from Scotland, England and Ireland.  I am wondering if we left any one over there.

Well, I have rambled on and I have not told you the half of it (aren't you glad).  Oh! I have to share this with you though.  One man asked me if I was Scotties wife!!!!!  Now that's a first. I got so tickled.

Got to go.  Have a great day everyone and look forward to seeing some of you in the grocery stores. Now, you can try to catch me at a Williams-Sonoma in Atlanta. We will be teaming up with Williams-Sonoma at Phipps Plaza, Lenox Square and the Mall of Georgia – we’ll see what category you fall into!!

Pamela Burdell.