ice cream - The Franklin Fountain

ice cream specialties
SUNDAES Splits SODA
from the
fountain
Choice of Twenty-Five Flavors!
The Franklin Mint 
and VANILLA ice creams striped in chocolate
syrup, FLUFFY MARSHMALLOW glaze and Crème de Menthe
finished with home-made whipped cream and
a mint green maraschino cherry.
Our own breath freshener!
$10
MINT CHIP
Homemade Hot Fudge 
Two dipperfuls of PHILADELPHIA VANILLA BEAN ice cream
suffocated in FRANKLIN FOUNTAIN HOT FUDGE and topped with
our fresh whipped cream and a cherry... a true American icon.
Wilbur’s dark chocolate is churned SMOOTH with fresh local milk,
cream and butter, then cooked ON-SITE in an antique copper candy kettle.
Honest ingredients are the best policy for flavor.
$8.50
The Southern Sympathizer 
RUM RAISIN and PISTACHIO ice
creams with pecans and pistachios
SMOTHERED in hot caramel and STUDDED with praline brittle.
This Franklin Fountain original is as pretty as a sweet-talking LOUISIANA GIRL
in her Sunday best.
$10
Maple Leaf Rag 
An homage to Scott Joplin’s popular 1899 piano ballad, two dipperfuls of
CHOCOLATE ice cream are shellacked in pure MAPLE WALNUTS, the
syrupy sweetness cut by “The Sting” of tart PINEAPPLE, crushed fresh
and piqued with whipped cream.
In season, ask for the BANANA Ice Cream variation.
{as famously featured in the New York Times}
$8.50
The Lightening Rod 
A dark Chocolate brownie surmounted by COFFEE ice cream
bathed in a SHOT of ESPRESSO and peppered with chocolate covered
espresso beans, white chocolate shavings
and finished with a salty pretzel rod.
Will surely ELECTRIFY even the most enervated!
$10
Mt . Vesuvius 
A mountain of CHOCOLATE or VANILLA ice cream ERUPTING
in chocolate brownie pieces, CASCADING with hot fudge
and BLANKETED in malt powder.
A dollop of whipped cream indicates her smoking signal.
A true display of Pomp-eiin circumstance.
$10
The Stock Market Crunch 
ice cream coated in thick peanut butter sauce and paved with
crumbled salt pretzels. William Dreyer and Joseph Edy concocted the first
batch of ROCKY ROAD ice cream in 1929 following the great stock market
crash to give consumers something to SMILE about during
the impending Depression.
$10
ROCKY ROAD
Broken Hearts 
“...put a slice of brick VANILLA ice cream on a 6-inch plate.
Cover the ice cream with fresh, sweetened, and slightly mashed strawberries, and over these put sweetened whipped cream; top off with two whole
strawberries and serve with two nabisco wafers. Sells for 20 cents.”
{F. Varney, Dispenser’s Formulary, 1910}
$10
Peach Melba Parfait 
FRESH PEACH ice cream DOUSED in raspberry puree,
sprinkled with diced almonds and finished with a collar of
RUFFLED whipped cream. Following soprano Nellie Melba’s
performance of Wagner’s Lohengrin in 1893, French chef
Auguste Escoffier was moved to create
an exquisite dessert for Dame Nellie.
This is a variation on Escoffier’s famous dessert.
$8.50
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Once upon a Simpler time, a young Fraternity gent asked a
pretty College girl out for a Row or a round on his Velocipede,
later accompanied by some Ice Cream refreshment.
College Ladies were known to prefer a small amount of sorbet
or ice cream accompanied by a fruit or nut dressing.
Choose one Scoop Ice Cream and one Topping.
$6
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Dr Dovey’s Classic 1904 Banana Split
REGULAR
$2
LARGE
$3
Phosphates
In a proper banana boat is placed a banana, SPLIT lengthwise with one
scoop each of VANILLA, STRAWBERRY and CHOCOLATE ice creams
covered in crushed pineapple, strawberry topping and chocolate syrup,
garnished with whipped cream, chopped nuts and two maraschino
cherries. Originated in 1904 by pharmacist David Strickler in Latrobe, {Tart old-fashioned sodas with a dash of citric or PHOSPHORIC acid}
PA. An Apprentice, Howard Dovey, brought the BANANA SPLIT to
$5
PHILADELPHIA where he attended medical school. Dr. Dovey is
Japanese Thirst Killer 
credited with popularizing the FAMOUS dessert by instructing
Orgeat {almond}, Grape juice, & Angostura Bitters with Phosphate
PHILADELPHIA soda dispensers on how to make a SPLIT properly.
Egyptienne Egg Shake 
We hope he’d be proud of ours, served in authentic period dish.
$14
Orange & Rose, rising with a golden EGG representing
the sun god RE. Bejeweled with a sweet date.
Tarzan of the Apes 
This swinging swashbuckler was born in 1912 by a middle aged pencil
sharpener salesman named Edgar Rice Burroughs. As the story goes, a
supple young man {a generous serving of Vanilla} with Ape blood
{CHOCOLATE Syrup} is raised on tropical FRUITS
{bananas & berries} and crowned King of the Jungle {whipped cream
headband}. This dessert’s Intelligent Design makes for a SLIPPERY
slope and can SPLIT audiences right down the middle!
$10
Jamestown Julep 
A traditional Southern Julep with Mint & Lemon, a dash of Madiera
wine and garnished with candied lemon peel.
ice cream sodas
$7
Root Beer Float 
Ladies Choice 
Banana Split for My Baby 
A smaller variation of the American Classic, inspired by LOUIS
PRIMA’S 1949 tune for that waist-conscious lady or man.
A banana sliced into coins LADEN with CHOCOLATE and PEANUT
BUTTER ice creams coated with HOT FUDGE, peanut butter sauce,
Spanish peanuts, and finished with whipped cream and one cherry.
Served with a glass of plain water for him.
$12
ICE
CREAM
By the Cup or Cone
Small $4.60
Medium $5.55
Large {Pint} $6.75
/ The consumption of raw or undercooked eggs may increase your risk of food borne illness, /
especially for: young children, senior citizens and pregnant women.
Raspberry Soda infused with Peach Ice Cream & Sweet Cream
Coca -Cola and Ice Cream 
Cherry Bomb 
A ball of Chocolate Ice Cream dropped in a Cherry Soda
MILKSHAKES
Regular $7
Large $8
Thirst - Ades
$5
Made with pressed whole fruit!
LEMONADE
ORANGEADE
LIME RICKEY
LIMEADE
NEW YORK EGG CREAMS
$5
Vanilla or Chocolate {Fox’s}
ICE
CREAMS
vanilla
chocolate
franklin mint chip
cherry vanilla
peanut butter
chocolate chip
hydrox cookie
rocky road
teaberry gum
black raspberry
seasonal sorbets
TOPPINGS
coconut
peach
strawberry
green tea
butter pecan
pistachio
coffee
maple walnut
rum raisin
cotton candy
sugar free flavors
featured flavors
soy ice creams
homemade hot fudge - $2
fresh whipped cream - $1.50
chocolate syrup (cold) - $1
homemade hot caramel - $2
homemade peanut butter sauce - $2
orange glacé - $2
marshmallow sauce - $2
mixed berry compote - $2
jimmies (chocolate or multicolor) - $1
malt powder - $1
chocolate brownie pieces - $3
salted pretzel pieces - $1.50
chocolate covered espresso beans - $2.50
white chocolate shavings - $2
hydrox cookie pieces - $2
zoological animal crackers - $1.50
whole pistachio nuts - $2
walnuts in maple syrup - $2.50
chopped almonds - $1.50
salted pecans - $2
spanish peanuts - $1.25
fresh crushed pineapple - $2.50
sliced bananas - $2
raspberry puree - $2
black cherries in kirsch - $2
crushed strawberries - $2